KINE 3360 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Seating Capacity, Decision-Making, Facility Management
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Sport management the study and practice of all people, activities, businesses, or organizations involved in producing, facilitating, promoting, or organizing any sport-related business or product. Includes a wide variety of sport-related careers: religion vs. Types of sports: traditional sports, new sports, ex: baseball, basketball, tennis, golf, swimming, football, soccer, etc, extreme (action) sports a general term for a collection of action sports involving adrenaline-inducing exploit. They often feature a combination of speed, height, danger, and spectacular stunts: ex: boogie boarding, snowboarding, parasailing, street luge, ice climbing, x games, indoor soccer, etc. Models: product type model, sport performance, production, and promotion, see figure 1. 1 (pg. Be able to define and give examples of the 4 aspects that make sport management unique. Financial structures: with the exception of sporting goods stores, earn most money not from the sale of services (such as the game) but from extraneous sources such as television rights, concessions, road game guarantees, parking, and merchandise.
