...Soccer Players Wages Soccer is the most popular sport in the world with billions of people in all countries following their team. But despite soccer’s popularity, it does not seen right that soccer players should get paid the amounts they do when their job is not as worthwhile and life threatening as other jobs like soldiers and doctors. Currently the top ten players in the world earn between $15million to $50million a year, compare this with normal jobs where people earn $32,000 a year. The highest earning player is David Beckham who earns approximately $966,000 per week, working out to be $50 million per year (Kaitlin Madden).The only way to control the salaries of soccer players is for the soccer bodies such as UEFA and FIFA to put a cap on the amount of money a team is allowed to spend on player wages. No countries currently have a cap although Italian soccer teams had looked into it a few years ago but never went through with it. A cap system would not only lower wages but would ensure fairness between all the teams in a league. It is hard to justify these soccer players getting paid so much when they no longer seem to have any passion for the game. When players are representing their country playing for the national team many no longer sing the national anthem when it is being played before the game unlike the rugby players who sing there national anthem with such pride. It seems that soccer players are now only in it for the money and they don’t even care about winning...
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...Should professional athletes’ salaries be a limit? Should the professional athletes’ salaries be limited? This kind of question has been widespread and debated for a period of time. Why? It is because of the popularity of many sport competitions or simply sport fans around the world that support and make this happened. We have started to question about the appropriateness of the amount of salary the professional athletes are offered because the quantity is unbelievably rich and impossibly affordable in the view of common people. For instance, Gareth Bale, a Welsh soccer player, signed a world-record contract moving from his old club Tottenham Hotspur, London to Real Madrid, Spain. The contract is worth 100 million euros and has allowed him to earn 170,000 euros a week, and as we can see the amount of salary is highly beyond the average salary a person should get. This reason makes things understandable when we see our children writing in their articles that in the future they would like to be a professional athlete rather than a salary man. As a result, some people who view it as unfair would give recommendation that the athlete’s salary should be reduced and limited, so that that amount of money could be used for developing in other necessary fields. However, their opinions are likely ignored and taken no action because in the reality there are no such laws and regulations in the first place. In my opinion, there are three main reasons to support my viewpoint what the professional...
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...Should College Athletes be Paid? Imagine being a college student athlete. In high school you were a straight A student, played sports, and you would always get assignments completed in a timely manner. But things have changed. Now you have to practice every day, go to all the games, then work a late shift at McDonalds, go to your dorm, and get your homework done, just to get about 2 hours of sleep. This is the daily life of a college athlete. Even on the weekend: they have to go to all games. They spend more time dedicated to their college team than they do in any other area of their life. College athletes are very dedicated. They work more for their team than for any other area of their life. In fact, college athletes practice an average...
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...virtues of dedication, perseverance, endurance and self-discipline. Sports are an important part of life; it can bring people to together. In some cases give people a purpose. This is why it is important that sports are played properly and good ethics and values are shown. It is better to teach this to children, so it’s with them as they grow up. Sports are supposed to help us learn not only from defeat but from victory as well and in team sports we learn the importance of co-competiveness and moral values. This is also true when analyzing sports in real life. People participate in sports for different reasons. Some participate as a recreational thing or a pastime, while others participate in a sport as an industry or a business environment. Sports have been a huge public interest dating back to the gladiator fights and the early ages. The results back then were decided by an emperor, but today we have rules and regulations with umpires, referees, and judges that are there to apply these rules and make sure that each one is being followed. The existence of certain rules and regulations have led to many discussions of ethics as it concerns athletes, coaches, management, media, referees, fans, and agents. Everyone involved in sports are affected by the ethics that are involved. To a player, the way he/she plays the game is...
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...Managements Role in Players Being Violent Jennifer Grant BUS/ December 3, 2012 Dr. David Snow Managements Role in Players Being Violent When sports first started up they were meant to be something fun, to relieve stress, and teach youth about working hard, time management, teamwork, and to build character (Champion, Ruddell, & Thornton, 2012). Over the years, sports have gotten more and more competitive. Sports should have a positive impact on our community and serve as entertainment. If entertainment to our society is violence and causing harm to others then we are living in a messed up world. Management plays a major role in this violence by either being to tranquil in how they handle violence or even if they are encouraging the violence. When I was growing up the sports I participated in taught me about sportsmanship, character, being a good loser and winner, showing respect to others, teamwork, hard work, time management, social skills and more. My coaches played a big part in that, they made sure that we played fairly, and always played with sportsmanship. The coaches that I played under were great role models and winning did not mean anything if we didn’t do it the right way. In high school, we made it to the final four twice, won district all four years, were regional runner-ups twice and won regionals twice. We were very successful and at no point was violence being encouraged, and if there was any bad sportsmanship or violence...
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...by either sports or academic achievement. Focusing on the student population that attends for sports –related purposes, scouts tracked these students to pose the student to attend the represented institutions in the areas of mostly football or basketball. It is not that scouts do not focus on other sports, such as soccer or baseball; just that the marketability of college football or basketball appears to get the most attention from the institutions as well sports media. Obtaining a higher education leads to better-paying jobs and a potentially a better way of life. What about the urban student that lives in poverty that this may be his or her way to a better-living remains based on their athletic talents? They may be great at "hooping" or "can throw the distance" but can they write a term paper? The answer that may surprise most is the answer is yes; they can. However, they cannot afford to attend the local university in their home state let alone another state altogether. So, if they get into the university on a scholarship, play their heart out, and get their championship team to the bowl what do they get for all their hard work? Do all they deserve is a pat on the back when the college receives millions? What happens if they become injured on the field? What if the injury is life changing? What if the student-athlete decides they are not able to go pro? Does the university have their best interest? That is one of the most talked about a conversation in college...
