The following blog post was provided by Sara Braatz:
Childhood is an exciting and impressionable time is one's life. Many youth spend much of their childhood playing sports in organized leagues where parents are their biggest cheerleaders. Many parents often become upset when their child does not perform to their expectations, or at all. A recent study (see http://www.nays.org/fullstory.cfm?articleid=10389) shows parents in the United States display the worst behavior at youth sporting events. Parents often become angry at coaches or officials and even gone so far as to fight or shoot officials (see http://www.naso.org/sportsmanship/badsports.html). Children watch their parents behave in such a manner and believe it is acceptable for them to behave in this way as well. What steps should we take to reduce to occurrence of such behaviors among adults and children to enhance the sport experience for all.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
GPA and Sport
This blog was provided by Cy Wainwright:
Does competitive sports contribute to education? High school sports VS College. In high school you are required to have a 2.0 same as college but does it make a difference having a teacher and a coach making sure you succeed? Where college you only have a coach? Think of Boobie Miles (Friday Night Lights) case for example. Try and predict if he was to go into college what do you see his outcome being?
Does competitive sports contribute to education? High school sports VS College. In high school you are required to have a 2.0 same as college but does it make a difference having a teacher and a coach making sure you succeed? Where college you only have a coach? Think of Boobie Miles (Friday Night Lights) case for example. Try and predict if he was to go into college what do you see his outcome being?
Is sport recession proof?
The following post was provided by Jeremy Crowley:
Have you gone to a professional game in the last year? Attending sporting events has been seen as a luxury since the games are usually on TV, so why go to the games? Sports are an integral part of our society as we have seen in this class and throughout our lives. Many people cherish their sports or sport teams so it would seem that the sports industry would be recession proof. However, recent figures regarding the biggest sporting event in America, Super Bowl, has shown a different story. Here is a short article relating sports to the recession http://blogs.barrons.com/stockstowatchtoday/2009/01/28/are-sports-recession-proof-not-judging-by-super-bowl-festivities/. Discuss sports as being recession proof or not? Use your own experiences to explain why people are continuing to attend games or stop attending?
Have you gone to a professional game in the last year? Attending sporting events has been seen as a luxury since the games are usually on TV, so why go to the games? Sports are an integral part of our society as we have seen in this class and throughout our lives. Many people cherish their sports or sport teams so it would seem that the sports industry would be recession proof. However, recent figures regarding the biggest sporting event in America, Super Bowl, has shown a different story. Here is a short article relating sports to the recession http://blogs.barrons.com/stockstowatchtoday/2009/01/28/are-sports-recession-proof-not-judging-by-super-bowl-festivities/. Discuss sports as being recession proof or not? Use your own experiences to explain why people are continuing to attend games or stop attending?
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Sport and Religion
This Post was provided by Tommi Richards:
Have you ever heard of FCA (Fellowship of Christian Athletes)? Were you involved in High School? If you were involved, what about the program made you want to belong to it? Why was FCA's approach intriguing? Does faith really play a role in sports, and if so, provide personal examples. Do you think FCA provides role models to the younger generation rather than many of the images in the media today? If you were never involved in FCA, were there other faith-based programs that you were involved in? If you are totally against FCA or any program like it, what are your reasons? You don't need to answer every question, but these are just some to think about...
Have you ever heard of FCA (Fellowship of Christian Athletes)? Were you involved in High School? If you were involved, what about the program made you want to belong to it? Why was FCA's approach intriguing? Does faith really play a role in sports, and if so, provide personal examples. Do you think FCA provides role models to the younger generation rather than many of the images in the media today? If you were never involved in FCA, were there other faith-based programs that you were involved in? If you are totally against FCA or any program like it, what are your reasons? You don't need to answer every question, but these are just some to think about...
Youth Sports - Travel Teams
This Post was provided by Doug Patterson:
I am on the board of directors for the Sauk Rapids Youth Baseball Association(SRYBA) Currently we are a travel baseball program that serves kids 9-15 years old. We have tryouts and then place kids on travel teams. Our travel teams play in the gopher state league and travel throughout central Minnesota and the north metro towns. The rest of the kids play in an in-house league were we have the rest of the teams evenly split. The last couple of years we have had great numbers in our younger teams but have lost kids as they got older. Why do you think we are losing kids and what do you think we should do to keep our numbers growing? Right now the things we are looking at doing is making the whole association in-house playing local teams like Sartell, Cold Spring, Foley and Clearwater. Keep some combination of both or put all our kids on traveling teams. I have my own personal views on what we should do but interested to get feedback from other people.
