The following twenty-five must-have Kindle e-books and subscriptions for sports fans provides the best that Amazon has to offer in football, baseball, soccer, sports culture and sports marketing. If you follow the links and browse at the Kindle Store, you’ll learn that there are far more than twenty-five sports fans books at Amazon; however, this list contains the top-rated and best-selling e-books. If you’re a sports fan, you’ll have fun discovering more books that focus on various teams, team players and special perspectives on specific teams and sports.

This list is categorized, and each link is listed alphabetically by title within those categories.

Sports Fans in General

1. Chicken Soup for the Sports Fan’s Soul: Every sport is covered and every age level can relate to the stories in this book that highlights the positive nature of sports.
2. ESPN The Magazine: The Daily Playbook: A daily subscription of ESPN The Magazine, from classic sports stories to predictive analysis and controversial opinion including Behind the Bets, The Gamer, MMA Submission, The Action Sports Report and Ryan McGee on NASCAR.
3. Fans of the World, Unite! A (Capitalist) Manifesto for Sports Consumers: Stephen Ross, a law professor at Penn State, and Stefan Szymanski, an economics professor at Cass Business School in London, believe American sports fans are caught up in an abusive relationship. The authors outline a plan to end fan suffering, stressing league control via an independent entity.
4. God Save the Fan: Will Leitch, the founding editor of the sports blog, Deadspin.com, offers a collection of passionate, original essays about the good, the bad and the ugly. If you trust Leitch, you’ll love this book.

Baseball

5. Baseball Americana: The Library of Congress houses the world’s largest baseball collection, documenting the history of the game and providing a unique look at America since the late 1700s. Now Baseball Americana presents the best of the best from that treasure trove to your Kindle.
6. Baseball Field Guide: An In-Depth Illustrated Guide to the Complete Rules of Baseball: Baseball Field Guide organizes and explains the sometimes vague, misleading, confusing, inconsistent, and obscure rules governing America’s favorite pastime.
7. Fair Ball: A Fan’s Case for Baseball: Emmy Award-winning sports announcer, Bob Costas, is a natural for audio. He uses this platform to its best advantage to talk about what’s wrong with baseball today.
8. Watching Baseball Smarter: This is a professional fan’s guide from beginners, semi-experts and “deeply serious geeks.” Trivia abounds, as well as a tongue-in-cheek style that brings it all on in an easy-to-read book.

Basketball

9. Great Moments in Basketball History: Young basketball fans may savor this book, which covers famous buzzer-beating shots, amazing game-saving plays and thrilling maneuvers that defied gravity.
10. March to Madness: The Ultimate Fan’s Trivia Book: This book features unique profiles of the basketball’s most courageous as well as its zaniest characters as well as tons of trivia.
11. The Art of a Beautiful Game: The Thinking Fan’s Tour of the NBA: Chris Ballard, who covers the NBA for Sports Illustrated, provides a real insider’s gem of reporting basketball. His obvious passion for the NBA shines through.
12. The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy: Author Bill Simmons, best known as ESPN.com’s “The Sports Guy,” explores the NBA with laugh-out-loud insight, spot-on analysis and a slew of irreverent footnotes.

Football

13. Bowled Over: Big-Time College Football from the Sixties to the BCS Era: Michael Oriard, a former second-team All-American at Notre Dame, explores a wide range of trends that have changed the face of big-time college football and transformed the role of the student-athlete.
14. Every Week a Season: A Journey Inside Big-Time College Football: Brian Curtis tracks several perennial powerhouses, such as Colorado State and Florida State, over the course of the 2003 season.
15. Football for the Utterly Confused: This book provides new fans or spouses of die-hard football fanatics with the ins and outs of what’s going on on the field, as well as insight into the historic rivalries, traditions like the wave, and the greatest moments in both college and professional leagues.
16. The Class of Football: Compiled in conjunction with the Pro Football Hall of Fame, The Class of Football brings sage advice from legends of the game. Use their knowledge, leadership, experience and athletic prowess to learn more about the game.
17. The Football Fan’s Manifesto: Popular football blogger Michael Tunison of KissingSuzyKolber.com offers the no-hold-barred rules and bylaws that every football fan should know in The Football Fan’s Manifesto.

