The world still has heroes, but something has changed in terms of the type of people that society celebrates and rewards.

Heroes and heroines have existed throughout human history.

As an iconic figure of the celebrity world, David Beckham was recently considered as becoming a Jordan (Cashmore 2002, 141).

As a basketball player, Michael Jordan was nicknamed “Air Jordan,” and off the court he soared by forging a new role for celebrity athletes in a globalizing world.

Although sports celebrities in the first half of the 1900s reaped some benefits from stardom, they were secondary actors in sports spectacles.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the print media helped create an industry of leisure out of “spectacles.”

Originally, coeducation meant the integrated instruction of girls and boys with pedagogical intentions, but the term is often used, as in this article, for mixed classes.

Teacher, facilitator, manager, counselor, recruiter, leader, role model—coaching involves wearing many hats.

Clubsports are usually considered amateur sports under the aegis of sports organizations, primarily staffed by volunteers and providing participation opportunities in local or community sport at a range of levels.

The terms hero and celebrity increasingly are being used interchangeably, but they are fundamentally different.

As a cultural phenomenon, sports resonates throughout societies, nations, and the world.