Stereotypes In Sports Media Analysis

If Rice was convicted, he would face up to five years in jail rather than a fine. Two months after his incident, Rice was accepted into a pretrial intervention program focused on rehabilitation (Elliott). As a result, Rice’s case never went to trial, and his aggravated assault charge would be dropped if he completed the program. Rice was originally suspended for two games without pay and fined $58,000 because of his aggravated assault charge but then he was suspended for six games due to the NFL’s policy on assault, battery, domestic violence and sexual assault (Elliott). Ray Rice will likely never play another game in an NFL uniform because of the fact that he was caught on camera abusing his wife (Tyler).

As an avid sports fan I have been highly troubled by the recent headlines to plague the NFL in recent months. It seems as if every week a new player is being accused of domestic violence. In the past these accusations have seemingly gone unnoticed as the player gets punished behind the scenes and continues playing the game we love to watch. However, now as the league is taking the horrific issue of domestic violence far more seriously we are starting to see just how prevalent it is in the NFL. While this is a significant step in creating more awareness for the issues of domestic violence, Rex W. Huppke wants people to realize how prevalent domestic violence is not just in the NFL, but everywhere,

Though this NFL conduct is in the light, it is unnecessary because the U.S. criminal justice system has the ability to end the professional sports careers of society’s worst criminals. Everyone asked themselves how could such a successful, talented person throw their opportunity away like this? Crimes from the past always catch up and come to light in the justice system. The NFL from now on is trying to prevent incidents like this from happening from making their off field standards stronger, and making consequences stronger that come with

With the growing trend of domestic violence in the NFL as arrests and felonies become more frequent. Astonishingly, Christian Jones of UWIRE revealed the relative extent of their

Over the past couple of decades the usage of offensive stereotypes have played a big role in popular films, TV shows, music videos, and comedy routines today. In fact one can only argue that these offensive stereotypes have increased considerably and will only continue to grow. There are many reasons as to why these stereotypes have only increased and have led to the creators of these films making millions and millions of dollars. The main reason behind this is making fun of race, color, poverty, and other cultures and using straightforward offensive words to do so is humorous to a large part of the US population. Although most of us would feel insulted if these

After pleading guilty to verbal harassment, Smith attended group therapy and paid the NFL a $25,000 fine (Schrotenboer, Monteagudo). In the 2013 NFL off-season alone, there were at least thirty-seven arrests or criminal charges filed against NFL players including ten incidents of drunk driving. According to Denver Broncos cornerback Quentin Jammer, “"I don't think anything has changed (with players). I guess guys are going to do what they're going to do regardless.” (Schrotenboer “NFL Arrests Persist After Turbulent Offseason”). The staggering number of incidents in the past 13 years is further proof something needs to be done to prevent criminal activity among NFL players.

Racism is prevalent in today’s society and is exposed in the sports industry as well. Various athletes in different sports field experience racism and face it everyday. Social media is a big platform for people to criticize athletes for their failures and success. On the other hand more times than not, racism can be found within the head of organizations of major sports, most noticeably football. The NFL has condoned an abundance of racist actions towards players of Hispanic and African American descent; therefore, the NFL should stop these problems by supporting athletes that take a stand, holding the NFL owners accountable for their actions, and finally, not stereotyping young black athletes into a position based off of racial factors.

Domestic violence is one of the most common crime among male athletes. The statistics are staggering. Ray Rice, Greg Hardy, Ray McDonald – three standout NFL players who have been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons over the last 12 months. The acts of the men, particularly Rice, who was caught on camera punching his then fiancée and now wife, Janay in the elevator of an Atlantic City casino, brought domestic violence and sexual assault into sharp focus, in particular how the NFL handles players who commit such dreadful acts (and yes, we can all agree that the justice systems responsible for these cases failed terribly).

Basketball, football, and hockey are considered the most popular sports in America as of today. However, sports in the early 1950s were not as popular as they are now. According to “An Exercise in Subtleties and the Transmission of Racism: An Analysis of Sports Illustrated Covers” by Eric Primm, Summer DuBois, and Robert M. Regoli, they stated that American love their sport and that “each year they would spend billions of dollars on sports-related items and activities.” The media help promote the popularity of the sports in America. Consequently, sports media “plays a key role in perpetuating the types of racial stereotypes about minority athletes in sports” (Ismond, 115). The thesis of this writing project is with some racial stereotype reinforcement

As everyone who has access to a television or the Internet knows, a lot of the major headlines today are dealing with the domestic violence problem in the National Football League. In the article written by Thomas Barrabi in the International Business Times, “NFL’s History of Domestic Violence Extends Beyond Ray Rice, Adrian Peterson Abuse Cases”, it addresses the discrepancies the NFL has displayed throughout the years when it comes to disciplining the players involved in domestic violence disputes. This article takes a look at the NFL’s position on the crime of domestic violence throughout the years and today and also what they have done

Ray Rice will need to find a job which I think since he plays football and he makes over 7 million a year he won't be used to having a job so he will go broke. Abuse is not accepted from a football player that plays in the NFL because if a football player has been accused abusing or killing someone and if they don't have proof, then the NFL won’t do much about it, but if they had a testimony like the video of him abusing his wife than he can or will be kicked out of the NFL and his contract will be seized. The NFL is very serious about criminal or abuse

In February 2015, a video of Ray Rice, the “face of the Baltimore Ravens,” beating his then-fiancée unconscious in a hotel elevator went viral. Following his arrest and indictment on aggravated assault charges, he entered a pre-trial program for first offenders, usually intended for perpetrators of “victimless” crimes. Suspended from play indefinitely, Rice won an appeal to the NFL, and was reinstated, available for hiring should any team be willing to go near him.

According to ESPN, The NFL player, Ray Rice was charged with domestic violence. There was surveillance footage of him hitting his wife unconscious and then dragging her out of the elevator. Ray Rice was only suspended for two games of the season. Videos were sent out of the domestic violence act.

The 2016 Super Bowl was an iconic game for a number of reasons. It was the 50th Super Bowl, the first time a quarterback had won the Super Bowl playing on two different franchise teams, and it was potentially Peyton Manning’s last game . However, among all the excitement of the Super Bowl, some less than stellar allegations floated back to the surface about Peyton Manning. According to Jamie Naughright who in 1997 was a trainer at the University of Tennessee, where Manning played college football, Manning allegedly placed his testicles, buttocks, and rectum on Naughright’s face without her consent in the locker-room. Denying those allegations, Manning states that he was simply mooning another male player in the locker-room, and Naughtright caught sight of Manning’s bare bottom. Manning further explains that he did not intend for Naughtright to see him naked. After the alleged assault, Naughright reported the incident to the University and received little to no support. Manning and the incident itself were never fully investigated, and no consequences were established. Naughright believes there was such little response to her sexual assault claim because Manning was the star of the university’s football team and their golden boy.

In previous research done by Kristi Grim she examined the coverage of Michael Vick, an African-American quarterback accused of running a dog fighting ring, and Roethlisberger, a white NFL quarterback, who like Vick also had a bright football career and was accused of sexual assault (Grim, 2013). She performed a qualitative research analysis examining the dominant frame in each local newspaper, and how the journalist established the frame in the story. In her research she reviewed the Atlanta Journal Constitution (AJC) for stories on Michael Vick’s dog fighting accusations, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PPG) for stories involving Roethlisberger’s rape accusations (Grim, 2013). In her research she only focused on articles that happened before the district attorney announced Roethlisberger would not be charged, and before Vick was charged to avoid this having an impact on the way the media portrayed the story.