Sports Fans Sports! There are around 8‚000 different types of sports in the world! In America‚ out of those 8‚000 sports‚ we participate in only 137. Even though it’s a small amount compared to the total that’s still a very wide variety of sports. With the vast amount sports‚ there are fans everywhere. There are 317 million people living in the United States. Excluding about 20 million for kids age 5 and under‚ 82 percent of the 297 million are sports fans. Meaning there are about 243.5 million
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Classification of Sports Fans Ever since the late 19th century‚ sports have had a special place in the hearts of many people. Football‚ basketball‚ baseball‚ and other games have brought fans both extreme jubilation and severe heartbreak. These games throughout the years have morphed all kinds of fans into distinct categories. Sports fans can be classified into three groups: diehard fans‚ bandwagon fans‚ and casual fans. When it comes to sports‚ diehard fans are always the easiest ones to spot
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Fan Aggression in Sport Sport involvement‚ whether it is being a participant or a spectator‚ is often viewed as a positive experience. Sometimes‚ these experiences can come with violent behavior‚ particularly expressed by the fans of that sport. Statistics have shown that nearly 96 % of the people polled have stated that they have been involved in sports where aggression occurs either through participation (player aggression) or through spectator violence (Branscombe & Wann‚ 1992). According
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there". Reggie Smith‚ (Berger‚ 1990). Spectator violence at sporting events has been recorded throughout history. People who have power over the events‚ often team owners‚ indirectly influence the amount of spectator violence by encouraging the factors contributing to violence‚ in order to benefit themselves. Sale of alcohol‚ encouraging crowd intensity‚ creating rivalries‚ and targeting social groups‚ are factors affecting the degree of spectator violence and can be proven to be influenced by the owner
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Psychology of Sports Fans Have you ever watched a game and felt joy sorrow and excitement all at the same time? This may be because you are a fan of a certain team and you take them very seriously. Many people in this day in age are fans of a team in fact according to a recent Gallup poll 63% of Americans describe themselves as sports fans (Gallup‚ 2014‚ p. 1). But have you ever thought there may be psychological reason to the way you act when it comes
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Violence in Sports According to the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport‚ "Violence is a physical assault or physically harmful actions by a player that takes place in a sports context and that is intended to cause physical pain or injury to another player (or fan‚ coach‚ game official‚ etc.)‚ where such harmful actions bear no direct relationship to the rules and associated competitive goals of the sport". Many different theories have been formed opinions about the reasons athletes become aggressive
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Violence is a natural part of sports‚ much like breathing is a natural part of the human body. When people take steps to reduce violence‚ it actually detracts from the sport and makes it less appealing. Let’s face it‚ watching a man get tackled at full speed or body checked into a Plexiglas wall‚ is far more entertaining to watch from a fans perspective then watching two people hitting a ball back and forth with a racquet. Human beings crave violence in all things‚ not just sports. The need to dominate
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against violence by many people‚ sports has become an area where some feel that the violent acts such as the hitting and fighting that occurs should be eliminated. You can not change something that has been around for so long because it would change the aspect of the game to something completely different. The elimination of violence should not be done in sport because the violence is a part of the game which would only hurt its popularity. The reasons that the violence is occurring
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classifying sports fans Kenneth A. Hunt Associate Professor of Marketing‚ Fort Lewis College‚ Durango‚ Colorado‚ USA Terry Bristol Assistant Professor of Marketing and Advertising‚ University of Arkansas at Little Rock‚ Arkansas‚ USA R. Edward Bashaw Assistant Professor of Marketing‚ University of Arkansas at Little Rock‚ Arkansas‚ USA Keywords Sport‚ Individual behaviour‚ Consumer behaviour‚ Services marketing Abstract Develops a classification or typology of the sports fan. Specifically
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PHYSICAL VIOLENCE IN SPORTS – AGAINST THE MOTION John Wooden once said: “Sports do not build character. They reveal it.” When we think of the tremendous technological progress we have made‚ it’s amazing how little we have developed in other respects. We may speak contemptuously of the poor old Romans because they relished the orgies of slaughter that went on steel shelving arenas. We may despise them because they mistook these goings on for entertainment. We may forgive them condescendingly
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