Sport Development in the United States

<p>This important new study is the first to closely examine the challenges and opportunities for sports development in the United States a global sporting giant with a unique market-driven sporting landscape. Presenting an innovative model of integrated sports development the book explores the inter-relationship between elite and mass sport across history. At the heart of the book is an in-depth empirical study of three sports in the US - tennis soccer and rugby - that offer important lessons on the development of elite sport methods for increasing participation and the establishment of new sports in new markets. </p> <p></p> <p>No other book has attempted to model sports development in the United States in such depth before. Therefore this should be essential reading for all students researchers administrators or policy-makers with an interest in sports development sports management sports policy or comparative international sport studies. </p>