Organizational Theory
What are the three (3) types of sport organizations?
Commercial, Nonprofit, and Public Sport Organizations
What are the "Big Four" professional sports leagues?
National Football League (NFL), National Basketball Association (NBA), Major League Baseball (MLB), and National Hockey League (NHL)
What kind of sport organization is the NCAA considered?
A Nonprofit Sport Organization
Who is the current president of the IOC, and why is this significant?
Kirsty Coventry - She is the first woman in this position
What is a facility with diverse equipment, classes, and amenities for physical exercise, skill development, and overall well-being?
Fitness Center
What is the process of granting and managing access to restricted areas or events?
Credentialing
What is a course of action designed to reduce the risk and loss to sport participants, spectators, employees, management, and organizations?
Risk Management
Which researcher described sports management as “a social entity involved in the sport industry; it is goal-directed with a consciously structured activity system and a relatively identifiable boundary?”
Slack (1997)
What does PWHL stand for?
Professional Women's Hockey League
In which season does Women's Water Polo participate for the NCAA?
Spring
Which type of Olympic committee controls operations and policy for the Olympics for a specific country, as well as who will be sent to represent that nation at the Olympic Games?
National Olympic Committees (NOCs)
What is a public space that is owned and maintained by a government agency or a nonprofit organization?
Public Park
What is the process of selling admission tickets for events, including sporting events, concerts, festivals, etc.?
Ticket Sales
What are the three (3) stages of the D.I.M. Process?
Developing, Implementing, and Managing the Risk Management Plan
Is softball considered a traditional or non-traditional American sport?
Non-Traditional American Sport
What are the names of the two conferences that make up the NBA, and how many divisions are in each conference?
Eastern and Western Conference, each containing 3 divisions
The first recorded intercollegiate athletic event occurred in 1852. Which event was this?
A crew race between Harvard and Yale
What are the three (3) phases of selecting an Olympic host city?
Applicant City Phase, Candidate Phase, and Selection Phase
Physical Health, Mental Health, and Convenience
Color codes and digital tiers are examples of which type of credentials?
Zone-Based Access Control Credential
In the classification phase while developing your risk management plan, which classification addresses the intensity of personal injury and degree of the threat (catastrophic, critical, moderate, or low)?
Severity
What type of sport organization is the Buffalo Bills?
Commercial Sport Organization (also professional)
What type of professional sports league has no promotion and relegation, meaning that the league must go through expansion if they want to add another team?
A Closed League
What was the name of the governing body for intercollegiate athletics before it became the NCAA?
Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (IAAUS)
Which Olympic Games season has the most amount of sports offerings as of 2025?
Summer Olympic Games
What are the three (3) types of public parks?
Urban, National, and Community Parks
What ticket pricing model involves fluctuating the prices based on multiple factors? (Hint: the opposite of static pricing)
Dynamic Pricing
Providing the manager and committee with the authority to lead is part of which stage of the D.I.M. Process?
Managing the Plan
What are the five (5) ways in which we view sport organizations? (Hint: Sport organizations as...)
Machines, Organisms, Brains, Cultures, and Political Systems
Which level of professional sports governance is responsible for the day-to-day team operations and other functional departments?
Individual Team Level
How long did it take for the NCAA to expand to offer women's sports after the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) was established?
10 years
What does the Olympic motto "Citius, Altius, Fortius" mean in English?
“Faster, Higher, Stronger”
Niagara Falls State Park is considered which of the three types of parks?
Community Park
Ticket sales may be the primary (main) revenue stream for which types of organizational sporting events?
Semi-Professional, College, and Smaller Leagues
What are the four (4) standard treatments of risks?
Avoidance/Elimination, Transfer, Retention, and Reduction of Risk