...These two sports combined accounts for all most ¾ of the revenue generated by division I programs. Going a step further I want to break down the revenue generation of FBS, FCS and D-I without football. The NCAA Revenue and Expense report separates the FBS into two categories, Autonomy Group and Non-Autonomy Group. The Autonomy group is a group that is self-sufficient and has less restrictions because of the amount of revenue they generate. An example of the disparity between these two groups is in the average total revenue within these groups. The average total revenue in 2016 for the autonomy group was 97,276,000 while the non-autonomy group was 33,470,000. I gathered some information to depict the disproportion between not only these two groups but also FBS and FCS. The chart entails where the average total revenue is generated, through either allocated revenue sources or generated revenue...
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...participate in college athletics. At this point, the debate over whether college athletes should be paid really doesn't change anything. It's not about finding the right answer because there is no right answer. Seemingly everyone, regardless of the stance they take, makes valid points. Yes, for the most part, colleges and universities are making money off of the backs, performances and success of major football and men's basketball programs and the scholarship athletes who play them. But ask yourself: Isn't that what most businesses do? Yes, business. Not college athletics. Business, man. The problem seems to be that we don't look at college athletics as a business. Instead, we subconsciously and constantly (and emotionally) look at college sports as something different. We allow the "school" part to blind us into thinking that the educational piece changes the dynamics of what is really going on and exempts athletics from being about something other than money. It's not. But that's our fault, not the NCAA's. Take away the university/college "label" associated with college football and what do we have? The NFL. Do the same for all of the other college sports, and the professional equivalent to that sport comes up as the answer. This is where we are. This has been our reality for decades. Yet, we...
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...Kori Bogard Dr. Karin Mendoza Intermediate English Composition (ENGL-2989-076) 29 March 2013 Word Count: 1,766 Steroids should be legalized Abstract The use of steroids and illegal performance-enhancing drugs appears to be growing in professional athletics. More and more high profile athletes are being busted for their use and consequently ostracized by fans and those in the athletic community. Beyond that, there are thousands of other professional and amateur athletes who have resorted to these drugs as well. As someone who has found a passion for all things fitness, and aspires to open up my own gym and train athletes someday, this issue is of high importance to me. Although many have accepted steroids as illegal and a type of cheating, these drugs should be legalized in sports. While it is widely accepted that performance-enhancing drugs pose health risks, I think it is the athletes’ own choice whether or not these risks are worth the benefit. In this research, I will argue why it makes sense to lift the current ban on steroids in professional sports. The effects of steroids are well known. They will help increase athletic performance and they also come with negative side effects. In a study done by clinical biochemists, it was found that use of anabolic steroids combined with exercise was highly effective. This research took 43 volunteers and divided them into four groups. One group of people took a placebo pill and exercised, one group took a placebo with no exercise...
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...College athletes have an average of a 50 hour scheduled weekly. Why do they have so many hours every week? It’s because of their sports and then they have to maintain a full college schedule which is 10 hours, plus four hours of studying for every hour of class. Do you think they should be paid now? If college football players were paid it would make the sport more competitive, and more fun to watch. NFL players are paid for their tier and performance per game, also including their yearly salary. So college football players could not just spend their money willingly, they would need to work for the money. So by paying college football athletes the harder they would work would result in the amount of money they make. Also the NCAA is a 11 billion dollar organization and the only reason why the NCAA is worth 11 billion dollars...
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...Should people playing a sport for an hour get paid millions of dollars? NFL players are paid $1.9 million, while military is only paid $80,000 a year. NFL players get paid more than the military; in fact NFL players get paid an astounding amount to simply protect a ball. I believe military should be paid more than NFL players because they protect people and a whole country by putting their lives on the line. To begin with, NFL players are paid millions of dollars because they’re expected to compete, win and be outstanding public figures to people. Also, NFL players get paid with ticket and sales from the merchandise purchases that football fans make. As you can see NFL players make more than the military. Admittedly, NFL players get...
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...just getting by on twenty-dollars of food money for the weekend, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is making hundreds of millions of dollars off the players’ names and likenesses while selling their merchandise, promoting nationally televised games, and even featuring the athletes in video games. Mark Koba, a sports writer for CNBC stated that an average college football player is worth around $180,000 dollars and placed the worth of a college basketball player at just over $350,000 a year, based on just marketability factors alone (Koba). That is more money than most of these athletes have seen, and most likely the highest possible salary any will have the chance to make in their lifetimes, so why shouldn’t they be able to profit off their hard work? In our modern society, athletes are put on a pedestal of God-like figures. Multi-million-dollar apparel deals betwixt billion-dollar businesses and superstar-pro athletes are found in every mall, sports store, and on every sports channel on television. The difference between these sponsorships happening in the pro-league versus college is that the pro athletes are being paid huge sums of money for their name, while college athletes make absolutely nothing (Fowler 1). Following the 2015 college football season, The Ohio State University reached a $252 million-dollar extension to continue having Nike provide the uniforms and apparel of all Ohio State varsity sports (Cohen and Germano). All of the new replica jerseys...
