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Business of Sports

  Deloitte & Touche
  Annual Review of Football Finance
  Manchester: Deloitte and Touche Sport. 
  Location: Firestone 
  Call Number: Oversize GV943.3 .A568q
  Library has 1999, 2001, 2005.
 
  Financial World
   
  Location: Firestone Library (1902-1997) Microfilm S00897 (1984-1997). Selected text (1986-1997) available ELECTRONICALLY.
  Call Number: HG4501 .F5q
  May/June issue includes sports franchise valuations through 1997.
  Fizel, John. ed.
  Handbook of Sports Economic Research.
  Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2006.
  Location: Social Science Reference Center (SSRC) 
  Call Number:  GV716.H36 2006
  Useful source for identifying major studies in sports economics.
  Fizel, John, Elizabeth Gustafson and Lawrence Hadley, eds.
  Sports Economics: Current Research.
  Wesport, Conn.: Praeger, 1999.
  Location: Firestone Library
  Call Number: GV716 .S594 1999
 
 
  Forbes.
   
  Location: Social Science Reference Center (SSRC)
  Call Number: HF5001.F74 Current issues in Social Science Reference Center (SSRC) Selected text available ELECTRONICALLY.
  Continues Financial World's sports franchise valuations from 1998-
 
  Inside the Ownership of Pro Sports Teams CD-ROM
  Chicago, Ill.: Team Marketing Report, 1995-
  Location: Social Science Reference Center
  Call Number: DSS Study Number 5034 (1998-2001 also in paper in SSRC GV583.I57; no longer issued in paper)
  Focusing on men's professional baseball, basketball, football, hockey and soccer, this resource begins with essays on various financial topics related to professional sports and is followed by team profiles containing information on team finances, attendance records, media overview, personnel, facilities reports, pre-season training sites, and ownership structures. Currently only football is through 2004; other sports through 2001.
 
  International Journal of Sport Finance.  
  Morgantown, WV: Fitness Information Technology.
  Location: Firestone Library (Current issues in the Periodicals Reading Room) 
  Call Number: GV716 .I573
  2006+
 
  Revenues from Sports Venues  
  Nashville, TN: Mediaventures. 
  Location:  
  Call Number: DSS Server  
 

Samples of leases, naming rights, concessions, luxury suites, seat licenses, management, team
benefits, the current MLB current bargaining agreement, and feasibility reports. Three supplements in paper provide additional statistics:

  • Revenues from Sports Venues Research Pack ((SSRC) GV716.R483) provides information on league and local revenues, tickets and attendace, seat licenses, the impact of new venues, financing, sponsorship and signage, and alternative revenue sources.
  • Revenues from Sport Venues ((SSRC) GV716.R48)provides profiles of professional baseball, basketball, football, hockey, and soccer teams.
  • Revenues from Sport Venues Market Profiles ((SSRC) GV716.R482) provides profiles of cities with sports teams.
 
   Sport Management Review
   
  Location: ONLINE
  Call Number: http://www.aafla.org/5va/smr_frmst.htm
 
 
  SBRNet
   
  Location:  
  Call Number:  
  Continuously updated resource featuring market research and industry news covering all facets of the industry -- sports equipment sales, sports participation, sports broadcasting, sports sponsorship and sports marketing.
 
  Sports Leases on CD-ROM: Stadium Revenue Agreements.
   
  Location: Microform Services (FilmB)
  Call Number: Computer File 318
  Contains more than 40 actual stadium contracts.
 
  Sports Market Place
  Princeton, N.J.: Sportsguide, 1984-
  Location: General/Humanities Reference Collection, Trustees Reading Room (DR)
  Call Number: HD9992.U5 s666 (current issue)
 
 
  Television sports rights
  York, Me.: QV Pub., Inc.
  Location: Social Science Reference Center (SSRC)
  Call Number: GV742.3 .T45
 

Sports Business Data Pages (courtesy of Rodney Fort)

Sport Business Research Network (Princeton only)

Business of Baseball

Equity in Athletics Provides customized reports for public inquiries relating to equity in athletics data for 2001+. The data are drawn from the OPE Equity in Athletics Disclosure Website database. Consists of athletics data that are submitted annually as required by the Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act by all co-educational postsecondary institutions that receive Title IV funding (i.e., those that participate in federal student aid programs) and that have an intercollegiate athletics program.

For more resources, search the Main Catalog using the Subject Headings: Professional sports--Economic aspects and Professional sports--Economic aspects--United States.

Arbitration

Collective Bargaining Agreements

National Hockey League Agreement