Sport Illustrated

This book is in essence a primer on grappling, more than simply a text on competitive judo. Despite having been originally published over 40 years ago, you will find that the tactics covered in this volume are still relevent and effective in todays world–and that nany of the techniques people credit to Brazilin jiu-jitsu were being used in the US of A long before the Gracies first set foot over here.

Sport Management: principles and application provides a comprehensive introduction to the practical application of management principles within sport organisations operating at the community, state, national and professional levels in club based sporting systems. It presents an international balanced view between accepted practice and what research evidence tells us about the application of a range of management principles and practices in sport.

This book is an excellent tool for helping students do just that. It examines the ways in which sport has, at various times, intermingled with religion, politics, nationalism, and terrorism and warfare. It demonstrates that while it has been used to foster democratic ideals, it has just as often been used to impose the customs and values of a conquering people on its subjects; that it has been a vehicle for the promotion of both racial equality and racist ideology; and that it has appealed to our highest sentiments as well as our basest emotions. McComb examines these issues in a thoughtful, balanced manner, eschewing easy, conventional interpretation. He admits, for example, that the meaning and purpose of sport in human history is difficult to determine and that it is not always legitimate to assume that sports reveal something significant about the character of the society in which they are played.