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Taxpayers and the Unnecessary Burden of a Professional Sports Stadium

new stadiums that would either keep their pro teams or lure new ones. USA Today estimates that $4 of every $5 in stadium construct...

Does an Economic Crisis Hurt the Entertainment and Sports Industries?

it seemed, the United States was plunged into the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. For the entertainment and spo...

Economic Impacts of Sports Stadiums

Perry (2007) puts forward the point of view that older stadiums are not able to demonstrate the benefits as they are not able to g...

Private Team Sports Facilities and City Financing

notes that in the 1990s alone: "30 new professional sports facilities have been built at...

Sport Stadiums and Their Costs

In five pages this paper examines sport stadiums' construction and considers types of public funding approaches with the nonprofit...

Subsidizing Professional Sports Stadiums

al, 2004). Is the expenditure of all of this money beneficial to the economy of the areas where the facilities are being built? P...

U.S. 'Wealthfare' is a Bad Idea

According to a survey released by Essential Information in 1994, it was estimated that U.S. tax payers would pay more in 1994 for ...

Pro Sports and the Impact of Sports Agents

money as a priority over all other considerations may urge a young player to begin a professional career instead of going to colle...

Baseball's Color Barrier and Jackie Robinson

Astonishingly, he stole 40 bases and scored 113 runs (Olsen, 1974). From the beginning, Jackie Robinson proved himself not only ...

Lasting Legacy of Baseball's Jackie Robinson

In eleven pages Brooklyn Dodgers' baseball player Jackie Robinson, who successfully broke through the sport's color barrier in 194...

Does the NFL Encourage and Condone Drug Use?

to the punishment of testing positive two years later, and began year-round random drug testing of athletes in 1990 (Congress Puts...

Athletes, Congress, and Steroid Use

Shadows" hit the stands. Written by two San Francisco Chronicle reporters publicly implicated several big name baseball players i...

Urban Baseball Stadium, Sporting Events, and Risk Management

relatively short season running from June to September rather than the April to October season of higher division minor league bas...

Professional Baseball Stadiums 'Old' New Construction Trends

In eight pages this paper considers construction and technology employed in the construction of new professional baseball stadiums...

Stadium Security and Honeywell

systems are interconnected on a single network. The Honeywell network consists of a "structured cabling system for voice and data...

'Obscene' Salaries of Professional Sports' Celebrities

the fact that they are ostensibly playing a game for pay and that their talents are unique in all the world, the fact remains that...

Joe Robbie Professional Football Stadium History

In fifteen pages this paper presents an historical overview of Joe Robbie Stadium, the original name of the home of the Miami Dolp...

Coexistence of Media and Sports?

In eleven pages this paper argues that the sports and media are not dependent upon each other but could exist equally well indepen...

Applying Marketing Concepts to Increase the Sale of Tickets at a Sports Stadium

support a football club; they will purchase tickets for the games of their top placing, which may be tickets from the home stadium...

The Fair Tax

used by the wealthy to shield themselves from paying a fair share of the national tax burden. The fair tax would,...

Racial Issues in Sport

clubs of a period of 16 years between 1978 and 1993. The theory was that if there was a competitive market for players each clubs ...

Change Considerations at Good Sport

management. The conclusion provides recommendation for managing change and conflict at Good Sport. Culture and Structure B...

‘Sports Night’: An Exciting and Memorable Experience

with my pen and autograph book, I was ready to meet these larger-than-life sports figures I had heard and read about my whole life...

Economics and Political Influences in Sport

may be akin to saying to the leading fast-food chains, such as McDonalds, Burger King KFC etc, and telling them that they will all...

The Influence of Sport in the Context of Creating, Maintaining and Challenging Ethnic Identities and Stereotypes

game, including the way the game may be associated with the national identity in terms of values in a manner not found in other sp...

Birth Defects and Vitamin A Overuse

In five pages this paper discusses how birth defects including those involving the cranial neural crest and retinal issues can be ...

Benjamin Rader/American Sports

of sport and leisure, it seems that Benjamin Rader (2003) does a good job in outlining the relationship between the advent of citi...

Sports and Economics

In five pages this paper discusses contemporary sports in a consideration of economic conditions such as community impact and athl...

Sports Training and Expectancy Theory

forthcoming if s/he performs as the manager expects (Expectancy Theory, n.d.). "Vroom suggests that an employees beliefs ab...

Racism and Sports

story interesting is that the United States all but used him to prove to Adolf Hitler that African Americans could beat Germans, a...