Soccer

18. Football, Violence and Social Identity: Drawing on research from all over the world, this volume examines the culture and loyalties of soccer players and crowds and their relation to social order, disorder and violence.
19. Soccer in a Football World: The Story of America’s Forgotten Game: The world calls this game, “football,” but Americans call it “soccer.” How did America come to accept this game and how have American teams changed the rules? Find out in this absorbing book.
20. The Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer: David Goldblatt tells the full story of soccer’s rise in this book, from chaotic folk ritual to the world’s most popular sport-now poised to fully establish itself in the USA.
21. The Thinking Fan’s Guide to the World Cup: The editors, both American, gather essays for each of the 32 countries that compete in the 2006 World Cup, providing an exceptional variety of discourse and digression on soccer as it relates to politics, culture, and personal life.

Marketing Perspectives

22. ESPN The Company: The Story and Lessons Behind the Most Fanatical Brand in Sports: ESPN tells the fascinating story of how ESPN managed to sustain its growth, innovation, and brand in a highly competitive and rapidly evolving marketplace.
23. The Elusive Fan: Reinventing Sports in a Crowded Marketplace: World-renowned communication expert Irving Rein, international marketing guru Philip Kotler, and communication specialist Ben Shields deliver an innovative new business model centered on fan satisfaction and retention.

Sports and Culture

24. Consuming Sport: Fans, Sport and Culture: This book examines the process of becoming a sport fan, and the social and moral career that supporters follow as their involvement develops over a lifetime.
25. Sports and Their Fans: The History, Economics and Culture of the Relationship Between Spectator and Sport: Though Americans spend more than $25 billion on sports and sporting events, this book argues that the influence of sports on our lives is even more profound than this huge figure would seem to suggest.

The blogs below are categorized and listed alphabetically within each category.

Sports Marketing Blogs

1. Mr. Rollins Sports Marketing and Management Blog: Keep your eye on this blog to learn about what sports marketing students are thinking. Run by Scott Rollins, a high school business and computer teacher and coach.
2. PR in Sports: This is a new blog dedicated to looking at all aspects of sports, from players, coaches, owners, teams and the media, in a public relations/marketing perspective.
3. Take a Peck: Follow Jason Peck to learn more about sports and its connection to social media and marketing.
4. Sports Marketing 2.0: Join this Ning site and contribute with your own blog about sports and marketing. This is an active group with great networking.
5. Sports Marketing & PR Roundup: Joe has over 22 years of strategic communications/marketing, business development and public relations expertise in sports, entertainment, brand building, media training, television, athletic administration and business.
6. Sports, Media & Society: This blog, provided by the John Curley Center for Sports Journalism at Penn State, looks closely at the interaction of sports coverage and U.S. culture.
7. Sports PR Blog: A look at the sports industry from a public relations perspective.
8. The Sports Info Business: Charles Harris is marketing and communications professional with 20-plus years of experience in the areas of sports management, business, technology, entertainment, and the non-profit world.
9. Zs Newsbits: “Where the world of sports business and new media intersect.” This blog is bent toward sports fans, but sports personnel can pick up a tip or two hundred from this blog.

Sports Management Blogs

10. Sports Fantasy Business: If you want to learn about this business, then you want to read Brandon Funston’s blog. He’s the manager of Yahoo! Sports Fantasy’s editorial group.
11. Sports Agent Blog: Geared specifically to the sports agent, this blog also contains lists of agencies, interviews with agents and more.
12. Sports Networker: This site reaches a network of roughly 20,000 sports executives and professional athletes, and covers topics including social media, marketing, public relations, sponsorships and more — all related to sports.
13. Sports Management Blog: This blog focuses on European sports management and on global sports management technologies.
14. The Business of Sports: The posts in this blog cover a wide range of topics, including ticket sales, marketing, social media, corporate sponsorships, fan loyalty, brand management, sports media, finance and more.
15. The Sports Business Exchange: This journal is an opportunity for professionals who are just starting their careers to express their insights on the sports business industry. All sports topics are covered.
16. Tucker Center for Research on Girls and Women in Sport: If you coach or manage a female athlete or a team filled with women, this blog offers cutting-edge information about women in sports.

