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		<title>17 Eye-Popping Infographics Every Sports Fan Should See</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:14:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After gazing intently at numerous sports infographics on the Web, we learned that most of the amazing and eye-popping infographics are produced outside the U.S. as hand-drawn graphics, inside the U.S. for newspapers, and through statistics designed visually by individuals who delve deeper than we&#8217;d ever go into any sport. The following 17 infographics are [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>After gazing intently at numerous sports <a title="infographics" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_graphics">infographics</a> on the Web, we learned that most of the amazing and eye-popping infographics are produced outside the U.S. as hand-drawn graphics, inside the U.S. for newspapers, and through <a title="statistics" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistics">statistics</a> designed visually by individuals who delve deeper than we&#8217;d ever go into any sport. The following 17 infographics are the best of the best, and they&#8217;re ones that every <a title="sports fan" href="http://www.mastersinsportsmanagement.org/master-of-sport-management-administration-degree-programs.html">sports fan</a> should see.<span id="more-97"></span></p>
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<li><a title="Analysis of the top 50 earners in World football" href="http://www.visualevolution.co.uk/infographics/2010/02/analysis-of-the-top-50-earners-in-world-football/"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-98" title="Analysis of the top 50 earners in World football" src="http://www.mastersinsportsmanagement.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Analysis-of-the-top-50-earn.jpg" alt="Analysis of the top 50 earners in World football" width="75" height="75" />Analysis of the top 50 earners in World football</a>: This stunning infographic displays the top 50 players who are the &#8220;best rewarded on the planet&#8221; as football (soccer) players. The artist split the top 50 players based upon nationality, then took a closer look at the relative success of their clubs. The hope was to render the disparity between the wages paid by some clubs compared to the number of trophies won in recent years.</li>
<li><a title="Disability and Sports" href="http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=795"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-99" title="Disability and Sports" src="http://www.mastersinsportsmanagement.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/DisabilityandSports.jpg" alt="Disability and Sports" width="75" height="75" />Disability and Sports</a>: This study&#8217;s results focuses on boys and girls under age 20 who reported having a mild disability in 2000. Rates of severe disability were consistently higher for boys than girls with 11 per 10,000 of the male population and five per 10,000 of the female population aged under 17 years in 2000. Scroll down to learn that disabled children and adolescents were more likely to participate in swimming in school than the general population.</li>
<li><a title="Flip Flop Fly In" href="http://www.flipflopflyin.com/flipflopflyball/index.html"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-100" title="Flip Flop Fly In" src="http://www.mastersinsportsmanagement.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Baseball.jpg" alt="Flip Flop Fly In" width="75" height="75" />Flip Flop Fly In</a>: This entire site is filled with incredible infographics about baseball. You can see how much of his/her summer a Tigers fan might spend watching his/her team, or look at a fairly depressing stat of the top 25 all-time home run hitters. You also can learn the most common surnames in all the majors between 1872 and 2009 and look at a map showing the amount of traveling a team did fifty years ago.</li>
<li><a title="Hand drawing and infographics" href="http://infographicsnews.blogspot.com/2008/10/hand-drawing-and-infographics-when.html"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-101" title="Hand drawing and infographics" src="http://www.mastersinsportsmanagement.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Horse.jpg" alt="Hand drawing and infographics" width="75" height="75" />Hand drawing and infographics</a>: While this infographic is part of a larger article on hand drawn infographics, we included it because of its eye-popping beauty and because it focuses on horse racing, a sport that is seldom represented in lists such as this one. This particular piece of artwork was created by Fernando Robato, and includes a textured background, central illustration and many explanations with small details.</li>
<li><a title="Injuries for Every 1,000 of Training" href="http://www.marcdussault.com/mindset/blog/serious-athletes-beware/"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-114" title="Injuries for Every 1,000 of Training" src="http://www.mastersinsportsmanagement.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/WalkingWounded.jpg" alt="Injuries for Every 1,000 of Training" width="75" height="75" />Injuries for Every 1,000 of Training</a>: This blog exposes the injuries first reported by <em>Men&#8217;s Health Magazine</em> in 2009. The math works out to the number of injuries in more or less one hour, three times per week for six years. The highest risk is in rugby, with 31 injuries, while the lowest risk in treadmill running, with six injuries.</li>
<li><a title="Inovations in Newspapers" href="http://www.innovationsinnewspapers.com/index.php/2008/08/18/amgs-al-bayan-mega-infographic-or-how-dubai-is-becoming-the-new-meca-for-visual-journalism/"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-113" title="Innovations in Newspapers" src="http://www.mastersinsportsmanagement.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Inovations-in-Newspapers.jpg" alt="Innovations in Newspapers" width="75" height="75" />Innovations in Newspapers</a>: This article showcases several sports infographics, focusing on Luis Chumpitaz and his work as a visual journalist. Since 2007 he has been the Infographics director of Dubai’s Arab Media Group (AMG). Abdulatif Alsayegh, AMG&#8217;s visionary CEO, sees his company as an &#8220;information engine&#8221; and wanted to start with these integration efforts led by Mustafa Alrawi, the AMG &#8220;Fusionist.&#8221; Luis now is the head of this superdesk.</li>
<li><a title="Olympic drug testing program" href="http://en15.rian.ru/img/115402966_free.html"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-112" title="Olympic drug testing program" src="http://www.mastersinsportsmanagement.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/OlympicDrugTestingProgram.jpg" alt="Olympic drug testing program" width="75" height="75" />Olympic drug testing program</a>: This infographic shows why the International Olympic Committee tightened up its doping control program in Beijing in 2008. The graphic is broken down into the program itself, the doping control procedure, another section on doping in China and the Athens 2004 medal winners who committed doping offenses.</li>
