Globalization & Club Systems
This sport combines elements of ice hockey, soccer, and field hockey and historically played in Europe.
What is bandy?
The IOC stands for what?
What is the International Olympic Committee?
Although the NFL bans public ownership, it has made an exception for what team?
Who are the Green Bay Packers?
The bulk of revenues for professional leagues and events come from which source?
What is the sale of media rights?
The co-owner of this NBA franchise just announced a WNBA expansion team.
Who are the Golden State Warriors?
What is the Big Four?
(Throwback from Chapter 8!)
This was the prevailing reason for the push for reform in college football in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
What is injuries/deaths?
This professional organization created the first ever commissioner to govern the best interests of the sport.
What is Major League Baseball?
When players are able to negotiate collectively for better wages, benefits and conditions of employment, they are considered this.
What is unionized?
This player, who was Mr. Irrelevant in the 2022 NFL Draft, currently has his team at 5-0.
Who is Brock Purdy?
This type of dance is often times performed prior to a traditional rugby match.
What is a haka dance?
Organizations governing a specific sport within each individual country are known as what?
These are much more disruptive in pro sports than in mainstream business because players have unique talents and cannot be replaced with temporary workers.
What are strikes?
This is responsible for things like ownership of all team logos, oversight and administration of the leagues properties rights, and distribution of revenue for league properties rights to each club.
What is the NFL Trust?
Jack Plummer and Sam Hartman squared off this past weekend in an epic game (GO CARDS!). These 2 have collectively played football for 5 different universities. Name all 5 of those universities.
What are Wake Forest and Notre Dame (Sam Hartman), and Purdue, Cal and Louisville (Jack Plummer)?
9 out of 10 youth belong to a sport club at some point during their childhood in which European country?
What is Sweden?
The U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) is an example of what?
Historically, the most prominent private (or nonschool) agency to promote youth athletics was known as what?
What is the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA)?
This has emerged as a method for leagues to establish themselves in a manner that avoids antitrust liability and creates centralized fiscal control.
What is single-entity structure?
Joel Embiid recently committed to play for the USA National team for the 2024 Olympics, but was born in which country?
What is Cameroon?
What is promotion/relegation?
Jun Ty Yang is a professional athlete in which sport?
What is Esports?
(Throwback from Chapter 6!)
This is known as the systematic study of values guiding our decision making.
What are Ethics?
(Throwback to Chapter 4!)
As chronicled in the book (and movie) Moneyball, the strategy employed by the small-market Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane to better compete with large-market teams by identifying and acquiring undervalued players is an example of an organization maximizing what?
What is return on investment?
Lionel Messi, former star for FC Barcelona, now plays for which MLS club?
What is Inter Miami?