TY - JOUR
T1 - Sport management and COVID-19
T2 - trends and legacies
AU - Smith, Aaron C.T.
AU - Skinner, James
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - One of the enduring questions gripping scholars is the nature of sport’s ubiquity. What makes sport so compelling for so many despite the many tensions surrounding its expression? To make the conundrum more complicated, we have witnessed a seemingly inexhaustible growth in sport’s reach and scope, including as a source of recreational pastime, organised participation, fanatical devotion, and media spectacle. At the same time, sport’s immense entertainment, recreation, and media fringes have exploded, spanning from competitive eating to esports. Sport undoubtedly occupies a non-trivial place in the economic, social, and cultural fabric of almost every part of the globe (Smith et al., Citation2021), as billions discovered when the COVID blackout struck.
AB - One of the enduring questions gripping scholars is the nature of sport’s ubiquity. What makes sport so compelling for so many despite the many tensions surrounding its expression? To make the conundrum more complicated, we have witnessed a seemingly inexhaustible growth in sport’s reach and scope, including as a source of recreational pastime, organised participation, fanatical devotion, and media spectacle. At the same time, sport’s immense entertainment, recreation, and media fringes have exploded, spanning from competitive eating to esports. Sport undoubtedly occupies a non-trivial place in the economic, social, and cultural fabric of almost every part of the globe (Smith et al., Citation2021), as billions discovered when the COVID blackout struck.
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U2 - 10.1080/16184742.2021.1993952
DO - 10.1080/16184742.2021.1993952
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85118307822
SN - 1618-4742
VL - 22
SP - 1
EP - 10
JO - European Sport Management Quarterly
JF - European Sport Management Quarterly
IS - 1
ER -