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...These laws are defined by FIFA, that is an acronym for the Federation Internationale de Football Association. It is an internationally recognized and verified body for the governance and management of beach soccer, Futsal and football. It not only sets up the rules and regulations, but also ensure that these laws are observed within the games. Moreover, it also provides a code of conduct for the players and the football governing bodies such as the football clubs. It also keeps up a strict check on the actions of the footballers and makes sure they ordain to the standards set up by...
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...10 March 2014 Amateurs or Professionals? Big-money college sports takes your breath away. College football and men’s basketball have become such huge commercial enterprises that together they generate more than $6 billion in annual revenue, more than the National Basketball Association. A top college coach can make as much or more than a professional coach. Powerful conferences like the S.E.C. and the Pac 12 have signed lucrative TV deals, while the Big 10 and the University of Texas have created their own sports networks. Last year, Turner Broadcasting and CBS signed a 14-year, $10.8 billion deal for the television rights to the NCAA’s men’s basketball national championship tournament (a.k.a “March Madness”). And what does the labor force that makes it possible for coaches to earn millions, and causes marketers to spend billions, get? Nothing. The workers are supposed to be content with a scholarship that does not even cover the full cost of attending college. Any student athlete who accepts an unapproved, free hamburger from a coach, or even a fan, is in violation of NCAA rules. Nevertheless, the NCAA prohibits any form of payments, beyond scholarships, to any athlete who is responsible for producing the revenue. The NCAA also restricts the ability for any college athlete to earn income from an outside source. In a study sponsored by the NCAA, they discovered that college players have less money than non-athletic students, and almost fifty-eight percent are not even provided...
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...Estimated 200 dance companies in UK Supporting data : audiences for dance had grown by 13.7% over the past six years. In 1999 there were an estimated 1,472 dance performances given in theatres around the UK, in addition to drama, opera, musical and other productions which incorporated dance. Estimated ticket sales for these dance performances reached £20,682,000 2. Football : Opportunities for our new venture: * Ads from Football clubs * Sports goods and equipments for Football * Ads of several other Football merchandise * Football Betting Agencies * Rental of football sports goods and services Football Industry in UK : Football in the United Kingdom is organised on a separate basis in each of the four countries of the United Kingdom, with each having a national football association responsible for the overall management of football within their respective country. There is no United Kingdom national football team. Apart from this, more popular is that there are separate club football league systems for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Revenue from various Football Clubs within and outside UK for the year 2011/12 Rank in 2011–12 | Club | Revenue (€ million) | Country | Rank in 2010–11 | Change | 1 | Real Madrid | 512.6 | Spain | 1 | — | 2 | Barcelona | 483.0 | Spain | 2 | — | 3 | Manchester United | 395.9 | England | 3 | — | 4 | Bayern Munich | 368.4...
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...Table of Contents 1 The Ethical Issue – Whether to Pay NCAA Football Student-Athletes 3 1.1 The Case For Maintaining the Current System - Not Paying NCAA Football Student-Athletes 4 1.2 The Case For Paying NCAA Football Student-Athletes 6 1.3 Conclusion 11 1.4 References 13 The Ethical Issue – Whether to Pay NCAA Football Student-Athletes Top college football programs make hundreds of millions of dollars in revenues each year, all without having to pay the people who actually play the game. Is it ethical for colleges to not pay their football stars for playing their hearts out on the field, building popular branding images for themselves and their school, and for the collective big-money earnings and prestige that often comes to their schools? Or is indirect payment to these players in the form of a free undergraduate education and college degree through an athletic scholarship sufficient enough? In the 2012 NFL season, 1,947 players played in at least one game. Of those, 62% attended college at one of the five “power conferences” in the U.S., and only one of those players did not attend college at all.[i] Donald Remy, the NCAA chief legal officer has said, “The NCAA’s rules do not force athletes who wish to be professionals to enroll in school,”[ii] yet premier NCAA schools clearly offer the best path to fulfilling these hopeful football players’ dreams. Nevertheless, despite the more opportunistic path of attending a Division...
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...Introduction: Attention Getter: • Do you know how much the University of Missouri-Columbia made in revenue from its football program last year? o Answer: 15.3 million • Do you know how much the University of Missouri-Columbia spent on each football player on its team last year? o $25, 261 * 60 players = $1,515,660 • A difference of about 14 million dollars. Thus, the players on the field are earning less than 1% of the revenue that they are bringing into the University. In comparison, Coach Gary Pinkel makes 2.5 million per year. Audience Motivation: • Although, I will not argue that a college player should make as much as a Coach, the conversation must be had on whether college payers deserve any compensation for extra earnings a University makes off of their name. For example, Texas A&M paid Johnny Manziel (last years Heisman trophy winner) nothing after it made over $50, 000 off of his jerseys sales last year. Although, Manziel does receive a full scholarship to attend the University it does not compare to the amount of revenue that his name brings into the University or the NCAA as a whole. Understandably, not all college athletes are as popular as Manziel but this should not be to Manziel’s detriment and prevent him from earning income he would be entitled to had he not played college football. Thesis • It is time that we stop ignoring the fact that major Universities are exploiting popular college athletes and...
