Intro to Global Sport Business
The point at which global sport becomes a business.
What is when it is commercialized?
This occurs when a club gets pushed down to a lower league because they lost too many games.
What is relegation?
The three main techniques of financing elite sport across the world.
What are sponsorship, media rights, and stadium (game)-related revenue?
The organization that attempts to reduce performance-enhancing drug use in sport.
What is the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)?
According to the article on globalization and tennis, this is the world's most powerful global city?
What is London?
What are unstable political systems?
The governing body of intercollegiate sport in the UK.
What is BUCS?
The type of funding model that is not afraid to lose money and is often visible and brash.
What is funding from and oligarch/tycoon?
One reason the Court of Arbitration for Sport uses arbitration rather than a trial hearing for international, legal sport disputes.
What is: 1. it is quicker; 2. it eliminates disputes about different legal systems; 3. the arbitrator is jointly selected for expertise; 4. it is cheaper; it is private?
Newcastle's dilemma about St. James Park is reflective of this analogy for a major problem of globalization.
What is the Lexus vs. the Olive Tree?
This occurs when the globalization of sport pushes cultures further apart and increases tension between them.
What is polarization?
The US Olympic Training Facility in Colorado Springs, CO was built so the U.S. Olympic Committee could accomplish this.
What is talent development?
This type of funding is usually given in order to facilitate Olympic success.
What is government subsidization?
The main two types of cases heard by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
What are commercial and disciplinary?
What is NIL?
Rugby-->American football represents this phase in the process of sport globalization.
What is recycling and reinvention?
These organizations are authorized by the International Olympic Committee, but often funded by governments (although not in the U.S.)
What is a National Olympic Committee?
A big advantage of this funding model is that investors can earn massive rewards through promotion (although they can lose money with relegation.)
What is sport as a business?
With this role, the International Paralympic Committee has to decide how to group athletes for competition.
What is determine classification of impairments?
This accelerator has enabled tennis players become global brands.
What is social media?
Chelsea epitomizes this element of globalization because it is an English football club that has an American owner, an Italian manager, players from 12 different nations, and major sponsors from the U.S. and Korea.
What is interconnectedness?
At the club level, qualification for top tournaments is based on this.
What is the previous season's success (performance)?
This funding model often supports women's sports but often enacts xenophobic policies.
What is corporate ownership?
The WADA punishment for a first positive test for a substance that is commonly known to be banned.
What is two years of ineligibility?
At AC Milan, soccer is intertwined with these two social institutions.
What are politics and the media?