Profiles of Sport Industry Professionals: The People who Make the Games Happen

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Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2001 - Biography & Autobiography - 485 pages
The sports field is becoming increasingly complex and multifaceted, and sports is big business. Students will learn how their careers evolved, how they prepared, and what their failures and successes have been. The editors of this unique text compiled interviews of a sport agent, high school athletic director, sport attorney, fitness trainer, ice rink manager, reporter, and many more
 

Contents

Chapter 1High School Sport
1
Chapter 2College Athletics
29
Chapter 3International Sport
57
Chapter 4Legal Aspects of Sport
87
Chapter 5Professional Sport
117
Chapter 6Facility Management
147
Chapter 7Event Management
177
Chapter 8Media and Public Relations
211
Chapter 10Sporting Goods and Licensed Products
279
Joshua Mohlmann Director of Service and Support REDA
294
Chapter 11Health and Fitness Industry
309
Chapter 12Recreational Sports
339
Sports Commissions
365
Chapter 14The Academic World of Sport Management
391
Sport Marketing
421
Chapter 16Sport Governance
453

Chapter 9Sport Communication
241

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