The National Basketball Players Association lockout greatly affected the United States economy. Greedy team owners and greedy players fighting over large amounts of money caused the lockout. In March of 1998, team owners felt that they were paying players too much money, causing clubs to lose money, so they voted to reopen discussions on the collective bargaining agreement. The players on the other hand felt that any team financial problems were the owners doing, not how much money players were being paid. When the two sides could not settle their differences and the collective bargaining agreement expired, the owners decided to lockout the players until they reached an equal agreement.…
WNBA and NBA The NBA and WNBA have both evolved into successful basketball organizations. Both create large crowds and they also have fulfilled interest in their markets. Most rules and regulations in both organizations apply to each other. For instance, foul, penalties, elbowing and fighting all apply to each other. Free throw positions are the same.…
In five out of the last ten seasons in Division One college football, there has been an undefeated team that did not get the opportunity to play for a national championship, and three of those times they were beaten out by a one-loss team. Also, in nine of the last ten seasons, there have been more than two teams with the same amount of losses as a team that got the opportunity to play for a national championship. The BCS, Bowl Championship series, is the current format used to determine the champion of Division 1-A College Football. The Bowl format consists of 32 bowls, including four bowls dubbed the “Championship Bowls” plus one “National Championship Game”. They include the Rose Bowl, Orange Bowl, Fiesta Bowl, and Sugar Bowl. Every year they rotate as to which one will also host the “National Championship Game”, in addition to their own game. The teams themselves are ranked through a laid-out, but faulty, computer system. Through a multitude of components ranging from the number of losses a team has to their strength of schedule, these teams are ranked 1-25, with the top two being selected to play in the “National Champion Game”. This system also selects one or two at-large teams from a non-BCS conference to play in one of the Championship Bowls, depending on the other BCS conference champions. The BCS has been widely criticized in everywhere from bar rooms to congress. This unfair system is stealing the integrity and morals of the game right out from under our noses. The following documented argument will show that the BCS needs to implement a playoff system to join the rest of college sports, solve the money issue, and most importantly, eliminate the controversy.…
Comparing NBA Pre-draft Combine results to actual performance in the National Basketball Association. The topic that will be discussed is and issue that many have had about their own thoughts on the NBA. Now with statistical data we can come to a better conclusion by doing so. Many say the better skilled players will be the most successful and many also say the better overall “athlete” will win from their own opinion. After some tests and observing the data its proven that the better athlete, who performs better at the combine, has a much higher chance of being a better player and having more success than an individual that is not as athletic. So, this goes to show why the combine for NBA is so important.…
The NBA is a billion dollar business and known as one of the largest and most prestigious organization within American sports today. It is also home to one of the most controversial rules in all of sports, which is known as "the one and done rule." The one and done rule restricts high school basketball players from entering the NBA draft out of high school and going to straight to the NBA. According to Article X, Section 1 of the NBA's 2005 collective bargaining agreement (CBA), the policy for player eligibility states:…
goals, however, my Uncle Sam stepped in and made me an offer I couldn't refuse.…
The NBA has been known for being an enormous source of entertainment throughout the world. It provides the world with the excitement of professional basketball games throughout the United States and even in foreign countries. The NBA is famous for signing the greatest basketball players who graduate from college or come straight out of high school. Fortunately, the NBA has changed its policy as of June 26th 2005 by enforcing a new age limit rule, which has brought the NBA into the limelight. The new age limit rule will prohibit players from being able to jump directly into the NBA draft, straight out of high school. The news spread rapidly across the United States, bringing about the controversy as to why high school graduates cannot jump directly into professional sports. The NBA's decision to impose the age limit rule will only benefit young high school graduates in the near future. The new age limit rule will allow high school athletes to prepare themselves before they attempt to take part in professional sports. It has become apparent over the past few years that high…
Traditions tend to make you do what everyone else in your society is doing. Both of the tragic stories “The Lottery”, and “Harrison Bergeron” teach about how society tends to conform to certain traditions or ways of being, no matter how gruesome. Their societies conform to such bizarre traditions, in fear of what might happen to them if they do not comply year after year.…