<li><a title="Parallele Coordinates and Football" href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2001/cmsc838b/Apps/presentations/Jaime_Spacco/index.html"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-111" title="Parallel Coordinates and Football" src="http://www.mastersinsportsmanagement.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/ParallelStatistics.jpg" alt="Parallel Coordinates and Football" width="75" height="75" />Parallel Coordinates and Football</a>: Check out this multidimensional data visualization for jocks. First, this project explores various Parallel Coordinate tools as candidates for encoding more information about football statistics. Secondly, this project tests the validity of certain long-held notions about the game.</li>
<li><a title="Race in Sports" href="http://awesome.good.is/transparency/web/0904/trans0409raceinsports.html"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-110" title="Race in Sports" src="http://www.mastersinsportsmanagement.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/RaceinSports.jpg" alt="Race in Sports" width="75" height="75" />Race in Sports</a>: This graphic focuses on race in sports. The statement is made that &#8220;a half-century after Jackie Robinson&#8217;s historic entrance into the game [baseball] &#8212; the number of black players is at the lowest level in almost 20 years.&#8221; This graphic is a breakdown of four major sports, including major league baseball, the National Football League, the National Basketball Association and major league soccer.</li>
<li><a title="Santana's Changeup" href="http://www.infographicsshowcase.com/santannas-changeup-baseball-infographic/"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-109" title="Santanna's Changeup" src="http://www.mastersinsportsmanagement.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Santanna.jpg" alt="Santana's Changeup" width="75" height="75" />Santana&#8217;s Changeup</a>: This amazing infographic focuses on teaching how to do a change up based upon how Johan Santana does it. Santana&#8217;s change up delivery looks like that of his fastball or slider, so the batter must read &#8212; within a split second &#8212; how Santana&#8217;s thumb and index fingers are placed on the ball and upon that ball&#8217;s release, as his body holds no clue that the change-up is about to occur.</li>
<li><a title="Sport and Recreational Injury" href="http://www.iprc.unc.edu/pages/stats/sports.html"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-108" title="Sport and Recreational Injury" src="http://www.mastersinsportsmanagement.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/SportsInjuries.jpg" alt="Sport and Recreational Injury" width="75" height="75" />Sport and Recreational Injury</a>: In the U.S., more sports-related non-fatal injuries are treated in hospital emergency departments than any other type of unintentional injury. Approximately 4.3 million sports and recreation-related injuries were treated in hospital emergency departments during July 2000-June 2001. This page also shows two tables with the types of sports and percentage of non-fatal unintentional injuries treated in EDs, among boys and girls, respectively, ages 10-19 years.</li>
<li><a title="Sports Designer" href="http://www.sportsdesigner.com/1/2010/week14/index.html"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-107" title="Sports Designer" src="http://www.mastersinsportsmanagement.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/SportsDesign.jpg" alt="Sports Designer" width="75" height="75" />Sports Designer</a>: If you crave sports infographics for the sheer design and aesthetics of the genre, then you&#8217;ll love this site. Sports Designer offers visuals from across that country that focus on all sports, and they also offer the Sports Designer of the Year. Tim Parks of the Omaha World Herald was the winner for 2009, and this link leads to the page where you can view some of his work.</li>
<li><a title="Statistics About Drugs in Sport" href="http://www.bannedfordrugs.com.au/statistics_drugs_in_sport.htm"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-106" title="Statistics About Drugs in Sport" src="http://www.mastersinsportsmanagement.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Statistics-About-Drugs-in-S.jpg" alt="Statistics About Drugs in Sport" width="75" height="75" />Statistics About Drugs in Sport</a>: Before the Olympics, a survey and drug testing was done in East Germany among professional as well as amateur German athletes. According to the statistics, the number of athletes using prohibited sport drugs remained constant since 2004. This article states that, with the gene doping currently existing in the sports industry, it is likely that the statistics of drug in sports would increase by as much as 30 percent.</li>
<li><a title="System and Method for Rating Teams In Sports with Unbalanced Schedules" href="http://sebaseball.kislanko.com/PASOS/present.html"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-105" title="System and Method for Rating Teams In Sports with Unbalanced Schedules" src="http://www.mastersinsportsmanagement.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/SystemandMethod.jpg" alt="System and Method for Rating Teams In Sports with Unbalanced Schedules" width="75" height="75" />System and Method for Rating Teams In Sports with Unbalanced Schedules</a>: This information, created by Paul Kislanko in 2004, describes a system and method that can be used to order teams involved in a sport that uses unbalanced schedules in the same manner as teams&#8217; records expressed as winning percentage is used for sports with balanced schedules. The rating is called &#8220;Performance Against Strength of Schedule,&#8221; and is based upon assigning values to each chain of head-to-head wins.</li>
<li><a title="The Effects of Bike Commuting on Obesity" href="http://www.good.is/post/transparency-the-effects-of-bike-commuting-on-obesity/"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-104" title="The Effects of Bike Commuting on Obesity" src="http://www.mastersinsportsmanagement.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/BiketoWork.jpg" alt="The Effects of Bike Commuting on Obesity" width="75" height="75" />The Effects of Bike Commuting on Obesity</a>: Heading into personal sports, this infographic shows how the effects of biking to work can affect people who are obese by country. To further help the promotion for biking to work, Good offers another infographic that shows the <a title="best U.S. cities" href="http://www.good.is/post/transparency-biking-to-work/">best U.S. cities</a> for this activity. Portland, Oregon ranks at the top of the list, with New York at the bottom (although this infographic charts the results backwards, which may be a little confusing).</li>
<li><a title="Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury Facts &amp; Figures" href="http://www.apparelyzed.com/statistics.html"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-103" title="Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury Facts &amp; Figures" src="http://www.mastersinsportsmanagement.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/TraumaticSpinalInjuries.jpg" alt="Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury Facts &amp; Figures" width="75" height="75" />Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury Facts &amp; Figures</a>: In the UK during the year 2000 there were 666 new patient admissions as a result from traumatic spinal cord injury in the UK and Ireland. Of those figures, 11.6 percent of those injuries resulted from sports injuries. Scroll down to learn more about the sports statistics to learn that the largest number of those accidents were caused by diving, followed by rugby, horse riding, altitude sports, winters sports and, lastly, gymnastics and boxing.</li>
