Sports chase numbers. Sports gather numbers. They report numbers. If you can count them they can play. It’s a serious game because it connects to market share that connects to funding. Knowing what is going on is a good thing and sports are better at maintaining databases than ever before. The first few paragraphs of the annual report of most major Australian sports boast participation numbers are increasing while in the later chapters all the indicators of a healthy sport ec

Just about every kid I knew growing up was sent along to Saturday netball and soccer games. Sometimes a club team lead to a representative team and that might lead to being made captain of the sport back at school. Perhaps that looked good in the resume and made some difference when it came to applying for a Saturday morning job. Maybe, when it came time to sorting through a pile of applications from teenagers who were otherwise indistinguishable, college administrators thoug

Once the basics are covered (gear, playing areas, people to do the work, coaches, officials), it is left to the sports administrators' skill