Football

1. The Fog Bowl: New Year’s Eve 1988, a dense fog rolled over Chicago’s Soldier Field during the 2nd quarter, cutting visibility to about 10-20 yards for the rest of the game. The fog was so thick that the Chicago Bears and the Philadelphia Eagles were forced to use their running game because receivers could not see the long passes thrown to them. TV and radio announcers, and the fans in the stadium had trouble seeing what was happening on the field. The Bears won 20-12.
2. Joe Namath’s Guarantee: Three days before the third World Championship game between AFL team New York Jets and NFL team Baltimore Colts, on January 9, 1969, Namath, quarterback for the Jets, declared that the Jets would win the game. Namath then completed 17 out of 28 passes for 206 yards, and was named the Super Bowl’s Most Valuable Player.
3. The Immaculate Reception: Voted by NFL Films as the Greatest Play in NFL History, this moment came from a divisional play off game between the Oakland Raiders and Pittsburgh Steelers on December 23, 1972. Facing a 4th and 10 on their own 40 yard line and trailing the Raiders by a score of 7-6 with time running out, quarterback Terry Bradshaw threw to his running back. The pass was deflected and then caught, inches from the ground by rookie fullback Franco Harris, who ran the ball for a touchdown to take the lead with five seconds remaining. The play was called the “Immaculate Reception” by a Pittsburgh fan.
4. The Heidi Game: On November 17, 1968, the Oakland Raiders defeated the New York Jets, 43–32. The game is remembered for its exciting finish, as Oakland scored two touchdowns in the final minute to overcome a 32–29 New York lead. The Heidi Game obtained its name because the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) controversially broke away from the game with the Jets still winning to air the television film Heidi.
5. Monday Night Football is Born: On September 21, 1970, this American phenomenon began, accompanied by Howard Cosell’s nasal announcing. The Cleveland Browns played host to the New York Jets, with the Browns winning 31-21. This loss followed the Jet’s Super Bowl win in 1969.

Baseball

7. Babe Ruth Breaks Home Run Record: George Herman Ruth, Jr. hit his 60th home run on September 30, 1927. Ruth was the leader of the famous 1927 Yankees, also known as Murderer’s Row because of the strength of its hitting lineup.
8. Babe Ruth’s Record Broken: On April 8, 1974, Hank Aaron broke the career home run record set by Babe Ruth. This event was notable because he received death threats and a large volume of hate mail from people who did not want to see a black man break Ruth’s record.
9. The First Perfect Game: A perfect game is defined by Major League Baseball as a game in which a pitcher (or pitchers) pitches a victory that lasts a minimum of nine innings and in which no opposing player reaches base. It can be a no-hitter and a shutout. That first perfect game occurred on June 12, 1880, when John Lee Richmond, pitching for the Worcester Ruby Legs, beat the Cleveland Blues 1-0, with the only run scoring on an error.
10. Boston Red Sox Finally Win: Since their last championship in 1918, the Red Sox were supposedly cursed. But on October 27, 2004, the curse ended when the Red Sox beat the St. Louis Cardinals, leaving the world in a state of shock. With the win, pitcher Derek Lowe became the first pitcher to ever win three series clinching games in a single post-season.
11. The Only World Series No-Hitter: Don Larsen pitched the only perfect game in World Series history. He was pitching for the New York Yankees in Game 5 of the 1956 World Series against the Brooklyn Dodgers on October 8, 1956. But, he had help from Gil McDougald, when the Dodgers’ Jackie Robinson hit a liner that caromed off third baseman Andy Carey right to McDougald, who threw out Robinson by a step.

Basketball

11. 100 Points in a Single Game: On March 2, 1962, a young Wilt Chamberlain set the NBA (National Basketball Association) single-game scoring record by racking up 100 points for the Philadelphia Warriors in a 169-147 win over the New York Knicks in Hershey, PA.
12. Five Positions: In what would be the final game of the 1980 NBA series, 20-year-old Earvin “Magic” Johnson played all five positions on the court and started the game at center for the injured Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. He finished with 42 points, 15 rebounds, and 7 assists en route to his first title for the Los Angeles Lakers.
13. Torn Muscle Plays: During the fifth game of the 1970 NBA Finals, Willis Reed suffered a torn thigh muscle. He was expected to sit out the rest of the series, but he didn’t. He reentered the fray in the seventh alone. As he walked onto the court from the tunnel, he stopped warm ups and churned the New York Knicks fans into a frenzy. The story is that his presence inspired the Knicks to a 113-99 victory and the franchise’s first NBA Championship.
14. Longest Game Ever: And, maybe the greatest game, too — especially for the Phoenix Suns. On June 4, 1976, in the fifth game of the NBA Finals, the Boston Celtics and the Suns went into three overtimes, the first Finals game ever to last that long. Phoenix took the game 128-126; but, two days later, the Celtics beat the Suns 87-80 in Phoenix to wrap up their 13th NBA championship.
15. The Longest Shot: The shot that made Kareem Abdul-Jabbar the NBA’s career scoring leader on April 5, 1984, was familiar: a graceful, high-arching sky-hook from the baseline, the shot that had become his trademark in a long and successful career. It was his 31,420th point of his career, breaking the NBA’s all-time scoring record, which had been held by Wilt Chamberlain.

