professional sports

Discusses the commercial aspects of professional sports, examining endorsement contracts, sponsorship, broadcasting rights, salaries, agents, and more.

Explains how and why large sums of money have flooded sports in recent years and considers the pros and cons of the consequences of such money.

Introduces readers to the various aspects of the soccer world with biographies of famous soccer players from around the world.

Explores the relationship between professional sports teams and their fans looking at how the players, owners, agents, and commissioners have taken the game away from the fans and removed the personal element and what concerned supporters can do to have positive impact on the situation.

Describes how six exceptional athletes challenged the greatest sports records, surpassing marks that had stood for years.

Sports agent Eugene Napoleon offers teenagers practical advice on how they can make it in the professional sports level and shares his own challenges trying to overcome his childhood in one of America's toughest projects and become a professional athlete.

Presents a collection of essays that debate the positives and negatives of players' unions in professional sports. Compares the pros of each topic to the cons and includes a bibliography and list of organizations to contact.

Explores the scientific principles behind some of the most popular team and individual sports. Covers origins, history and changes, the biomechanics and physiology of playing, related health and medical concerns, and the causes and treatment of sports-related injuries. This volume covers volleyball.

Presents the struggles, failures, and successes of people of different backgrounds who aspired to be professional athletes and suggests ways to lay the foundation for a sports career.

Discusses the influence and growing importance of money in the complex world of professional and amateur sports.