" The most violent element in society is ignorance" (Emma Goldman). In 1948 Shirley Jackson had her short story "The Lottery'' published. This was right when the world started to recover from the events of World War II. Jackson's short story has received much criticism due to the violence that it contains. Many readers believed that the brutal society that Jackson imagined does not exist. The purpose of the short story was to tell expose the society for being full of hypocrites and selfish people. Jackson wanted to point out how people will turn a blind eye on a situation until it involves them. An example of this would be how during World War II people would do nothing about the Holocaust or the concentrations camps that were responsible for the deaths of millions of people. People did not take matters into their own hands until they were the ones face with those struggles. Throughout the short story there are several themes developed. This important messages can be applied to the real world to fix flaws that society contains.…
Answer the following questions in complete sentences on your own paper. Provide quotations (with page/line numbers) from the story to support your answers.…
One question that many people ask is, should pros be allowed to draft players before they graduate, most people don’t agree with this. Although many sports team draft players before they graduate would it affect the player’s future. There are a lot of things that the player should think about, if they are going to have a good rookie season, should he leave earlier so he doesn't get a career ending injury, and if their ready for the challenge .…
Recently in the news, there was a report on the five University of Kentucky basketball players that decided to enter the NBA draft after only their freshmen season. Sure, they were told of the millions of dollars they could make in professional sports, but were they given the odds of them even reaching that big payday? From picks 5-10 in the draft, the success rate of the player becoming a league average starter is about 30%, then for the rest of the first round, picks 11-30 have around a 10% chance (Thread:15 year Basketball Analysis). But even after given the odds, most of the players will choose to enter the draft because if they continue to play and attend college, they could hurt themselves and lose out on all the money. But what happens when the athlete doesn’t make it? Then he becomes just another person in his early 20s without a college degree, looking for a job. But what if colleges were to offer the players an added incentive to stay, promise a type of salary so the athlete could make some extra money to help with his tuition cost, maintain a social life, and stay in school to finish his degree? Because even on a full scholarship, it does not cover the entire cost, the IRS taxes the scholarship leaving the player about $3,200-$3,500 short a year. This is why paying college athletes makes sense, because it will help keep young adults in school to finish their degrees and help them financially to achieve a better future. College athletes deserve to be paid because sports take up about 40 hours a week, which could translate to a full time job. So why should the players not get paid for doing his job? That is the question that is keeping most student-athletes from completing their education and chancing not only professional sports, but their futures as well.…
The NBA is considered to be the premier men's basketball league in the country. Most players anticipate their name being called in the NBA draft. The draft decides how much money and for what team they play for the first few years. The average salary for an NBA player today is about 5 million dollars. With a salary like this, it’s no wonder why NBA athletes are some of the elite basketball players in the country. They get to play the game they love in front on millions of people. Another appealing aspect is that these athletes stay in the United States with family and friends. Because the majority of…
Although it seems like quite a startling proposal, when you look further into its benefits, this idea seems to be a nifty solution to this prolonged problem that may never be solved. Although it would take much away from the current NBA players, the elimination of the program would offer greater satisfaction to other more hardworking, less greedy, better performing professional sports players in the country. Because the NBA will no longer exist, many of its services will be left to accommodate other sports teams. All of the trainers, owners, sales representatives, cheerleaders, equipment (such as weight lifting machines, Gatorade coolers, etc.), mascots, and water boys can use their talent within the basketball world to help better those in other sports and organizations.…
College football and basketball for years have been the highest producing revenue sports in NCAA. More than $470 million in new money poured into major college athletics programs last year, boosting spending on sports, even though we’re in rough economic times. Most of the money made in athletics revenue was because elevation in money generated through multi-media rights deals, donations and ticket receipts, but schools also continued increasing their subsidies from student fees and institutional funds (Berkowitz). Helping with the success of revenues in schools are wins by football teams and basketball teams. 6.2 billion was spent…