I am on the board of directors for the Sauk Rapids Youth Baseball Association(SRYBA) Currently we are a travel baseball program that serves kids 9-15 years old. We have tryouts and then place kids on travel teams. Our travel teams play in the gopher state league and travel throughout central Minnesota and the north metro towns. The rest of the kids play in an in-house league were we have the rest of the teams evenly split. The last couple of years we have had great numbers in our younger teams but have lost kids as they got older. Why do you think we are losing kids and what do you think we should do to keep our numbers growing? Right now the things we are looking at doing is making the whole association in-house playing local teams like Sartell, Cold Spring, Foley and Clearwater. Keep some combination of both or put all our kids on traveling teams. I have my own personal views on what we should do but interested to get feedback from other people.
Moneyball!
This Post was created by Kevin Lindstrom:
Moneyball (Lewis, 2004) tells the story of General Manager Billy Beane's quest to build a winner out of a small-market, low-budget major league baseball franchise, the Oakland A's. He does this via "uncoventional" methods, including drafting and signing players other teams have little interest in, being selective and aggressive in the trade market, and micromanaging the on-field moves of the team. All of this is juxtaposed to teams like the New York Yankees, who essentially buy success by spending many times the amount of the A's on players. What kind of social world do you believe is constructed for players and coaches when it is clear that they are at a financial disadvantage? How does being at a financial disadvantage shape social worlds at other levels of sport, including the youth level?
Moneyball (Lewis, 2004) tells the story of General Manager Billy Beane's quest to build a winner out of a small-market, low-budget major league baseball franchise, the Oakland A's. He does this via "uncoventional" methods, including drafting and signing players other teams have little interest in, being selective and aggressive in the trade market, and micromanaging the on-field moves of the team. All of this is juxtaposed to teams like the New York Yankees, who essentially buy success by spending many times the amount of the A's on players. What kind of social world do you believe is constructed for players and coaches when it is clear that they are at a financial disadvantage? How does being at a financial disadvantage shape social worlds at other levels of sport, including the youth level?
Monday, July 19, 2010
Sport and the Economy - Issues of Race
This blog was created by Randy Quistorff
...When Tiger Woods starting winning golf tournaments in the Professional Golfers Association, pressure started to mount for him to designate what racial group he was a part of. After winning the 1997 Masters the pressure put on Woods by the media to identify what racial group he was a part of intensified. When appearing on Oprah, Tiger tried to put the racial questions to rest by saying he was "Cablinasian", which was a word Tiger made up to describe all of his ethnic background. As a result of Tiger's Cablinasian statement, many African-Americans were calling Tiger a sell out and telling him he had committed one of the greatest crimes a black person can make: not being "black enough. Having failed to difuse the situation, Tiger turned serious and issue a stern and pointed statement, which he claimed would be the the final and only comment he would make on the issue: "My parents have taught me to always be proud of my ethnic background. Please rest assured that is and will always be the case. Truthfully, I feel very fortunate and EQUALLY PROUD, to be both African American and Asian. The critical and fundamental point point is that ethnic background and/or composition should NOT make a difference. It does NOT make a difference to me. The bottom line is that I am an American...and proud of it! That is who I am and what I am. Now, with your cooperation, I hope I can just be a golfer and a human being"...[Information taken from Shaun Powell's book Souled Out? pgs 150-151)] Do athletes "owe" it to society to be a part of a certain racial and ethnic group?
...When Tiger Woods starting winning golf tournaments in the Professional Golfers Association, pressure started to mount for him to designate what racial group he was a part of. After winning the 1997 Masters the pressure put on Woods by the media to identify what racial group he was a part of intensified. When appearing on Oprah, Tiger tried to put the racial questions to rest by saying he was "Cablinasian", which was a word Tiger made up to describe all of his ethnic background. As a result of Tiger's Cablinasian statement, many African-Americans were calling Tiger a sell out and telling him he had committed one of the greatest crimes a black person can make: not being "black enough. Having failed to difuse the situation, Tiger turned serious and issue a stern and pointed statement, which he claimed would be the the final and only comment he would make on the issue: "My parents have taught me to always be proud of my ethnic background. Please rest assured that is and will always be the case. Truthfully, I feel very fortunate and EQUALLY PROUD, to be both African American and Asian. The critical and fundamental point point is that ethnic background and/or composition should NOT make a difference. It does NOT make a difference to me. The bottom line is that I am an American...and proud of it! That is who I am and what I am. Now, with your cooperation, I hope I can just be a golfer and a human being"...[Information taken from Shaun Powell's book Souled Out? pgs 150-151)] Do athletes "owe" it to society to be a part of a certain racial and ethnic group?
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