Sports Economic Blogs

17. International Journal of Sport Finance: IJSF is published quarterly and serves as a high-level forum for the dissemination of current research on sport finance topics on a worldwide basis. The blog is updated almost daily.
18. Perfectly Competitive: Various takes on all types of sports trades, trade-offs, purchases and sales from an economist’s perspective.
19. Sabernomics: J. C. Bradbury offers economic thinking about baseball.
20. Sports BIZ: CNBC’s Darren Rovell provides his take on the business of sports: a multi-billion dollar global industry and obsession full of personalities and products.
21. SportsBiz — The Business of Sports Illuminated: Follow this blogger, who ruminates on the economics, law and business of sports.
22. The Business of Sports: Since September 1999, Sarah Talalay has covered such sports business issues as sponsorship- and naming-rights deals, sports marketing and advertising, shoes, ticket sales, labor issues and the Marlins’ ongoing quest for a new ballpark.
23. The Business of Sports JSOnline: Although Don Walker is located in the Wisconsin area, his focus on the ever-changing sports business landscape is wide ranging.
24. The Sports Economist: This blog focuses on economic commentary on sports and society. You might also enjoy the blogrolls in the left column — plenty of them.
25. Walk Like a Sabermetrician: You may want to visit this site not just for the baseball/sabermetric commentary, but also for the wide variety of links.

Sports Sponsorship Blogs

26. Athletics Development Frontier: This blog was created out of the need for an easily accessible, unified destination to discuss, learn and gather information surrounding the practices of athletics development — specifically fund raising.
27. Partnership Activation: This is the blog for the business that connects brands with fans.
28. Sponsor Crunch: Follow this blog to learn more about branding yourself or your team and how to groom your pitch for sponsorships.
29. Sponsorship Insights Group Blog: This blog is produced by a sponsorship agency dedicated to being a centralized resource for all things sponsorship.

Sports Law Blogs

30. Legal Aspects of Sports Blog: Don’t let the vanilla look of this site put you off — this blogger currently teaches, researches, and studies at Indiana University, and is interested in sports law.
31. National Sports & Entertainment Law Society Blog: NSELS is a low-profit, limited-liability company created by law students that focuses on organizing and centralizing sports and entertainment law societies. This is their blog.
32. Sports Agent & Sports Lawyer Blog: This blog, written and maintained by Jason B. Wolf, sports agent and lawyer, provides insight from the inside.
33. Sports Law Blog: This blog stands out as one of the top law and sports blog on the Internet. It is current, relevant and informative.
34. The Sports Law Canary: Kris and Jon both teach law, and they’ve combined forces to offer ‘nuggets’ of sports law, news and opinion at this blog.
35. The Sports Law Professor: Jeffrey Standen is a professor of law at Willamette University, where he teaches sports law, among other courses.
36. World Sports Law Report: Use this blog to stay on top of law developments, court cases and more that are concerned with sports.

Sports Insider Blogs

37. 27 Pitches: This blogger is a sports fanatic who likes to call attention to stories that fly under the mainstream media’s radar.
38. A Sports Scribe: This freelance sports reporter offers a first-hand look at some major stories as well as smaller stories that may prove to provide a big impact.
39. Pitch Invasion: Pitch Invasion is a blog exploring soccer (or football, if you prefer) culture around the world from outside the mainstream media.
40. Sports Business Radio: Guests on the show offering an insider’s perspective include pro sports league executives, agents, college athletics administrators, sports apparel company reps, ad agency executives, media executives and athletes.
41. Sports Media Journal: Look to this blog to find out more about the people and organizations that manage and report sports news.
42. Sports Media Watch: Keep an eye on sports in the media through this blog, which covers the NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL, college football and Nascar.
43. The Big Lead: This is an independent sports blog that offers interviews and more for sports personnel and fans alike.
44. Ultimate Sports Insider: Michael Cross provides news, observations and commentary about college athletics with a focus on intercollegiate athletics as a business and educational enterprise.

Sports Media Blogs

45. Awful Announcing: This site focuses mainly on the perils and follies of the Sports Media, but also critiques and reviews those within the Sports World — hopefully, you haven’t been roasted here.
46. Deadspin: One of the most popular media sites for athletes and fans, offers “sports news without access, favor or discretion.”
47. Eye on Sports Media: Take a tour of some photo galleries, broadcasts and best practices and read up on any sports topic imaginable.
48. NY Sports Journalism: This blog stays on top of sports, sports marketing, sports media and more so you can stay informed.
49. Sports Media America: Martin Brady provides a monthly in-depth look at American sports, the media that cover it and the issues behind gamesmanship.
50. Stupid Sideline Reporters: We think the title of this blog alone makes it stand out above the rest. Read it to learn more about what sports fanatics think — which can be far removed from what often is reported.

