Collegiate wrestling

It had already been determined for me that I was going to race motocross before I was born. Although my family has since moved on from racing, it had been everything for as long as I can remember. I clearly remember the loud and hectic Friday nights and the chaotic Sunday mornings spent at the track. The dedication we, my two brothers and I, had towards the extreme sport and the dedication our parents showed towards our passion will forever be apart of me. By the time I was born, my family…

As NBC was preparing to launch its new show they first realized they needed a name, and most importantly a host. NBC has decided to select Tony Dungy as their new host for their new sports talk show that focuses on the ins and outs of sports primarily focusing on basketball and football. The show will strive to be much like Real Sports and 60 minutes which have HBO and Showtime have found great success in. The reason for selecting Tony Dungy as the new host for the show is because he is a Super…

Who haven’t heard of Sports Illustrated? Sports Illustrated is an American sports franchise that has over 3 million subscribers and is also read by 23 million people each week. It’s the first magazine with circulation over one million to win the National Magazine Award for General Excellence twice. Most people at least seen a Sports Illustrated Magazine lying around somewhere, whether its in a waiting room at the doctor’s office or somewhere in the union on campus. Almost every building on…

Many of our large systems are functioning on faulty premises. Michael Sokolove provides valid information that college football does need a lot of funding in order to maintain a successful team. He uses factual averages of amount of money invested and lost in athletics, which persuades the reader that no one truly wins when it comes to college football due to all the money spent to get a winning team to the top. Both authors are successful at arguing through the text that a current system is…

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the well-being of student-athletes, ultimately equipping these student-athletes with the skills needed for success on and off the field. NCAA members work together to create a framework of rules for fair and safe competition. The NCAA was officially established in March of 1906 as the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (IAAUS). In late 1905, President Theodore…

There is a lot of controversy revolving around if college athletes should be paid for playing. I 'm here to tell you that I believe they should be paid for their services. There are many reasons why this should be in effect real soon and I 'm going to explain why. First off, I think the biggest reason of why they should get paid is that these colleges make large revenue off of these athletes’ talents these colleges are making millions of dollars a year in revenue and refuse to pay these…

College athletics have always been an essential part of American culture, and they have gradually developed into a multimillion dollar industry over the past century. Big time college sports have not only made schools popular, but have also made them wealthy. Schools are making million dollar deals with private corporations through advertisement, merchandise, and broadcasting rights. However, debates erupted when people started to wonder where do college athletes, the backbone of the athletic…

The Crimson Tide make 123,370,004 dollars of revenue off their football program alone. College players should be paid to play. The argument of college athletes being paid to play should be brought to the surface. They have lots of stress from competition, practice , and classesload and to help them out a little would make sense. TheyAnd they have their names on jerseys they aretheir selling, and the players makeare making no money off their own names. Being a student athlete is a full time job.…

Saban, Alabama’s head football coach, is one of the highest paid coaches throughout all football programs in the nation at nearly four million a year (Yost). Now, where is this money coming from to pay all the coaches for the different sports? For example, Alabama has a $70 million athletic budget that goes towards paying all the coaches for their sports, and other necessary things (Yost). Now, how will these programs be able to pay their coaches on top of paying their athletes? Well, the answer…

The growth of collegiate sports in higher education began with a social development between the years of 1890 and 1910 when the American public became fascinated with undergraduate life, according to Thelin. This period was birthed due to the prevalence of Photojournalism and Campus Imagery. Feature articles in nationally circulated magazines gave the public a glimpse inside college walls. Journalists acted as interpreters to the customs and vocabulary of institutions. Audiences in the late…