Collegiate Sport and How it has Grown in Society

USA map of Division 1 college programs

In my American Sport in the 21st century class on February 19, 2014 we dicussed the topic of collegiate sport. Collegiate sport consist of high level of competion. Competion in college sports are seperated into D1, D2, and D3 with D1 being the highest level of competition. D1 makes makes revenue off media coverage, sponsers and etc... D2 and D3 make revenue off of tutuion. In Big D1 sports the sports that make the most revnue is basketball and football. These teams travel extensively throughout the country and being broadcasted on major channels. These sports provide training athletes to make it to the next level which would be the proffessional leagues. College sports are employed to improve the dicipline, health, and appetite while keeping them away from diffrent illicit activities when not in the classroom. Sport is also used to build bonds of respect and admiration between masters and pupils. The athletes learn the determination to win with respect for rules and established authority.

Abuses in College sport

• Illegal recruiting

• Clustering - athletes would major in easy majors to pass the classes

• Pressure to win

• Pressure to make money for the program 

Spending money on big time college sport

• Has no effect on academic quality of incoming students

• Does not increase alumni donations

• Does not improve win/lose records

• Increases wealth gaps between athletic departments 

• Spend money to keep up with other athletic departments

NCAA Football Championship Game 

In NPR article; released January 13, 2014, The first ever college football championship game turned in record ratings, attratcing about 33.4 viewers. The game was the highest ratings in the history of bith ESPN and on cable TV. NPR's Nathan Rott reprted the game had a 21 percent increase over the ratings from last years BCS National Championship game between Florida State and Auburn, which was a far closer game than this one between Ohio State and Oregon. The sport giant can look on the bright side as it noted that ESPN has now televised the top 20 programs in cable history.

To view this article you can find it at this link: NPR Championship Game

Oscar Robertson, Cincinnati All-American Star, during the NCAA regional elimination game in Manhattan in March 1959.

In NPR article, March Madness: Keeping Society Sane since 1908 by Emma Bowman, released March 15, 2014, discusses how 68 teams were picked on Sunday to fill the March Madness bracket that has been a tradtion for a long time. the March Madness phenomenom has changed its fomat over the years but this does not stop fans from using worn out hashtags on sociol media and gambling thier money on the brackets. March Madness started in 1908 where teams like Kentucky ettracted fans before social media like twitter came along. The tournaments popularity grew and caught the attenstion the ISHA secratary and former high school coach , Henry V. Porter, who coined the term "March Madness" in 1939. Before apps fans would have to call in to get score results. Today their are many ways to follow the March Madness. Social Media has taken care of fear of fans missing out on the action of the games as they can view or see information everywhere. NCAA has started to revamp the March Madness app adding ways to watch the games or recive storylines and updates at anytime during the day. To view this article you can find it at this link: NPR March Madness

The Effects of Youth Sport

Youth football

In my American Sport in the 21st Century class on February 12, 2014 we dicussed the topic youth sports. Youth sport started in the 20th century where America gained the intrest of haveing their young children fit and healthy for the events that were occuring at that time in the world. Youth sports are seen to be beneficial for the children. As a child who has played youth sports I have expoereienced what youth sports have to offer. As a child you to be greatful in the oppurtunitues you have in youth sport. You can grow in youth sport and make tramendous strides in your athletic ability and to your social values as well. As a class we disscussed the benefits of youth sports:

• Develops fit and healthy children

• Prepares for adulthood

• Learn social values

• Enhances interactive skills

• Provides oppurtunities for leadership 

• To have fun in life

These benefits in youth sport are prime examples for why children should participate in youth sports while growing up. I agree with the factors above because i have expierienced these factors during my time participating in youth sports my entire life.

Major Problems In Youth Sport:

• Overemphasizing of winning to children

• Too much pressure set by others on the children

• Instilling unrealistic goals

• Overuse injuries, training, and burnout of childen

• 1.35 million youths a year have serious injuries

Fiday Night Tykes of a team huddling

The Post Game article: Friday Night Tykes Series Tackles Heart Of Youth Sport Parents, released January 20, 2015 by Jeffery Eisenband, discusses the TV series of Friday Night Tykes, which is a TV show of Texas youth football. Everything in this series is not a documentary it is real and the things you see in the series now is whats been happening before the series started. The series follows youth football 10 and 11 year olds in the San Antonio area. Two seasons of the series you can find that Texas youth football is not about just the x's and o's but, it shows these children have the potentiol to be our future stars in the football world. Texas youth football provides these athletes the best competition around at a young age. The show can show the intense coaching and relationships they have with their players. Some indivisuals enjoy seeing the inside of youth sports but some are turned off by some coaching and player relationships and how hard coaches pushes children at a young age. Maranz discusses the importance of youth sports. He states that youth sports in general is a gigantic activity and outside of school it is the largest extracurricular activity children can do. Parents influence youth sport as well puttuing pressure on their children. The balance between the bad and good influence of parents in youth sport can be evident. The series of Friday Night Tykes is giving this idea of a personal presence. The examples that it showed was the positive sportsmanship and athletic spirit that parents want for their children. To go to this link to see the article click on this link: Friday Night Tykes

