practice of sports management helps to explain the modern commercial environment that shapes sport at all levels and gives … clear and sensible guidance on best practice in sports management, from elite sport to the local level.The book is divided …"Contemporary sport is both a sophisticated and complex international business and a mass participatory practice run …

Between sports and happiness. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio- Economic Panel (GSOEP), we find a positive … correlation between sports participation and reported life satisfaction. This relationship is stronger at younger and older ages … causal directions. It turns out that the causal impact of engaging in sports on happiness is about four times higher than the …