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The future of sports is among us! The sports industry hasn’t had a new break out sport since Generation Y took off with the first X-games in 1995. A six year straight decline in college football attendance (according to CBSnew.com’s Jon Solomon) and the drop of NFL ratings this past year, could be a sign that America’s most popular sport is on the decline and the market is ready for the next new sport, Gen Z’s sport. That sport is the up and coming Drone Racing League, a perfect combination of sports

While many people disapprove of publicly financing sports facilities, Chesapeake Energy Arena is one scenario in which the construction of the stadium has time and time again proved to be a sound public investment. Since the Thunder relocated from Seattle to Oklahoma City, the franchise is widely viewed as a major component of the city’s resurgence. The construction of Chesapeake Energy Arena was part of a large civic redevelopment that took more than 20 years to complete. Ballots tallied from a

Sports City I am writing this article to share all the great things going on in Sports City. People are coming from all over to see and enjoy our town. The sporting facilities are epic. There is every field and court you can think of. On any given day you can play every sport known to man. They even have a channel on ESPN showing their games around the clock. The next thing you will notice is all of the great shopping we have. Royals Center is one of the top shops. They are selling World

For the second writing assignment I chose Chapter 39: “If We Build It, Will They Come?” because I’m a huge sports fan and one thing the state of Kentucky doesn’t have is a professional sports team. Citizens all across the state have hope that one day an NBA team will move to the city of Louisville. This chapter focuses on the cost to get a professional sports team and the impact it will leave on the economy. As this chapter talks about there’s only two ways to acquire a professional sports team

Jesse Saunders Prof. Keith Bishop English 101 12/10/2013 “How I Learned To Love Football” “Move Over Boys, Make Room In The Crease” Sara Maratta and Felisa Rogers essay is the opposite of one another. Sara Maratta at the age of 14 developed a liking to sports, hockey was Marattas number one sport. Maratta knew hockey inside and out. Her favorite aspect of the sport was the fighting part. It drew her deeper into the sport. Maratta had a passion for the Blue Jackets team, and being her

Women in Sports and Sports Broadcasting Before I conducted this media analysis about women in sports and sport broadcasting, I hypothesized the obvious - that more male sports would be in the media, and that there would be more male sports broadcasters as well. Through my observations I did find that the sports arena and sports broadcasting sphere are male dominated. However, I also found that although there are not many stories about women, there has been a steady progression and magazines

Do you think professional athletes are overpaid? You might think they earn more than what they are worth for playing half a year, but athletes have many things which contribute to their salary. Some of these things include their earnings from endorsements, ticket sales, performance, merchandise, their social contributions, and TV ratings. Although there are many factors that contribute to their salary, professional athletes may be overpaid because as a society, we contribute to their success. So

her companion Brad R. Humphreys present several concepts about the stadiums arising arguments and questions.Through John Oliver’s parody video Last Week Tonight, he attacks stadium subsidies, the process by which local and state governments give hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer money to fund stadiums for professional sports teams. The article “Do Economists Reach a Conclusion on Subsidies for Sports Franchises, Stadiums and Mega-Events?” Claims that we should not support sports subsidies

all other stadiums. The University of Southern California’s mammoth of a stadium, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum is one of the biggest sports stadiums in college football, and has been a standard by which others are judge. Being declared a land mark by the state of California after nearly 80 years of use, this structure has had many different uses other than its current purpose of housing one of the most dominate teams in college football, the Trojans. Since its opening day the stadium has set world

This piece of work will explain how the commercialisation, professionalization and equity of sport has changed from the 1950s to today. This piece of work will also discuss the different techniques and strategies that organisations within sport used to commercialise, professionalise and set social stratification. The worldwide interest in sport is phenomenal, regardless of your skin colour, religion, health, social status, gender and home nation. Sport is a universal platform for happiness, revenue