Golf

16. Tiger Woods, Youngest Masters Champ: At the tender age of 21, and only his fifteenth appearance as a pro, the highly touted Woods became the youngest player to win the Masters in the 61-year history of the tournament on April 13, 1997.
17. The Old St. Nick Wins Six: At 46, Jack Nicklaus, a 46-year-old “antique,” had won his 20th major golf championship, his first green jacket in 11 years, his sixth Masters Tournament in over three decades. Nicklaus won his first Masters, in 1963. With the sixth win in 1986, Nicklaus became the oldest Masters winner in history, a record which still stands.
18. A Woman Rocks the Boat: Annika Sorenstam challenges the men at the Bank of America Colonial tournament in 2003, becoming the first woman to play a PGA Tour event in 58 years. Before stepping away from competitive golf at the end of the 2008 season, she won 90 international tournaments as a professional, making her the female golfer with the most wins to her name.
19. Caddyshack Cracks Golf: Caddyshack would become arguably the most quoted film ever, adored by golfers and non-golfers alike. Opening in the summer of 1980, this comedy forever changed the golf lexicon, pitting the “snobs against the slobs.”

Other Sports

20. Cassius Clay Defeats Sonny Liston: On February 25, 1964, a brash, young speed-talking Olympic champion stood firm against a seemingly indestructible heavyweight champ. The controversial bout created Muhammad Ali, the greatest boxing icon of the latter 20th century.
21. Rocky Marciano Undefeated: Rocco Francis Marchegiano was an American boxer and the heavyweight champion of the world from September 23, 1952 to April 27, 1956. Marciano is the only champion to hold the heavyweight title and go untied, undefeated throughout his career. His last title bout was against 38-year-old Archie Moore on September 21, 1955.
22. Joe Louis Annihilates Max Schmeling: Within 124 seconds on June 22, 1938, Joe Louis beat a Nazi star athlete. Fought at Yankee Stadium, the contest was as much between the United States and Nazi Germany as between two superbly skilled athletes. There were almost 70,000 spectators and an estimated 100 million radio listeners throughout the world: “the largest audience in history for anything.”
23. Another Woman Rocks the Boat: On October 24th, 2009, undefeated boxer Lucia Rijker (17-0, 14 KOs) became the first female inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame.
24. NHL’s All-Time Leading Scorer: On October 15, 1989, Wayne Gretzky bacems the greatest hockey superstar when he surpassed Gordie Howe’s total of 1,850 points in a remarkable third of the time played. Even after retirement, he remains the leading point-scorer in National Hockey League (NHL) history, and his jersey number, 99, has been retired by all NHL teams.
25. Rogues’ Gallery: On May 29, 1996, Claude Lemieux hit Red Wings center Kris Draper from behind in Game 6 of the 1996 Western Conference finals. This brutal incident left Draper with a concussion, broken jaw, cheek and orbital bones and would require extensive reconstructive facial surgery.

General Questions

1. Become a Sports Agent: This Web site answers such questions as: what is a sports agent, who do sports agents represent, what does a sports agent career include, and how do I start my sports agent career?
2. Behind The Scenes: Being A Sports Agent: This article begins with a complex question about the first athlete to create an “advisory committee” that included agents, marketing and other business experts. Be sure to read the entire article, which is composed of questions and answers.
3. How to Become: This Web site answers the questions, who are sports agents and what do they do, how much do sports agents earn, and how to become a sports agent.
4. Ohio State Bar Association Website: The publication “Law You Can Use” answers questions about what an athlete should look for in a sports agent, what exactly a sports agent is, how someone becomes a sports agent, and what a sports agent does for an athlete.
5. Questions Online: This website answers questions such as how do you become a sports agent, how do I become a sports agent with my business degree, which college course should I study under, what path should I follow.
6. Sports Agent Directory: The Sports Agent Directory is an online directory of certified sports agents meant mostly for athletes, but in explaining sports agents to the athletes, it also gives information on why sports agents are needed, what they do and how a person can become listed as a sports agent.
7. Sports-Management.com: Sports-Management.com is a website about sports management that also answers questions about being a sports agent. They also provide resources to look into the life of a sports agent.
8. Sports Management Worldwide: Sports Management Worldwide is a full-service sports agency that also offers a sports agent course (also referred to as an athlete management course). The questions posed here include inquiries into what to study, future salary propositions, jobs and how to find athletes to represent.
9. Sports Agent Questions: eHow answers questions like what are the job duties, what is the necessary training, and what is the pay.



