Sports entertainment
Sports entertainment is a type of
physical exercise or personal recreation, the primary product of sports entertainment is performance for an audience's benefit. Commonly, but not in all cases, the outcomes are predetermined; as this is an open secret, it is not considered to be match fixing
.
History
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The term "sports entertainment" was coined by the
competitive sport
.
Some sports entertainment events represent variants of actual sports, such as exhibition basketball with the Harlem Globetrotters.[2] Others modify sport for entertainment purposes: many types of professional wrestling (which derived from traditional wrestling), and more recently many of the various mascot races held at numerous Major League Baseball games in-between innings.[3] Roller derby was presented as a popular form of sports entertainment in the 1970s, though modern versions are legitimate competition.[4]
Perceptions
Sports entertainment has a stigma of being mindless, low-level
pop culture, in some cases glorifying violence for the sake of entertainment,[5]
and has been criticized as such in popular media, often through lampooning.
See also
- Barnstorm (sports)
- Exhibition game
- Kayfabe
References
- ^ "Stephanie McMahon Explains "Sports Entertainment" Was Created For Advertisers | Fightful News". www.fightful.com.
- ^ "The Whistle and Harlem Globetrotters Sign Comprehensive Partnership Agreement". Reuters. Aug 9, 2012. Archived from the original on March 11, 2016.
for decades the Harlem Globetrotters have defined family-friendly sports entertainment," said [Jeff] Urban, the former SVP of Sports Marketing at Gatorade.
- ^ Dan Majors (June 19, 2010). "Out at the plate: Pirates dump outspoken pierogi". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Archived from the original on June 21, 2010.
- ^ Watson, Adam (May 1, 2011). "Tough Cookies: The Rollicking Resurgence Of Roller Derby". ThePostGame.com. Retrieved February 2, 2019.
Forget everything you thought you knew about roller derby. This is not the sports entertainment version that was televised in the '70s and '80s with predetermined winners.
- ^ "Pro-fane". Americana. April 2001. Retrieved 9 June 2013.
