After reading this chapter, you should be able to do the following:

• Discuss the ways that various models of sports can be used to envision possibilities for the organization of sports in the future.
• Explain why power and performance sports will grow in the future, and why pleasure and participation sports also will grow in the future.
• Identify major trends that will characterize changes that will occur in sports over the next twenty to thirty years.
• Identify the major factors that will influence the trends and changes in sports in the future.
• Discuss why issues related to gender, race and ethnicity, social class, and (dis)ability will remain important in sports over the next few decades.
• Identify the major issues that must be considered if a person wants to be an effective agent of change in the process of creating the future of sports.
• Explain the differences between conservative, reformist, and radical approaches to change in sports.
• Discuss the ways that cultural, interactionist, and structural theories may be used in the process of creating the future of sports.
• Summarize and critically assess the authors’ argument that athletes have seldom been important change agents in sports or society and will not become important change agents in the future.
• Identify the major vantage points for making changes in sports, and discuss that major opportunities and challenges associated with trying to create change from each of those vantage points.
• Explain what is meant by the statement that “changes in sports depend on envisioning possibilities and creating futures.”
• Discuss the three factors that are most crucial to creating the future of sports.