To understand what kinds of legal issues would be happened in the sports industry, I watched two podcasts related to sports law. The first podcast is “The Future of Sports Dispute Resolution” provided by Pepperdine University, and another one is “Sports in Courts” provided by North Carolina State University. Both podcasts discussed about the potential disputes in the sports industry with some actual cases.
Court Cases Involving Sports Volunteering
Since my business plan is providing package tours including sports volunteering in developing countries, I was looking for some court cases related with coaching sports, travel abroad, and volunteer tourism to protect my business from lawsuit. I found three articles that can help to develop my business plan.
Collage Sports
In Japan, we don’t have any popular collage sports event like the NCAA basketball tournament in the United States. We have a popular high school baseball tournament because baseball was almost the only sports to watch long tome ago. These days, Japanese people watch and play more different sports, such as soccer and basketball, but there are no professional or amateur sporting event, which has nation-wide popularity besides international match of the Japanese soccer team. So, I became to dream to develop collage sports events as a business in Japan like the NCAA basketball tournament in order to enhance more people to get interested in sports, develop more young talented players, and encourage local economy. Therefore, I was looking for the pros and cons about the NCAA basketball tournament and found some interesting articles.
David Falk: A Sports Agent
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| David Falk |
David Falk is a sports agent who mostly works with the NBA players. He has worked with more than 100 NBA players including famous players, such as Patrick Ewing and Allen Iverson. His significant career was representing Michael Jordan for his entire career. In 1990’s, he was considered the second-most powerful person in the NBA because of his impact on the NBA.
Toshihiro Nakatsuka: A Japanese Basketball Player
Toshihiro Nakatsuka is a professional Japanese basketball player for the Japan Basket League (JBL) and is signed to the Panasonic Trians (2009 – Present). The JBL is a professional basketball league in Japan in which the teams are company sponsored. The JBL is ranked just below in popularity to the Basketball Japan League (bj League), a league that is state owned. The two leagues are in fact one in the same but due to a conflict of interest during merger negotiations both leagues remained independent and now competing against each other in ticket sales.
Ads on Sports Jersey
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Selling ad space on the team jersey is one of the great ways to generate revenue for sports teams. According to an article on Advertising Age, total income of selling ad space on jerseys of 20 English Premier League soccer teams was $155 million in the season of 2010. Each team got different amount of revenue by selling ad space, but Liverpool and Manchester United took 40% of the total amount of the advertisement income. Both teams took more than $30 million. On the other hand, 7 teams tool less than $1 million. Therefore, popular teams in the English Premier League can make more revenue from selling ad space on the jersey.
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| NASCAR |
The World's Most Valuable Sports Team
Soccer is the most popular sports in the world. The best three prize money sports events in the worlds are soccer events: UEFA Champions League, UEFA European Football Championship, and FIFA World Cup. So, when I found “the World’s 50 Most Valuable Sports Teams” by Forbes.com, I expected that soccer teams dominated the ranking.
TED Talk
In my course at Full Sail University, I am developing a business plan named “VolunTripper.” The product of this business plan is a package tour that includes volunteer working related with sports development in developing countries. I believe that playing sports can help children to develop their humanities and communication skills. To prove my opinion makes sense, I was looking for a speech on TED.com that talked about the importance of sports. I chose an interesting speech about educating children by Gever Tulley. The main topic of this speech was not sports, but this speech showed a relationship between the physical activity and educating children.
Voluntourism Industry
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| WYSE Work Abroad |
Most of sports development program in developing countries are operated by volunteer workers and non-profit organizations. According to Adventure Travel Trade Association, travel companies provide package tour including volunteer work. This kind of tour is known as voluntourism, and this industry is growing fast. WYSE Work Abroad is a trading association for the voluntourism industry. This association is one of the sectors of WYSE Travel Confederation dedicated to improve the youth travel industry. More than 150 companies and organizations from 40 different countries join WYSE Work Abroad, and as the benefits of being the member, they can receive business opportunities and trends for the industry. Also, the member of this association can receive research.
The Olympics: Does it actually help the economy of the host countries?
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| Pyeongchang, South Korea will host 2018 Winter Olympics |
On July 7th, South Korea won to host 2018 Winter Olympics. South Korea calculates to gain 27billion dollars by hosting the Olympics. Also, the potential economical benefit of the Olympics is estimated as twice as large as the benefit of the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup and 4 times lager than 1988 Seoul Olympics. As South Korea, a lot of countries try to host the Olympics to boost their economics. However, it is hard to say the Olympics always bring economical benefit to the host countries.
India: the Hottest Sports League
Since 2008, India has hosted major sports events. The Indian government plans to develop infrastructures and transportation by hosting sports events. Also, India associates with other countries to educate future athletes, so the government send athletes to abroad and invite coaches to India.
The most popular sport in India is cricket. It is said that every Indian boy played cricket. Therefore, cricket is called as the unofficial national sport of India. Also, India is one of the most important countries for the development of cricket. In the middle of the 19th century, cricket was brought to India by the British. Since then, it spread throughout the country. Because of the popularity of cricket, the national cricket team won the World Cup Cricket in 1983. This year, team India won the championship again.
China: Potential Market
China is the fastest economic growing country, and it is the second largest economic country after the United States. The sports industry in China is one of the most important industries to support the economic growth of this country. The Chinese government established the five-year plan to boost the value of the sports industry to accelerate the economic growth. Also, the Chinese sports industry is the potential market for the foreign sports industries and the sports related industries.
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| Yao Ming |
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