<li><a title="Visualrian Infographics" href="http://visualrian.com/images?category_id=181&amp;section=infographics"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-102" title="Visualrian Infographics" src="http://www.mastersinsportsmanagement.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Visualrian-Infographics.jpg" alt="Visualrian Infographics" width="75" height="75" />Visualrian Infographics</a>: This link leads to just one of many graphics offered by this site, many which are focused on sports. Learn more about the Euro-2012 between Poland and Ukraine, about sports doping, the Sochi Olympics, the 2010 Olympic Medals count, an image of the track at the Gran Premio de Bahrein, a graphic that instructs individuals on how to get into the Guinness World Records and much more.</li>
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		<title>Top 20 Professional Sports Leagues Which Failed Miserably (or Hilariously)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 21:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Professional Sports]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the ways that athletes can show their prowess is to compete against others on a similar level. As a result, sports leagues are formed to give athletes a chance to compete. Managers, athletes and others get involved to try and help the league gain popularity so that it is profitable and viable. However, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>One of the ways that athletes can show their prowess is to compete against others on a similar level. As a result, sports leagues are formed to give athletes a chance to compete. <a href="http://www.mastersinsportsmanagement.org/masters-in-sports-management-program-rankings.html">Managers</a>, athletes and others get involved to try and help the league gain popularity so that it is profitable and viable. However, some sports leagues just don&#8217;t make it. They have poor planning and <a href="http://www.mastersinsportsmanagement.org/whats-your-average-salary-with-a-masters-in-sports-management.html">management</a>, or, in some cases, it just really wasn&#8217;t a good idea in the first place. Here are 20 professional sports leagues that failed:<span id="more-25"></span></p>
<h3>Football</h3>
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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usfl"><img class="size-full wp-image-27 alignright" title="USFL" src="http://www.mastersinsportsmanagement.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Picture-1.png" alt="" width="150" height="75" /></a>The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Football_League">United States Football League</a> was created in order to be an alternative to the National Football League. The USFL was supposed to be profitable by <em>not</em> competing with the NFL, holding its season during the spring rather than going head to head with the NFL. <a href="http://www.trump.com/">Donald Trump </a>even owned a USFL team, the New Jersey Generals. However, franchise instability was a problem, and nobody really cared to watch. The USFL lost $163 million during 1983 to 1985 before ceasing to exist. An anti-trust lawsuit was filed against the NFL, but not decided until 1988. The USFL was awarded $3.</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFL"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-29" title="XFL_Logo" src="http://www.mastersinsportsmanagement.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/XFL_Logo.png" alt="" width="150" height="75" /></a>The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFL">XFL</a> was meant to be an &#8220;extra fun&#8221; football league, full of action and excitement. <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0573093/">Vince McMahon</a>, the head of the WWE, started it in 2001. The idea was that the NFL was too staid, with too many rules, and was too boring. The XFL didn&#8217;t compete directly with the NFL, playing during the NFL&#8217;s off season. The XFL was meant to be a single business entity, without individual franchises operating their own business concerns. Even though there was a great deal of TV coverage for the startup league, the XFL never really caught on. Few people cared to watch, and the XFL only lasted one season.</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arena_Football_League_%281987%E2%80%932008%29"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-32" title="AFLlarge" src="http://www.mastersinsportsmanagement.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/AFLlarge.png" alt="Arena Football League" width="150" height="75" /></a>The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arena_Football_League_%281987%E2%80%932008%29">Arena Football League</a>, the AFL, was reasonably successful for some time. It was an indoor football league that started in 1987. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Foster_%28football%29">Jim Foster</a> started it, and it was meant to provide more excitement, since the field was shorter, creating an atmosphere that made it easier to score, with a faster paced game, and it was popular in some markets. However, the business model wasn&#8217;t working very well, and by 2008 the AFL was in serious debt. The league suspended operations, filing Chapter 7 bankruptcy. A new arena football league, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arena_Football_1">Arena Football 1</a>, started up in late 2009, and then changed its name to the Arena Football League in 2010.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.everyfootball.com/WFL/WFLball1LG.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-39" title="WFLball1LG" src="http://www.mastersinsportsmanagement.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/WFLball1LG-300x179.jpg" alt="WFL" width="150" height="75" /></a>The World Football League was yet another short-lived attempt to cash in on American football. The league only lasted for one season in 1974, and part of a season in 1975. The idea was to bring American style football to the world. The World Football League did manage to convince some NFL players to switch leagues, but the league ultimately failed. It couldn&#8217;t get the interest, and the closest it got to being a &#8220;world&#8221; league was a team in Hawaii. Without the benefits of cable, which would come later, the WFL just couldn&#8217;t cut it.</li>
