...The Money or The Passion: Is Money in Professional Sport Ruining the Ethos of the Game? Ross Schreuder Supervisor: Mr. Werth English Teacher: Mrs. Schroeder Table of Contents 1. Introduction 3 2. History and Evolution of Sport 3 3. What is the Ethos of Sport? 4 4. Positive and Negative Influences of Money in Sport and an Evaluation of their Impact on its Ethos 5 4.1 Doping: 5 4.2 Throwing Matches/ Match Fixing: 6 4.3 Other Factors Contributing to Unethical Behaviour in Sport 7 4.4 Sportsmanship vs. Gamesmanship 8 4.5 The Money in Barclays Premier League 9 4.5.1 Stadium naming rights 10 4.5.2 Transfers and Individual Sponsorships 10 4.6 Philanthropy 11 5. Conclusion 11 Bibliography 12 1. Introduction Money is, undoubtedly, evident in every aspect of professional sport. Player sponsorships and contracts, team ownership, stadia, media - its everywhere. If sport was not about the game, then arguably, sport would be about the money. Each and every week, transfers of players are made, ticket offices receive income, and money is handed from one profiteering person to the next. Where sport is widely thought to be about fair play, professional sport is, in fact, like war. There can only be one winner and what one team or individual gains, the other loses. Many sportsmen and women around the world are caught up with winning, not just because of the prowess of a title but, also because professionalism is now about money and...
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...spend $91,936 per athlete; Is this too much? Many people believe colleges spend loads of money. Whereas others agree to spending money on athletic programs. Many schools have benefited from the exposure of the sports teams by the noticing of perspective students, the profit made by the sports, and earning money from championships. Colleges should be involved in sports and then earn money for other programs. The colleges with sports make a profit for the school. In an article by CNN Money, it says "Louisville basketball makes a forty-million-dollar profit on the year." Also 123 division one schools profit and earn 315 million dollars combined. It would be beneficial to have a well-built sports team if they make the college that much of a profit. For this reason, colleges should spend money on sports teams....
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...In America, sport is not only a physical activity, which is used for competition or games but it is also one of the main missions in schools of the US. However, there is a post named "The Case Against High-School Sports" written by Amanda Ripley, which are on a website named The Atlantic. In this post, the main idea of the author is that sports are taking too many times and money in schools and that makes some negative impacts on students, schools, and society. In this post, she claims that she can see the benefits of high-school sports and these sports are becoming likely more important than other academics in schools. However, she has wondered about a trend that participating high-school sports too much could lead to some problems. Although high-school sports are beneficial, students...
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...Sports have been the most popular form of recreation for people since time immemorial. The money made in the sport business from each league is ranging from 280 million dollars to yearly revenue of nine billion dollars (2012 Statistic Brain Research Institute). Sport leagues are being marketed more now than they were before in many ways like other major companies are. Leagues, organizations, and athletes are globalizing their trade and further increasing popularity in other parts of the world (Froetschel). Sports are becoming a growing business in America’s market because of the revenue it has produced for our economy, the marketing aspect in which it promotes fair play and sportsmanship, and, the globalization of sports is giving organizations and leagues a way to promote themselves in foreign countries. According to the book Principles and Practice of Sport Management the definition of revenue is defined as money that is made or paid to a business or organization (Masteralexis, Barr and Hums). As of 2011 over 414 billion dollars have been spent in sports and the number is increasing rapidly (Masteralexis, Barr and Hums). Alone in college sports revenue has exceeded twelve billion dollars in 2011 alone. Big time athletic programs were spending anywhere from 45 million dollars to 126 million dollars, and generating revenue from numbers as low as 68 million dollars to 150 million dollars, making the profit anywhere from thirteen million dollars to up to twenty-seven million dollars...
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...Professor Ison English 100 10 September, 2012 Sports Funding for Schools Each and every year student athletes are forced to fundraise more money for their sports programs than years prior. Instead of spending time practicing or even getting school work done at home, student’s frantically search for ways to come up with the money to nurture struggling sports programs. Without sports kids are losing out on opportunities for higher and better education. Health problems and academic declines are at stake due to lack of exercise and motivation to play sports. Money needs to be given to sports programs to insure that student athletes stay motivated in school and stay active for health purposes. Athletes stay motivated in school by getting good grades, which enable them to play there sports. In the article, “Not Buying It” written by Steven Kurutz, he explains how people are setting up dumpster diving gatherings in order to find supplies that would help out the people around their house. They set up diving expedition outside of colleges after the college kids start throwing supplies away when school ends. Since the start of the recession school funding in the K-12 have been cut enormously. Thirty five states are getting less money then they did five years ago. California has cut 20% of there spending on kids since the start of the recession (Phil Oliff). With these cuts sports are obviously secondary to education, but in some instances, sports are being cut indefinitely. Families are...
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...School sports are being cut all across the country because of harsh budget cuts causing panic to people such as kids, parents, and teachers. Sports should be cut from school because of the financial cost, the academic impact, and the health issues it is causing. These actions are being taken because schools all around America are in very much debt and don’t have the money for sports, teachers, science labs, choir, band, and many other activities. A school in Texas is having cuts causing for sports cuts, employee cuts, and academic cuts. On a Keynote Schools need to cut sports because the price of all the sports is way over expensive for a fun game. The overall price for each individual sport is very expensive, the amount of money actually...
