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Chapter 2The governance of sports in the USA

Spencer J. Harris and Scott R. Jedlicka

Introduction

Sport in the United States (U.S.) has been described as exceptional. The sporting landscape is dominated by professional sport and college athletics. The popular sports in the U.S. are different than those that are popular elsewhere and this unique hegemonic sports culture shares an important historical relationship with American identity. Additionally, U.S. sport reveals an interesting duality where, on the one hand, the marketing of professional sport reflects unadulterated capitalism, yet, on the other hand, its single entity organization more closely mirrors socialist tendencies. Developmentally, the pipeline that supports sport in the ...

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