Explaining the business, where it was, where it is now -- Getting started, building contacts and volunteerism -- Reading, writing, and speaking, and not just in English -- How and what to pitch -- Working in the colleges -- Working with a ...

Sports Crazy: How Sports Are Sabotaging American Schools exposes the excesses of middle and high school sports and the detrimental effects our sports obsession has on American education.

At the heart of the book is an in-depth empirical study of three (traditional and emerging) sports in the US – tennis, soccer and rugby – that offer important lessons on the development of elite sport, methods for increasing ...

Grade level: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, k, p, e, i, s, t.

This book examines the relationship between sport and religion with regard to twenty-first century topics such as race, fandom, education, and culture.

This is a guide to promotion and sales in the sport industry. Experts from the classroom and sports field offer insights and experiential data on the skills needed to succeed in sports promotion and sales.

Never before have the original rules for these sports coexisted in one volume. Brimming with history and miscellany, it is the ultimate sports book for the thinking fan.

Soccer, or football as it's known in much of the world, is by far the world's most popular team sport for both boys and girls. In this book, readers learn the history of the game and the role of various positions on the field.

This collection of eight critical sociological essays by David L. Andrews on sport and culture is heavily influenced by the work of C. Wright Mills, which insisted on the need to anchor any examination of social existence within the ...

Biomechanics of Sport and Exercise, Third Edition With Web Resource and MaxTRAQ Educational 2D Software Access, introduces exercise biomechanics in concise terms that explain external forces and their effects, how the body generates forces ...