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13 Cards in this Set
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The 1830s and 1840s marked the birth of what which expanded newspaper circulation through offering popular content and by shifting the burden of costs of readership from curculation to advertising?
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The Penny Press (23)
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The three major contributory factors toward the development, both social and economic, of sports were:
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1) The regular, routine reporting of sports in papers.
2) Adoption of compulsory education laws, beginning with Mass. in 1851. People learned to read and therefore read about sports. 3) The infusion of immigrants into the American cultural milieu. |
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Sports journalists helped to codify the _______ of the game as they explined details of the games to these new sports fans. (26)
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rules
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The first baseball World Series was played in what year?
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1903
Even the "stodgiest" newspapers then gained an interest in sports. |
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The first broadcast of a major league baseball game was heard on August 5, ____.
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1921.
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ABC created an anthology show called the Wide World of Sports, which launched in ____.
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1961. (33)
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"The _______ _______ changed football from brutal, quick collisions into graceful leaps, tumbles and falls." 1989
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"instant replay"
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"He has made ABC Sports the biggest jock on the broadcasting block." Who?
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Roone Arledge
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Monday Night Football was launched in what year?
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1970.
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The first super bowl was in ____.
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1967
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Sports Illustrated was first published in ____.
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1954.
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When was ESPN launched?
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September 7, 1979.
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What was the original title for "SportsCenter"?
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"Sports Recap"
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