Leadership Approaches & Sports Management
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An 8 page paper that provides an overview of basic management styles and considers their application for sports management. Bibliography lists 20 sources.
Filename: Leadspor.wps

Major League Baseball and the Umpires Association
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This 8 page report discusses the controversies that have revolved around labor issues of Major League Baseball and baseball umpires. Certain fundamental labor issues are in force, however, the unique aspects of professional sports adds to the overall complexity of the process. The decision by the umpires to “quit” rather than strike in September of 1999 ultimately backfired on them and they have had to work to reconstruct some type of a professional association for collective bargaining. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: BWumpbb.wps

Natural Turf Versus Artificial Turf Sports Fields
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This 16 page report discusses the benefits and controversies that exist in the sports world regarding artificial and natural turf playing fields. In the big money realm of professional sports, playing surfaces are generally chosen and maintained on the basis of what is the most cost effective and least problematic. Concerns regarding aesthetics, the “feel” of the surface, and personal preference of the players have been thought of as secondary, even tertiary, concerns. However, a huge number of injuries have been directly blamed on artificial turf and have resulted in key players being kept out of a game or even put on the injured list for an entire season. This report examines a number of those concerns and looks at potential alternatives. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
Filename: BWgvturf.wps

Professional Sports Stadium: An Unnecessary Drain on the Taxpayer
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A 10 page contention that only a selective proportion of the American public is interested in or profits either economically or recreationally from sports stadiums. Presents various statistics and economic and philosophic arguments demonstrating the unfairness which is inherent in requiring the taxpayer to foot the bill for the construction of these stadiums. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: PPstadiu.wps

Purchase or Lease / Making the Decision for a Health & Fitness Club
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This 6 page report (which includes a 1 page overview of the paper) discusses the decision and the process of examining advantages and disadvantages of leasing versus purchasing a building for a health and fitness club. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: Buylease.wps

Risk Management & Professional Football
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A 12 page research paper evaluating two common, but fairly new, business risk factors as they relate to professional football: sustained slow economic growth and increased (intensive) competition. The paper points to the dangers and consequences of not performing risk management duties well enough to ensure continued profitability, and for not evaluating the impact of changing external factors on their supporting fans. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: Football.doc

Risk Management for the Use of a City Baseball Stadium
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Risk Management for the Use of a City Baseball Stadium : This 5 page report discusses various issues of risk management associated with using a municipal baseball stadium for sporting events by groups other than the teams directly associated with the stadium. The important elements of any risk management program include quality control, standards development, personal safety/injury, and information security. Those elements are equally important in the business of sporting events. Bibliography lists 4 sources. BWsrisk.wps
Filename: BWsrisk1.wps

Spectator Safety
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This 21 page paper provides an overview of the issue of spectator safety at sports grounds and argues that spectator safety cannot be ensured by the application of the law. Instead, this paper argues that spectator safety can only be guaranteed by the adoption of a societal safety culture and utilizes legal and theoretical perspectives to support this view. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: MHSporSa.wps

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