...NFL Articles Reflection The articles, “Trump Responds to NFL Player Protest: ‘Standing with locked arms is good, kneeling is not acceptable,’” written by Caroline Kenny, who works for CNN, and the article, “Seahawks, Titans, Steelers Stay in Locker Rooms during National Anthem as More Players Protest,” written by Katherine Iam from Fox News are informative pieces on what is going on in the NFL. Recently, many NFL players have been kneeling, linking arms, or staying in the locker rooms during the national anthem. These athletes are being both praised and criticized for their actions. Both of these article are unbiased, had similar information, and written by credible people, so I believe that the authors can be trusted. I liked that both...
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...which will become a problem sooner or later if the NCAA does not pay college athletes. Many people think that paying college athletes will bring some problems to universities/colleges, such as offering players more money.However it would be unfair for less appealing and wealthy schools because they do not have as much power or money to recruit the best players. Though people do not understand that college football is for stronger players compared to weaker ones. If the players are dedicated to playing for their future, then paying college athletes would prepare them for the NFL(National Football League) and the players who don’t make it still help their team get better. Although most players in college do not make it to the NFL, every player on their teams help win and helps other players get better so everyone should receive a piece of the action....
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...then that is wrong. They should, at least, have 10% of what they sell that has the player's last name on it .I am on the pro side why I am is because If a person buys an item that has something to do with them, then they should be paid a little amount of what the regular price is of the item. I am going to tell you a few Pros about college players getting paid. First of all, in the text it says, “ Big time college football and basketball programs generate billions a year.” My question is how does the franchise make billions a year. They make billions a year from the players who, when the games and consistently bowl games and don't even bring a little bit poor because people consider they are amateurs and they will do something poor with the money like use it on things that...
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...track record and athletic abilities, the goal was to single handedly revive a dead football program making me a no brainer selection for the pro leagues. Needless to say, this choice was met with overwhelmingly amounts of negativity from family members that support Auburn or Alabama; the local press was all over the place and school coaching staff with connections to Oklahoma and Texas universities. Conflict Upon arrival and to my dismay, the first introduction to collegiate football politics was an eye opener. For the first time in my life, the better player did not win the position. The coaches determined that it was best to red-shirt the first academic year making it possible to recreate a new offensive strategic game plan. The term redshirt: “A college football player who skips a year of play without losing a year of eligibility. A player will often redshirt because of an injury or academic problem” (Alder, 2013). Truthfully, I did not qualify for academic or injury and desired to play as a true freshman. This decision caused discord between the coaching staff and myself. During the season I did not play one game and reluctantly attended practices. A personalized invitation to meet at an expensive local restaurant, expenses paid, was taped to my dorm room door. I met with recruiters from Milan Italy desiring to enter into the NFL Euro-League; their offer was beyond my wildest dreams. Risk and Uncertainty Several questions raced though my mind. What were the advantages...
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...lines, or the product lines are performing at a relatively comparable rate, the NMC will simply give you the numbers you need. Usually the Marketing Manager will find the Net Marketing Contribution most useful, while an accountant or financial analyst would be most interested in the net profit ii.) 4. Broad and narrow marketing definitions greatly affect the direction of every organization, once one is decided upon. As seen in this case, the NFL “broadly” defines their market, which plays a main factor in its success. A narrow market focus only addresses articulated needs of customers, which leaves a large part of the potential market unserved (unfulfilled market potential). The NFL brand on the other hand, has practically permeated every household in America. The “big-picture” focus has allowed the NFL to basically create and set its own demand by the very presence of its logo. This is evident in the millions of dollars commanded for mere seconds of a Super Bowl advertisement. A good point of discussion is what market the NFL is actually in. If it followed a narrow market definition,...
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...1. What is your intake on college athletes getting paid? 2. If any, are there any benefits of paying college athletes? 3. What are the cons of paying athletes? 4. If they did decide to pay athletes, how do you think the process of paying the athletes work? 5. How would paying athletes affect the NCCA? 6. Would the wealthiest programs get all of the best talent? 7. How would it affect professional sports like the NBA, MLB, NFL, and MLS? 8. Would players stay in college longer instead of going pro? 9. Would it be fair? 10. What would you to if it did happen? Compiling sources (due May 24-26): List the specific sources that you are using for your research. For each, you will describe the information from the source. You will need to answer these questions for each source: What new information did you learn? Was the information helpful in adding to your knowledge about the topic? Why or why not? Would you recommend this source/site to someone else doing research on your topic? Why or why not? Source 1: http://www.usatoday.com/sports/2004-08-31-pros-cons-pay_x.htm New Information you learned: I learned why it is good to pay college athletes and why it is bad to pay them. Your opinion of the website as to whether it helped you to further your understanding of the topic and if you would recommend it: Source 2: http://www.thepostgame.com/commentary/201103/paying-college-athletes-whats-right-amount New Information you learned: I learned about controversy...
