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(More customer reviews)If you suspected that sports are big, big business this book will confirm that. It gives a detailed picture of just about every business aspect of major sports including TV, ownership, corporate sponsorship, government involvement, stadium design and financing, and union/sports agents involvement. It even has a chapter of the sports video gaming industry and fantasy leagues that have flourished in the last decade. There are interviews with the commissioners of the principal sports: Roger Goodell (NFL), David Stern (NBA), Gary Bettman (NHL) and Brian France (NASCAR). In addition to its thorough descriptions of the mechanics of the sports business, the book has "case studies" interspersed throughout the chapters that give examples of the complex dealings of the sports business world.
One domain of the sports world, just to give one example, is the evolution of the design, construction and financing of sports stadiums (stadia?). There is an architectural sub-specialty of sports stadiums and arenas that has brought about many design innovations now commonly seen across the nation: single sport stadiums (no longer shared between football and baseball) luxury suites, club areas, strategies for seating placement, vendors and concessionaires, and more. It's no surprise that complicated financing schemes have emerged to fund these mega million structures, involving corporate resources and government/business partnerships.
There is hardly an aspect of the business of sports that isn't covered in great depth by the authors. Whatever one's favorite sport might be there is much to be learned about what makes it tick in this book.
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Beyond the Scoreboard: An Insider's Guide to the Business of Sport Go behind the scenes with your insider's access to the high-pressure, high-stakes business of professional sport.
In Beyond the Scoreboard, Rick Horrow, sport business analyst for Fox Sports, Bloomberg TV, Bloomberg Businessweek, and the BBC and host of PBS Nightly Business Report's "Beyond the $coreboard," and Horrow Sports Ventures' vice president Karla Swatek take you to the boardrooms, negotiating tables, and executive suites of sport's most influential powerbrokers.
Beyond the Scoreboard tackles sport's hot-button topics head on. You'll see
• how sponsors measure return on investment with sport organizations;
• how pro teams negotiate with governments to make a stadium deal;
• the effect of the sport facility building boom on teams' bottom lines;
• how sport agents try to maximize the value of their in-demand clients; and
• the effect on teams and fans of revolutionary changes in modern ticket selling.
Whether you are one of the millions of people who play fantasy sports or you just want to know more about how your favorite teams determine their strategies, you'll learn how the experts make deals happen.
And with engaging sidebars and exclusive interviews from the most powerful figures in sport, including Roger Goodell, David Stern, Brian France, and Gary Bettman, you'll gain expert analysis from people who have played leadership roles in some of the most intense negotiations and lucrative business deals in sport history.
There's nobody better equipped to explain what it takes to be a success in sport marketing, sponsorships, facility financing, or generating media coverage than Rick Horrow, the Sports Professor. In Beyond the Scoreboard, Horrow and Swatek provide you with an all-access pass to the multibillion-dollar world of professional sport.
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