This book examines the development of the NBA and its clubs, how each club has performed, and to what extent each has prospered and succeeded as a business enterprise despite competition for market sh
This book analyzes and highlights the development and success of major league baseball teams in the National League and the American League, focusing on each team’s performance and the extent to which
This Brief identifies and contrasts the groups of National Basketball Association (NBA) expansion franchises and of any teams that relocated from one metropolitan area or city to another from 1950 to
This Brief identifies and contrasts the groups of expansion franchises and any teams that relocated from one metropolitan area or city to another within the National Football League (NFL) during three
This interesting book discusses the emergence and development of five extremely popular team sports — baseball, basketball, football-soccer, ice hockey and cricket — since the 1800s in 15 different co
The Expos' move from Montreal to Washington, DC, and subsequent rebirth as the Nationals, was one of the sports success stories of 2005. As a result of the move, the team has enjoyed significant incre
Drawing on his research in sport-specific sources, Jozsa identifies and analyzes various American professional sport divisions and conferences and their teams' historical regular-season and post-s
National Football League Franchises highlights and analyzes thirty-two teams’ historical regular-season and postseason performances and provides a financial profile of each as a profitable or unprofit
?For several decades in America, athletic programs in colleges and universities received financial support and resources primarily from their respective schools and such sources as alumni and the Nati
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is widely recognized as an entertaining and innovative league whose teams play regular season and postseason games in packed arenas at home and away sites in
"Why has the national pastime fallen behind other so-called major sports? Is the trend reversible? This book addresses these important questions by identifying the most unique, persistent and substant
During the second half of the twentieth century, Major League Baseball and its affiliated minor leagues evolved from local and regional entities governing the play of America's favorite pastime to na
In his economic analysis of the successful professional league sports in the United States, Jozsa (economics and business administration, Pfeiffer U.) emphasizes the way that the different actors (lea
