NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship

The speech I chose for the assignment was Coach Jim Valvano’s 1993 ESPY’s speech, which was made while accepting the Arthur Ashe Courage Award. Coach Valvano, was fighting bone cancer at the time, and one may say that he gave one of the best speeches on perseverance and strength. While looking frail compared to his “normal” state, Valvano was able to bring the room to tears and demonstrate his enduring strength through his words. The first thing that builds the power of Valvano’s words was his…

theory of the tragic hero. A comprehensive definition of this theory is a character whether in film or book who makes a judgment error that leads to the character’s own destruction. For this question I will be looking at Joe Paterno and why I consider him to be an excellent example of a tragic hero. I will break down his story as a tragic hero in parts as illustrated in the class notes. Tragic Hero Part 1: The first part of the tragic hero theory is that the character is of noble stature and has…

The kickoff to the college football season is exactly one week away and collegiate programs across the country are all trying to get to Glendale, AZ, site of the 2016 College Football Playoff National Championship. There’s a slew of intriguing matchups slated for Week 1 of the college football regular season, including TCU’s visit to Minnesota for a game with the Gophers, Arizona State’s trip to Texas for a matchup with A&M’s Aggies, Texas versus Notre Dame, Wisconsin and Alabama’s meeting at…

Ever since January 18th, 1896 the day college basketball was invented and November 6th, 1869 the day college football was invented there has been controversy over college athlete being paid. Some people believe that college athletes are classified as amateurs and that they should not reap any benefits such as money for participating in their sport. Some people believe that all college athletes deserve to receive compensation in exchange for their talents. Lastly, some people believe that only a…

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…

In December 1891, Dr. James Naismith created a game called basketball. Basketball is defined as a game played by two teams of five players each on a rectangular court having a raised basket at each end, with points being scored by shooting the ball through the opponent 's basket. Since 1891, basketball has taken the world over by storm. From the United States of America to China, basketball is among the most popular sports to play and watch in the world. Dr. Naismith created this game in…

conferences, and eventually from the conferences to the NCAA in the 1910 (Smith, 1987) , the 21st saw the control of collegiate athletics shift yet again in favor of the guidance and leadership of the university presidents . The power dynamic in collegiate athletics has seen both the NCAA and u niversity presidents (i.e. univ ersities) rise in power, while the college athletes they serve are left without a representative voice. The NCAA of Today What started as few schools concerned for…

their own decision on finances. The NCAA however, is broken down into 3 divisions and a collection of university presidents with sub-committees that make decisions on tournaments and revenue. Revenue, for the NCAA solely comes from championships. The money received by teams in the NCAA is distributed evenly amongst their conference, like the Big 10. This answer was intriguing to me because I was not sure how the money was distributed prior to coming into this…

College sports, such as men’s football and basketball, generate millions of dollars for there institutions. In 2014, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (“NCAA”) reported $989 million dollars in revenue (NCAA, 2013-14 Financial Statement, NCAA.ORG). However only a small portion of this money goes to the student athlete in the form of scholarships. This raises the question, since these athletes are making all this money for their collegiate institutions should they not get a part of the…

Each year the National Collegiate Athletic Association, also known as the NCAA, assists more than 460,000 scholar-athletes with the ability to succeed in class, sports, and life (“Where”). College students perform many money saving and money generating functions at their universities from teaching aides to student services volunteers to student athletes; most of these students pay tuition, while some of them not only have their tuition paid for them, but would also like to be paid. Whether or…