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Unique Aspects of Sport Management
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Nature of Sport and Financial Structure
Sport is a perishable product experience is highly subjective and
contingent on many aspects outcome of games weather, etc.
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Nature of Sport and Financial Structure
Fiscal structure not based on a fee for the product profits generated from services
concessions parking merchandise sponsorships
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Nature of Sport and Financial Structure
Cost of the ticket represents a small portion of revenue sport managers compete for revenue with:
other sports restaurants theaters other forms of
social entertainment
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Nature of Sport and Financial Structure
Amount people spend is contingent on: discretionary funds: money people spend
after necessary expenses are paid typically a set amount
Presence of sports team does not generate new spending a transfer of spending from one
entertainment activity to another
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Unique Career Paths
“Big break” comes through networking with others in the field volunteer time until someone notices skill
and potential for contributions few sports organizations advertise
permanent positions typically filled by interns who work without
pay most sport management programs require
one semester of full-time work in a sport agency in order to graduate
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Sport as a Social Institution
Recreational play and games to highly organized professional and international competition
Many countries fund development of athletes and national teams highlights importance of having an
international presence and being competitive on world stage
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Sport as a Social Institution
Sport has the ability to remove social barriers
Nationalistic fervor reigns during international competitions such as the Olympics fans are united by
common experience
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Sport as a Social Institution Sport can be used as a medium for social
change interwoven with politics and the fight for
equality and tolerance United States leads boycott of 1980 Olympic Games
in Moscow protest of the Soviet Union’s military occupation in
Afghanistan Soviet Union retaliates in 1984 with a boycott of the
Los Angeles Olympic Games 2008 Olympics in China brought increased attention
to issues of human rights, air pollution, and protection of property rights
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Sport as a Social Institution
Tommie Smith and John Carlos used sport as a vehicle for social change 1968 Mexico City
Olympics the American track
athletes raised their fists during the medal presentation to symbolize racial solidarity
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Sport as a Social Institution
American tennis star Arthur Ashe traveled through South Africa in the 1970s to bring attention to apartheid
His death from HIV infection caused by a blood transfusion focused attention on the worldwide AIDS crisis
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Sport as a Social Institution
Sport can help bring awareness to may types of social injustice homophobic beliefs
the Gay Games segregation of persons with
disabilities the Special Olympics the Paralympic Games