Category Archives: Written Material

According to Spector, Chard, Mallen, & Hyatt, (2012) in the article “socially constructed environmental issues and sport: A content analysis of ski resort environmental communications”, highlighted the main focus of this article as the environment and protecting it through policy and procedures relating to construction building, specifically sport facility. It is a great concern inContinue reading “Critique -Design and Construction”

The purpose of this paper is to explore various sources and summarize to show understanding of the topic, “how do we study sport.” Readings from multiple source came from assigned articles provided and chapter-2 of the book, “Social issues in sport.” These articles based on various areas of sport impacting the industry, provided a wideContinue reading “How do we study sport?”

“The importance of sponsorship in producing successful events and providing revenue for a facility cannot be ignored,” according to the book, Sport facility and event management, by Aicher, Paule-Koba & Newland (2016). Sponsorship is referred to as contractual negotiation between two entities, a corporation and another event, organization, or property, whereby the sponsor pays cashContinue reading “SPORTS FACILITY -Sponsorship”

SMART goals and why is goal setting important to the overall success of an event What are SMART goals?  According to Aicher, Paule -Koba, & Newland (2016), in the book “sport facility and event management, sporting events involves many important components that requires strategic planning that should adhere to, to manage and execute a successfulContinue reading “SPORT FACILITY – Bidding and Planning”

The three main issues that can be problematic, if not considered early in the design-build phase. Like any development that requires structural procedures to complete a project successful. Constructing a sport facility is no different as it involves many technicalities with the main objectives effectively managed by monitoring the resources competently and be able toContinue reading “SPORT FACILITIES – Design and Construction”

Like many other industries or organizations with governing rules documented through written policies and procedures, the sport industry is no different. There are several major organizations within the industry that operates in the same manner and are responsible for documenting policies and procedures that governs sports globally. Listed below are some of the key playersContinue reading “Major Sports Governing Bodies”

This paper is a financial analysis comparison of two companies within the same industry. The entities are Skechers USA Incorporation (SKX) and Callaway Golf Incorporation, both of which are retail and competitive sports companies that trade on the stock market. SKX which started in 1992 is an American company that has its headquarters (HQ) inContinue reading “Sports Business and Finance: [February 19, 2018]”

Abstract: Sport corruption is a huge problem for the global sport industry (Kihl, Skinner & Engelberg, 2017). The purpose of this research is to examine the effects of different types (i.e., DUI, sex, doping, match fixing) of athlete scandals on attitude toward athlete and attitude toward corporate sponsor. A sample of 95 undergraduate students wereContinue reading “Research: Corruption in sport (Full): [April 30, 2019]”

Team Identification by Treatment “A global phenomenon” (Kihl, Skinner & Engelberg, 2017, p. 1), and this phenomenon at its highest level is plaguing the sport industry as far back as decades and in this new era. Russia’s doping scheme exposed in 2015 (Duval, 2017) is one of the biggest the industry has seen in thisContinue reading “Research: Corruption in Sports-Part 3_Team Identification: [April 30, 2019]”

H2: Examined participant attitude towards Brand: The purpose of this research is to examine the effects of different types of athlete scandals including (1) match-fixing, (2) driving under the influence (DUI), (3) Doping – use of performance enhancing drugs, and (4) sexual assault, on attitude toward athlete and attitude toward corporate sponsor. One of theContinue reading “Research: Corruption in Sports-Part 2_attitude towards Brand: [April 30, 2019]”