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...Personal Branding: Personal branding and corporate branding are visual ways to represent a person, place or thing. Whether that representation is successful or not is the ultimate goal. While they both have their benefits and difficulties, there is a controversy about which one is more important. Creating a personal brand is better than a corporate brand because of the image, resources, and marketplace. First, the person in the spotlight and the face of the company will be the reason people will want to pursue that company. The spokesperson will influence an audience through his or her personal brand, in a positive way. That person’s personal brand includes his or her great appearance, extensive knowledge of the product, and likable personality. The audience will take that personal brand with them, and then the audience brings it to the market. In return, the market will come back to the person or company they work for and will want to buy their product. The image gets the company started while the quality and usefulness of the products keep it up and running. Personal branding will help people remember the company the spokesperson is associated with, while corporate branding will have to rely on advertisements to reach the market in hope it is not overlooked. They are asking advertisements to speak for them while a person can do a much better job and give the audience more information. The advantages of pursuing a personal brand as opposed to a corporate brand involves;...
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...to making the world a better place. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is just that, the capability to improve the lives of every community the company is able to reach. Over the last century, philanthropy amongst major companies has increased dramatically. This improves the society and is also great for the public image of the organization. The MLB, NBA and NFL are the most valued professional sports organizations in America. Professional sports have a unique characteristic that most businesses do not possess, and that is meshing different cultural backgrounds together and the power to make aware of the problems we face today and giving us the strength to know that we do not have to face them alone. This sole attribute alone is essential for professional sports leagues and their teams to have a prominent grip on corporate social responsibility within their organization. Let’s take a step back and not just look at corporate social responsibility from a professional sports point of view but from a business point of view as well. The professional sports industry, like the big business industry, has its pros and cons. Some people tend to think that when a business gets involved in the community it is for one reason and one reason only, and that is to give off the fake impression that the corporation cares about the community. When in reality all they care about is trying to turn a profit and present the idea that they care. An example of this would be greenwashing. Where a company...
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...and athletic equipment. Nike has emerged as one of the leading brands of athletic products since the creation of the brand in 1962. At the time of its inception, Nike was first known as Blue Ribbon Sports and the main focus was “on providing high-quality running shoes designed for athletes by athletes” (Keller & Kotler, 2012, p. 29). A product that began with the creation of “lighter and better” running shoes has transformed into an international brand that is known by the simple image of a “swoosh” (Sanusi et al, 2014). The following sections will answer a series of questions in regards to the brand, and how a rival company may be able to better compete with the marketing campaign of this globally renowned name. What are the pros, cons, and risks associated with Nike’s core marketing strategy? From the inception of the company, Nike’s core marketing strategy has been based around utilizing talented athletes as the spokesperson, and an aggressive ad campaign to put the brand in front of the consumers. This marketing strategy was first geared towards the sport of running by using Steve Prefontaine as the first spokesperson for the brand. Nike looked for an athlete that...
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...Many retired players are only now just feeling the effects of their head impacts. Only recently, doctors have tested deiced football players who exhibited abnormal mental behavior. These tests revealed a new disease – chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). In fact, 87 out of 91 former NFL players tested positive for CTE (Breslow, 2015; The New York Times, 2015). The most scary part of CTE is that there is no way to properly diagnosis or treat it. Current brain scanning technology is not advance enough to determine more than a mild head injury (Mayo Clinic, 2014). This is little comfort to those who have lost their lives to this disease or for those who are living with it right now. With many side effects, such as decline in memory and cognition, depression, aggression, impulsiveness, suicidal behavior, parkinson and dementia, athletics living with CTE fighting an unwinnable battle everyday (Stern, 2011). In the past, the National Football league would try to cover up these injuries and provide athletes with ‘medication’ so...
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...Running head: PROS AND CONS Pros and Cons of Compensation for NCAA Division I Student Athletes Mark Dunkley PEP 461 Student The College at Brockport Abstract This paper weighs in the pros and cons for the compensation of Division I college student athletes. This paper also introduces a plan that would allow monetary compensation of college athletes in the United States. A survey was distributed to 14 males of the Suny College at Brockport basketball team Pros and Cons of Compensation for NCAA Division I Student Athletes The exploits of student-athletes in sports have variously been advanced as generating a lot of dollars in forms of revenues for their respective institutions, which has generally raised the question as to why they shouldn’t be compensated for their sporting prowess. Student-athletes generate tens of millions of dollars for their respective athletic departments and ideally then should be reimbursed. However, as per the guidelines of the National Collegiate Athletics Associations (NCAA), athletes are not supposed to receive any commercial use of their personas and likenesses and are indeed not expected to gain any monetary compensation for their sporting engagements. This has generally been interpreted to mean that they cannot enter into agreements for endorsements in their sporting activities as has been the case with professional engagements. Instead, students are expected to benefit from the payment for tuition fees from their sporting activities...
