Profiles of Sport Industry Professionals: The People Who Make the Games Happen / Edition 1

by Matthew Robinson, Mary Hums, R. Brian Crow, Dennis Phillips

Overview

The sports field is becoming increasingly complex and multifaceted, and sports is big business. Students will learn how their careers evolved, how they prepared, and what their failures and successes have been. The editors of this unique text compiled interviews of a sport agent, high school athletic director, sport attorney, fitness trainer, ice rink manager, reporter, and many more

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780834217966
Publisher:	Jones & Bartlett Learning
Publication date:	08/15/2000
Edition description:	1E
Pages:	485
Product dimensions:	1.03(w) x 7.50(h) x 9.25(d)

About the Author

University of Delaware, Delaware


Professor, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky


Slippery Rock University, Pennsylvania


University of Southern Mississippi, Mississippi

Editorial Reviews

The field encompasses a wide variety of jobs including event management, facility management, media and public relations, sporting goods and licensed products, the health and fitness industry, high school and college athletics, recreational sports, marketing, and governance. Writing in the first person, representatives from each category tell about their career paths and what their jobs entail. Each profile is about eight to ten pages long and includes a b&w photo and a couple of references. There is no index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews