In his essay “Gil’s Sportsplex”, Gil Fried states that Gil Giles is always obsessed with softball and thus, he tends to invest a sportsplex after he retired (1). Fried introduces Gil’s backgrounds that he is a former police officer without any experiences in running a sports facility (2). Elsewhere, Fried demonstrates various industry analyses about sportaplex, for example, the definition of sportsplex is a facility offering multiple indoor and outdoor sports (2), and the “Sportsplex Operators and Developers Association (SODA)” propose some guidelines for implementing a sportsplex, such as “developing a needs assessment, feasibility study and preliminary design”(2). In addition, Fried cites CT sportsplex information, which includes the location, population, the charging fees, sponsorship packages, and the competing component research, as a frame example for Gil’s sportsplex (3-4).
When people analyze and evaluate the history of sports from a technological aspect, games have tremendously been influenced where gathering content is attainable expeditiously with the click of a mouse. The ability to gather information so rapidly in today’s sports market is something that was unheard of about 20-30 years ago. Furthermore, technology just doesn’t influence sports; it has an impact on everything in society. For example, music has been recorded for over centuries when technology was an afterthought. There were no computers, digital mixing systems or the latest technological equipment available to past musicians during the 1920’s or 1930’s.
Now that I know how these tournaments worked, I can see how modern sporting events root from the
Sports and Brands Today the sports industry is a multi-billion dollar business and everyone knows that with hard work and potential you could walk into a world where your next sponsoring deal is just around the corner, but where does this whole industry have its roots? Throwback to the 19th century: Sports like boxing or rowing had been around for decades. Professional boxing was even seen as a job but sports in general were not seen as serious as they are now. Amateurs and Professionals could take part in rowing championships.
Sports are something most Americans can relate to; many of us played some type of sport as a kid and some of us are die-hard fans. Sports have developed with us as a society and have become an interwoven piece of our culture and their effects can be seen in many cities countrywide. The facilities where these teams play can become a centerpiece of the local community and the teams themselves can bring people from all walks of life together in search of one mutual goal, for their team to win. The controversy arises when it comes to how many professional stadiums are routinely being funded and whether taxpayers should foot the multi-billion-dollar bill. This has not always been a controversy, however, as prior to 1953 stadiums were largely funded
The game sparked a wave of change and excitement across America. The Miracle on Ice, as it is now called, not only changed who won Olympic Gold, it changed American culture and international history. The Miracle on Ice specifically altered three major areas in American culture and international history. The first of these was the game’s
Sporting events have been the central focus for many family lives for several centuries
Every aspect of game day, from the Nike apparel to the intricate regulatory facets within the game itself, developed from influences that existed in the era between
According to my subject, her most significant events would have to been the birth of her children. She felt she raised her children to be in the right path to be successful and find someone who they see spending their live together and create a family. Her second most significant event was when her children and grandchildren spent Christmas with her. Even if the children were fighting and yelling, she felt her home was filled with joy and happiness.
B3140: Recreating the City: Events and Regeneration 13002292 When cities decide to hold an event or join the bidding process for a mega event it is often because they need to use the event as a catalyst to improve their city in one way or another; whether this be image improvement, tourism development or urban regeneration (Getz, 1991). The following report will use case studies to critically evaluate the relationship between major and mega events with image development, tourism development and urban regeneration and analyse whether or not it is a sequential process. Mega-events; the Olympic Games, World Expos and FIFA World Cup, and Major-events; the Commonwealth Games and European Capital of Culture - are large events which are being watched worldwide
Husam Elgaali Mr. Johnson English 9 8 May 2015 Professional Sports Facilities Funding with Public Money Let say the government decides to take a large percentage of money from the taxpayers’ salaries and say that the money will go for a good cause. Sounds great, but what if those taxpayers found out that the money collected was used to fund for the construction of professional sports stadiums that have been proven to show little economic growth in a community according to. “Research has shown that stadium investments generally don’t sow economic growth” (LOU). In essence public funding for professional sport facilities should be stopped.
Olympic, so called the festival of Earth is an international sporting competition, total 206 nations and 10,000 players participated. Recent Olympic game was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. However, unfortunately this game assesses as the worst Olympic. Most of the stadium that was built for the game is not in available condition anymore, because Brazil could not provide care and money to maintain these stadiums due to the internal situation of Brazil. By thoughtless development nature of the land is getting damaged by abandoned building.
Introduction In this day and age sports sponsorship is a strategic relationship between businesses (b2b) where both sides seek a mutual benefit. Through this each business’s brand is equally crucial to the success of the relationship and is commonly described as a partnership through co-branding (Farrelly and Quester 2005a). However, each side of the relationship tends to place emphasis on two specific gains, from the perspective of the sponsee they seek to gain the greatest benefits/compensations for the sponsorship while the sponsor seeks to enhance their corporate brand image (Javalgi et al 1994). Furthermore the sponsor’s use sports events and organizations in order to enhance the customers and stakeholders perception of their brand in
Research suggests that visual information is acquired when the eyes are fixated on an object; however, our eyes constantly move and shift (e.g. to saccade) to view the objects in our environment. When a saccade occurs (lasting approximately 300 ms) vision is suppressed resulting in temporally and spatially separated snapshots of our environment. Because of this, it has been hypothesized that a visual memory process is needed to seamlessly connect the snapshots created by saccades (Vogel, Luck, & Woodman, 2006). This memory process is termed Iconic Memory (IM) and defined as “the visual sensory memory register pertaining to the visual domain and a fast-decaying store of visual information” (cite).
Abandoned Olympic venues decay despite promises to restore them in Rio. (Drehs and Lajolo 2). In Pyeongchang, 58,000 trees in a virgin forest were removed (McCurry 3). Even though cities bid millions to host the Olympics, hosting the Olympics produces negative impacts on the overall economy, the development of the city, and the environment of the host city and its surrounding areas; thus, all these effects indicate that the Olympics may not be worth hosting.