10. Sports Management WorldWide FAQs: This site, which excels in sports business education, contains a section filled with questions and answers about becoming a sports agent.
11. Pro Star Sports Agency Frequently Asked Questions: The questions on this site were taken from the NCAA Web site, and contain questions pertinent to the legality and function of a sports agency. It’s a FAQ sheet that any agent can learn from.
12. Questions to Ask your Prospective Sports Agent: This page, which is on a legal site, proposes that many sports agents are lawyers who have generally been trained in the fundamentals of contracts and should be familiar with the current market value of their client relative to other athletes within the same sport.
13. Sports Industry Jobs FAQ: This question-and-answer page is filled with inquiries about jobs, salaries and other details of the business, such as, “What are some of the perks available in the sports industry?” Sports Career Finder sponsors this page.
14. Sports Agents / Financial Advisors Compliance: Although not a typical question-and-answer format, this site contains everything anyone would want to know about compliance with NCAA agent bylaws, policy and guidelines. The page goes on to cover the NFL, NBA, MLB and more.
15. Browse Sports Agent Law Questions by State: Law QA offers an entire page filled with links all focused on law questions about sports questions categorized by state. To ask a Alabama Sports Agent law question, for instance, or a legal question in another practice area, simply submit your request below for review by LawQA.com’s participating attorneys to answer.
16. Quora Open Questions about Sports Agents: Add your own question to this single-column forum focused on sports agents. Some questions include, “How do you go about being a sports agent?” and other questions are about the site. The questions range from basic to intricate.
17. Wolf Sports Management Blog: This entire blog is filled with questions and answers about all types of sports in every situation imaginable. Topics range from agents and athletes to UFL football.
18. Frequently Asked Questions for Form Series 2500 — Athlete Agents: This site is included to show how a state responds to various sports questions, especially about a special event. Each state carries different guidelines to becoming a sports agent, and Texas shows their responses in this question and answer site.
19. High School Baseball Web Questions and Answers: The questions and answers on this site were developed to assist athletes, their parents and NCAA schools in the decision making process for Major League Baseball first-year player draft (2003). The page was formatted to apply directly to the individual who has been drafted.

Sports Agents Answer

20. A Glimpse Inside the Sports Agent Business: Sports agents representing professional ice hockey players answer questions dealing with financially advising players, giving to the less privileged, the modern challenges sports organizations face today, picking from the player crop and overcoming language barriers.
21. Apollo Sports Agents: This portion of the site is devoted to answering just a few questions about becoming a sports agent. The answers, however, are detailed.
22. Interview with the Agent: Sports Agent Blog has a feature called Interview with the Agent where quite a bit can be learned about what an agent does. MLB, NFL, and NBA agents are represented. Just click on the names to find questions and answers.
23. John Biggins, Sports Agent and Attorney [PDF]: John Biggins answers questions about his background, his job representing MLB and NFL players, and also a question about NCAA agents.
24. Mr. Williams’ 6th Grade Class: The class interviews a professional sports agent, Jordan Robinson, managing partner at GRV Sports Agency based out of Orlando, Florida.
25. The TSBX Special Report: So You Want to be a Sports Agent, Written by Caleb Mezzy, is an exhaustive report that contains the results of a survey he conducted among industry agents to find out exactly what the best methods were for becoming a successful sports agent.

Instead of going the “obvious” routes of becoming a GM or acting as an athletic agent, you can choose a more unique career path. You might find a good salary – and find yourself competing against fewer people. Here are 30 interesting career paths to consider if you want a sports management degree:

