2005 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament

gentleman. I stand before you today with a matter that is very prominent in the college sports industry, especially within the sports of football and basketball, and that is whether or not to pay the collegiate athletes. I firmly believe that college athletes have the right to receive payment due to their services in the sport. Many college sports are large attractions for these schools resulting in a gross of millions of dollars for the universities. The league that represents them, the NCAA, is a billion

fans enjoy nail biting moments produced by the NCAA basketball tournament and football season. Many would argue that the NCAA provides a product that matches up with the professionals both competitively and financially. The only difference is that professionals get paid for the revenue that they bring in while NCAA athletes do not. It is time for change, college athletes should be monetarily compensated because they are the ones who have made the NCAA profitable for many years. The idea of college

The Firing of Bobby Knight Bobby Knight, longtime Indiana men’s head basketball coach, was recently fired. This firing sparked a controversy among basketball fans throughout the nation; did he deserve to be fired? I believe that Bobby Knight deserved to be fired. Although coach Knight is one of the best coaches in the nation and has earned the respect of countless numbers of fans including myself, I do not believe that a coach should be able to act the way he acted and get away with it. Coach

BE PAID MORE THAT FEMALE ATHLETES? Toady sports is viewed by fans all around the world rather it being basketball, football, or baseball. Sports has become more of a gender controversial topic than simply enjoying the excitement of the players doing what they love to do so well. Women athletes are generally under paid compared to the men’s salaries in various sports do to the lack of viewers. Women sports doesn’t generate enough revenue, so the leagues can’t afford to

specifically, it effected the way we market certain areas and certain teams because of the assumptions we make up in our minds. In the following paper, I will be discussing my personal experience being the minority in at Coppin University. I will expand on my how I felt during the situation and why my upbringing effects the way I felt. Afterwards, I will use articles from

Welcome to the March Madness Mania Blog. Throughout the remainder of the NCAA College Basketball regular season and tournament play, this blog will be covering big games, individual performances, and teams that have a chance at making a run in the NCAA tournament. For the first post of the year I’ll be looking at the Big 10 and commenting on teams with a shot at the tournament. Big 10 Basketball Analysis The Big 10 is in the middle of what is obviously down year. Still, there is not a Big 10 team

back to the March Madness Mania blog. Once again, this has been a crazy week of college basketball. Top 10 teams have continued to fall and at this point it’s hard to predict who will grab the title this year. In this blog post I will be covering teams with March Madness stock that’s either rising or falling. St. John’s (Rising)- St. John’s is sitting at 14-13 and is currently a long shot to make the tournament. Still they’re worth mentioning considering they’re riding a four game win streak that

athletes can be magnified into stars or heros. Millions of eyes witness every heart-breaking upset and every game-saving buzzer beater. It’s March and it’s madness. The National College Athletics Association (NCAA) makes "$6 billion annually and $1 billion just off of the men’s basketball tournament” (USNEWS). In 2013, the Louisville Cardinals faced the Duke Blue Devils in the Mid-West Regional Championship. Louisville, the tournament’s one seed, looked to be moving on to the final four when a freak

The March Madness tournament every year at the college level is the most exciting event in sports’ television. When the bracket is finally selected players from across the nation watch the selection show who will get the chance to play in the tournament. Television networks and universities make big money during the tournament, and often pass that funding on to other student athletes so all athletes benefit from the event and should support it. There is an element of jealousy that runs rampant

The champions of the 2015 NCAA March Madness Tournament were Duke University Blue Devils but they were not the real winners: the NCAA truly won. The NCAA is a “non-profit” organization which is “...dedicated to safeguarding the well-being of student-athletes and equipping them with the skills to succeed on the playing field, in the classroom and throughout life.” (NCAA.org). The NCAA regulates college sports, enforce rules and organize college sporting events. The NCAA more or less performs as a