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Understanding the Role of the Football Manager in Britain and Ireland: A Weberian Approach I‘ve always known about the difference that in UK football there are no head coaches of football clubs but there are managers. Maybe I had some notions why it was like this and what were the basic differences between being head coach or manager. But when I discovered this article, as a big fan of football and the English one especially, I really felt the need of fully understanding the role of the football…

popular with athletes of all kinds and also with the general public both athletic and non-athletic. With its swoosh or checkmark and renowned slogan “Let’s Go”, Nike has already chosen its target audience. These types of commercials from Nike have become their theme and focus and they use them to motivate both athletic and non-athletic people…

Ticket scalping is an act of reselling tickets in the secondary market at inflated price. It occurs in many sports events, particularly in major rugby tournaments. Resellers (scalpers) will purchase heaps of tickets at one price and resell it at higher price due to excess demand in the market. This action causes outcry from the public. There are three main aspects to address and essentially propose a policy to curb ticket scalping, which are why and how ticket scalping arises, which party…

Playing a sport is fun, but being paid big dollars for it, majority of society find that ludicrous. It’s understable why many people oppose the high salaries athletes make because it’s hard to believe a person can make that much from playing ball and having fun. Society view athletes as an overpaid profession from their emotions. There’s have to be why athletes make on average millions a year. They are not paid that “ridiculous” amount for no apparent reason. Athletes are behind the success of…

Why Should Student Athletes Be Paid To Play Blood, sweat, and tears; competitively, these collegiate athletes give and leave it all in their various domains of athleticism, for our enjoyment and in many cases the prosperity of their respective Alma-marters. But, now the question arises, to pay or not to pay? That is the question. These student athletes just about put in the same amount of time as the professionals. They seemingly put forth the same effort if not more. And the definitely share…

Even though their are starving people in America still today, should athletes still get all the money? Athletes worked hard to get where they are, but there are kids all over America who deserve a chance at life, however athletes get way too much money. Athletes do not deserve that much money, the starving children of America need that money. The athletes worked hard to get where they are, but the children in America that are starving deserve that money that gets wasted. When athletes get that…

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and colleges around the country are experiencing record highs in both television ratings and revenue. Over 1200 colleges and universities have united as members of the NCAA. Together they set and enforce the rules governing collegiate athletics. The ones forced to live by these rules are the student-athletes. The term “student athlete” was invented by the NCAA in the 1950s to prevent the NCAA from providing money to those filing workers-comp…

The Pulitzer prize has been the dream of lots of people since 1917. Mostly writers, journalists, and photographers. The Pulitzer prize is an American award established after the newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian-American and it represents the incentive to excellence. The Pulitzer prize is a serie of prizes awarded each year regarding someone who accomplished an excellent work in one of the 21 categories such as journalism, arts, literature, newspaper, drama, music, photography.…

Researchers in human behavior study how it affects whom we are, how we act, and asks how we get that behavior. Could this be passed on through our ancestors, our mom, or our dad? Can we change our ways in how we live life? Do we become the way we are just because we inherit the behavior or is it our surroundings? “Fences” tells the story of a Black family who are living in a rough situation. The question is if their behavior is more connected with nature or nurture. In the story “Fences”…

Star athletes are getting paid loads more than they really should. The athletes are obtaining millions of dollars when they should be giving that money to other things. There are athletes out there barely earning money at all, while others are being paid millions of dollars. Star competitors are getting paid way too much, all they get paid for is playing a game, there are good athletes that don’t get paid, plus people out there doing better thing get paid less. Athletes get paid way too much…