Sports Agent Blogs

If you want to see what else is happening, and learn from some great sports agents, here are some blogs to follow:

1. Sports Agent Blog: This blog is aimed at sports agents and aspiring sports agents, sharing news on the industry and looking at different agencies.
2. Yard Barker: The tag is “Everyone’s an Insider.” This blog is meant for sports agents, providing news and information, and even offering athlete blogs posts.
3. Juiced Sports: Get a look at what is happening in the world of sports, see athlete interviews and learn more about sports agents.
4. Boras Blog: Scot Boras provides contract negotiations for athletes and can offer a great deal of insight into how the system works.
5. Women Talk Sports: A look at sports and what’s going on in sports from a female perspective.
6. SportsPro Media: Get the latest deals and see interviews with sports agents from around the world.
7. Sports Agent Blog: This blog looks at the deals ready to happen, as well as previewing and recapping drafts.

Sports Management Blogs

Sports managers and aspirants can get a little insight into the industry and what is happening in sports — stuff they need to know — with the help of these blogs.

8. Rosenhaus Sports Management: Drew Rosenhaus is one of the best sports managers around. Get the skinny on this negotiating master.
9. Mr. Rollins Sports Marketing and Management Blog: Get an idea of how you can become a better manager — and sports marketer — with a little help from this blog.
10. Xclusive: This is the blog of Xclusive Sports Management, and offers a number of news and deals.
11. Athletic Women Blog: This blog provides insight into women’s sports, and even has posts on management, and breaking into sports management.
12. DTR Sports Management: A look sports managing from an Australian perspective.
13. Sports: dGi Management provides insight into sports management issues and news.
14. The Business of Sport Management: A comprehensive look at sports management and how to thrive in the business.

Sports Law Blogs

There are a lot of legal issues involved with sports. Contracts represent lots of money for all sides, and understanding a little bit more about sports law and how it works can be important.

15. Sports Law Blog: Get the latest news with regard to sporting legal issues, and commentary on decisions and judgments.
16. Golka’s Athlete Agent Regulations: Learn about the regulation of sports agents and understand the law a little better.
17. Sports Agent and Sports Lawyer Blog: This blog offers helpful information on getting into the law side of being a good sports agent — or a good lawyer specializing in sports.
18. The Sports Law Professor: Learn about the intersection of law and sports.
19. World Sports Law Reports Blog: Get a global view of the laws and regulations that govern sports in countries around the world.
20. The Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law Blog: Mixed in with other forms of entertainment, you can get some good information on sports laws.
21. Legal Aspects of Sports Blog: Information on legal issues in sports, and news related to legal issues.
22. Connecticut Sports Law: While some issues are related to Connecticut sports law, there are also helpful insights that any sports lawyer can use.
23. The Sports Law Canary: Information and opinion about the latest sports regulations and laws.
24. Arias Sports Law: Sports law bulletins from around the world.
25. Sports is made for betting: This blog about sports betting explores news, information and more with regard to areas where sports betting is legal.

Sports Rumors and News

Sports agents and sports managers often live or die by how quickly they get the news, or how they respond to rumors. Keep up with the latest sports news and rumors.

26. Projo Sports Blog: The Providence Journal has a great sports blog with the latest news and information from the sports world.
27. EveryJoe: This blog portal offers helpful information on basketball, baseball, football, golf and more. Sports news galore.
28. Deadspin: This news blog offers sports news and commentary.
29. BallHype: This is site that lets you find the best sports blog posts from around the web. News and information on a variety of sports.
30. Hoopinion: Get basketball insight and commentary.
31. Five Tool Tool: Sports blog with commentary and news.
32. Stet Sports Blog: News and commentary from the wide world of sports.
33. Sports rumors blog: Get the latest on sports rumors and possible deals.
34. Action Sports News, Rumors, Blogs: ESPN offers the latest happenings in action sports.
35. The Big Lead: Information on deals that might be made in sports.
36. Melt Your Face Off: This blog focuses mainly on hockey, and providing you with the latest sports new and rumors.
37. The Sport Blog: A more global view of sports, from the Guardian in Britain.
38. The Sports Hernia Blog: News, information and commentary on what’s going on in sports.
39. Term Sports: Images, videos and breaking news from the world of sports.
40. Daily Sport Thought: Quotes, thoughts and news from different sports figures and deal makers.

