Big 12 Conference

As we wind down the final month of the regular season college football schedule - rivalry games taking center stage - the Big 12 Conference is currently sitting on the outside looking in for a shot at one of the coveted 4 spots in the BCS Bowl Playoff. When the season kicked off way back in early September, four Big 12 schools actually had high hopes of receiving one of those four esteemed bids. Oklahoma, Baylor, West Virginia and Oklahoma State University all started the season like that little ant; they had “high hopes”! But as we near the end of the season, the college football Bowl Championship Series Selection Committee is simply not showing any love for the top rated teams from the conference. Baylor saw their season hopes plummet amid…

from a lot of different backgrounds. I must choose which student body I want to be a part of, either a bigger school or a little smaller school. A lot of people who want to get involved in their school, like me, want to join sororities or fraternities which is a lot fun to be a part of. Most big school like the University of Missouri and the University of Kansas have a lot of different sororities that I can be apart of. I really can’t go wrong with joining a house because they all offer the same…

KU ties a record for most regular season conference titles. Kansas has 13 straight. UCLA also had a streak of 13 straight but it was achieved by 3 different coaches, Kansas was achieved by one coach, Bill Self. John Wooden, arguably the greatest winner in sports history, never won more than 9 in a row. Mike Krzyzewski, also known as Coach K, who some say is the greatest coach in any sport ever, has never won more than 5 straight. KU has 3 national titles, 2 helm championships, and 14 final four…

his/her professor that a regular student gets. Students due to the lack of education can be compensated with money (Griffin). The average college basketball player, “Practices between two to three hours a day, plays two or three games a week and participates in a number of strength and conditioning sessions on top of that. There is little time left over to pursue an education in earnest,” (Scott). College football players have struggles when it comes to graduating. In Ohio State less than 50…

watch a game that always ends a huge blowout by one team. Even UConn fans are getting tired of seeing the same thing over and over again. During the 2015-16 season the Lady Huskies averaged a little under 9,000 fans a game, that number is 2,500 less than what it was ten years ago and 1,000 less from five years ago. This season alone, the women Huskies have defeated twenty seven nationally ranked teams by an average score of 24 points a game. You can not blame someone for wanting to watch two…

To be apart of the All Iowa Honor Dance Team is the greatest honor any high school dance team member in the state of Iowa can receive. The honor team is created of 250 girls that outshined the other 500 that auditioned for a spot on the floor. Nothing is more nerve racking than only being allowed two minutes to prove to a panel of judges, without a retry. It’s not a basketball game where a time out can be called and one can try the play again, and if the play fails and the game is lost, another…

The NCAA rakes in on average $12 billion in revenues annually that flow in through college athletics programs(Finley, 2015). The latest and biggest debate is "Whether or not college athletes should get paid?". When college athletes go to college they are not allowed to earn any money while they are participating in athletics, but is that fair? Generally they are putting in full time work hours(40/week) or sometimes even more. As more and more college athletes are struggling to get by through and…

On top of that they are last season’s champions as well. With all that said, it is not easy to accomplish a perfect season and then aim for back-to-back championships. “There’s a big impetus put on male sports and not much attention gets put towards women’s sports,” said Chris Deleon, the conditioning coach and alternate coach of Misfits. “I think it is really unfortunate. It can be discouraging if no one cares.” One Love’s fearless captain, Jenny L. Swabb, a defender, said they had…

In a study involving 907 students at an unidentified public university in the midwest, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, it was calculated that on average a freshman student gains 7.8 pounds during their first year at college (Freshman 15 Statistics…). Many have come to know this weight fluctuation as the dreaded, “Freshman 15”. Obesity is a growing epidemic in the United States affecting more than one-third of the population. With the increasing rate of obesity and the well known…

Unlike many books that are written or edited by one author the Economics of College Sports was edited by two people John Fizel and Rodney Fort; also, the book was published in 2004. To start with, the first part of the book only contains one chapter which is called “Economics of College Sports: An Overview”. The first part of five parts in the Economics of College Sports the book addresses what exactly it will be talking about throughout the book using empirical and theoretical research to…