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...Tyler Allen Mr. Burford Jr. Comp. 15 May 2014 College Athletes Should Not be Paid College sports are entertaining and fun to watch but we may have a problem with these sports. Many college athletes are speaking out in protest. These athletes want to be paid for playing. This is not just a problem for one sport; athletes from many different sports are speaking out. College athletes receive enough benefits from their university for playing sports. These benefits make up for none of the payment. Athletes should not be paid because colleges would not be able to afford paying athletes, athletes already receive compensation when they accept many benefits, and college athletes are broadcasted on national television and are adored by many people all over the country. Athletes have never been paid to play sports in college. Some people argue for college athletes to be paid. These people think that the players deserve to be paid because of all the things they go through. People believe that these athletes don’t receive the quality education because of the time that students sport consumes. Some people believe that college athletes should be paid because Division I football and basketball players devote over forty-three hours a week to practicing, training and playing their beloved sport. Which is longer than the typical work week for the average American worker. This year, the University of Alabama reported $143.3 Million in athletic revenues, which is more than all thirty NHL teams...
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...one billions to the NCAA, but where that money goes? Do athletes deserve that money? Basketball and football are the main sports in colleges and the visits had increase. Meanwhile, college athletes should not get paid because they are not forced to play, they already receive scholarships, and not all college sports bring money. First of all, college athletes should not receive salary with the fact that they play voluntary. Students decide to involve in sport world with the purpose of getting experience for their future. A member of NCAA, Horace Mitchell describe that “Student-athletes are amateurs who choose to participate in intercollegiate athletics as part of their educational experience”...
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...Professional sports organizations have been a mainstay in American culture since the birth of our country. Recently, a new emergence in the popularity of amateur sports has bred curiosity that like professional athletes, collegiate athletes should receive compensation for their efforts. Many believe that paying college athletes will lead to the decline of amateurism in sports. That is not the case. The NCAA should pay collegiate athletes because full-ride scholarships rarely pay for the full cost of attendance, the NCAA uses players' marketability to endorse their products, and with the immense amount of cash flowing through the ranks in collegiate sports, some of the money should go to the athletes. The rule in the official NCAA rule book...
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...College should take so many money from student who play athletes and other sports like football, basketball. College should not have to pay for playing athletes because sports is a talent that some students have . And I think only some students have that kind of sports talent that they want to fulfilled in their life. So, college should not have to pay for playing athletes. The students have to pay $5,000 per year. College athletics coach earn $4.2 million every year. Student's parents should pay for their child and spend their saving money. College athletes make billions of dollar every year. They make money by doing T.V advertising, radio, newspaper, marketing, ticket sale and many more. By doing this they attract students attention towards...
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...The success for athletes is based on the number of fans and sponsors a player has. Sports organizations rely on the records of the teams and not the player that work to death to make those wins.The athletes of a team don’t get paid enough from their team's commissioners so for their money they rely on their sponsors.To make sports famous the sports organization relies on sponsors and fan bases.The fan bases and sponsors invest in the sports organization instead of the teams. Players in the sports organization only get paid ten percent of their paychecks from their sponsors.Players with a less salary cap get paid more after taxes than the players with a more greater salary cap.Players have to pay two different tax payments a year, one of them is regular tax and a thing they like to call jock taxes.Players who protest the national anthem will lose sponsors which means they lose money but most of them protest for publicity.The overrated players such as Stephen Curry or Lebron James get paid less than the underrated players after taxes such as D'Angelo Russell and Chris Paul. Some of the players that are doing...
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...win their bets, these are called cash back bonuses. The beauty of these incentives is that they take some of the sting out of a lost wager. Each sports book website will calculate the cash back bonus differently, though there is some continuity between each platform. The average percentage of cash back given on a lost wager is 20%. However, other fees and costs are deducted from the total before that percentage is figured. To earn a cash back bonus, you will need to make a new deposit. The site will subtract the current and pending balance of your account, the accumulated winnings from all previous periods, and then the redemptions for the period from your new deposit amount. The remainder...
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...Final Throughout the world there are many schools that believe that school should be about learning not about sports. But I believe that school should be about more than just learning. It should be a place where you can socialize, have fun, and play sports. But most importantly I do agree that it should be about learning. In the article “High School Athletes Gain Lifetime Benefits” there are many good points on why sports are a good thing to have in high schools. A research was conducted by Kevin Kniffin, a teacher of leadership and management in sports at Cornell University. Kniffin’s research showed that people who play high school sports get better jobs, with better pay. Sports is not just a time to have fun, sports can teach a person to have more self-confidence, self-respect, and leadership. I6t is also said that former student-athletes donate more time and money more frequently than people who weren’t part of a sports team....
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...Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act Rough Draft Sports’ gambling is a billion dollar industry and has been since the beginning of the United States. Many colonists were known to bet on things like fighting and even horse racing. Gambling is not something that has just sparked up a conversation recently; it’s been an issue for years. As much money as it has made the government does not see a penny of what is made from it. The Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA), formed in 1992, made it so sports’ gambling would only be legal in four states: Nevada, Oregon, Delaware, and Montana. With the creation of this law 46 states were prohibited from legally allowing money to be bet on sporting events. The bill was signed...
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...people bring in money for an organization, but do not get paid themselves. This scenario is true for college athletes. They put in work every week and end up bringing in money for the school that they attend. Athletes take countless hours every day to train for their sport. The main sports, mainly men’s college basketball and football, end up making money. College athletes should get paid because they bring in money for the college, acting as representatives of the school. College athletes spend about forty hours per week dedicated to their sport. Athletes have to go to practices, attend film room, and train every single day. This compares to people in the actual workforce because they get paid on a forty hour work week. Therefore, college athletes are basically working the same amount as those do in the workforce. Also, on top of time dedicated to their sport, athletes also have to focus on education, which is another eight to ten hours a week of class time and additional studying and homework on top of that. In addition to long weeks, paying college athletes would help them manage their money. Whether they end up going pro or not, they still need a sense of how to manage their money once they are out of college and on their own. They would know how to save additional money and make smart decisions on what to use their...
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