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...This Person in Sports: Casey Wasserman Casey Wasserman, grandson to Hollywood mogul Lew Wasserman, grew up with an entrepreneurial spirit and a knack for business like his grandfather. After graduating from UCLA with a Political Science degree, Wasserman got into the world of investment banking and realized it was not for him. At age 25, he became the youngest person to ever own a professional sports team when he purchased the LA Avengers of the Arena Football League. Helping to negotiate the AFL’s national TV partnership with NBC, as well as playing an integral part in the collective bargaining agreement with the players, Wasserman was later elected chairman of the league. His love of football, despite the termination of the LA Avengers in 2009, has not faded. Wasserman is currently working with LA Live and the Staples Center to build a $1 billion dollar stadium, which he hopes will be the new home of an NFL franchise in Los Angeles. Alongside his work with the AFL, Wasserman simultaneously founded Wasserman Media Group (WMG), which encompasses athlete management, corporate consulting, media rights and partnerships; he remains Chairman and CEO. Competing with some of the world’s largest talent management agencies, WMG has an extensive clientele (over 1,200 clients and close to $3 Billion in sponsorships) in all of the major sports, action sports, and the Olympic games. Big deals done by WMG include the naming rights agreement on the recently built Met Life Stadium in New...
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...picture) is a place where diversity can exist, and nobody questions it. Individuals come to meet friends, family, even strangers to become one fan base for their favorite team. No matter what differences these people have, they still manage to bond because of this one similarity. Everyone cheers for the same team, unless you’re in the wrong section of seats. This group, and any other large group of fans, represents a melting pot of people with different ethnicities, sexes, cultures, and/or religions. This picture of Duke fans gave me an appreciation for my hometown and the fact that so many of my friends and I love sports. It reminded me of the connection people feel when they are together, as one, cheering. Going to the baseball stadium, football dome, or ice rink, with my friends helped me grow closer to them. Through the excitement of everyone in the picture, the unity of school colors on each individual, and the diversity of sex and race, it can be determined that Duke's basketball team serves as some kind of social captivator for Duke fans, who are together watching the game. This picture shows the excitement of some people cheering on their school's basketball team. Everyone seems happy and excited. The body paint is an interesting concept. The color of someone’s skin tends to disconnect people sometimes. I think the younger generations are better at not being prejudice towards other races, but it still exists. This prejudice might...
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...HISTORY OF FOOTBALL. We all know many kinds of sports. Some people were taught how to play different type of sports during their early age. One of the sports is football. It is a very well-known sport. Football is also known as ‘soccer’ in the United States of America. Nearly all the males in the world play the game of football and if not, they just have a huge interest in football but do they actually know the history of the game of football and how it was first established? It is widely accepted that both the Romans and the Greeks started the sport of football which tells us that its origins are believed to lie in ancient times. During the Roman Empire, football wasn’t involved in the ancient Olympic due to the fact that football that time was just a test of bravery to the Roman Army as actions such as punching, hacking and generally assaulting the opponent were highly accepted as part of the game. Football during that time appears to have resembled rugby. Football was also mentioned in a compiled documents found in China which was from the 1st century BC. It describes a practice called cuju which means “kicking ball” in Chinese. Cuju was originally involved kicking a leather ball into a mini hole hung 9 meters above ground with the help of bamboo sticks. Rules were established then on the 2nd century BC and eventually, the game of of cuju spread to Japan as well as to Korea and the name of the sport has changed to Kemari respectively. However the sport appears to have...
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...Blake Feldmann Orlet English 101-OL01D 16 June 2010 Types of Sports Fans Professional sports has become one of the most popular industries in the world today. The media spends billions of dollars on advertisements and teams spend millions of dollars on professional athletes all for one reason, the fans. The fans ticket sales and merchandise purchases are what keeps all the sport teams around and prevents professional athletes from losing their jobs. There are three types of fans in the sports world, average fans, fanatics, and fair-weather fans. Fans that are fanatics are the ones who are diehard and will put their favorite team before almost all other priorities. Their lives revolve around their favorite team and they will do anything for their team. Fans who are like this go to every sporting event possible that their favorite team is in and many are season ticket holders. Fanatics are usually not much fun to sit by at games because they get easily irritated or believe they know more about the game than everyone else. If they are not at the game, you can usually find them watching the game somewhere else on TV. People who are fanatics also spend much of their free time researching their team and will know almost every aspect of every player on their team as well as their opponents so they know how they match up with the other teams. No matter how bad the season is going for their favorite team, fanatics will always stick with them and will continue to go to the games...
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