<li><a href="http://amog.com/sports/ufl-pass-punt/"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-48" title="UFL" src="http://www.mastersinsportsmanagement.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Picture-6-300x136.png" alt="" width="150" height="75" /></a>The United Football League started in 2008. Well, sort of. It false-started in 2008. Unable to get the traction it needed, it put things off until 2009. And it is struggling through 2010. While not officially failed yet, many are already ringing the death knell, since the UFL is making use of washed up NFL prospects. But, the UFL seems to hope that if it can hold on until next year, it can gain traction as a place for NFL players on strike over new contract negotiations in 2011.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.everyfootball.com/Gallery/index.html"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-50" title="WLAFballLG" src="http://www.mastersinsportsmanagement.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/WLAFballLG-300x175.jpg" alt="WLAF" width="150" height="75" /></a>The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_League_of_American_Football">World League of American Football</a> was another attempt at expanding the fan base beyond the U.S. The WLAF started in Europe, trying to get fans excited about American-style football. Unfortunately, things just got confusing. Europeans have their own kind of football &#8212; what we call soccer. And they weren&#8217;t all that excited for it. The WLAF folded in 1993, only two years after its inception, replaced by <a href="http://www.nfl.com/news/story?id=09000d5d801308ec&amp;template=without-video&amp;confirm=true">NFL Europe</a>. Which also died out.</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_American_Football_Conference"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-74" title="252px-All-America_Football_Conference_logo.svg" src="http://www.mastersinsportsmanagement.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/252px-All-America_Football_Conference_logo.svg_.png" alt="AAFC" width="150" height="75" /></a>The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_American_Football_Conference">All-America Football Conference</a> was yet another competitor to the NFL. However, unlike many other competitors, the AAFC actually provided some innovations to the game that have stood the test of time. AAFC attracted some good players from 1946 to 1949, but even the well-funded league couldn&#8217;t win out over the NFL. In the end, three of the AAFC&#8217;s teams were absorbed by the NFL.</li>
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<h3>Basketball</h3>
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<li><a href="http://thechronicleherald.ca/forum/list/18/page=12"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-67" title="abavig" src="http://www.mastersinsportsmanagement.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/abavig.jpg" alt="American Basketball Association" width="150" height="75" /></a>The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Basketball_Association">American Basketball Association</a> started in 1967, and meant to compete with the NBA. The hallmarks of the ABA were its tri-colored basketball and the three-point shot. Another main point of the ABA was flashier play. The ABA was actually designed to fail: ABA promoters planned to force a merger with the NBA. Ultimately, even though the ABA failed to get all of its teams accepted into the NBA, it still succeed in its goal of failure with the <a href="http://hoopedia.nba.com/index.php?title=American_Basketball_Association">merger</a> in 1976.</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Basketball_League_%281996%E2%80%931998%29"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-42" title="ABL1" src="http://www.mastersinsportsmanagement.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/ABL1.png" alt="American Basketball League" width="150" height="75" /></a>The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Basketball_League_%281996%E2%80%931998%29">American Basketball League </a>was a women&#8217;s league, meant to provide a place for professional female athletes excelling at basketball. The league only lasted two full seasons, from 1996 to 1998. One of the biggest reasons that the American Basketball League failed was due to operating losses. Widespread interest was hard to come by, and the ABL couldn&#8217;t compete with the resources garnered by the <a href="http://www.wnba.com/">WNBA</a>, which the NBA has operated (at a loss) since its inception.</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slamball"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-45" title="Slamball_Logo_51" src="http://www.mastersinsportsmanagement.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Slamball_Logo_51-300x61.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="75" /></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slamball">Slamball</a> is basketball played with trampolines. It&#8217;s a full contact sport, offering fast-paced excitement. There was a Slamball professional league in existence for 2002 to 2003, when games were aired. There was some Slamball in 2008, but that sort of died off as well. However, Slamball is trying to make a comeback in 2010. We&#8217;ll see how that goes. It is mostly Internet sensation fodder &#8212; and loved by reams of try-it-at-home types, many of whom find themselves in the hospital.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.logoserver.com/AABA.html"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-52" title="AABA" src="http://www.mastersinsportsmanagement.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/AABA.gif" alt="" width="150" height="75" /></a>The All-American Basketball Alliance formed in 1977. The idea was to create a professional minor basketball league to compete with the Continental Basketball Association. Games were only played for a couple of months in 1978 before the league folded. It was a nice thought &#8212; becoming a premier minor league &#8212; but it just didn&#8217;t work out. The AABA couldn&#8217;t compete with the established minor league, and it didn&#8217;t get enough attention and funding to survive.</li>
<li>Another league called the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-American_Basketball_Alliance_%282010%29">All-American Basketball Alliance</a> is a new league to be based in Atlanta, Georgia. This new league is a whites-only league, and will also exclude foreigners. The original start-up plan was to have the league in 12 cities, primarily in the South. But there appears to be little interest, despite the founder&#8217;s <a href="http://www.majorblogs.net/editorsraves/2010/1/22/a-whites-only-basketball-league-finally-racists-have-a-leagu.html">insistence that he isn&#8217;t a racist</a>. (He said that &#8220;people of color&#8221; play &#8220;street-ball&#8221; instead of fundamentally sound basketball.) There just doesn&#8217;t seem to be that much interest in ponying up to watch the league, and it is expected to completely fizzle out any minute.</li>
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<h3>Other Sports</h3>
