sports journalism and women’s athletics lacks modern gender equality due to gender discrimination against women. This essay explores the many issues women in sports faces today. Before the 1960s, women in the sports department were rarely seen in the world because sports writing has always been a male-dominated profession. The idea of a women writing about sports was unnatural. When Title IX was put into action in the 1970s, this event opened doors to many women athletes and, as a result more…
According to Ali C. Begen, Tankut Akgul, and Mark Baugher, the recent development in video streaming technologies provided many fans to watch the FIFA World Cup series on the web, as well as benefited watching high-definition video contents on their smartphones, PCs, and tablets (p. 54). The innovation of the Internet shaped a new era in the entertainment world. Now, we no longer need to rely on a cable TV connection. Online entertainment streaming adopted widely since it is more convenient than…
With the conclusion of the World Cup less than a month ago, international football, or better known as soccer as it’s widely regarded in the states, seems to be an appropriate contemporary American sports phenomenon relevant to American culture today. According to FIFA, more tickets for the World Cup were purchased by the United States than any other country, apart from the host nation Brazil. They in fact bought…
This organisational design team is focused on essential - influencer males concerning 13-34 years age those are included with diversion. Adidas expanded their 14 for every penny brand rate to develop game design promoting effort and effectively manufactured a brand image with in-amusement Ads. Designing of its products and as a patron of FIFA World Cup, Adidas increased essential industry with award winning product designs and promotion aspects (Strahilevitz,…
Throughout the years, it has been apparent, the inequality within professional sports between men and women, specifically, the gap between salaries. While men are signing multi-million dollar contracts, women are receiving considerably lower salaries for the same sport compared to their biological counterparts. This has many people pondering the reason behind such a massive gap in salary. While they are both playing professional sports at an equally competitive level, the only difference seems…
history. In January of this year, Tween Tribune Smithsonian Magazine released the announcement of the NFL’s first in history full-time woman assistant coach, in their article regarding Kathryn Smith’s position with the Buffalo Bills (Waszak 2016). The article clearly explains the progress that has been made for women in professional sports and illustrates the excitement for women who wish to be a part of coaching professional sports. This is ultimately a step up from last year when the Arizona…
someday should, make the seminal play of a game, or score the winning run in the World Series. It’s time for this to come to pass, and it’s not happening. I just have to wonder why.” (Via Bleacher Report) Baseball is the shining light if where integration can happen. Seriously, you don’t have to be big and strong to play baseball. Not saying that women can’t be that, but watch an entire game and look at most of what the players are doing: One team is sitting on the bench, the other team is…
Life is a mixture of hardships, obstacles and pains. Every individual, who is born in this world, has to be ready to face challenges, which can easily knock a person down so much that he or she just may go under. “Impossible is nothing”, the slogan that Adidas uses in its commercial to persuade people in the fact that there is nothing impossible in our lives, introducing us to very emotional, challenging and severe, but finally very happy and successful life of Lionel Messi. He is the person,…
watching “the jogo bonito” and about supporting a team. You don’t need to behave violently screaming and throwing objects to the spectators to become a real fan of the sport. In fact, I have been a real soccer fan for a long time. I remember the two years ago that I had a personal experience in an European soccer game in London, England. I went there with my father to watch a UEFA Champion League game between Juventus and Chelsea. I was supporting Juventus which is an Italian soccer team and we…
“Someone said to me 'To you football is a matter of life or death! ' and I said 'Listen, it 's more important than that '. (Bill Shankly) Soccer is a sport that crosses boundaries and is played all around the world. It brings people together to enjoy the intensity of 90 minutes filled by passion and uncertainty of who will ultimate winner. Most of the people who watch soccer do it in a passive way as a source of mild entertainment, but there’s a growing minority of fans who have taking the…