Each team selected into the BCS is given between ten and thirteen million dollars to share with their conference, depending on the revenue generated from the game (espn, College Football Gameday, 2003). ... I believe it's the only answer to the problem at the big schools," according to highly respected college football analysis, Kirk Herbstreit (espn Sportscenter, December 8, 2003) College football has been around for more than a hundred years and so has the controversy surrounding it. ... According to Mike Williams, an All-American wide receiver for the University of Southern Califor...
I perked up just a little to hear Dick Vitale, now an analyst with ESPN but also a former basketball coach expressing his views on whether or not college athletes should be paid. ... "Notre Dame is paid fifty million dollars a year for broadcasting rights to their football games by CBS according to an ESPN reporter"(Whitlock). ...
Are High School Athletes Ready for Pros? Imagine being eighteen years old again. You are a broke high school teen who struggles to make it day to day on the joke of a paycheck that you get from your minimum wage job down the street. You wonder if your rusted and sputtering car is going to ma...
History of Basketball Basketball was invented in 1891 in Springfield Massachusetts. The Game was invented by Dr. James Naismith. He had to think of a game to be played indoors during the cold New England winters. He was only given 14 days by Dr. Luther Gulick, head of physical education for the ...
The game of basketball was initially created as an indoor activity to keep football players conditioned during the winter months after the football season was over (Sprinfield College, 2014). Dr. Luther Halsey Gulick was the superintendent of physical education at Springfield College in 1891, he cha...