Men's Collegiate Lacrosse Association

The exploitation of college athletes, particularly African American college athletes, has been a tenacious topic of dispute within American higher education for the past half century. This debate is punctuated yearly by football and basketball championships, when the public passion for parades, pageantry and an expanding number of televised games has been described as influencing fever and madness. During these discrete times, exposes and editorials proliferate, resolving in low graduation rates…

Three people whom I talked with this week This week, three different people whom I spoke with enjoyed hearing about our projects. These people are Yukio Kumazawa who has been a marathon runner more than ten years, Curt Lowry who is planning to run in New York Marathon this year, and Rachael Herpel who is an assistant director of Water for Food Institute on Innovation campus. The following are the details: Yukio Kumazawa: Yukio is a fan of marathon. He told me that he runs as a way to stay…

The NFL Player Insurance Plan (the “Plan”) is a member plan of the National Football League Professional Football Players Insurance Trust (the “Trust”). There are two members to this trust, the Plan and the NFL Former Player Life Improvement Plan. Participants should refer to the Plan document, as amended, and Trust Agreement for more complete information. The League Office of the National Football League (the “NFL League Office”) was established by the Member Clubs of the National Football…

Don’t Pander to Bettors,” the Christian Science Monitor editorial board argues that ESPN should have its coverage of college football cater less to those who might be gambling on the games. The article foolishly notes that the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) stands against betting on college sports, but that despite this stance ESPN has begun to provide “cover alerts” and other betting-related information during its broadcasts of college games. It went on to state that although…

Amber Ortiz FSTY 1311. 19 Paper #2 Research Summary October 19, 2015 Branch, Taylor. “The Shame of College Sports.” The Atlantic. The Atlantic Monthly Group, Oct. 2011. Web. 5 Oct. 2015. Sonny Vaccaro: Use athletes as a way to advertise big sports brands; sponsorships; He retired and decided to become a consultant and help fight for atheletes rights in O’Bannon v. NCAA. NCAA is notorious for enforcing “amateurism” in sports and the concept of “student-athletes” to prevent college players from…

I decided to research and study: Do balance bands increase an athlete's performance? Athletics is a critical part of a child's development and many athletes resort to their sport skills to enter college and pay for it. Many people ask how can their sons or daughters become better at their favourite sport to be successful with it in their future. Balance bands were manufactured in the early 2000's and immediately became popular after many famous athletes like David Beckham and Cristiano Ronaldo…

Intro Back in May, before The Radius Show went "Live" we recorded a few episodes in an effort to prepare and practice. A big news story at the time was Lavar Ball, his maneuveuring of the NCAA rules to benefit his family, his brash in your face attittude and his seemingly genius of hijacking the media. The shoes, Big Baller Brand were making waves because of the costs. Established name brands, Jordan's Lebron's and Kobe's have yet to exceed the asking price Big Baller Brands shoes commanded.…

Most people should become a pro football player if they tried. It’s something some people dream about. It employs the best players in the world. With a widely known organization like this, employees get paid a lot of money. Most of the athletes here get paid over $60,000 in salary alone. There isn’t much to this job in the aspect of education. You only need three years of college or three years out of high school. (McCoy. 1) It doesn’t matter what college or high school you go to as long as…

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) breaks sports into two categories: head count sports and equivalency sports. Students who are offered a scholarship to play a head count sport are typically offered a full scholarship which covers their tuition at hat university, while students who play equivalency sports might receive only a partial scholarship which covers a portion of that. At many of the smaller colleges and universities, it is common to find that the majority of the…

multi-billion-dollar company. There are many sports fans that enjoy watching college athletics compared to a professional sport. The NCAA knows that millions of people are willing to pay absurd amounts of money for tickets, merchandise, etc. In 2015 at the NCAA Men’s Final Four the least expensive seat in the house was $1,151.98, per CBS Detroit and TiqIQ (Peebles). This was the least expensive seat among a crowd of 143,387 people. (Peebles). The Final game was watched by more than 27 million…