Article: Female and male sport fans: A comparison of sport consumption motives.

Sport spectating represents a predominant form of leisure behavior in today's society. Large numbers of people attend sporting events and think of themselves as sport fans. Attendance figures reported in nationally syndicated newspapers indicated that the combined attendance at National Football League (NFL), Major League Baseball (MLB), National Basketball Association (NBA), and National Hockey League (NHL) regular season games in 1999, exceeded 116 million. A national survey asking people how interested they were in sports found an increase in the fan base of all twelve major sports measured (Frank, 2000). For example, 67% of the U.S. population were estimated to be fans ...

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