1. Sports Blogger: You can actually do reasonably well as a sports blogger, and a degree in sports management can help. Use the knowledge and insight learned during your time in a sports management program to provide you with a solid background on the business of sports. You might make it big as a sports blogger, bringing in traffic and benefiting from affiliate programs and ads. If you are lucky, your blog could even be bought by a major organization, just as River Ave Blues was bought by YES Network.
2. Sports Philanthropy: You might surprised to learn that many professional athletes are unaware of the opportunities available for them to connect with opportunities to make an impact in their communities. The Sports Philanthropy Project has been taken over by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, but you can set out on your own. Help athletes by a force for good by hooking them up with philanthropic efforts in their neighborhoods.
3. Player Appearances: There are companies that manage player appearances, from appearances at fundraisers to motivational speaking to other events. You can hire on as someone who helps manage athlete appearances, being involved in the process from booking to making sure everyone stays on schedule.
4. Season Ticket Management: Many season ticket holders need help managing their tickets. You can help them by selling tickets to games they won’t be attending, using sites like StubHub!. You can also be on the management side by encouraging season ticket sales, and premium seating sales.
5. Web Master: If you have a penchant for web design, you might be able to enjoy a unique career as a web master for a sports team, or for a sporting event. You can do this for minor league, youth sports league, and regional league teams as well as major sports teams.
6. Market Research: With a sports management degree, you can be a market researcher. Companies like Turnkey Sports & Entertainment might hire someone with a sports management degree to do specialized research.
7. Sports Camp Director: If you want to help youth learn the valuable lessons that can be taught through participation in sports, you can actually direct a sports camp. You can also work in coordinating camps across geographic areas.
8. Professor: Get your sports management degree, and then go back to school — as the teacher. With an advanced degree in sports management, you can become a college professor, and teach others about sports management.
9. Brand Management: Help athletes, teams and others in sports manage their brands. Help them portray the kind of organizations they want to be. You can provide tips for consistent branding, as well as help with damage control.
10. Social Networking/Community Management: Even sports teams need some help social networking — especially local leagues. There are plenty of sports networking opportunities out there, and you can position yourself as an expert.
11. Sports Events Planning: You can be part of the planning team for sporting events. A degree in sports management can help you learn the skills necessary to be involved in different areas of event planning for sporting purposes.
12. Compliance Professional: This interesting job is one in which you make sure different rules are met. For example, a sports compliance specialist might work at a college to ensure that the program and its athletes comply with NCAA rules.
13. Public Relations: Your sports management degree can help you prepare for a career in sports public relations. Meet with the public, and drum up publicity. This unique career path requires a great deal of creativity when you are working with smaller, local teams.
14. Sports Equipment and Supply: Get a job with sports equipment makers and retailers. A degree in sports management can help you perform different duties within the structure of sporting equipment and supplies.
15. Youth Sports Organizations: Make a difference in a child’s life. You can use your sports management degree to run programs for the YMCA, Little League and other organizations.
16. Legal Services: In addition to a sports management degree, you will need some sort of law degree. However, this can provide you with the chance to provide a number of legal services, representing organizations or individual athletes.
17. Parks & Recreation: Your sports management degree can also fit you to work in parks and recreation departments around the country. Great opportunities to go your own way and teach others the value of sport.
18. Resort/Club Management: Many people don’t think of resorts and sports clubs, but your sports management degree can help you get jobs in these areas. Enjoy a career managing a ski resort, or a racket club.
19. Digital Video Editor: If you want to be involved in digital editing, you can put together highlight reels, special products and more. You should probable have video editing skills in addition to your sports management degree.
20. Olympic Involvement: One of the coolest sports jobs can be involvement in the Olympics. This career path allows you the chance to be involved in different aspects of the Olympics, from number crunching to coordinating events and ceremonies, to working with athletes, you can be involved in premiere sporting events.
21. Race Management: Be in charge of a pit crew for racing sports. A great opportunity for someone with the right experience, interest and sports management degree.
22. Internet Production: Sports stories, multimedia and other production online. You can help the online operations for sports teams, sports networks and even local sporting events.
23. Sports Promotions: Use your sports management degree to involve yourself in sports promotions jobs. Great opportunities to connect with athletes, as well as promote events and come up with fun ways to raise team awareness. This job can be especially fun when coming up with contests and prizes for local sporting events and teams.
24. Sponsorship: Help get sponsorship for sports organizations. This can be getting local sponsors for the Little League, or finding big national sponsors to build a new sports arena.
25. Tournament Planner: You can use your sports management skills to book facilities for tournaments, and be in charge of publicity and marketing, as well as plan events for athletes to interact with the public during tours and tournaments.
26. Hospitality Specialist: Arrange hospitality for athletes, team managers and their families. Help them settle in, and direct them to where they need to be. A great career opportunity for those who want a chance to work with others in the sports industry.
27. Fan Development/Fan Club Management: Sports management isn’t just about organizations and teams; you can also be involved in encouraging fans, and managing fan clubs.
28. Sales: You can be involved in different aspects of sales and sales development when you have a sports management degree.
29. Sports Mediator/Arbitrator: Settle disputes in the sports industry. You may need some law background in addition to your sports management degree if you want to be an arbitrator.
30. Concessions Management: If you like food, you can be a concessions manager. Be in charge of the menu, buying what you sell at the park, and setting prices people are willing to pay.

You don’t have to be involved in sports management to benefit from BlackBerry applications designed to help you stay up to date on the latest sports news. Most sports superfans can find that a BlackBerry app offers just what they need. You can make use of technology to get information, no matter where you are. Enjoy the headlines on your favorite teams, and keep up with trades, personal news and more when you use these 30 BlackBerry apps for sports superfans:

Scores and Headlines

You want to know the latest happenings in the world of sports. Get trade information, injury reports, and stay up on the latest headlines. All the news and scores you need with these applications.

1. Sports Illustrated: This BlackBerry app gives you access to the latest headlines and scores, as well as content from the writers on SI.com. Cost: Free
2. CBS Sports Bookmark: Scores are up to the minute, and you can get access to headlines and breaking sports news. Additionally, you can access the fantasy scoreboard and get all the latest roster news. Cost; Free
3. ESPN Radio: You can listen to ESPN Radio right on your BlackBerry. Cost: $2.99
4. ScoreMobile for BlackBerry: Get all the latest boxscores, states and headlines. A great resource. Cost: Free
5. SPORTSNET Mobile: You can get great coverage for a number of leagues. A great app providing up to them minute breaking news, schedules, scores and more. Cost: Free
6. AS: Available in Spanish, this sports app provides you with latest scores, news, commentary and video. Cost: Free
7. TSN Mobile: Latest news from a Canadian perspective. Perfect for the Canadian superfan. Includes headlines and scores from a number of leagues in the U.S. and Canada. Cost: Free
8. Televisa Deportes: If Latin American sports are your thing, you can get everything you need from this BlackBerry app. Plenty of great photo galleries, scores and more. Cost: Free
9. e-Mobile Sports: Provides you with live sports news on your BlackBerry. Covers all major sports, from basketball, to football, to soccer, to hockey. Personalize to follow teams and sports. Cost: $9.99
10. College Sports News and Photos: You can keep up with everything that is happening in the world of college sports. From basketball to football and everything in between. Photos, news and more. Cost: Free
11. MyFantasyTeams: If you are into the latest happenings with your own fantasy teams, this is the BlackBerry app for you. Access your team and get the news and stats — no matter where you are. Cost: $3.99

Team News

If you follow specific teams, you can make use of these great BlackBerry apps. Some teams offer the best apps around. If your team is one of the following, you can use these apps to keep track of what is happening.

