United States men's national basketball team

Hip hop artist and basketball players are both performers, who have a rich connection and similar persona, showcasing style, swagger, urbanism, bravado, and coolness. This rich bond was established in 1979; from 1984 to 2009, a new era was conceived, known as “The Dunkadelic Era.” In 1979, the first mainstream explicit connection between hip-hop and basketball was established. The Sugarhill Gang’s hit song “Rapper’s Delight,” which is commonly referred to as the first mainstream hip-hop song,…

Introduction The NCAA, National Collegiate Athletic Association, makes hundreds of millions of dollars from sports, such as basketball and football, but the players that play the sports don’t seem to touch any of that money and they obviously should, it is almost like the players are puppets in a show being taken advantage of, but the argument that the value of the game would be lost if players just played for the college with the highest bid and not the education or culture it can provide.…

Entry #3: Freud For this entry, I wanted to focus on one particular movement that has grown from the Barstool Sports universe. This movement revolves around a phrase that has been embraced by the bloggers and stoolies alike: “Saturdays are for the Boys”. This phrase was coined after a tweet from one of the bloggers for Barstool. The blogger heard this yelled by an old man in a crowded bar. He tweeted it and thought nothing of it. The next morning, the movement had begun. After several months,…

focusing on medical treatment and how the overcome their impairment. In addition some media texts approach diversity and identity of people but disability is still marginalized social construction of political power. The media and the Paralympics states “the media presents disability sports in an informed and unprejudiced way” However, Media still coverage the disability athlete as a hero and they are overcoming their impairment to achieve something incredible (Hardin & Hargreaves 2009).…

Hip hop artist and basketball players are both performers, who have a rich connection and similar persona, showcasing style, swagger, urbanism, bravado, and coolness. This rich bond was established in 1979; from 1984 to 2009, a new era was conceived, known as “The Dunkadelic Era.” In 1979, the first mainstream explicit connection between hip-hop and basketball was established. The Sugarhill Gang’s hit song “Rapper’s Delight,” which is commonly referred to as the first mainstream hip-hop song,…

promotion rates are about “34 to 47 percent lower than men’s promotion rates” (Covert). Men are more likely to be promoted if they are fathers, but if a woman has kids, that puts a negative effect on her. The 2000 census was analyzed by Amanda K. Baumle, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Houston, found that “only gay women get a salary bump for having kids; in fact gay women’s earnings advantage from parenthood is even greater than men’s. Baumle’s theory: In employers…

Every year across the United States, thousands of high school athletes sign the National Collegiate Athletic Association 's Form 08-3a, otherwise, the student-athlete form that waives their right to receive payment for the use of their name and likeness. Just like college students, student athletes work hard and devote their time to their classes. However, not only do student athletes have to keep their grades up to stay eligible to play, they also spend additional training and practicing to win…

Throughout history women have always suffered oppression and unfair treatment, especially in sports up until the introduction of Title IX in 1972 that “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance." However even legally not being able to discriminate against female athletes, it still is a problem. Medical…

Due to the increasing popularity of college sports in the United States, individuals have begun to question whether college athletes should be paid like professionals. But college athletes are students and amateur players, meaning that college athletes are not given money to play a sport. Student-athletes attend college to get an education, not to be paid to play a sport. Already compensating athletes for playing are scholarships. Also, paying athletes would cause countless problems. Some…

competitors may offer more options, this may be a disadvantage to Chipotle and cause people to spend less or go somewhere else. E. Coli and Norovirus In recent years there have been 53 people within nine different states that were sickened with E. coli (Berfield, 2015). Among the nine states, 46 out of the 53 people ate Chipotle the week before becoming sick (Berfield, 2015). Many of those people were hospitalized, 20 to be exact (Berfield, 2015). Oregon and Washington closed all the Chipotle’s…