Sports Management

Databases & Indexes

LexisNexis Academic: LexisNexis provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information.  Users can search the full-text content of newspapers, wire-service reports, radio and television transcripts, company and financial information, federal, state, and international legal material, medical and health information, biographical information, country profiles, polls, surveys, quotations, state profiles, and much more. 

Physical Education Index– Indexes journal articles related to physical education, health, recreation, sports, etc.  Check our serials list to see if we subscribe to a given title. R 613.705 P578k INDEX TABLES

Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature– Indexes general magazines.  Check our serials list to see if we subscribe to a given title.  R 051 R286r INDEX TABLES

Tennessee Electronic Library (TEL)–The Tennessee Electronic Library is a collection of over 20 Infotrac databases available to all libraries within the state of Tennessee.  Descriptions of each individual database are available on the main TEL web page. Try searching Expanded Academic ASAP, or General Reference Center Gold.

Serials 

The library has print subscriptions to Athletic Management , Journal of Sport  Management, Sports Business Journal, Sport Marketing Quarterly, as well as popular magazines related to sports such as Sports Illustrated.  To see what print journals we subscribe to, check our serials list which can be found on the library website. Check our electronic journals list for journals available online.

Full-text and electronic archives

Articles from journals not available in the library or through one of our database are available through interlibrary loan; you can fill out an ILL form on the library’s web page. Please allow two weeks for this service. 

Books 

Alsop, William L. and Geoffrey C. Fuller, ed. Directory of Academic Programs in Sport Management.  Morgantown, WV:  Fitness Information Technology, 2001. R796.069 D598a

Ammon, Rob. Sport Facility Management: Organizing Events and Mitigating Risks. Fitness Information Technology, Inc.: Morgantown, WV, 2004. 796.069 A521s

Flannery, Tim and Mike Swank. Personnel Management for Sport Directors. Human Kinetics: Champaign, 1999.  796.0693 F585p

Fried, Gil. Managing Sports Facilities. Human Kinetics: Champaign, IL, 2010.RESERVES 725.8043 F899m

Irwin, Richard L. and William A. Sutton. Sport Promotion and Sales Management. Human Kinetics: Champaign, IL: 2002. 659.29796 I72s

Jozsa, Frank P. and John J. Guthrie, Jr. Relocating Teams and Expanding Leagues in Professional Sports: How the Major Leagues Respond to Market Conditions. Quorum Books: Westport, Conn.: 1999.

338.47796 J89r

Li, Ming, Susan Hofacre and Dan Mahony. Economics of Sport. Fitness Information Technology: Morgantown, WV: 2001. 338.43796 E19l

Mull, Richard F. Recreation Facility Management: Design, Development, Operations, and Utilization. Human Kinetics: Champaign, IL, 2009. 796.068 M958r

Nohr, Katherine M. Managing Risk in Sport and Recreation: The Essential Guide for Loss Prevention. Human Kinetics: Champaign, IL, 2009.346.7303 N781m

Pedersen, Paul M. Strategic Sport Communication. Human Kinetics: Champaign, IL, 2007. 796.069 P371l

Sawyer, Thomas H., Kimberly J. Bodey and Lawrence W. Judge. Sport Goverance and Policy Development: An Ethical Approach to Managing Sport in the 21st Century. Sagamore Publishing: Champaign, IL, 2008.RESERVES 796.069 S271s

Solomon, Jerry.  An Insider's Guide to Managing Sporting Events.  Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 2002. 796.069 S689i

Stotlar, David Kent. Developing Successful Sport Marketing Plans.  Morgantown, WV:  Fitness Information Technology, 2001. 796.0698 S888d

Westerbeek, Hans and Aaron Smith. Sport Business in the Global Marketplace. Palgrave Macmillan: New York, 2003. 338.43796 W526s

Internet Sources

National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)

North American Society for Sports Management

Sportbusiness.com

Sports Business Journal Online

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