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...Ethical issues regarding the use of Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sports In the history of 20th century sports, specifically in the post World War 2 era, there has been an ever increasing use of performance enhancing drugs in all avenues of sport. Sports have become money making machine for both athletes and big business and the “win at all costs” attitude which has permeated itself into all aspects of professional and college level athletics. Winners make money, losers don’t. The temptation of fame, notoriety and million dollar contracts in all venues of sport is a lure for many athletes. Elite professional athletes are worshiped in today’s society. This paper will elaborate on the use of performance enhancing drugs in the sporting world and the associated sports ethical issues. It is a majority belief in all sporting circles that the “true” spirit of sportsmanship does not allow any aspect of performance enhancing drugs. There are several arguments both in favor and against the use of performance enhancing drugs which will be presented and discussed in this paper. While addressing this ethical issue, we need to define the term ethics. Ethics can be defined as the socially accepted norms and values. These norms and values are varied from society to society and are based on culture and tradition. Ethics also could be defined as the unsaid, un-written and understood laws that prevail in a society. Ethics also cover what is right and what is wrong in society and teaches...
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...______________________________________________________________________________ This case was written by Professors George E. Belch and Michael A. Belch. It is intended to be used as the basis for class discussion rather than to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of a management situation. The case was compiled from published sources. Company Background Under Armour (UA) was founded in 1996 by Kevin Plank, a former Maryland football player, who began by selling compression clothing that could “wick” sweat away from the body to college sports teams out of the trunk of his car. Plank was a football player at the University of Maryland, and hated wearing cotton shirts to practice in the hot, humid Maryland climate. Knowing that he would never be an NFL player, Plank devoted his efforts to starting a company that could make a product that would be an improvement over cotton, in that it would not absorb sweat and be much more functional and comfortable to wear. Once made, he started selling the shirts to the lacrosse and football teams at the University of Maryland out of the trunk of his car. In 1998, the football oriented movie “Any Given Sunday” was being filmed in Baltimore where Under Armour is based. The producers of the movie were looking for a product that would represent the athletic nature of the movie and be comfortable to wear during filming. Under Armour agreed to provide products, and UA shirts were used throughout the filming and appeared in the movie itself, resulting...
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...I've been mulling over how exactly to share my views on this for months. I've been reading all of the draft talk banter back & forth. Pro & con..........good & bad.......reasons for drafting him or not drafting Glenn Dorsey. In addition to all of the other guys we're considering at No. 2. As a long time Ram fan I know what it's like for us to be drafting early. This ain't my first rodeo, & I've been here b4. However an early draft pick, not to mention the No. 2 overall pick in the draft presents it's own set of problems. I'm sure many of us still remember the Lawrence Phillips DISASTER back in 96. We picked him as the 6th overall pick that yr. and he NEVER lived up to billing. All of the crying Vermeil did over that kid, was just a waste of time & that poor draft pick cost us for yrs. Luckily for us we turned it ALL around in 1999, w/ some key signings & the drafting of Torry in the first round. But that wasn't the end (unfortunately) of our Rams making HORRIBLE selections in the first round. Heck even our GOOD selections are a mixed blessing IMHO. Torry Holt has been the BEST draft pick EVER in my recent memory. But what about big Orlando Pace? Ohhhhh yeah everyone loves our big LT, & I admit I've enjoyed watching him wear the horns over the yrs. But everyone seems to forget how much trouble he's given our organization as well. He hasn't always been the team player that many ppl think he is. Ohhh no there has been a Dark side to the BIG O, that alot of ppl have...
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...The Pros of Advertising Food on Television There are several advantages to advertising on television. One of the main ones and the most obvious is visual. You cannot do this on the radio. You can advertise anything on television simply by having an ad run continuously even on just one station. With visuals, people can actually see what they are buying which is one of the main keys to selling your product. You can add audio if you choose too or play audio from the product if that is the type of product you are advertising. It is much easier to get your point across in television add than a radio add. Within the first few seconds of a commercial, you already know if you want to buy the product or not because they will throw everything they have at you within the first 10 seconds. The rest of the commercial is just icing on the cake. Depending on what you are advertising, you have many channels at your disposal. If you are advertising something sports related, you may want to run ads on ESPN, Fox Sports, NBA TV, NFL Network and so on and so forth. If you are advertising something music related, you may want to run ads on BET, MTV, VH1, and channels like those. If you are advertising something to do with cooking, you have a myriad of cooking channels to choose from. The list goes on and on. There is probably a station or two that specializes in whatever you are advertising. If for some reason you cannot get your ad onto one of those major networks, you can go the local...
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