A Little Background Never Hurt Anyone
June 17, 2007
As a grad student studying sport management I’ve been exposed to a lot of different ways to look at sport. I’ve been a fan of sports since I was a child but until I started this program I never really thought of other aspects of sport outside of competition. The purpose of this website is just to talk about the impact that sport plays on popular culture. Sport is everywhere. You can see it in movies and TV shows and it can be heard in music. Whether you like it or not sports impact your lives on almost a daily basis.
My big plan for this blog is just to discuss a little bit of everything. I hope to be reviewing some sports related films such as Brian’s Song, Field of Dreams, Rocky, Bend it Like Beckham and The Natural. I may look into some older films as well. I will also gladly review any movies that anyone asks me about. The films will be reviewed not just for entertainment value but also picking up on some of the social aspects as well.
Current sports news will definitely be open for debate here and if you’re reading this you’re going to be stuck reading about some of my favorite teams and why they’re important to me. This may be the only place in the world where you’ll read about the University of Georgia and East Tennessee State University in the same place.
So now that I’ve gotten this out of the way, feel free to leave me some feedback.
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Curt Schilling | June 17, 2007 at 7:53 pm
Where do I begin? The Omerta Rules? (The Code of Silence)
TV sports are NOT about sport. They are only about mass marketing for corporate clients. Sport is a theater show.
Disney Holdings (ESPN & ABC) is the #1 media broker of sports TV/radio time with its partnerships (ESPN) with college football, NFL, NBA and some NBA action.
Their sportingnews departments are mostly about promoting their own branded franchises (not actual news).
Steroids, cortisone, ampahetamines are ubiquitous and required in all TV sports. No hope without dope–yet the sportswriters all tow the same line. Denial, doper apology or scapegoating of a Canseco, Palmiero, Bonds, Claurett whislt defending Sossa, Clemens, Schilling, Howard, Puljols, Ortiz, A-Rod, Tom Brady, Pacman Jones, Joey Porter, Michael Vick, Lance Armstrong.
Besides the rampant doping of atheltes, corked bats illegal gaming and many other methods of event fixing goes on. These palor tricks help to ensure the ‘right team wins’ and that TV Q ratings are maximized.
Nike’s Tiger Woods defeat to a chain smoker–was a very rare exception.
Nike endorses drug cheats in order to sell merchandise. It works depite embarassing rape charges and doping suspensions:
Kobe Bryant (rape)
Marion Jones (EPO)
Lance Pharmstrong (EPO, insulin, corticosteroid, cow blood)
Baroid Bonds (steroids, tax evasion and philandering)
Jason Giambi (steroids and female hormones)
Kelli White (EPO & steroids)
Justin Gatlin (exogenous testosterone)
Tim Montgomery (EPO & steroids)
Regina Jacobs (EPO & steroids)
Michelle Collins (EPO & steroids)
Tori Edwards (Balco)
LaTasha Jenkins (exogenous testosterone)
Doped atheltes sell product and promot TV ratings. It is all good for revenues and client product sales.
The TV executives know all about steroids, corked bats and cheating–asn they do not mind at all. Only revenue growth matters and expansion into new media marketplaces. (eg: Asia)
Winning counts, cheating can be easily denied away. Fans are imbeciles who believe anything coming out of a TV tube.
Anyone going into so-called ’sports management’ will need to lose their ethics–if they had any, and enjoy working with drug mules, drug & alcohol addicts and spousal abuse matters. It is the very nature of the business. (that’s the chief management part)
The industry does pay very well—only because it is so filthy dirty.