ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews literature regarding rule changes in sport and investigates the use of notation in tracking the changes. It examines the environmental effect on the athlete competing in sports, and states the environment can facilitate or inhibit performance, or it can cause serious illness or death. The chapter argues with the growing influence of commercialisation and the media having more effect on the sport than people realise. It categorises the sports into groups: fans who support teams and buy the associated merchandise; television and media companies who purchase rights to show sports as television programmes; the clubs that build facilities and support lower clubs; and corporations that purchase teams outright and provide sponsorship. The analysis on cheating in sport has focused on the breaking of constitutive rules, analysing penalties and free kicks, with no reference to any regulative rules, intention or the generic nature of cheating.
