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Adelaide Oval 4, 21, 93, 100, 102–3 Australian Rules football see desire to preserve as cricket Australian Football League ground 101 Australian soccer see soccer ground-sharing dispute with SANFL 4, 77, 96,100 body mass index (BMI) 4, 128 inadequate capacity and facilities body size 130, 133 97 Brebner, Don 100–101 Crows 72 Bears 72 advertisement 56, 62 Brisbane (Suncorp) 21 advertising 6, 11, 17, 56–8, 62, 99, Brocco, Maurice 59 144 Bundesliga 12 Africa 65 Business Houses Sports Movement Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) 112 56 Anquetil, Jacques 58, 61 Chen, Wei-Yin 50 anti-doping tests 66 Commonwealth Games 2 anthropometrics see body size company sports clubs 118, 120 Armstrong, Lance 66 competitive balance 71, 73, 143 Asian players 37–8, 46–8 as a means of attracting crowds association football 9, 92 72–3, 75 attendance empirical evidence 76–82, 84 empirical evidence 78–82 labour market ‘rules’ 71, 74, 82, impact of competing activities 84 85 outcome uncertainty 84 impact of rain and temperature cooperative movement 106, 78, 85 116–17 impact of TV coverage 78, 84 Coppi, Fausto 58, 60, 66 capacity and facilities as corruption 1, 19, 23 deterrents 97 FIFA World Cup 17 match violence as deterrent 74 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics Aucouturier, Hippolyte 59 22 Australian Bureau of Meteorology counterfactual analysis 98–100 77–8 cricket 3–4, 6–7, 13, 18–19, 89–103, Australian Football League (AFL) 107, 110, 112–13, 116, 119–20, 3, 8, 10, 89, 91, 102 144 competitive balance 74–5 crowds 3, 8, 72–5, 77–8, 80, 82–3, early history 92–4 92, 94, 97, 101,117 salary cap and draft system cycling see also Tour de France 3, 6, 14–15 13, 94, 144

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discrimination 31, 132, 142 draft preference for larger players and player position 129 134 ethnic 132, 136 player body size 128, 133 recruitment 128,139 player position 133 salary 128, 129–30 player birthplace 134–5 doping see anti-doping tests International Cricket Council (ICC) economics of sport 8, 142–3 World Cup 2 economic rent 8, 13–15 ice hockey see hockey (ice) cartels 8–11, 20, 23, 59, 91 income(s) 2, 6, 13, 59–60, 99, 143 impact of radio and TV 6, 11–13, Industrial Welfare Society 112–13 23 International Olympics Committee impact of technology 6, 23 (IOC) 7 monopoly power 8, 16, 17, 23 142 sports analytics 14, 143 joint stock company 107 employees, off-field 16 English Premier League (EPL) labour markets impact of TV 12 discrimination in 4 revenues 13 impact of globalization 14–15, 23 Fielder, Cecil 50 improvement in bargaining and FIFA 13, 17 conditions 14, 23 average annual salary of staff 18 restrictive practices 13–14, 23 corruption allegations 17 La Liga 12 leader-client governance issues Lapize, Octave 59 18–19 LeMond, Greg 67 World Cup 16 L’Auto 56, 60, 63 Fignon, Laurent 67 L’Équipe 56 77, 96 Le Parisien libéré 56 Formula One 7, 13, 18–19, 22, 143 Le roi de la pédale 60 Francophones 129, 142 Les Canadiens club 131 smaller average size of players loyalty 13, 109, 115–18, 123 137–8 Luke, Sir Kenneth 100–101 under-representation in NHL 130–31, 134, 135–6 Major League Baseball (MLB) 2, 10, 16, 30, 90 game theory see prisoner’s dilemma impact of TV 12 globalization 7, 16, 23, 49, 63 Marylebone Cricket Club 92, 101 Georget, Emile 59 masculinity 115, 118 governing bodies 1, 4 media: journal, radio, television, 72, 75–7, 82, 84, 95–7 broadcasting 63–4, 73 ground sharing 94–100 mega-events 2, 6–7, 12–13, 16–17, 21–2, 24, 142 Harvard Law School 71 Cricket Club (MCC) 93 Herfindahl–Hirschman Index revenue sources 94–5 (HHI) 77–8 used for cycling and athletics hockey (ice) 128–9 events 94