Scouting Blogs

If you want to know something about an athlete, whether in high school, college or the pros, you want some specs. Scouting blogs help you learn a little bit more about who you might want to represent.

41. Scout.com: Features posts, recruiting information and reports on different players and teams.
42. Scouting The Sports: Looks at what is happening in the world of sports, and reports on different teams and players.
43. The Fantasy Sports Scout: Blog Talk Radio features this podcast blog that focuses on scouting for the fantasy sports season.
44. The Scout Leader: Recruitment information and scouting reports, especially related to the Gators.
45. Stiletto Sports: Another blog written from a female perspective. This includes information on recruitment and drafts as well as other sports news.
46. The College Baseball Blog: Keep up on what’s happening with college baseball players and look for prospects.
47. NCAA Basketball FanHouse: Be up to date on the hottest college basketball players.
48. FanBlogs.com College Football: College football news and reports on young and promising players.
49. beRecruited.com: Looks at different sports and offers articles on promising young athletes.
50. College Sports: Great blog from the Dallas News to keep you apprised of scouting opportunities and what’s happening at the college level.

The following list is categorized by single-player games, sports news, sports “Tweets” and apps that you can use for personal physical fitness routines. The links, which mostly lead to the Apple Web Apps page, are listed in alphabetical order within each category. The sports range from basketball and baseball to football and equestrian sports to wrestling, but NASCAR fanatics and snowboarders also can find apps for their sports, too.

Single-Player Games

1. Drop Point Alaska: This game drops you on a virtual mountain via helicopter to snow board down runs ranging from the simple (Kindergarten) to the most challenging. Mini-challenges include unlocking new clothes and snowboards and discovering secret places.
2. Madden NFL 08: You are the franchise in this game that puts you on the field and inside the front office to make executive decisions. Your accomplishments throughout the game feed into the “Ring of a Champion,” a new feature that tracks your progress on a championship ring.
3. NHL Eastside Hockey Manager 2007: This hockey management game features 20 playable leagues with more than 3,000 teams and over 45,000 players and personnel. Make trades, sign up-and-coming players, decide game-day tactics and more as you watch the play-by-play unfold.
4. Out of the Park Baseball X: Tweak your spring lineup, try out newcomers and follow the game as you march through the season to the World Series. Negotiate contracts, peruse free agents, and formulate strategies along the way.
5. Toca Race Driver 3: Meet Rick, a guy who guides you through your racing career as you compete in over thirty-five types of racing with 80 real-world tracks and 70 licensed vehicles. Between races, you can tune your tires, transmission, suspension and brakes or upgrade your components to improve performance.

Sports News

6. 2010 World Equestrian Games Schedule: The World Equiestrian games consist of eight equestiran sports. The games are held once every four year, and for the first time ever, they are being held in the U.S. on 25 September — 10 October 2010 in Lexington, KY.
7. CBS Sports Mobile: Download this free app to view stats, scores and stay on top of all the sports action all the time for pro and college sports.
8. ESPN ScoreCenter: Another free app that provides scores from hundreds of sports leagues around the world. This updated app fixes the blank screen issue that fans have experienced after upgrading to new devices in the past.
9. iFootball: This app was updated for the NFL 2009 season, bringing you each team and its schedule, win/loss and past score information, an easy way to get tickets as well as directions to the game, the Las Vegas Line and other information that makes this app perfect for office pools.
10. InGameNow — MLB: Get live MLB scores, analysis, and interaction as well as scheduling, personalized setup and scores as they happen with this free app.
11. NASCAR Central News: This site, which is focused on everything NASCAR, is updated every twelve minutes. This app also has been totally revamped with new graphics.
12. Pool and Billiards News from Around the Globe: This newsfeed is for you if you’re a pool or billiards fanatic. The news is from around the globe.
13. Snowmobiler’s Headline News: Why waste time with inferior snowmobile reports? Let this app search for the best sites for snowmobiles every day so they can deliver them to you.
14. Sports Illustrated: Sports Illustrated’s free app for iPhone and iPod Touch provides sports news and topics of the day at your fingertips. Get breaking news when it happens, view stunning photography and share articles, news, scores and standings for your favorite leagues.
15. Wrestling-Online.com News: If professional wrestling and mixed martial arts are your bag, then this app is for you. Get all the latest news and information in four different categories for easy reading — WWE, TNA, MMA and general.

