Overview:
If you want to know more on a whole range of topics that have an impact on sports volunteers, and need some pointers about how to implement solutions, then you need the runningsports Quick Guides.
Written in plain English by topic experts, this Quick Guide provides you with useful ideas and tools you can apply in your club. |
Contents:- What is runningsports?
- Why have competitions?
- Leagues
- Fixture lists
- League tables
- Play-offs
- Knock-out competitions
- Making the draw
- Seeding
- Tournaments
- Handicap events
- Ladders
- Arranging the matches
- Team management
- On the day of the match
- Template 1: blank knock-out competition table
- Useful contacts
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About the Author:
Joseph A. Maguire, PhD, is a professor of sociology of sport at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom. He has more than 20 years of experience in the field and is the current president of the International Sociology of Sport Association. Dr. Maguire has published extensively on the subject of sociology of sport, and lectures frequently on the topic around the world. He is the sole author of Global Sport: Identities, Societies and Civilizations, co-author of Sport and Leisure in Social Thought, and a co-editor of both The Sports Process and The Global Sports Arena.
Grant Jarvie is a professor of sport studies at the University of Stirling in Scotland. He previously held established research chairs and was appointed the first professor of sport studies in Scotland in 1997. Professor Jarvie also served as president of the British Society of Sports History. Well published in the field of sociology of sport, he most recently authored Sport, Scotland, and the Scots and Sport in the Making of Celtic Cultures. He co-authored Sport and Leisure in Social Thought and is joint editor of the recent Encyclopedia of British Sport.
Louise Mansfield is a senior lecturer in the final stages of completing her PhD in sociology of sport at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom. She has been published in the Sociology of Sport Journal, and the JAI Series Research in the Sociology of Sport. She has also authored book chapters on women's sport, exercise, and gender relations. She serves on the editorial board of the Sociology of Sport Journal. Additionally, she served as chair for a presentation session at the 2000 Pre-Olympic Scientific Congress. Mansfield is a member of the British Sociological Association, the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, and the International Sociology of Sport Association.
Joseph M. Bradley, PhD, is a lecturer in sport studies at the University of Stirling in Scotland. His interests lie in sport's relationship with ethnicity, identity, race, religion, and politics. Dr. Bradley is widely published in the sport studies field. His publications include Ethnic and Religious Identity in Modern Scotland: Culture, Politics and Football, and Sport, Culture, Politics and Scottish Society: Irish Immigrants and the Gaelic Athletic Association. |
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