Team physicians for professional sports franchises face a conflict of interest created by the competing loyalties they owe to the team that employs them and to the athlete patient they must treat. Marketing agreements under which physicians pay significant sums of money to be designated as the...

Many thousands of people travel to the Olympic Games, European or world competitions, championships of basketball, football, tennis, rally, and the other kinds of sport. Events that attracts crowds of people and "are visited regularly or once" (Hall, 1989) are called "Mega". This paper analysis...

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is widely recognized as an entertaining and innovative league whose teams play regular season and postseason games in packed arenas at home and away sites in the United States and Canada. This book discusses the development, growth, and success of the...

Chapter 1: Football’s Ever Changing Economics -- Chapter 2: Reporting and Communicating the Value and Performance of Football -- Chapter 3: Organizational Forms: Ownership and Governance -- Chapter 4: Football Clubs: Who are the People? -- Chapter 5: Where Business Meets Society: What is a...