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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_United_Soccer_Association"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-35" title="WUSA" src="http://www.mastersinsportsmanagement.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Picture-2-150x60.png" alt="" width="150" height="75" /></a>The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_United_Soccer_Association">Women&#8217;s United Soccer Association</a> represented the first professional soccer league in the world for women, beginning play in April 2001. All the women were paid professionals, and the soccer league was formed on the heels of the 1999 World Cup Championship and the gold medal in the 2000 Olympics. The women, like <a href="http://www.womensoccer.com/biogs/hamm.html">Mia Hamm</a>, were clean and sponsor friendly. However, the interest wasn&#8217;t there, and the league ceased operations in 2003. The league lost right around $100 million.</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Soccer_League"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-56" title="NASL" src="http://www.mastersinsportsmanagement.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Picture-7-300x121.png" alt="" width="150" height="75" /></a>The <a href="http://www.insidefutbol.com/2008/10/22/looking-back-over-failed-us-soccer-league/2123/">North American Soccer League</a> was an attempt to provide professional soccer in the United States and Canada. It was in operation from 1968 to 1984, but it never really gained widespread support. The league included indoor games as well as outdoor games to try and boost its fan base, but even that didn&#8217;t work. The game schedule was sparse, and sponsorship low. The league limped along until its final demise. Americans weren&#8217;t very interested in soccer, and it showed.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.jasonfpeck.com/2007/08/19/guaranteed-failure-world-boxing-league/"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-59" title="wbl" src="http://www.mastersinsportsmanagement.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/wbl.jpg" alt="World Boxing League" width="150" height="75" /></a>The <a href="http://www.thesweetscience.com/boxing-article/5984/world-boxing-league-set-debut/">World Boxing League</a> was introduced in 2007, and debuted in 2008, and was meant to make money off team boxing. Every team was required to have six weight divisions, and participate in fights throughout the seasons. Playoffs would be held, to determine the best boxing team. The World Boxing League is still in existence, limping along, looking for an audience. Indeed, the <a href="http://www.worldboxingleague.net/">&#8220;official&#8221; site</a> hasn&#8217;t even been updated since 2009, leading some to believe that it might already be defunct.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.mastersinsportsmanagement.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Elitexc.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-37" title="Elitexc" src="http://www.mastersinsportsmanagement.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Elitexc-300x57.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="75" /></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EliteXC">Elite Xtreme Combat</a> was a league designed around <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_martial_arts">Mixed Martial Arts</a>. EliteXC was supposed to raw and exciting, promising fierce fights. Specials were to be broadcast every other month on CBS, but things soon fell apart. One of the issues was that in the opening fight, Kimbo Slice took off the ear of his opponent, and the fight was pretty much over. The EliteXC league was only in operation for 2008, folding as it was unable to garner a mass market audience.</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fight_League"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-61" title="International Fight League" src="http://www.mastersinsportsmanagement.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Picture-8.png" alt="" width="150" height="75" /></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fight_League">International Fight League</a> was another MMA league that failed. It billed itself as the first Mixed Martial Arts league in the world, and didn&#8217;t manage to gain a wide following. It had a team format, opening in 2006 and closing in 2008. While Mixed Martial Arts is a fast-growing sport, and <a href="http://www.mixedmartialarts.com/mma.cfm?go=events.home">tournaments</a> are televised, official leagues seem to have very limited success indeed, unable to gain a following. It seems as though people are more interested in watching individuals do MMA, rather than teams.</li>
<li><a href="http://education.baseballhalloffame.org/experience/thematic_units/womens_history/aagp_logo.html"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-64" title="AAGPBL_logo" src="http://www.mastersinsportsmanagement.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/AAGPBL_logo.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="75" /></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-American_Girls_Professional_Baseball_League">All-American Girls Professional Baseball League</a> was in effect from 1943 to 1954. It started as a softball league, and did not play regulation baseball until its final season (which was done in an effort to increase fan interest). The league started up during World War II as a way for baseball to remain in the public eye while many of the male baseball stars were serving in the military. Mostly popular in the Midwest, the <a href="http://www.aagpbl.org/">AAGPBL</a> faded and eventually fizzled out, leaving baseball dominated by the male game.</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Hockey_Association"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-69" title="World_Hockey_Association_logo" src="http://www.mastersinsportsmanagement.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/World_Hockey_Association_logo.gif" alt="WHA" width="150" height="75" /></a>The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Hockey_Association">World Hockey Association</a> was a North American league created in 1972 to compete with the National Hockey League. The WHA challenged the NHL, offering players higher pay, and creating an environment in which players could easily switch between leagues. The WHA was ultimately unstable, however, with teams folding. Throughout its history, the WHA was almost always engaged in legal battles with the NHL. In 1979 the NHL absorbed some of the WHA teams, and the WHA was no more.</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Hockey_Association_%28proposed%29"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-71" title="WHA_second" src="http://www.mastersinsportsmanagement.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/WHA_second.gif" alt="World Hockey Association" width="150" height="75" /></a>Another attempt to resurrect the World Hockey Association was made in 2003. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Hockey_Association_%28proposed%29">new WHA </a>planned to provide a place for NHL players during the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004%E2%80%9305_NHL_lockout">2004-05 lockout</a>. There was draft in 2004, and an invitational tournament, but the actual league failed to materialize. The second attempt at the WHA fizzled before it even started, a true failure.</li>
