Recreational Sports Teams and Clubs as a Business

Sports Teams and Clubs have the NAICS (North American Industry Classification System) code of 713990. The NAICS definition of a sports teams and clubs are establishments (except amusement parks and arcades; gambling industries; golf courses and country clubs; skiing facilities; marinas; fitness and recreational sports centers; and bowling centers) primarily engaged in providing recreational and amusement services, such as youth league baseball teams, primarily engaged in participating in sporting events for recreational purposes without playing before a paying audience.

Closely related are:

Establishments primarily engaged in operating instructional camps, such as sports camps, fine arts camps, and computer camps, are classified in Sector 61, Educational Services, based on the nature of instruction
Independent athletes engaged in providing sports instruction without participating in sporting events before a paying audience are classified in Industry 611620, Sports and Recreation Instruction
Professional or semiprofessional sports teams or clubs primarily engaged in participating in live sporting events, such as baseball, basketball, football, hockey, soccer, and jai alai games, before a paying audience are classified in Industry 711211, Sports Teams and Clubs

Books

Contemporary Sports Management
College textbook covering all aspects of managing sports as a business.

Directing Youth Sport Programs
A comprehensive system for recruiting, selecting, educating, and evaluating coaches.

Essentials of Athletic Training
The basic principles in the care and prevention of athletic injuries.

Making Little League Baseball More Fun for Kids
30 games and drills to improve skills and attitudes.

The Management of Clubs, Recreation, and Sport
Activities that a club manager, recreational sports manager, or competitive sport manager face everyday on the job.

Managing Sport, Fitness, and Recreation Programs
Practical management issues from budgeting and facility management to personnel management, legal issues, and risk management.

The Official American Youth Soccer Organization Handbook
Rules, regulations, skills, and everything else kids, parents, and coaches need to participate in youth soccer. Endorsed by AYSO.

On-Field Evaluation and Treatment of Common Athletic Injuries
Concise guide to the on-field medical management of the athlete.

Organizing Successful Tournaments
Five major types of tournaments and the information needed to structure a well-run sports contest.

Positive Coaching: Building Character and Self-Esteem Through Sports
Over 200 coaching recommendations on specific psychological, motivational, and behavioral situations.

The Psychology of Coaching Team Sports
Developing the coach/athlete relationship, improving team cohesion, controlling arousal and anxiety, implementing attention control training, and preventing staleness and burnout.

Rules of the Game
The complete illustrated encyclopedia of all the sports of the world.

Magazines

Coaching Volleyball
Addresses the concerns of coaches at all levels and provides information on techniques, tactics, issues; current sports medicine, sport science research; new resources, equipment, and facilities.

ESPN The Magazine
This is sports reporting the way it ought to be - with oversized photography, off the field athlete interviews, and season previews and predictions. It is just as big and bold as the sports television that created it, only in print. It covers all major sporting events and venues.

Football Digest
Feature articles, interviews and profiles of players and coaches, team and league statistics, news notes, and book reviews on all aspects of professional football.

Hockey News Yearbook
Comprehensive, analytical periodical/publication concerning hockey.

Junior Baseball
Junior Baseball focuses on players ages 7-17, their parents and coaches. It is edited on three distinct reading age levels. Topics include baseball skills, profiles of outstanding youth teams and players, tournaments, new equipment guides, Major League stars recalling their own youth baseball days, health, nutrition, injury prevention and cure, etc.

PE and Sport Today
Dedicated to supporting all those involved in school-based activities, PE & Sport Today is an independent magazine providing essential reading for successful teachers.

Recreational Sports Journal
Journal for the National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association.

Slam
Portrays the world of hoops from high school to college to the NBA.

Sporting News
America's Sports Authority. Weekly analysis and reviews on football, baseball, basketball and hockey Also covering college and pro teams. Special Preseason Issues too.

Sports Illustrated
Reports and interprets the world of sport, recreation and active leisure. It previews, analyzes and comments upon major games and events, as well as those noteworthy for character and spirit alone.

Swimming World
The national magazine for competitive aquatics, swimming, diving and water polo at all levels, including the Olympics. Articles on coaching, nutrition and training.

Tennis
For the active tennis players of various levels and ages. Issues contain features on playing instruction, the mental aspect of the game, tips, equipment, fitness and travel to tennis camps and resorts.

Track Coach
Covers track and field technique and training for all events, injury care and prevention, biomechanics and physiology, motivation and coaching psychology, diet and nutrition, strength training, and racing tactics.

Volleyball Magazine
From fitness and instruction features, to profiles, to competition coverage, Volleyball brings you inside the action of this internationally renowned sport.

World Soccer
Britain's oldest and most respected football magazine. Since 1960, World Soccer has been the leading authority on international football. Every month, through a global network of correspondents, the magazine features the latest news, interviews and expert analysis from around the globe.

Professional Resources

American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD)
AAHPERD is an alliance of six national associations and six district associations and is designed to provide members with a comprehensive and coordinated array of resources, support, and programs to help practitioners improve their skills and so further the health and well-being of the American public. The six national organizations it represents are: American Association for Active Lifestyles and Fitness (AAALF), American Association for Leisure and Recreation (AALR), American Association for Health Education (AAHE), National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE), National Association for Girls and Women in Sport (NAGWS), and National Dance Association (NDA).

American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM)
ACSM is a membership organization that advances and integrates scientific research to provide educational and practical applications of exercise science and sports medicine.

American Council on Fitness
A nonprofit fitness certification and education provider in the world. ACE sets standards and protects the public against unqualified fitness professionals and unsafe or ineffective fitness products, programs and trends.

American Sport Education Program (ASEP)
ASEP develops and delivers both online and instructor-led courses and resources for coaches, officials, sport administrators, athletes and parents of athletes.

National Intramural Recreational Sports Association (NIRSA)
A non-profit membership organization serving a network of professionals and students in the recreational sports field throughout the United States, Canada and other countries. It provides training and professional development, intramural sports, sport clubs, recreation facilities, fitness programming, outdoor recreation, wellness programs, informal recreation and aquatic programs.

National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA)
NRPA promotes public awareness and support for recreation, park, leisure services, the environment and natural resource management; facilitates the development, maintenance, expansion and improvement of socially and environmentally relevant public policy; enhances the development of parks, recreation and tourism professionals; and promotes the development and dissemination of knowledge about parks and recreation programs and services.