Sport and Social Values

In my American Sport in the 21st Century class on January 29, 2014 we discussed the topic of sport and social values. We asked our selfs as a class can sports mirror society? Whatever inpacts society impacts sports. sports can tell us what we value as a culture. it is a guide to our behavior. Values means something that we our compassoniate about and we internationalize these values through sociolization. in Society we learn from or family, peer group, teachers, and coaches. Sports help us develop clear values in how the society wants you to act. American society wants people to know how to respect others and know from whats roght and from whats wrong. Sports helps with those concepts. in sports athletes have are taught to obey coaches and show respect to officials and or coaches. if the athlete does not do that they are looked at in a negative way. Then in American society we are looked to never cheat, lie, or break any kinds of rules because this is saw as unfairness.  This connects to sport because any athlete that is caught cheating and breaking rules suffers huge concequnces and is loooked down by peers.

American Societal Values:

• Achievement and success

• Materialism

• Nationalism

• Freedom

• Equality Indivisualism

• Conformity

The NPR article: Americas Love Affiar with Nationalism, by Linton Weeks, dicusses the patriotism of America that Americans show. Americans have made it easy to see how much they love thier country in sports. For tradition, Americans sing  'God Bless America' in every baseball game in the seventh inning. Look at the American flag pins on the labels and collars on every politician. Lloyd Kramer, author of the book Nationalism in Europe and America, states that nationalism carries with it good and bad characteristics. Kramer says that people feel committed to larger communities or intrest or ideas of human rights in society and the political progress. Natonalism can contribute to a sense of hope to a country and buildes positive personal and collective identities and a selfhood in the modern world. To view more of this article click on the link to view: Nationalism

How does sport contribute to norms, values, and behavior? Sport can contribute to these social aspects because of what people could learn growing up and participating in sports. Coaches or those who make a living in sport can contribute in the chararter building of an athlete. Through sport an athlete can can learn greater work ethic, leadership, sportsmanship, confidence, and respect. These aspects you can use in the real world society.

• Darwinsim - survival of the fittest, lif is a struggle and only the strongest survive.

• Sport prepares for competitive nature

• Sport used as a mean to promote the love of the country

• Sport used to promote health and fitness

• Reinforces national conflicts such as judging other cultures and the worth of other cultures.

Why We Study the Sport Indusrty

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2012 London Olmpics opening ceremony

In January, In My American Sport in the 21st Century class on January 27, 2014 we dicussed the topic of why we study sports today. The topic is very important because sports are related to social and cultural contexts in which we live. Sports provide stories and images to evaluate contexts. Sports provides a window into different cultures and societies around the world.We use global events such as the Olympics to gather diffrent cutures and to compete with one another. This also lets people world wide view other cutures and watch sport. Sports is also a money generator. Sport is currently the 11th biggest industry in the world. People love to see the competitive nature and physicality in sport and this is why they view sports on major networks everyday. People are motivated by the combination of personal enjoyment and the external rewards sports provide.

Why Sport is Important

• Millions of people are intrested in sport.

• Sport is creating oppurtunities in the business field.

• Sports can motivate people by a combination of personal enjoyment and external awards.

• 1/10 World Almanac is devetoted to sport.

• In the major network time, 15% id devoted to sport.

• Sports account for 49.7% of twitter chatter globally.

• The Sport industry constitutes the 4th largest industy in USA and 11th in the world.

• Gross estimates of sport consist of 485 billion dollars in revenue and 1.5 Trillion globally a year.

• Sport wagering is a huge business, legally making 2.4 billion dollars and illegally making 380 billion dollars.

• Sports keeps people physical and active to stay fit in todays society.

The National Rugby League is expected to report a A$50M profit for 2014.

In the Sports Business Journel, the article: The National Rugby League is expected to report a $50M profit for 2014, released on February 24, 2015 dicusses the record breaking '14 season how their revenue has increased more than $23.4M. They delivered a net profit of A$50M. NRL CEO Dave Smith has presented the results to the clubs made them public on the day after the release of the league's 2015 advertising campaign. The NRL's revenue reportedly swelled last year to A$345M to an increase of more than A$30M from the A$314M figure posted for '13 season. The league will now make more money and have extra rooom to make more investesments.

2015 German Cup Mario Götze

The Sports Businsess Jounrel, the article:More Than 4.5 Million Tune In To Watch German Cup Game On ARD, released March 6, 2015, How many viewers tuned in to watch a single game in the German Cup. The game was a round 16 matchup in the cup between Borussia Mönchengladbach and Kickers Offenbach, where the game attracted 4.67 million viewers. Since the German soccor team won the World Cup last year, I believe this attracted more fans to see German soccer. Globally winning the World Cup signified that German soccer is at a more competitive level and can achieve success. Fans love to see very competitve sports and the best teams play and this is why millions of viewers are veiwing German Cup games.