Sports Tweets

16. Basketball Tweets: Get the skinny on NBA teams and plays by following NBA teams, players and the media. You don’t need a Twitter account to see both sides of a Twitter conversation. You also get links to all team and player Web sites.
17. Cycling Tweets: Keep on top of race staff and commentators in the world of pro cycling. You can find links to cyclist Web sites, get profile pictures and be in on the buzz, even without a Twitter account.
18. Football Tweets: Follow both sides of an NFL football conversation, learn more about the teams and players and keep tabs on what’s new through this free app. Football Tweets also includes links to team and player Web sites.
19. Hockey Tweets: You don’t need a Twitter account to follow both sides of an NHL Twitter conversation. Hockey Tweets also includes links to team and player Web sites.

Get Off the Couch Apps

20. cityRUNNR: A simple runner’s app that helps you keep track of all your runs. Record your progress in a simple and intuitive interface.
21. EverydayBurner: You might want this fully-specked HTML 5 Web app that supports offline storage and launching. For now, the only feature is a traditional iPhone-style stopwatch, but it has changed dramatically. Coming soon — features such as workout programs, sessions calendar/tracking, supplements suggestions and much more.
22. Gym Technik — Mobile Fitness Tracking: Probably one of the best iPhone apps around, and it’s free. This tool allows you to log your workout stats for cardio and weight exercises as well as choose from an extensive library of workouts. You also can add your own exercises and track your workouts and graph your progress.
23. iCalorie: Use this tool to calculate calories burned during various exercises such as running, walking, biking, swimming, yoga and palates.
24. Pace Calc: This app was designed for bikers and runners the world over, as it converts distance and times in Kilometers or in miles.
25. Stop Watch: This is a simple app, but a useful one for both active and spectator sports. Start the timer and mark up to nine points.

You will not earn any college credits for your efforts, but you can wow your team, your coach or your couch potato buddies the next time you get together to play or watch a sports event. The courses below are divided into categories and listed in alphabetical order within those categories along with the name of the institution that offers the course.

Sports Basics

1. Active, Healthy Lifestyles: This course is aimed at physical education instructors and looks at some common misconceptions relating to fitness and activity levels [The Open University].
2. Anatomy and Physiology: Learn all the basics in this course, then move on to Anatomy and Physiology Part II [Western Governors University].
3. Biology of Water and Health: This interdepartmental course explores the multi-faceted ways in which water and human health are related [Tufts].
4. General Human Anatomy: Learn gross and microscopic elements in an overall anatomy course [UC Berkeley Webcast].
5. Health and Fitness: This module scrutinizes nutrition, emotional health and the physical body to help students gain competence in this subject [Western Governors University].
6. Human Growth and Development: Aimed at doctors, this course discusses developmental “tracks” longitudinally from birth to death [Tufts].
7. Introduction to Cardiovascular Fitness: Learn more about how you can increase your cardio health through this online information and its resources [Wikiversity].
8. Musculoskeletal Pathophysiology: Learn about disorders that affect the musculoskeletal system [Tufts].
9. Public Hygiene and Epidemiology: Human pathology related to water and sanitation is dealt with, as well as the relation between health and society and environment [TUDelft].

Sports and Nutrition

10. A Love-Hate Relationship – Cholesterol in Health and Disease: Examine cholesterol’s role in the cell and in the body as a whole, from its function as a structural component of the membrane to its function in signaling [MIT].
11. Critical Analysis of Popular Diets and Dietary Supplements: Examine the science behind normal mechanisms of weight control, and how weight loss diets are constructed and work [Johns Hopkins].
12. Introduction to Human Nutrition: This course provides an overview of digestion and metabolism of nutrients [UC Berkeley Webcast].
13. Nutrient Function and Metabolism: Learn about major metabolic pathways, the function of nutrients in energy metabolism and more through these lectures [UC Berkeley Webcast].
14. Nutrition and Medicine: This course spans the theoretical to the clinical aspects of nutrition [Tufts].
15. Nutrition, Exercise, and Aging [PDF]: This course focuses on the benefits and recommendations of exercise for older adults [Tufts].
16. Nutrition – Proteins: Learn about the importance of proteins and how they are digested and absorbed [the Open University].
17. Nutrition – Vitamins and Minerals: Learn how vitamins and minerals can affect physical performance [The Open University].
18. Obesity – Balanced Diets and Treatment: Learn about the components involved in a balanced diet, no matter your weight [The Open University].
19. Principles of Human Nutrition: This is an integrated overview of the physiological requirements and functions of protein, energy, and the major vitamins and minerals that are determinants of health and diseases in human populations [Johns Hopkins].

