American League Championship Series

Tilting can be defined as angry or frustrated to the degree that it's badly affecting your performance, and you're probably blaming it on everyone but yourself (Kollar 2016). Tilting can be as severe as a losing streak for an NFL team, an NHL team, or an NBA team. Esports pro teams have hired psychologists to help with players getting tilted in between games. One of the most iconic moments for a psychologist in esports was getting a team with semi-finals tilt to win their first championship ("Drackie" 2017). Astralis was the team who was tilted and was helped by their psychologist to win the whole championship. Tilting is a common problem for all pro gamers and regular gamers alike. If a person gets to tilted at a game, the person could cause environmental problems or venting anger out on other…

The interview that was selected for this project was from a 60 minutes episode in which Pam Oliver interviewed Victor Cruz, CC Sabathia and the main interviewee the sports executive for Jay-Z ‘s Roc Nation Sports Shawn Costner, also known as Pecas, who is an avid sneaker collector. Pecas has over 1500 pairs of sneakers that consist of autographed, rare releases, customs, and multiple pairs of his favorite sneakers. In this interview Pam used multiple technics to make him feel comfortable and…

revenue comes from television and marketing rights fees — see: March Madness — and almost all the rest comes from championship ticket sales, according to the NCAA’s website”. This implicates that the NCAA profits so much from these athlete’s performances from their respective sports. With the lack of professional teams in certain states; the citizens of certain state devote themselves to their college teams. The University of Alabama is a football powerhouse and they are known for the prowess…

ONE MILLION, THIRTY THOUSAND, FOUR HUNDRED AND NINETY FIVE. That is the number of fans that entered the gates to KFC T20 Big Bash League fixtures during BBL05. With a crowd average of 28,279 over 32 games this summer, the BBL has found itself with the 9th highest attendance of a sporting fixture in the world. Crowds have risen an incredible 47% since the inaugural BBL01, when only 550,220 fans entered the gates (17,749 per game). Back then, the BBL was considered a joke of a league, something…

The Final Game It was sunny San Diego, California. The grass was cut perfectly and that was the moment I knew it was our time! Mmmm... It was the day after Thanksgiving and was time to play in the semi-finals where everything mattered. My coach said, “ You know what ladies, this is our time. Let’s show California what Broomfield soccer team got! Now huddle up.” Our captain, Zoey said, “ Play your hearts out we got this! Blast on 3!” “ 1, 2,3 Blast!” everyone screamed. The whistle blew and…

If you give up you, will never get what you want. On June 27, 2016, the Dazzlin’ Devils dance team went to a technique camp in Auburn. The freshmen were really excited because they would spend a week at Auburn University for a technique camp. They all met at Central High School, so they could all get on the bus. After they got on the bus, it took them about an hour to get there. When they arrived they went to the dorms to get settled in. Eventually, when they got settled in they had to go meet…

Boston men teams like the New England Patriots and Boston Celtics. It might also be that men sports have been around for a heck of a lot longer than women sports. But the biggest reason is because women are still viewed as lesser compared to the men teams. According to CNN, the average salary for a WNBA player is $72,000, while the average NBA player salary is $5 million dollars. These numbers are also uneven at the college level. Men get $190 million dollars more per year in athletic…

country excelled in international sports throughout most of the 1960s, and local participation rates were high. Sports in the 1960’s had a strong effect on society. There were only so many teams for leagues, and different sports were bigger back then, then they are now. There were some very important and outstanding players then that don’t stand out to us now. Pro Basketball in the 1960’s wasn’t as big as it is now. The league only consisted of a couple teams and there were only a few…

“Take me out to the ballgame” is a song well known among baseball fans. Unfortunately, when it comes to money Major League Baseball is unfair. Rich teams can afford any player they desire, while poor teams have to invest in their rookies and young stars. Studies show that most stars go where the big money is. Money plays a large behind-the-scenes part in regards to the sport of baseball. So rich organizations have the upper hand. Certain star players command such high salaries that teams must…

school “phenom” who needs to be developed into a player.”(The Sport Journal) The main reason Beane hired DePodesta was to find a way to save money and still win games. The Oakland A's are one of the poorest teams in baseball, therefore they have to find different ways to save money. Compared to other teams, the Oakland A’s had about half the salary to work with. “The average big league salary was $2.3 million. The average A's opening day salary was a bit less than $1.5 million.”(Lewis 87) The…