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Risk Management Plans: Existence and Enforcement at NIAAA Member High School Athletic...

Risk Management Plans: Existence and Enforcement at NIAAA Member High School Athletic Departments

The purpose of this study was to explore the current scenario of interscholastic athletics in terms of the existence and enforcement of risk management plans within high school athletic departments....

The Purpose of College Sports: Building a Brand and Providing Pride

The Purpose of College Sports: Building a Brand and Providing Pride

In the realm of college sports, the spectators play a vital role to the overall experience of the sporting event. However are all spectators fans, or is the word “fan” reserved for only someone...

Kids and Sports: New Study to Determine Impact of Contact Sports on Children

Kids and Sports: New Study to Determine Impact of Contact Sports on Children

Sports are fun and playing sports can be wonderful for kids: they get a healthy workout, learn to appreciate physical fitness, and they learn other lessons like being a team player and how to lose a...

Sports Branding is Not for the Faint of Heart

Sports Branding is Not for the Faint of Heart

This paper explores the various challenges marketers and sports teams have to keep fans loyal and active with their brand. It examines the impact of re-branding and the popularization of social media...

Breaking Down the Barriers for Women on and off the Sports Field

Breaking Down the Barriers for Women on and off the Sports Field

As the Olympic Games celebrates historic achievements in gender equity, Ernst & Young launches new white paper on enhancing diversity in sports, business, society and the global economy

Make Your Sports Marketing Pay Off

Make Your Sports Marketing Pay Off

Best practices to make sports marketing pay off

Climate Impacts on the Winter Tourism Economy in the United States

Climate Impacts on the Winter Tourism Economy in the United States

In the many U.S. states that rely on winter tourism, snow is currency and climate change is expected to contribute to warmer winters, reduced snowfall, and shorter snow seasons. For those whose...

Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics 2011-12 Research Grants Initiative

Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics 2011-12 Research Grants Initiative

In May 2011, the Knight Commission announced a new initiative to fund research on policy issues in college sports. The program was intended to enhance the Commission’s long-standing legacy of...

Sports Betting and Corruption

Sports Betting and Corruption

The glorious uncertainty of sport and the honesty and upright image of athletes are popular and motivational values that risk being undermined unless serious measures are taken to bring corruption to...

College Sports 101: A Primer on Money, Athletics, and Higher Education in the 21st Century

College Sports 101: A Primer on Money, Athletics, and Higher Education in the 21st Century

This report offers an overview of the business and economic landscape of intercollegiate athletics, with a particular focus on the Football Bowl Subdivision, the top competitive tier of the National...