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		<title>50 Sports Insiders Worth Following on Twitter</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you ever wonder what&#8217;s going on behind the scenes in the NFL or the NBA? While you can follow individual players or individual sports teams and other sports figures on Twitter, one of the best ways to get &#8220;insider&#8221; news is from the media, including journalists, sports agents, managers, executives or from rumors. That&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>Do you ever wonder what&#8217;s going on behind the scenes in the NFL or the NBA? While you can follow individual players or individual sports teams and other sports figures on <a title="Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/">Twitter</a>, one of the best ways to get &#8220;insider&#8221; news is from the media, including journalists, sports agents, <a title="managers" href="http://www.mastersinsportsmanagement.org/">managers</a>, executives or from <a title="rumors" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumor">rumors</a>. That&#8217;s why we&#8217;ve compiled this list for you &#8212; 50 sports insiders that are worth following for all the juice on your favorite sport.<span id="more-19"></span></p>
<p>The following list is categorized by journalists, media and sports divisions, rumors and other insiders, and a handful of sports agents. Each link is categorized within those categories, and each link leads directly to that user&#8217;s Twitter page.</p>
<h3><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports"><img src="http://www.mastersinsportsmanagement.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Sports.jpg" alt="Sports" title="Sports" width="150" height="150" class="alignright size-full wp-image-20" /></a>Sports Journalists</h3>
<p>Going for the exclusive&#8230;</p>
<ol>
<li><a title="Adam_Schefter" href="http://twitter.com/Adam_Schefter">@Adam_Schefter</a>: Adam Schefter is the ESPN NFL insider who &#8220;dislikes feeling like an outsider.&#8221;</li>
<li><a title="Buster_ESPN" href="http://twitter.com/Buster_ESPN">@Buster_ESPN</a>: Buster Olney is the senior baseball writer for <em>ESPN The Magazine</em>.</li>
<li><a title="@chadfordinsider" href="http://twitter.com/chadfordinsider">@chadfordinsider</a>: Chad Ford is in Hawaii, and is an ESPN NBA insider.</li>
<li><a title="chadmillman" href="http://twitter.com/chadmillman">@chadmillman</a>: Follow this gambling/sports betting guy for ESPN for insider news.</li>
<li><a title="DarrenDreger" href="http://twitter.com/DarrenDreger">@DarrenDreger</a>: Follow TSN&#8217;s (The Sports Network) hockey insider, Darren Dreger.</li>
<li><a title="JimBowdenXMFOX" href="http://twitter.com/JimBowdenXMFOX">@JimBowdenXMFOX</a>: Co-Host of &#8220;Inside Pitch&#8221; on MLBNetworkRadio (Sirius 210/XM 175) 2-6pm est; baseball analyst FoxSports.com; co-host Fox Sports Radio (XM 142) Sat/Sun 4-8pm Est.</li>
<li><a title="MatthewBerryTMR" href="http://twitter.com/MatthewBerryTMR">@MatthewBerryTMR</a>: This is Matthew Berry, your Fantasy Sports Guy at ESPN.</li>
<li><a title="mortreport" href="http://twitter.com/mortreport">@mortreport</a>: You may know him by his real name, Chris Mortensen, senior ESPN Analyst.</li>
<li><a title="@richeisen" href="http://twitter.com/richeisen">@richeisen</a>: Rich Eison works for the NFL network. He&#8217;s also married to ESPN on ABC&#8217;s college football sideline reporter, Suzy Shuster.</li>
<li><a title="SI_JonHeyman" href="http://twitter.com/SI_JonHeyman">@SI_JonHeyman</a>: This is Jon Heyman, baseball writer at SI and SI.com and an insider at MLB Network and WFAN.</li>
<li><a title="SI_PeterKing" href="http://twitter.com/SI_PeterKing">@SI_PeterKing</a>: Peter King, <em>Sports Illustrated&#8217;s</em> senior NFL writer, offers his take on pro football, coffee and &#8220;other meaningless drivel.&#8221;</li>
<li><a title="sportsguy33" href="http://twitter.com/sportsguy33">@sportsguy33</a>: This is Bill Simmons, who writes the Sports Guy column and hosts the BS Report podcast for ESPN.com.</li>
<li><a title="TheJetOnTNT" href="http://twitter.com/TheJetOnTNT">@TheJetOnTNT</a>: Two-time NBA Champion Kenny Smith is in his 13th full season as an NBA studio analyst for TNT’s Emmy award-winning studio show &#8220;Inside the NBA.&#8221;</li>
<li><a title="TomJolly" href="http://twitter.com/TomJolly">@TomJolly</a>: Tom Jolly is the sports editor at <em>The New York Times</em>.</li>
<li><a title="Troy_Aikman" href="http://twitter.com/Troy_Aikman">@Troy_Aikman</a>: Troy Aikman is the NFL on Fox.</li>
<li><a title="Trey Wingo" href="http://twitter.com/wingoz">@wingoz</a>: Over 330,000 individuals follow Trey Wingo, the NFL live host.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Sports Divisions and Sports Media</h3>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball"><img src="http://www.mastersinsportsmanagement.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Baseball.jpg" alt="Baseball" title="Baseball" width="150" height="150" class="alignright size-full wp-image-21" /></a>The broad picture&#8230;</p>
<ol start="17">
<li><a title="espn" href="http://twitter.com/espn">@espn</a>: Get news and analysis on the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, NASCAR, college football and basketball, boxing, MMA, golf, tennis and more.</li>
<li><a title="FOXSports21" href="http://twitter.com/FOXSports21">@FOXSports21</a>: Tweets from the &#8220;peeps on the 21st floor&#8221; providing insights from FOXSports.com&#8217;s commentators and reporters.</li>
<li><a title="insidefights" href="http://twitter.com/insidefights">@insidefights</a>: Fox Sports&#8217; &#8220;Inside Fights&#8221; is a leading source for UFC, MMA and boxing news, commentary, live coverage and exclusive interviews.</li>
<li><a title="MLB" href="http://twitter.com/MLB">@MLB</a>: Get news, views, help, commercial offers and exclusive Twitter giveaways from the Major League Baseball, the highest level of play in North American professional baseball.</li>
<li><a title="NASCARONFOX" href="http://twitter.com/NASCARONFOX">@NASCARONFOX</a>: This is the offical page for Fox Sports&#8217; news coverage on NASCAR.</li>
<li><a title="NASCARSays" href="http://twitter.com/NASCARSays">@NASCARSays</a>: This is NASCAR&#8217;s only official Twitter account, with daily information from NASCAR officials.</li>
<li><a title="NBA" href="http://twitter.com/NBA">@NBA</a>: News and notes directly from the NBA&#8217;s Twitter account to your computer. Find out as soon as &#8220;Amazing Happens!&#8221;</li>
<li><a title="NBASummerLeague" href="http://twitter.com/NBASummerLeague">@NBASummerLeague</a>: Stay on top of NBA Summer League news with this official Twitter account.</li>
<li><a title="nfl" href="http://twitter.com/nfl">@nfl</a>: Follow the official Twitter account for the National Football League to get the latest news from this source.</li>
<li><a title="NHL" href="http://twitter.com/NHL">@NHL</a>: The official Twitter account for the National Hockey League. You can check out fan lists here, too.</li>
<li><a title="SHO_INFL" href="http://twitter.com/SHO_INFL">@SHO_INFL</a>: This is the Twitter account for the Emmy award-winning show about the National Football League on Showtime.</li>
<li><a title="SHOsports" href="http://twitter.com/SHOsports">@SHOsports</a>: Official Showtime Sports &#8212; be the first to get news about championship boxing, MMA and &#8220;Inside The NFL.&#8221;</li>
<li><a title="SportsNation" href="http://twitter.com/SportsNation">@SportsNation</a>: A new ESPN television show, where you can gain insight into the pro&#8217;s private lives.</li>
