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Sport Economics Research: New Perspectives on the Demand for Sport
... outcomes and loss aversion are conflicting. Selected Article Discussion From the JSE, Sport Management USA-based professors Hyun, Jones, Jee, Jordan, Du, and Lee test uncertainty of outcome given game quality in the National Basketball Association (NBA). They find a noteworthy distinction in the relationship between outcome uncertainty and attendance for high-quality games so that the relationship between high quality game and attendance was that was only marginally significant. On the other hand,...
Sport Communication
... World Cup bid process explored the coverage of online news media in Australia and New Zealand, highlighting how national pride is woven into sports narratives. Kenon A. Brown, Nicky Lewis, Matthew Barnidge, and Courtney D. Boman's examination of the NBA’s racial justice initiatives during the 2020 playoffs shed light on how political affiliations intersect with sports fandom and perceptions of social justice movements. Jonas Biel, Tobias Finger, Vincent Reinke, Jennifer Amann, Sport Management ...
Sport Economics Research: New Perspectives on the Demand for Sport
... $3.1 billion to a group led by PE investor Clearlake Capital. In August 2022, a group of investors led by Walmart heir Rob Walton acquired the Denver Broncos of National Football League (NFL) for a new record price of $4.65 billion. In February 2023, NBA owners approved Matthew Ishbia’s acquisition of the Phoenix Suns for a league-record $4 billion, nearly double the prior mark for an NBA sale, which was $2.35 billion that Joe Tsai paid for the Brooklyn Nets in 2019. In July 2023, an investor group ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... organisational practices, given that white men primarily dominate leadership positions. For this reason, the authors utilised the principles of critical race theory as a framework to analyse documents produced by the National Basketball Association (NBA), Major League Baseball (MLB), National Football League (NFL) and the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee USOPC). In doing so, they employed the qualitative content analysis design of Ethnographic Content Analysis (ECA). The ECA approach ...
Sport Management Communications
... their corollary cultural forms as inferior to those coded as White. To demonstrate the argument, the author conducted a textual analysis of three media representations of streetball, namely the television show AND1 Mixtape Tour, the video game series NBA Street, and the film Uncle Drew. The article noted that textual analysis serves as an appropriate methodological approach to examine and understand how commercial media mobilizes language, visuals, symbols, and technology to produce meaning and shape ...
Sport Economics
... second half of 2022. Walker, Allred, and Berri (2022) consider the possibility that dunking (or lack thereof) of the basketball creates a demand problem for the Women’s National Basketball Association, where dunks are rare, relative to the men’s NBA. A repeated media criticism of the WNBA is that their less athletic players play a “below the rim” game that is not attractive to fans. The authors ultimately determine, by analyzing the NBA, where dunks are frequent, that attendance demand is ...
Sport Management Communications
... State University, Louisiana State University, Miami University, University of Alabama, University of Georgia, University of Kentucky, and University of South Florida). The six studies under consideration were researched in context of sports such as NBA 2K League consumers, esport consumers in general, and Paralympic and Olympic Games. These studies used a quantitative study approach employing survey method, quasi-experimental method, and a cross-sectional nonexperimental design. The authors used ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... better draft preference, has been a specific topic for research within the wider event manipulation literature. Gong et al (2021) adopt a big data methodological approach, investigating the effect of team tanking in the National Basketball Association (NBA) on supporter sentiment and, by extension, consumer demand for sports teams that engage in the practice. The results of the study were nuanced, with differences found between perceptions of tanking by away and home teams. Overall, the research showed ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... “official product” sponsorships by utilising a proportional hazard model. As a first step, the authors compiled a complete history of all “official product” sponsorships across six major North American sport leagues: the NFL, MLB, MLS, NASCAR, the NBA, and the NHL. Sources consulted in the compilation of the dataset included analyses of each league’s sponsorship programs by IEG (e.g., IEG, 2018b), research reports from the Sports Business Journal (e.g., Broughton, 2017), and league websites. ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... attention to the structural causes of inequality. Each of the SGBs framed their equalities policies, programmes and interventions in different ways. As the authors state, “the primary findings indicated that the entities framed diversity as inclusion (NBA), as a micro-level, individual matter (NFL), as representation (MLB) and as the effective management of athletes and the workplace (USOPC)” (356). In doing so, the SGBs fail to mention the existence of racism within their sport and fail to challenge ...
Sport Communication
... meanings attached to women’s use of performance and image enhancing drugs, Olympic broadcasters framing of gender on Instagram, and male and female athletes’ representation on men’s magazine covers. - Mental health and sport media: Kevin Love in NBA, and DeMar DeRozan and Royce White in NBA. - Mega-events and media coverage (the Olympics and FIFA World Cup): TV and the 2018 Winter Games, 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics, and usage of social TV (a second screen) during the 2018 ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... estimated using a fixed effect estimator. Their hypothesis was supported, which has practical implications for assigning sanctions for corrupt teams as monetary punishments maybe more adversely impactful than relegation. Hindman et al. (2021) analyzed the NBA’s moral decision making related to the COVID-19 crisis to demonstrate the complex and ethical challenges involved in managing a professional league during a pandemic. Using the concepts of bounded rationality and bounded morality they content analyzed ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... Alberta, and the University of South Carolina used sentiment analysis to examine the impact of consumers’ sentiment regarding tanking on game attendance in the National Basketball Association. To examine the effect of consumer perception of tanking on NBA attendance the study analysed NBA game attendance between the 2013–2014 and 2017–2018 seasons. Based on the data, the authors created an algorithm to measure the volume and sentiment of consumer discussions related to tanking which demonstrated ...
Sport Communication
... (consumption of social media). 2. Advances in sport management communications The nine studies under consideration were researched in different contexts of sports such as the Olympic Games (e.g., the Rio Olympics), professional team sports (e.g., NFL, NBA), and college sport (e.g., D-I Football). Also, the studies were guided by different theories and conceptual frameworks such as social cognitive theory, framing theory, interpersonal behaviour theory. In addition, research methods such as surveys,...
Sport Economics
... of teams and stadiums. Finally, in contrast to the vast majority of studies on professional team sports in the U.S., this study does not only look at Major Leagues in baseball (Major League Baseball, MLB), basketball (National Basketball Association, NBA, and Women National Basketball Association, WNBA), football (National Football League, NFL), hockey (National Hockey League, NHL), and soccer (Major League Soccer, MLS), but also at the corresponding Minor Leagues. This seems to be particularly relevant ...