World Sports ─ A Reference Handbook

Hanold (sport administration and leadership, Seattle U.) offers a handbook for high school and undergraduate students, scholars, and general readers that focuses on sports and issues of global concern, especially how sport became an internationally significant cultural practice and the issues important for sport administrators, athletes, and spectators. She discusses the meaning, cultural significance, and globalization of sport, its relationship to business, and its marginalizing and privileging power; issues worldwide, such as hosting the Olympics, performance enhancing drugs, masculinity, race and ethnicity, violence and unsportsmanlike behaviors, women, and the media; and North American issues like hosting the Super Bowl, player salary debates, the commercialism of intercollegiate athletes, racial diversity and racism, gender inequity in sport leadership, NASCAR, concussions and brain trauma, and skateboarding and ultrarunning as lifestyle sports. Included are a chronology, 32 biographical sketches of key figures, data and documents, a directory of organizations, and an annotated bibliography of print and nonprint resources. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Maylon Hanold, EdD, is instructor/lecturer in sport administration and leadership at Seattle University, WA. Hanold holds a doctorate in leadership and sport from Seattle University.