<li><a title="@usatoday_nfl" href="http://twitter.com/usatoday_nfl">@usatoday_nfl</a>: Insider access to pro football coverage from the USA TODAY&#8217;s NFL staff.</li>
</ol>
<h3><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_football"><img src="http://www.mastersinsportsmanagement.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Football.jpg" alt="Football" title="Football" width="150" height="150" class="alignright size-full wp-image-22" /></a>Rumors, Spins, and Other Insiders</h3>
<p>How many Tweets are truth or rumor?</p>
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<li><a title="BaseballRM" href="http://twitter.com/BaseballRM">@BaseballRM</a>: Major League Baseball trade rumors, MLB draft rumors, contract news and more baseball-related commentary.</li>
<li><a title="BoxingInsider" href="http://twitter.com/BoxingInsider">@BoxingInsider</a>: The official Twitter page for the Web site, Boxinginsider.com, covering headlines, biofiles, interviews and more.</li>
<li><a title="CBBRumorCentral" href="http://twitter.com/CBBRumorCentral">@CBBRumorCentral</a>: College Basketball Rumor Central brings you the latest on recruiting, position battles, gameplans and more. To follow the links, you must be an ESPN Insider.</li>
<li><a title="football_buzz" href="http://twitter.com/football_buzz">@football_buzz</a>: Try this Twitter account out &#8212; it&#8217;s not affiliated with a Web site, but seems to be gathering followers&#8230;</li>
<li><a title="FootballPost" href="http://twitter.com/FootballPost">@FootballPost</a>: National Football Post is a distinctive forum where news, information, and insight come together through the voices of professional football insiders.</li>
<li><a title="insWorldSoccer" href="http://twitter.com/insWorldSoccer">@insWorldSoccer</a>: The latest soccer news, scores, standings and videos brought to you online, alerted through this Twitter account.</li>
<li><a title="kocosports" href="http://twitter.com/kocosports">@kocosports</a>: KocoSports.com is the best source for MMA, boxing, wrestling, WWE, UFC, TNA &#8212; out of Japan.</li>
<li><a title="MLBRumorCentral" href="http://twitter.com/MLBRumorCentral">@MLBRumorCentral</a>: MLB Rumor Central brings you the latest on trades, free agency, injuries, hirings, firings, feuds and more. To follow the links, you must be an ESPN Insider.</li>
<li><a title="mlbtraderumors" href="http://twitter.com/mlbtraderumors">@mlbtraderumors</a>: Get the latest trade rumors swirling around Major League Baseball.</li>
<li><a title="MLS_Insider" href="http://twitter.com/MLS_Insider">@MLS_Insider</a>: Tweeting for and about Major League Soccer from inside MLSHQ in New York City and beyond.</li>
<li><a title="NBA_INSIDER" href="http://twitter.com/NBA_INSIDER">@NBA_INSIDER</a>: An inside source on today&#8217;s most compelling sport &#8212; basketball. Get notices from inside the league as they happen.</li>
<li><a title="NBARUMORS" href="mailto:N@NBARUMORS">@NBARUMORS</a>: Your inside source to NBA rumors, basketball news and player updates.</li>
<li><a title="NBARumorCentral" href="http://twitter.com/NBARumorCentral">@NBARumorCentral</a>: NBA Rumor Central brings you the latest on trades, free agency, injuries, hirings, firings, feuds and more. To follow the links, you must be an ESPN Insider.</li>
<li><a title="NFLRumorCentral" href="http://twitter.com/NFLRumorCentral">@NFLRumorCentral</a>: Get the latest on trades, free agency, injuries, hirings, firings, feuds and more. To follow the links, you must be an ESPN Insider.</li>
<li><a title="SpectorsHockey" href="http://twitter.com/SpectorsHockey">@SpectorsHockey</a>: NHL prognosticator Lyle Richardson brings you the latest news and trade rumors from around the league.</li>
<li><a title="sportsrumormill" href="http://twitter.com/sportsrumormill">@sportsrumormill</a>: Predict scores, trash talk and trade rumors about your favorite teams.</li>
</ol>
<h3><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soccer"><img src="http://www.mastersinsportsmanagement.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Soccer.jpg" alt="Soccer" title="Soccer" width="150" height="150" class="alignright size-full wp-image-23" /></a>Sports Commissioners, Agents and Other CEOS</h3>
<p>Not many folks in this category, which may make these four worth following&#8230;</p>
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<li><a title="Eklund" href="http://twitter.com/Eklund">@Eklund</a>: Founder and CEO of Hockeybuzz.com, &#8220;the most viewed hockey only independent website in history.&#8221;</li>
<li><a title="nflcommish" href="http://twitter.com/nflcommish">@nflcommish</a>: Follow Roger Goodell, commissioner of the National Football League.</li>
<li><a title="RosenhausSports" href="http://twitter.com/RosenhausSports">@RosenhausSports</a>: Drew Rosenhaus is an NFL sports agent who owns the Miami-based sports agency, Rosenhaus Sports.</li>
<li><a title="walsha" href="http://twitter.com/walsha">@walsha</a>: Allan Walsh is Octagon-Hockey&#8217;s (Where the Pros Come to Play) sports agent/lawyer.</li>
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		<title>5 Free Online World Cup History Videos worth Watching</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Soccer arena globally is getting heated up as FIFA World CUP 2010 date is approaching is closing near that is scheduled to be organized at South Africa in April 2010. Below are some of the best video clips from previous FIFA world cups as to warm up you for coming FIFA cup.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>As Soccer arena globally is getting heated up as FIFA World CUP 2010 date is approaching is closing near that is scheduled to be organized at South Africa in April 2010. Below are some of the best video clips from previous FIFA world cups as to warm up you for coming FIFA cup.</p>
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<li><a href="http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9L9rj4swhs" target="_blank"><strong>Top 50 Best World Cup Goals in History</strong></a>: This video is about the best goals ever scored in the history of world cup and is good curtain raiser for the world cup that is about to arrive at in South Africa in April 2010.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0ur7oa34Oc" target="_blank"><strong>Canada&#8217;s 1986 Soccer World Cup Journey</strong></a>: The 1986 FIFA World Cup, the 13th staging of the FIFA World Cup, was held in Mexico from 31 May to 29 June but it was very exceptional for Canada, as it was the only world cup that was played by Canada. This video is all about how Canada makes into the FIFA world cup 1986</li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwGdFmwMGSM" target="_blank"><strong>Fifa World Cup Final 1938</strong></a>: The Fifa World Cup final was the third staging of the World cup and scheduled in France from 4 June to 19 June. In the finals of the cup, the match was played between Hungry and Italy. In the final of the Match Itlay defeated hungry by two to four goals. It is the you tube video of that attracting match.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CThw__RyswQ" target="_blank"><strong>FIFA World Cup 1986 &#8211; Soviet Union vs Belgium</strong></a>: The 1986 FIFA World Cup, the 13th organization of the FIFA World Cup was held in Mexico from 31 May to 29th June. Earlier Colombia was its host country, however, later on due to economic reasons venue shifted to Mexico. This is an exiting world clip of a match played between Soviet Union and Belgium at the world cup.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Syncd5yq8o4" target="_blank"><strong>World Cup 1958 Final</strong></a>: he 1958 FIFA World Cup was the sixth staging of the World Cup. The world cup was hosted by Sweden from 8June to 29 June. This world cup is known for introducing legendary football player Pele. In the finals Brazil defeated Sweden by five goals to two.</li>
