Southeastern Conference

Is an athletic scholarship really enough of a “payment” to reimburse athletes for the billions of dollars made by the NCAA every year? This issue of paying collegiate athletes, especially football and basketball players, has been around for many years. Athletes, students, bystanders, and NCAA analysts and authority figures have a strong opinion about paying college athletes. Whether college athletes should be paid or not is a debate topic that is more prevalent today than ever. Most student-athletes

MU Activities and Events 1. The Monmouth University event I decided to attend was a mens basketball game. Specifically, Monmouth University Hawks vs University of Kentucky Wildcats. The event was held at Madison Square Garden, at noon, on Saturday December 9th, 2017. It was a competitive two hours’ worth of entertainment, resulting in the final score of The Kentucky Wildcats 93 points and The Monmouth Hawks with 76. A great effort was put forward by the Hawks, but the Kentucky wildcats ultimately

Sports are a big part of my life. As a person, I am very competitive and I love watching sports almost as much as I love playing them. My two main athletic passions are softball and baton twirling. I’ve been playing softball since I was four, and nothing has been able to tear me from the field ever since. I love the fast pace of the game, every at-bat is exhilarating, and I always am hoping the ball will come to me on defense. I have met many of my best friends through softball, and I love the opportunity

“Roll Tide Pride” My earliest memories are growing up in the state of Alabama surrounded by my loving family. Alabama was and still is my home, where I was raised since the age of two to become the person I am today. At the age of twelve, circumstances made me move back to San Benito, Texas where my mom grew up. Even though my teenage years have been spent here, I have always dreamt of returning to Alabama. Leaving behind friends, family, and the familiarity of home was a difficult transition that

The purpose of this reflective journal is to describe how my identity was challenged. In this paper, I will explain how I was judged for not being able to live the same lifestyle as my college friends due to my financial situation. I will also include how people’s opinions can heavily influence a person’s view of his or her identity and how it is important to take pride in who are you regardless of how people view you. My senior year in high school I decided that I was going to follow my friends

with a championship in the inaugural College Football Playoff. After a solid outing against Virginia Tech in their season opener this season, the Buckeyes have looked out of whack against two non-Power 5 conference foes (Hawaii and Northern Illinois). Despite playing outside the big boy conferences, both Hawaii and Northern Illinois are capable opponents. But, Ohio State is supposed to dominate the competition on its alleged inferior schedule — a forecast that hasn’t come to fruition. Three weeks into

The former Southeastern Conference Commissioner, Mike Slive, spoke to an audience in Graves Hall 118 at The University of Alabama on Thursday, Aug. 27. The lecture hall appeared to be filled with students aspiring to work within the business aspect of sports, current professors and possible sports journalists. The meeting started with an introduction of Mike Slive and UA sports journalism professor and senior writer for Sports Illustrated and Bleacher Report, Lars Anderson, who shared a brief background

schools and conferences make through different deals. These deals typically involve television rights for individual conferences with major television networks. Currently the NCAA has a 14-year, $11 billion TV deal with CBS and Turner Broadcasting for the NCAA basketball Tournament, and this upcoming year ESPN will pay around $470 million to broadcast the new college football playoffs. The majority of this money is streamed to a teams athletic departments via their respective conference. The largest

down. With wins over Nebraska and Northwestern in the past two weeks, Wisconsin sits at No. 7 in the college football rankings. With a few weeks left in the regular season, and then conference championship games, there is still plenty of time for the Badgers to make their move. If they win out and win the conference championship game, it will be hard to keep them out, even with two losses. Here are the teams to root for and against if you want to see Wisconsin in the Playoff. BIG TEN Root For:

are the third-ranked one-loss team, and they need a lot of help ahead of them in order to make the playoff. Clemson is unlikely to lose twice before the end of the season, so Louisville’s conference hopes are all but gone. They might stand a chance if compared to a two-loss champion from the ACC or another conference, but if mostly chalk prevails, the Louisville Cardinals will likely be related to the Orange Bowl and not the Playoff. 8. Wisconsin (6-2) We looked at Wisconsin’s chances at the playoff