A text for students in sport management courses, including sport sales, sport sponsorship, and sport promotion courses. Also a reference for libraries and for sport sales reps, sponsorship reps, and sport marketers.
Richard L. Irwin, EdD, is a professor and the director of the Bureau of Sport & Leisure Commerce at the University of Memphis. He has taught promotion and sales at the university level for 18 years and has served as consultant with numerous sport businesses on topics relating to sales, sponsorship, licensing, and promotion. A founding member and past president of the Sport Marketing Association (SMA), Dr. Irwin has published numerous articles in sport marketing and management journals, contributed to books, and delivered presentations at regional, national, and international conferences on topics associated with sales and promotion.
William A. Sutton, EdD, currently serves as a professor and associate department head for the DeVos Sport Business Management graduate program at the University of Central Florida. In addition to his duties at UCF, Dr. Sutton is the founder and principal of Bill Sutton & Associates, a consulting firm specializing in strategic marketing and revenue enhancement. Before assuming his current positions, he served as vice president of team marketing and business operations for the National Basketball Association and has held academic appointments at Robert Morris University, Ohio State University, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
In addition to Sport Promotion and Sales Management, Dr. Sutton is a coauthor for all three editions of Sport Marketing. He has also authored more than 100 articles and has made more than 100 national and international presentations. He is a past president of NASSM and a founding member of the Sport Marketing Association (SMA) and Sport Marketing Quarterly, where he has also served as coeditor. Dr. Sutton is a featured author for Street and Smith's Sports Business Journal (SBJ) and for the basketball strategy and business magazines Basketball Gigante and FIBA Assist, published in Italy.
Larry M. McCarthy, PhD, is an associate professor of management and director of the Institute of International Business at the W. Paul Stillman School of Business at Seton Hall University. He teaches in the Center for Sport Management. He held an academic appointment as the coordinator of the graduate sport management program at Georgia Southern University. A founding member of the SMA, he served as the first secretary–treasurer of the association. McCarthy's research interests focus on the activities of professional sport franchises, cross-cultural studies, and international sport management. He has published articles in national and international journals and has presented his work at national and international conferences. A lifelong member of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), he is secretary of the New York Board of the GAA and was an Olympic envoy to the Olympic Council of Ireland for the Centennial Olympic Games.