12. yankees.com: If you are a Yankees an, this is the BlackBerry app for you. Schedules, video, stats and so much more. Cost: Free
13. Boston Herald: Get the latest sports news from Boston. Includes Red Sox, Celtics and Patriots. Cost: Free
14. Maple Leafs: Headlines, scoreboard, schedule and more related to the Toronto Maple Leafs. Follow your team no matter where you are. Cost: Free
15. Steelers Inside Slant: Plenty of off-season news to go with the regular season news. Get the inside scoop on all things Steelers. Cost: Free
16. 7Online New York news weather and sports: Get the latest news from your favorite New York sports teams, including the Giants, jets and Knicks. Cost: Free
17. Raiders Inside Slant: Raiders fans are among the best in the world. If you are a Raiders fan, this BlackBerry app can keep you updated year round. Cost: Free
18. 49ers Gameday Live: Great app with roster, in-depth information, news and real time scores. A must-have if you like the 49ers. Cost: Free
19. angelsbaseball.com: Perfect for the Angels fan. Keep up with everything related to Angels. Cost: Free
20. Verizon Center Mobile: Get the latest information on the Wizards, Capitals, Georgetown Hoyas, Mystics, Nationals and more. Al yl your D.C. sports teams in one place.
21. American Sports Trivia: This mobile expansion pack offers you the chance to show your knowledge of sports teams and players, as well as the latest happenings. A must-have for the superfan. Cost; $1.99

Specific Sports Applications

Do you follow a particular sport? If so, you can get all the targeted news you can use. Great information, updates and headlines related to your sport of choice.

22. The Hockey News: Latest information on hockey. Scores, scoreboard, features, and more. Cost: Free
23. Cricket Club: For the intrepid cricket fan, this BlackBerry app provides score cards with plenty of detail and ball by ball commentary. Cost: Free
24. Basketball Latest News: Aggregated news from a number of sources. One click access to the latest basketball news. Cost: Free
25. Shawweet Football (Soccer) Live Scores: Keep up with world soccer leagues with help from this great app. Plenty of information from around the world. Scores, headlines and more. Cost: Free
26. Sky Sports Live Football: More soccer scores from Britain’s Sky sports network. A great resource for the latest in cups, news, stats, and photos. You can also enjoy player profiles and follow your favorite team. Cost: Free
27. Pioneer League Baseball: If you are interested in the advanced rookie Pioneer League, you can use this app to get the latest. Schedules, records and more for the Rocky Mountain league.
28. Golf Channel Mobile: Get stats, commentary, headlines and standing from this great BlackBerry sports app. Plenty of good stuff here. Cost: Free
29. LiveTennis: Get the latest tennis scores and track them in real time. Browse matches happening now, or those in the past. Cost: $2.99
30. NBC Olympics Mobile: When it’s time for the Olympics again, you can use this app. Get results from the last Games, and look forward to the next games. Video, headlines and more. Cost: Free

The following blogs are listed by year and the links are listed by creation month.

2009

1. SportDownUnder.com.au: This is an Australian sports blog dedicated to athlete management, sponsorship and media by an industry insider (January).
2. The Sports Info Business: Follow the blog of a marketing and communications professional with 20-plus years of experience in the areas of sports management, business, technology, entertainment, and the non-profit world (January).
3. The Sports Law Canary: Kris Lines is a lecturer and head of the Sports Law Group at Staffordshire University, UK. Jon Heshka is an associate professor at Thompson Rivers University, Canada. Together, they form the Sports Law Canary, mining the Web for nuggets of sports law, news and opinion (January).
4. Daily Sport Thought: Professor Simon Chadwick holds the position of Chair in Sport Business Strategy and Marketing at Coventry University Business School, where he is also the founder and Director of CIBS (Centre for the International Business of Sport) (February).
5. PR in Sports: This blog is dedicated to looking at all aspects of sports, from players, coaches, owners, teams and the media, in a public relations/marketing perspective (February).
6. The Sports Business Exchange: This blog is the home of “intellectual thought for young sports business professionals.” This journal is an opportunity for professionals who are just starting their careers to express their insights on the sports business industry (February).
7. Blog Maverick: Mark Cuban is an entrepreneur, visionary, and owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks. Blog Maverick is his personal blog where he shares his thoughts on business, sports, and sports business (March).
8. ESPN Chicago: A Web site for sports fanatics in the Windy City. They cover the Bears, Blackhawks, Bulls, Cubs, White Sox, Fire and college and prep teams as well (April).
9. National Sports Journalism Center: This is the blog for one of the most comprehensive sports media programs in the U.S. In 2010, the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association formed an official partnership with the Indiana University National Sports Journalism Center based on the IUPUI campus, and this blog is the result (April).
10. The Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law Blog: The New York State Bar Association’s Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law Section’s more than 1,600 members represent varied interests, including some of the sexiest issues grabbing headlines being debated in Congress and being heard by the courts (April).
11. Synergy 101: Synergy Events is an award-winning event marketing agency that specializes in mobile marketing tours, PR Events, PR Stunts, Product Launches and Sponsorship Activation Programs. Partners include industry leading brands, PR agencies, Fortune 100 companies, and professional sports leagues and governing bodies (May).
12. An Athlete Marketing Guy: Sports marketing thoughts from BDA Sports Management’s chief marketing officer, Bill Sanders. He started this blog to encourage thought and discussion of current events and how they impact the world of sports marketing (October).
13. Gravity Sports Management: Gravity Sport Management’s goal and dedication is aimed at the professional development of young sports talents who have the willpower, strength, discipline and the champion’s mindset and attitude that is the basis of all. Combined with an individualized program and supported by specialists we provide the basis for development, growth and acceleration (November).
14. MLS Insider: Blogging major league soccer from the side lines, cubicles, locker rooms and board room (November).

