This course will analyze and evaluation economics, finance, and investment issues as applied to the sports industry. Among the areas to be discussed are analyzing consumers, teams, players, management, and venues in the context of local, regional and global economies; sports business cycles; substitution and complementary goods and services, and the effects of government, taxation and regulation, inflation; time and value of money, analysis of financial statements, capital budgeting, budgeting and forecasting for short and long term economic events, debt and equity management, project financing, risk management, investment strategies, working capital analysis, and financial modeling.