Works Cited Eitzen, D. S. "Slaves of Big-Time College Sports." USA Today (Farmingdale), Sep, 2000, pp. 26-30. SIRS Issues Researcher, Accessed 4 May 2018. D. Stanley Eitzen’s “Slaves Of Big-Time College Sports” attacks the fact the college athletes are not paid by using strong language and harsh, but accurate metaphors.
I claim that an athlete is in fact the same person throughout the many aspects of his or her life. Therefore, an athlete’s image can become tarnished after committing immoral actions outside of
Today, we live in a world where media professional athletes receive an incredible amount of attention from the media; much more attention than these athletes would like. No matter where they are, on the field or off the field, every action an athlete makes is being recorded. Most athletes can’t deal with the pressure. There are daily reports of athletes involved in murder, stealing, drug use, rape, domestic violence and many others. These types of reports seem to dominate the news.
The author portrays the NCAA as a controlling system with little empathy in contrast to other organizations. When comparing the NCAA to the CEO of Electronic Gaming Federation or EGF, Tyler Schrodt, the author describes the NCAA as “bureaucratic” but the author describes Schrodt as being “antithetical” of the NCAA based on his looks. Bureaucratic has a negative connotation; that the NCAA are unfeeling to those who have to appeal to them. Schrodt on the other hand is caring for the esports players. The author uses negative adverbs and adjectives to describe the NCAA.
With the revenue quickly escalating, college athletes appear more as employees because of the money they are generating for their school program (Berry III,
Recently, many athletes, at the college and professional level, have been in trouble with the law. Athletes have gotten away with violating many laws and policies, but now they are starting to be punished. The NCAA has not done enough to punish their athletes, because the athletes are still behaving wrongly. Athletes that have faced consequences are still causing problems. Therefore, the NCAA needs to do something different in their punishing of the responsible colleges, coaches, and especially players.
In the documentary Should College Football be Banned, Buzz Bissinger author of, Friday Night Lights, purposed that college teams could license out their names privately (Bissinger). This would be a major benefit to collegiate football in America. Not only would it divided the blurred barrier between college sports and college academia, it would provide players with the opportunity to make money while earning education. Too much funding is spent on collegiate sports like football and not enough is being given to benefit the true reason people go to college, for an expensive, but yet worth it education. Privatization of collegiate football could also lead to a higher focus on player’s health.
To the contrary, one could more persuasively argue that an athlete is exploited when he is expressly disallowed from realizing his value while his reputation and skill are being used to realize a profit for others. - Jay Bilas (2010), former Duke and pro basketball player, current ESPN and CBS sports analyst According to the NCAA, its version of amateurism is all that is needed to prevent the commercial exploitation of college athletes. The protectionist rationale for its concept of amateurism that has served as the foundation for the NCAA’s position on issues related to revenue-generating player compensation is imbedded in the notion that the NCAA is attempting to, in their words, “maintain a clear line of demarcation between collegiate athletics and professional sports” so as to prevent the undue exploitation of college athletes (NCAA Amateur and Membership Staff, 2010, p. 1). Note the linguistic nuance, as if simply labeling “collegiate athletics” as being distinctive from “professional sports” would be a sufficient barricade to the commercial interests that now include, in modest estimation, a 14 year, $10.8 billion contract to broadcast NCAA Division I men’s college basketball annually with CBS and Turner Sports (Schlabach, 2011); a 15-year
Current corruption in college sports jeopardizes play for student-athletes and those who watch them. If governments fail to execute new laws prohibiting college sports betting and allowing athletes to get paid, the stakes will keep getting higher and higher for fixers and athletes involved with them. College athletes will feel the temptation more than ever before. Violent gangsters are taking advantage of the legalized laws of college betting and bribing athletes into crimes that ruin lives. Prohibiting college sports betting and allowing student-athletes to get paid eliminates corruption
Two centuries later, this “Panopticon” concept was made to apply not just in the walls of prison but was already applied to the society. It was Michel Foucault in 1977 who argued that the mechanism and principles used to control prisoners in Bentham’s Panopticon could be similarly applied to citizens throughout society. Orwell also explained that idea in detail by stating that: “Every citizen, or at least every citizen important enough to be worth watching, could be kept for twenty-four hours a day under the eyes of the police.” When the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four was published in 1949, Orwell’s tale seemed far-fetched and futuristic films from recent years such as “Minority Report” and “Gattaca” still appeared fanciful. However, the concepts
Amateurism in college athletics is an exploitation of the athletes who participate in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) sports. The amount of work that is done by these athletes to help their respective institutions generate millions of dollars in revenue, goes seemingly unnoticed when identifying the substantial amount of money flow in NCAA sports and the amount of people, from stakeholders to alumni, that benefit from this source. Amateurism, the foundation of NCAA sports, has been in place for over a century of time dating back to the early 1900s. Any athlete who is making money for work they’ve done outside of their institution is not being exploited, however, an athlete can easily be placed on the other end of the spectrum when he or she is withheld from recognizing the true monetary value of their talents and likeness that are being used for the profit of the school or others. The NCAA is understandably satisfied with the continuous growth of its’ revenue each year, yet the problem they face of having people accept that “student-athletes” are just amateurs is growing as well.
More specifically, this study investigates the dynamic of social media in the National Basketball Association. Existing studies have established the importance of social media in the sports business but do not elaborate on the impact or how it has changed the industry as a whole. 1.3 Research Aim Social media and communication technologies enhance how people share, communicate, and interact with audiences. The purpose of this research is to gain a deeper understanding how social media impacts the sports business and how it has changed the way teams and clubs engage their target segments. My research examines how the relationship between professional athletes and sports fans has grown.
Searching social media can give an insight to people’s personalities. People should be more careful on the internet because social media can be used for employee background checks, collage background checks, and violations of personal privacy. In recent years hiring managers have also begun checking out the personal social media pages of candidates under consideration for a position, a practice known as "social media background checks," ( Employees Should Accept ).
Most social network sites are web based and provide a variety of ways for users to interact, such as e-mail and instant messaging services. Social media is a popular trend today, especially among students. Lenhart, Purcell, Smith and Zickuhr said that “72% of all college students have a social media
Chapter 1 Background of the Study Introduction In the contemporary world, most people use social media for news, entertainment, to seek information and to be updated every day. Nowadays, the use of social media has greatly changed how people interact with other people. Today, most people only consider the benefits that the social media brought to the people without thinking about the possible negative implications of using it.