2010

15. Sports Biz with Darren Rovell: Darren Rovell offers his unique take on sports business: a multi-billion dollar global industry and obsession full of personalities and products. Rovell provides up-to-date take on everything from salaries to endorsement deals to marketing and promotions, trades and tirades — in short, everything that makes sports so exciting (January).
16. Action Replays: Not exactly the prettiest blog in the world, but the content is stellar. This blog, created by Sports Marketing 2.0‘s Alan Seymour, is a new sports marketing blog for students academics and practitioners (February).
17. Jobs in the Sports Industry: Sports jobs, sports career advice and tips on how to break into the sports industry. Run by WorkInSports.com. As Work In Sports continues to expand its services and network, it will always remain true to its goal of providing job seekers access to the best collection of jobs and internships in the sports industry and employers the ability to use the most effective hiring solution available (February).
18. Sports and Social Change Blog: The goal for this blog is to create a resource to serve both sports industry professionals who are looking to include cause marketing in their programming, and the casual sports fan who’s interested in supporting a favorite sport, team or athlete’s charitable causes (February).
19. Seattle Sports News Insider: From Marnier mayhem to news about the Seahawks, this blog tries its best to cover the news from the inside. You can follow, also, on Twitter or on Facebook (March).
20. Trimble Outdoors: With Trimble Outdoors, you can use your cell phone for hiking and backpacking, road cycling and mountain biking, walking, fishing and boating, geocaching, and other popular outdoor activities (April).
21. Sportsnewser: Mediabistro staffers have debuted this blog, which focuses on breaking news and analysis of the sports media business. The blog will also feature interviews with prominent broadcasters, athletes, and industry executives (August).
22. Mr. Rollins Sports Marketing and Management Blog: This blog is a place where all of Mr. Rollins’ sports marketing students share their opinions, comment on topics, and gain access important class information (September).
23. Razz & Jazz Sports Blog: The Razz and Jazz Sports Blog was launched by Marc “Razz” Rasbury and Derrel “Jazz” Johnson.Derrel and veteran sports writer and photographer Marc Rasbury launched the Razz and Jazz Sports Blog, covering the major New York teams from a fresh angle and offering well-thought-out opinions(September).
24. Sports Image — High School Sports Marketing: Having a passion for sports and growing bored in the corporate world as an engineer, Eric Horstman had always dreamed of combining his interest in sports with a career. In 2009, his business began selling sports marketing franchise opportunities across the country (November).
25. rEvolution Blog: rEvolution, an independent sports marketing and media agency, made a quiet launch of their blog at the end of 2010. They created the blog to address the challenges, rewards and pitfalls of the sports marketing world from the perspective of brand marketers (December).

1. Analysis of the top 50 earners in World football: This stunning infographic displays the top 50 players who are the “best rewarded on the planet” 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.
2. Disability and Sports: This study’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.
3. Flip Flop Fly In: 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.
4. Hand drawing and infographics: 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.
5. Injuries for Every 1,000 of Training: This blog exposes the injuries first reported by Men’s Health Magazine 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.
6. Innovations in Newspapers: 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’s visionary CEO, sees his company as an “information engine” and wanted to start with these integration efforts led by Mustafa Alrawi, the AMG “Fusionist.” Luis now is the head of this superdesk.
7. Olympic drug testing program: 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.
8. Parallel Coordinates and Football: 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.
9. Race in Sports: This graphic focuses on race in sports. The statement is made that “a half-century after Jackie Robinson’s historic entrance into the game [baseball] — the number of black players is at the lowest level in almost 20 years.” 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.
10. Santana’s Changeup: This amazing infographic focuses on teaching how to do a change up based upon how Johan Santana does it. Santana’s change up delivery looks like that of his fastball or slider, so the batter must read — within a split second — how Santana’s thumb and index fingers are placed on the ball and upon that ball’s release, as his body holds no clue that the change-up is about to occur.
11. Sport and Recreational Injury: 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.
12. Sports Designer: If you crave sports infographics for the sheer design and aesthetics of the genre, then you’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.
13. Statistics About Drugs in Sport: 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.
14. System and Method for Rating Teams In Sports with Unbalanced Schedules: 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’ records expressed as winning percentage is used for sports with balanced schedules. The rating is called “Performance Against Strength of Schedule,” and is based upon assigning values to each chain of head-to-head wins.
15. The Effects of Bike Commuting on Obesity: 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 best U.S. cities 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).
16. Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury Facts & Figures: 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.
17. Visualrian Infographics: 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.