Sports Science and Medicine

20. Basic Human Pathology Parts I and II: Learn about diseases, causes, prevention and more in this basic course for medical professionals [Tufts].
21. Chemistry of Sports: This course focuses on swimming, cycling and running as means to complete a triathlon.
22. Chronic Infection and Inflammation – What are the Consequences on Your Health? You can explore the new emerging field of pathogen-induced chronic diseases in this expansive course [MIT].
23. Confronting the Burden of Injuries: This course is intended to guide students interested in working on injury control in areas with little to no tradition in injury prevention from a public health perspective [Johns Hopkins].
24. Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases: Do you play sports with a team? This course can teach you more about how diseases are spread and how some diseases can be mitigated [Johns Hopkins].
25. Health Across the Life Span – Frameworks, Contexts, and Measurements: Learn about contributions of biological and environmental factors to health and human development and much more through this course [Johns Hopkins].
26. Introduction to Clinical Pain Problems: Learn about general principles of biomedical evaluation and management of common clinical pain problems [Tufts].
27. Occupational Health and Vulnerable Worker Populations: This course discusses occupational health program considerations, (including all levels of prevention), for vulnerable populations [Johns Hopkins].
28. Pain and Aspirin: How can simple aspirin help to control pain? Learn the science behind this issue here [The Open University].
29. Pain Management Strategies in the Elderly: These courses address end of life care for the aging and focuses specifically on how pain affects the body, and how it can be managed [Harvard Medical School].
30. PE for ME: Readings, discussions and experiential learning introduce various dimensions of Physical Intelligence which students then apply to the design of innovative exercise equipment [MIT].
31. Physical Intelligence: This Physical Intelligence activity takes an innovative, hands-on approach to explore the kinesthetic intelligence of the body as applicable to a wide range of disciplines [MIT].
32. Physics of Rock Climbing: The seminar provides an introduction to engineering problems, an opportunity to practice communication skills, and a brief stab at doing some research.This course does not include climbing instruction [MIT].
33. Yale Global Online – Health: Be prepared! Stay on top of the latest developments and news in health and disease through this university site [Yale].

Actual Sports

34. A Fitness Program for Cycling: This is a basic module that provides a development program for cyclists [Rice Connexions].
35. Archery: The purpose of the course is to introduce students to the basic techniques of indoor target archery emphasizing the care and use of equipment, range safety, stance and shooting techniques, scoring and competition [MIT].
36. Backpacking: Backpacking is a lot of fun, but a hundred things can go wrong out there – only one mishap can turn your perfect and pleasurable adventure into a life-or-death situation. Be prepared with this course [Suite 101].
37. Dance Movement – warming up and skill development: Exercises for exploring dance and movement as art and as a way to stretch and warm up the body before more strenuous movement [Rice Connexions].
38. Dance – Warming up the body: This is an introduction to jazz dance with improvisation [Rice Connexions].
39. Fencing: Learn the fundamentals of fencing, including footwork, bladework, bouting and refereeing [MIT].
40. Horseback Riding 101: This is a seminar on the history of people with horses [Suite 101].
41. Improving Aerobic Fitness: This educational unit talks about the types of aerobic exercise that can help you to stay fit [The Open University].
42. Introduction to Cardiovascular Fitness: Learn the basics about aerobic and anaerobic exercise through this information [Wikiversity].
43. Sailing: Learn about the MIT Tech Dinghy and how to sail it [MIT].
44. Scuba: You won’t be able to participate in the class swim portion, but you can learn enough basics to support your ongoing scuba skills [MIT].
45. Tennis: Gain a working knowledge of tennis through this course that focuses on basic stroke techniques [MIT].
46. Weight Training: This course is designed for the beginning or novice weight lifter, or for those who have experience lifting but lack proper instruction [MIT].

Sports Miscellaneous

47. Finding Information in Health and Lifestyle: Learn how to identify and use information in health and lifestyle [The Open University].
48. Funding Elite Sport: Who funds elite sports in the UK? This course exposes the support that allows these athletes to train and compete [The Open University].
49. Sports Media and Culture – Who’s Calling the Shots? Learn about key sports moments that were made iconic by media coverage [The Open University].
50. The Impact of Physical Activity and Obesity on Academic Achievement Among Elementary Students: Learn how the effect of physical activity and obesity affected academic achievement in elementary students [Rice Connexions].