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Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) Oatey, Jack 85 94, 97, 102 Olympic Games 2, 6, 12, 16–17, 22, 93 24, 25, 26, 27, 95, 101, 144 Merckx, Eddy 58 organization of team sports 142 military 106, 111, 116–17 cartels 7–11, 23 Miners’ Welfare Fund 113 promotion–relegation 8–11, 23 role of incentives 66 National Basketball Association outcome uncertainty see (NBA) 10, 12, 15 competitive balance National Basketball League (NBL) 75 paternalism 109, 116 National Football League (NFL) 6, performance, speed see Tour de 12, 14, 16 France National Hockey League (NHL) 4, philanthropy 115–16 14, 128–39 Port 77 height, weight and ethnicity data impact of dominant team in 132–7 SANFL 81 impact of TV 12 prizes, including prize money 56–7, universal draft system 132 59–62, 66, 117, 144–5 National (NRL) 10, profits 13, 57, 90–91, 99 15, 75 public policy 19–22, 24, 144 New South Wales Cricket towards restrictive labour market Association 93 policies 20 Nippon Professional Baseball competition policy 19–20 League (NPB) 2, 30 EU private stadium building age, race-ethnicity of foreign 21–2 players 38, 41–2 performance-enhancing drugs definition of foreign player 37 20 discrimination against foreign public health arguments for players 31 support 22 exit discrimination 31, 36, 44–9 serious injury to players 20 foreign vs Japanese performance subsidies for stadium building in games 40, 49 21, 143 game participation of foreign support for mega-events 22 players 39 prisoner’s dilemma 66 history of foreign player integration 32–5, 49 race organizer 66 rationale for entry of foreign racial discrimination in baseball players 30 36–7 restrictions on foreign players in retain and transfer system 14 team rosters 34–5 contrast with US system 14 tenure of foreign players in NPB legal challenges in Europe 14 teams 31, 38, 42–3, 49 revenue, turnover 6–7, 11–14, tenure of players in MLB teams 16–18, 22–3, 56–8, 89–91, 94–5, 36 98–103, 143–5 76, 82, riders 3, 56 –7, 59–67 84 Riviére, Roger 66

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rugby league 10, 15, 20, 75, 90, 113 criteriums 60 rugby union 9, 15, 90, 113, 144 factors behind Tour success 65–7, 143 salary caps 10, 14, 71, 76, 82–3 foreign fans and international Simpson, Tom 66 appeal 64–5 soccer origins 56 Australian 14–5 ownership 56 English 8–11, 14, 23, 90 performance-enhancing drugs 66 European 8, 22, 90 prizes 60–62 Soriano, Alfonso 50 rider income 59–62 South Australian Cricket rider performance, speed 65, 67, Association (SACA) 93, 99, 145 101 spectator demand 62–5, 67 South Australian National Football team sponsorship 62 League (SANFL) 72, 83, 96 turnover 56–8 crowds 72 TV broadcasts 63–4 final series 85 TV rights 58 grand final 84 training 16, 41, 66 major round 83 transfer system 14, 74 minor round 75–6, 84 spectator(s) 3, 6, 8–9, 23, 55–7, 62, unionism 109, 110–11 65, 73–4, 90–91, 94–8, 101–3, 143 Victorian Football League (VFL) spectator sport 4, 7, 9, 13, 15, 23, 10, 72, 74, 83, 89–91, 94–5, 89, 94, 144 97–8, 100, 102 demand 2 sponsor 55, 57–60, 62–3, 67, 99, wages 2, 4, 6–8, 11, 13–14, 16, 20, 110, 113, 121, 131–2, 144 24, 59–60, 62, 71, 92, 109, sponsoring and sponsorship see 117–18, 129, 143 sponsor welfare policies 114 sport analytics 15 welfare state 114 uses in sports business 15 West Australian Football League in baseball 15 (WAFL) 72, 83 and dynamic pricing 15–16 Western Australian National sports management 16 Football League (WANFL) 3–4, 8, 17, 21–2, 77, 83, 90, 96 89–91, 96–102, 143 73 structural change 114 winner-takes-all 62, 145 76–7, 82, 84 Winter Olympics 13 90, 96–7 women in sport 110–11, 116, 123 subsidies 1 workers’ sport 112, 115 Cricket Ground (SCG) 93 workplace sport 106, 144 72 as offset to influence of unions 109–10, 115 television rights 1, 57–8 as part of company welfare Tour de France 13, 143 strategy 109, 118 competitive balance 66–7 cooperative movement 116–17

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decline in supply and demand for types of facilities offered 110, 119 114–15 typology 121–2 empirical evidence 119–21 99 health and productivity 116 World Wars in the military 111, 117 after First World War 59, 114 inclusion of women 110–11 before First World War 95, 110, inter-business sporting rivalry 117, 121 112 after Second World War 36, 56, literature relating to 106–7 64, 118, 132 philanthropy 107–8 before Second World War 32, sporting codes covered 112 59, 114 suggestions for further research 122–3 zoning 71, 74, 82, 84

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