Football

1. The United States Football League was created in order to be an alternative to the National Football League. The USFL was supposed to be profitable by not competing with the NFL, holding its season during the spring rather than going head to head with the NFL. Donald Trump 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.
2. The XFL was meant to be an “extra fun” football league, full of action and excitement. Vince McMahon, 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’t compete directly with the NFL, playing during the NFL’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.
3. The Arena Football League, the AFL, was reasonably successful for some time. It was an indoor football league that started in 1987. Jim Foster 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’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, Arena Football 1, started up in late 2009, and then changed its name to the Arena Football League in 2010.
4. 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’t get the interest, and the closest it got to being a “world” league was a team in Hawaii. Without the benefits of cable, which would come later, the WFL just couldn’t cut it.
5. 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.
6. The World League of American Football 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 — what we call soccer. And they weren’t all that excited for it. The WLAF folded in 1993, only two years after its inception, replaced by NFL Europe. Which also died out.
7. The All-America Football Conference 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’t win out over the NFL. In the end, three of the AAFC’s teams were absorbed by the NFL.

Basketball

8. The American Basketball Association 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 merger in 1976.
9. The American Basketball League was a women’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’t compete with the resources garnered by the WNBA, which the NBA has operated (at a loss) since its inception.
10. Slamball is basketball played with trampolines. It’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’ll see how that goes. It is mostly Internet sensation fodder — and loved by reams of try-it-at-home types, many of whom find themselves in the hospital.
11. 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 — becoming a premier minor league — but it just didn’t work out. The AABA couldn’t compete with the established minor league, and it didn’t get enough attention and funding to survive.
12. Another league called the All-American Basketball Alliance 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’s insistence that he isn’t a racist. (He said that “people of color” play “street-ball” instead of fundamentally sound basketball.) There just doesn’t seem to be that much interest in ponying up to watch the league, and it is expected to completely fizzle out any minute.

Other Sports

13. The Women’s United Soccer Association 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 Mia Hamm, were clean and sponsor friendly. However, the interest wasn’t there, and the league ceased operations in 2003. The league lost right around $100 million.
14. The North American Soccer League 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’t work. The game schedule was sparse, and sponsorship low. The league limped along until its final demise. Americans weren’t very interested in soccer, and it showed.
15. The World Boxing League 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 “official” site hasn’t even been updated since 2009, leading some to believe that it might already be defunct.
16. Elite Xtreme Combat was a league designed around Mixed Martial Arts. 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.
17. International Fight League was another MMA league that failed. It billed itself as the first Mixed Martial Arts league in the world, and didn’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 tournaments 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.
18. All-American Girls Professional Baseball League 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 AAGPBL faded and eventually fizzled out, leaving baseball dominated by the male game.
19. The World Hockey Association 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.
20. Another attempt to resurrect the World Hockey Association was made in 2003. The new WHA planned to provide a place for NHL players during the 2004-05 lockout. 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.

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’s Twitter page.

Sports Journalists

Going for the exclusive…

1. @Adam_Schefter: Adam Schefter is the ESPN NFL insider who “dislikes feeling like an outsider.”
2. @Buster_ESPN: Buster Olney is the senior baseball writer for ESPN The Magazine.
3. @chadfordinsider: Chad Ford is in Hawaii, and is an ESPN NBA insider.
4. @chadmillman: Follow this gambling/sports betting guy for ESPN for insider news.
5. @DarrenDreger: Follow TSN’s (The Sports Network) hockey insider, Darren Dreger.
6. @JimBowdenXMFOX: Co-Host of “Inside Pitch” 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.
7. @MatthewBerryTMR: This is Matthew Berry, your Fantasy Sports Guy at ESPN.
8. @mortreport: You may know him by his real name, Chris Mortensen, senior ESPN Analyst.
9. @richeisen: Rich Eison works for the NFL network. He’s also married to ESPN on ABC’s college football sideline reporter, Suzy Shuster.
10. @SI_JonHeyman: This is Jon Heyman, baseball writer at SI and SI.com and an insider at MLB Network and WFAN.
11. @SI_PeterKing: Peter King, Sports Illustrated’s senior NFL writer, offers his take on pro football, coffee and “other meaningless drivel.”
12. @sportsguy33: This is Bill Simmons, who writes the Sports Guy column and hosts the BS Report podcast for ESPN.com.
13. @TheJetOnTNT: 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 “Inside the NBA.”
14. @TomJolly: Tom Jolly is the sports editor at The New York Times.
15. @Troy_Aikman: Troy Aikman is the NFL on Fox.
16. @wingoz: Over 330,000 individuals follow Trey Wingo, the NFL live host.