My Team Tweet
This tool is for football funs that have enthusiasm towards the game as it provides simple and easy interface to select out one of the best European football teams on Twitter. You at the twitter just needs to click at the one of the jerseys out of 20 displayed at and automatically would be redirected towards the Twitter pages with the latest news and updates about the respective team.

Twantasy Football
This tool is developed to discuss all the best news about the football using Twitter. One just needs to make a Twitter account and can immediately start exchanging Tweets about football with other sports enthusiasts on Twitter.

Tennis Tweets
This application provides with innovative and exciting way to get connected and follow your favorite tennis stars on Twitter. What you need to do is sign in an account with first Twitter then you would get automatically connected to Tennis Tweets to exchange your 140 character views with your favorite Tennis stars and other tennis sport fans.  Here you can have your share of chance to exchange your views with Williams Sisters.

March Tweetness
Now named under TitleTweets this is the tool which allows NCAA March Madness audience to exchange views and fun around the game. On Twitter you can interact for specific games, teams fan and player groups of your choice and opinion.

Betting Twits
BettingTwits is a social community for sports enthusiasts and fans that rely on shared information in order to get a winning pick. This is not a general sports application on twitter but site for users to have tips to arrest gains at vegas line. For being part of bettingtwits, the best you need to do is to be singed up at Twitter Account.    And then at Betting Twits can start posting Tweets.

Sporty Tweets
With network of nearly 370, 000 fans SportyTweets is a network of Twitter accounts related to sports and similar activities. Presents application covers the NFL, NBA, NCAA and other Major League Baseball. The sports update one can obtain either through Twitter or RSS feeds.  The utility has developed into a very powerful traffic network having contact with the best news sources.

Think Climbing
Think Climbing is a single resource for directory of climbers as well as interesting and useful info on climbing posted in tweets.

12 strikes
This app is used for scoring your bowling games and it also analyzes and tracks the data when it is time to improve your bowling. It is also used to enter the data for your games. In addition, the app is used for split, scores, alley, league, pin left, lane surface and notes for each game plus each roll.

3GPS
The 3GPS has the speedometer, altimeter and compass all in one application. The 3GPS tells you how fast, high and where you are. So whether you are in the process of climbing a mountain, touring or in case you are competing in a marathon race, the 3GPS will show you where you are in terms of altitude, course and speed. For all outdoor junkies the 3GPS is the best application. Therefore, make a point to have this application, as it is necessary for all sportsmen and sportswomen.

The weather channel
This application is very useful because it gives you detailed information concerning the weather. It provides detailed information about the weather that includes the humidity, sunrise and sunset times, UV index, videos and maps. What is more important is that it gives you hourly, 10 day and 36 hour forecasts! This information is useful for the sports people, as they will know when to engage in a certain sport.

Sportacular
This is a sports fan dream and it is easier to use than the ESPN application. Sportacular enables you to get the scores, news, stats and standings of major sports. It also enables you to make game predictions and you may share comments and opinions with other sports fans.

Pandora
By using the Pandora radio, you can follow all the sporting activities live as they happen. This application gives you an opportunity to listen to sports analysis and to know the latest scores and fixtures of your favorite sport. It also helps you to listen to music by starting with the name of your favorite artist and then the Pandora will create a playlist of that particular artist.

IScores
This is a sports fan’s application. If you love getting sports scores and updates as they happen this app is meant just for you. Football, Baseball, Soccer, Hockey, Tennis, are all available in iScores through the ScoresPro.com.

In order to be considered for admission an individual must have the thrill and passion for the sports industry. It’s important that sports management degree graduates be involved in the advancement of learning scopes by the use of outside organizations.

In addition, business classes are required these include economics, accounting, business law, business communications, history and natural sciences. Students are expected to participate in at least two team activities and enroll on internship with a facility in order to get a real life practice and in-house training.

A graduate is then able to enter into a number of fields having the training and experience on their resume. Some usual jobs may include working with the businesses in special events promotion, sponsorship, accounting ticketing, financial operations of an event or developing a risk management plan for dealing with sports legal issues. Media and broadcasting relations are also well known fields to follow. Other job opportunities that present to the individual include sporting goods sales, management of fitness and health wellness centers. The benefits for individuals employed in the sports related industry are much better those employed in the usual business jobs.