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		<title>7 Free Open Courseware Classes to Learn About Sports History</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>In sports, coaching is understood from direction, instruction and training of the operations of a sports team or an individual involved in the direction, instruction, and training of the operations of a sports team or of an individual sports person. Below is provided a detailed list of open courseware related to sports.</p>
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<li><a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Special-Programs/SP-235Spring-2009/CourseHome/index.htm" target="_blank"><strong>Sports Chemistry</strong></a>: This particular courseware in format of seminar is focused towards swimming, cycling and running.  It is consisted of two parts classroom session and laboratory in the form of structured training program.  Here students are told about their own biological chemistry to enhance their knowledge of triathlon.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.sport-fitness-advisor.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Sport Fitness Advisor</strong></a>: This website is free resource center for usable sports training tips, programs for enthusiastic athletes. At this site one would get usable sports tip, programs and workouts for eager to learn athletes. The information is provided on various components of sports and physical activities like strength training, power training, speed training, ply metrics, body composition, endurance training and flexibility.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.mastersport.co.uk/soccerskills.htm" target="_blank"><strong>Free Football Skills</strong></a>: At this site the football enthusiasts and young children can learn about playing football by watching skills videos on basic techniques like shooting, passing the ball, heading, block tackling and goalkeeping.  For experienced and mature players there are provided videos on volleying, the body swerve, close control, ball dribbling and defending corners. There are also parts on fitness and sports psychology.</li>
<li><a href="http://baseballtips.com/instruction.html" target="_blank"><strong>Baseball Tips</strong></a>: This website is dedicated to some of the new and best creative tips on for training baseball players. Here articles and other information on baseball tips is provided for aspects related to baseball like catching, coaching, defense, drills, fall ball, hitting, health, mental game and pitching to make one a perfect baseball player. .</li>
<li><a href="http://www.top-basketball-coaching.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Basketball Coaching</strong></a>:  This website is dedicated to tips for skill development in basketball as information for basket ball coaching is provided in number of tips and articles as provided on the website.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.procomparetennis.net/" target="_blank"><strong>ProCompare Tennis</strong></a>: This website is about coaching tennis as started by full time tennis coaches, Simon and John. At the website one can have Tennis Video, Instructional Tennis Articles, Tennis Coaching Resources and other information as subjected to game of tennis.</li>
<li><a href="http://freegolftrainingtips.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Free Golf Training</strong></a>:  It is a very valuable source for playing and having tips and instruction on game of golf.   After going through this website, a person can definitely have an edge over game of golf with improved version of the game. Here articles on playing golf one would found of great use and help.</li>
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		<title>Online Masters in Sports Management</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Masters in sports management offers an opportunity for you to gain specialized knowledge and skills in any field of interest in sports management. This kind of careers are involving and most professionals lack the time needed to attend lessons as much as they would want to do the masters degree. However, many people have attained [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>Masters in sports management offers an opportunity for you to gain specialized knowledge and skills in any field of interest in sports management. This kind of careers are involving and most professionals lack the time needed to attend lessons as much as they would want to do the masters degree. However, many people have attained Masters in sports management without going to a classroom and this is because of the online schools that offer online Masters programs in sports management.</p>
<p>Online Masters programs in sports management are very much recognized just like the others since whatever is taught is just the same as what the traditional classes teach and this can be ascertained by looking at their course outlines. The only difference between these two is the mode of teaching as with the online programs, the tutors and students do not have to meet physically. Online masters in sports management programs have contributed to the high number of people enrolling in masters every year since they provide flexibility especially for the working professionals.</p>
<p>With the online sports management masters, you can do everything online, from the application to the admission and studying. The good thing is that online masters programs are available in many areas of study so whether you would want to be a coach, a trainer, sports agent, lawyer or director, you will still get a program to suit your needs. The number of schools offering the sports management masters programs are also many and they are among the top ranked online schools. This gives you a perfect chance to select one basing on your own criteria.</p>
<p>Something else that should give you more reason to enroll for an online Masters in sports management is the fact that you can get financial aid to finance for your studies. There are many sports organizations that offer scholarships and grants or loans to interested students and you can take advantage of this. The federal government also offers some financial aid to selected schools that you may now want to check out.</p>
<p>If you want a better salary with a Masters in sports management, make sure you go for the best degree program as well. There are lists of the best sports management degree programs available online which you can have a look at. To be successful in this field, you also need to know the ethics and communication techniques that must be adhered to.</p>
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