Sports Divisions and Sports Media

The broad picture…

17. @espn: Get news and analysis on the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, NASCAR, college football and basketball, boxing, MMA, golf, tennis and more.
18. @FOXSports21: Tweets from the “peeps on the 21st floor” providing insights from FOXSports.com’s commentators and reporters.
19. @insidefights: Fox Sports’ “Inside Fights” is a leading source for UFC, MMA and boxing news, commentary, live coverage and exclusive interviews.
20. @MLB: 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.
21. @NASCARONFOX: This is the offical page for Fox Sports’ news coverage on NASCAR.
22. @NASCARSays: This is NASCAR’s only official Twitter account, with daily information from NASCAR officials.
23. @NBA: News and notes directly from the NBA’s Twitter account to your computer. Find out as soon as “Amazing Happens!”
24. @NBASummerLeague: Stay on top of NBA Summer League news with this official Twitter account.
25. @nfl: Follow the official Twitter account for the National Football League to get the latest news from this source.
26. @NHL: The official Twitter account for the National Hockey League. You can check out fan lists here, too.
27. @SHO_INFL: This is the Twitter account for the Emmy award-winning show about the National Football League on Showtime.
28. @SHOsports: Official Showtime Sports — be the first to get news about championship boxing, MMA and “Inside The NFL.”
29. @SportsNation: A new ESPN television show, where you can gain insight into the pro’s private lives.
30. @usatoday_nfl: Insider access to pro football coverage from the USA TODAY’s NFL staff.

Rumors, Spins, and Other Insiders

How many Tweets are truth or rumor?

31. @BaseballRM: Major League Baseball trade rumors, MLB draft rumors, contract news and more baseball-related commentary.
32. @BoxingInsider: The official Twitter page for the Web site, Boxinginsider.com, covering headlines, biofiles, interviews and more.
33. @CBBRumorCentral: 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.
34. @football_buzz: Try this Twitter account out — it’s not affiliated with a Web site, but seems to be gathering followers…
35. @FootballPost: National Football Post is a distinctive forum where news, information, and insight come together through the voices of professional football insiders.
36. @insWorldSoccer: The latest soccer news, scores, standings and videos brought to you online, alerted through this Twitter account.
37. @kocosports: KocoSports.com is the best source for MMA, boxing, wrestling, WWE, UFC, TNA — out of Japan.
38. @MLBRumorCentral: 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.
39. @mlbtraderumors: Get the latest trade rumors swirling around Major League Baseball.
40. @MLS_Insider: Tweeting for and about Major League Soccer from inside MLSHQ in New York City and beyond.
41. @NBA_INSIDER: An inside source on today’s most compelling sport — basketball. Get notices from inside the league as they happen.
42. @NBARUMORS: Your inside source to NBA rumors, basketball news and player updates.
43. @NBARumorCentral: 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.
44. @NFLRumorCentral: Get the latest on trades, free agency, injuries, hirings, firings, feuds and more. To follow the links, you must be an ESPN Insider.
45. @SpectorsHockey: NHL prognosticator Lyle Richardson brings you the latest news and trade rumors from around the league.
46. @sportsrumormill: Predict scores, trash talk and trade rumors about your favorite teams.

Sports Commissioners, Agents and Other CEOS

Not many folks in this category, which may make these four worth following…

47. @Eklund: Founder and CEO of Hockeybuzz.com, “the most viewed hockey only independent website in history.”
48. @nflcommish: Follow Roger Goodell, commissioner of the National Football League.
49. @RosenhausSports: Drew Rosenhaus is an NFL sports agent who owns the Miami-based sports agency, Rosenhaus Sports.
50. @walsha: Allan Walsh is Octagon-Hockey’s (Where the Pros Come to Play) sports agent/lawyer.

1. Top 50 Best World Cup Goals in History: This video is about the best goals ever scored in the history of the World Cup and is good curtain raiser for the World Cup that is about to take place in South Africa in April 2010.
2. Canada’s 1986 Soccer World Cup Journey: The 1986 FIFA World Cup, the 13th staging of the FIFA World Cup, was held in Mexico from May 31 to June 29, 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 in 1986.
3. FIFA World Cup Final 1938: The FIFA World Cup final was the third staging of the World Cup and scheduled in France from June 4 to June 19. In the finals of the cup, the match was played between Hungry and Italy; Italy defeated Hungary four to two. This video shows that defeat.
4. FIFA World Cup 1986 – Soviet Union vs Belgium: The 1986 FIFA World Cup, the 13th organization of the FIFA World Cup was held in Mexico from May 31 to June 29. Originally, it was supposed to be held in Colombia, but it was later moved to Mexico due to economic reasons. This is an exciting clip of a match played between Soviet Union and Belgium.
5. World Cup 1958 Final: The 1958 FIFA World Cup was the sixth staging of the World Cup; it was hosted by Sweden from June 8 to June 29. This World Cup is known for introducing legendary football player Pele. In the finals Brazil defeated Sweden five to two.

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.

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.

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.

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.