History of Sports in Nigeria

Sport’s are an aspect of life that affect societies across the globe. Athletics affect everyone's life, whether that be playing the sport, watching games, or hearing about a sporting event. There is a big difference between playing an individual sport and players relying on their own athletic abilities versus a team sport when members of the team rely on their teammates to complete each individual's specific responsibility to reach the team's goal. Team sports bring people together in countless ways, and they teach many life skills for the athletes that participate in them. Some of these skills include communication, teamwork, discipline, work ethic, dedication, leadership, and numerous more that will help them in their personal and work

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The Act also provides important legal protection for individual athletes of each sport. The Olympic and Amateur Sports requires that active athletes must hold 20 percent of the voting power of any board or committee It was put in place to determine how to correct factional disputes, between sports. The Olympic and Amateur Sports Act also had determine how to correct factional disputes, between sports organizations. This was depriving many athletes the opportunity to compete, creating the United States Olympic Committee. The act was a three-year study by the President’s commission on Olympic

Money is invested into these governing bodies of sport that will make new openings for more people to play local sports.

The first professional league was founded in 1898. There were only six teams that were in the National Basketball league at the time.

Target groups include women, young people, over 50’s, disabled people and black or ethnic minority groups. These groups of people are the groups that generally have been the most barriers to participation. They are focused on increasing opportunities in sport as they are likely to benefit the most.

The Australian Sports Commission (ASC) is a statutory authority of the Australian government. This established the Australian Sports Commission Act 1989 (Cth), the ASC plays a role in the development and

The references to SPARTA and UAAA a great examples of sports guide rules based primarily on some normative principles. Additionally as states in our text some states such as Texas even require an annual filing fee of a sports agent (Thornton, Champion

2000-Austuralia held the Summer Olympics main highlights of the games: The first star of the Games was Ian Thorpe.

Sport is an ever growing aspect of our cultures, and as the access to different avenues of sport begin to present themselves we question the ability of sport organizations to expand globally. This review of literature will examine different avenues of sport and the research that has been done in regards to their effort to expand on a global scale.

The Federation Internationale de Natation (FINA), the governing body for international competitive swimming, regulates everything swim related.

Sports disputes fall into two general categories: external and internal. External sporting disputes are handled in a state Court system and generally include: "contract or tort; intellectual property; trade practices and competition; criminal law; taxation; broadcasting and media; and other statutory-based disputes" (Bellamy & Hayes, 2007, pp. 5-6). Internal sporting disputes are normally handled by sports tribunals and deal with

Since the creation of man, sports have had a tremendous role in the way people live their lives. From the time we are born, until our elderly age, most of us are involved in some way with sports. Whether it is a scrimmage game of soccer at recess in elementary school, playing on the varsity athletic team or simply watching the Olympics or sporting events on television, sports have an influential role in our everyday lives. The outstanding popularity of the sports industry has profoundly affected youth sports organizations that an estimated twenty-six million children ages six through eighteen participate in at least one school or community based athletic program (Smith & Smoll, 1997). Well structured sport programs can provide youths with

The career of a sport management professional offers a large number of various positions. One such career is that of a director who specializes in promotion and development. “Promotion and development directors are hired by sports teams and school athletic programs to design and implement promotional campaigns that will increase ticket sales” (Sports Management 1). The biggest part of their job is to provide a profit for the organization they are working for. Directors set up opportunities for the sports team to make money off of sponsors. They also set up deals with advertisers to pay a sum of money in exchange for their ads or products to be listed or shown at their sporting event (Sports Management 1). Good advertising and production of cash flow go hand in hand while promotion directors try to help them to succeed. Development and promotion directors play an important role in developing a profit for their organizations.

The period of 1865 to 1950 was critical to the formation of “Modern” sport that is recognized today. In an article by Allen Guttmann titled From Ritual to Record: the nature of modern sport, Guttmann outlines seven characteristics that played a central role in the development of sports. These concepts were created as a sociological history of sports and took into place both American and European competitions. Guttmann’s notions of secularism, rationalization, bureaucracy and quantification, among others, all advanced the culture of sports; yet the most important of the stated characteristics is equality.