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...dollars for the 2012-13 season (NCAA). Of these millions, not one penny will go to any of the 400,000 plus college athletes under NCAA rules (NCAA). This however, was not always the case. Prior to the formation of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in 1906, student groups frequently hired players without the stipulation that they must also be students at the university (NCAA). Due to these circumstances and poorly regulated play that often led to injuries, the NCAA was established to provide a safe and fair ‘playing field’ for student-athletes. However, today this regulatory board is not seen as beneficial by all members of society, and is especially negatively scrutinized by top performing student-athletes. In 2005, NCAA Football had an estimated total attendance of over 43 million compared to the NFL of over 17 million, while NCAA Basketball had estimated total attendance of over 30 million compared to the NBA of over 21 million (Humphys, 2008). Despite having more viewers, college athletes received no pay while professional players earned millions. This has prompted college athletes to argue that the NCAA regulations are inequitable. However, NCAA players are allowed to receive the $2.4 billion of annual scholarships granted to them, as well as travel expenses and catastrophic injury insurance coverage (NCAA). Due to the amount of various methods of compensations, many people argue that student-athletes are well cared for. Because of the high rewards at stake...
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...Sports, Youth and Character: A Critical Survey Robert K. Fullinwider* Institute for Philosophy & Public Policy University of Maryland * rkf@umd.edu CIRCLE WORKING PAPER 44 FEBRUARY 2006 CIRCLE Working Paper 44: February 2006 Sports, Youth and Character: A Critical Survey TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION....................................... 3 a. methodological limitations..................... 4 b. conceptual and theoretical infelicities...... 5 II. THE LESSONS OF SPORT......................... 5 III. BASICS................................................ 6 a. too much too early?.............................. 8 b. competition’s role understood ............... 11 c. competition, participation, and fun......... 12 d. not enough?........................................ 14 IV. WHAT CAN WE CONCLUDE?.................... 15 V. THE MICROWORLD OF PARTICIPATION...... 17 VI. APPENDIX A......................................... 19 a. Shields and Bredemeier...................... 19 a.1. moral maturity: what are psychologists looking for?............ 22 a.2. game thinking............................. 24 a.3. moral confusion........................... 25 b. Stoll, Lumpkin, Beller, and Hahm.............. 27 It has been recognized for centuries that sport can contribute to education values that make for the development of character and right social relations . . . . [Within this contribution] there are many intertwined and interwoven threads of influences...
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...Bachelor Thesis for the discipline European Studies: The effects of the Bosman-case on the professional football leagues with special regard to the top-five leagues Bachelor Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ramses A. Wessel Co-Reader: Dr. Tsjalle van der Burg Word count (Text only): 25686 Daniel Schmidt Helbecker Weg 30 58769 Nachrodt Germany daniel18schmidt@web.de Student number: s0146773 12.07.2007 1 Table of Contents: I List of Abbreviations…………………………………….………………….………………6 1.Introduction………...…………………………………………..…………….…..…………7 2. EU Sport politics and Sport Law……………………………………………...…...……9 2.1 Council of Ministers and Sport …………………………………….…,……10 2.2 The ECJ…………………………………………………………………....…….11 2.3 Walrave and Koch………………………………………………………….…..11 2.4 The Dona Case…………………………………………………..…………..….12 2.5 The legal situation for sport before the Bosman case……………..…...13 3.The Bosman Case………………………………………………………………….……..14 3.1 Transfer rules before Bosman…………………………………………….... 14 3.2 Jean-Marc Bosman………………………………………...………….……….15 3.3 The basic of the judgement ………...………………………………….…….16 3.4 Reactions of officials……………..………………………………….………..19 2 3.5 Ideas and outlooks of scholars for the future after the judgement…...20 3.6 Immediate results of the Bosman case……………..…………………...…21 4. Cases after Bosman…………………….…………………………………...…….…….22 4.1 The Lehtonen Case…………………………….……………………….……...23 4.2 Kolpak Case…………………………………………………………….……….24 ...
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...national levels. Social and cultural analysts have only recently started to investigate the wide variety of customs, values and social patterns that surround the game in different societies. This volume contributes to the widening focus of research by presenting new data and explanations of football-related violence. Episodes of violence associated with football are relatively infrequent, but the occasional violent events which attract great media attention have their roots in the rituals of the matches, the loyalties and identities of players and crowds and the wider cultures and politics of the host societies. This book provides a unique cross-national examination of patterns of order and conflict surrounding football matches from this perspective with examples provided by expert contributors from Scotland, England, Norway, the Netherlands, Italy, Argentina and the USA. This book will be of interest to an international readership of informed soccer and sport enthusiasts and students of sport, leisure, society, deviance and culture. Richard Giulianotti, Norman Bonney and Mike Hepworth are respectively Research Assistant, Senior Lecturer and Reader in the Department of Sociology, Aberdeen University, Scotland. Football, Violence and Social Identity Edited by Downloaded by [University of Ottawa] at 14:44 24 March 2014 Richard Giulianotti, Norman Bonney and Mike Hepworth London and New York First published 1994 by Routledge 11 New...
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...have argued that professional sports teams are profit maximising businesses, but it is a widely held view in Europe that professional football clubs are not run on a profit maximising basis. This belief has important implications for the impact of policy measures such as income redistribution that are widely advocated. This paper looks at the performance of sixteen English football clubs that acquired a stock exchange listing in the mid 1990s. If the European story is true, we should have observed a shift toward profit maximising behaviour at these clubs. This paper finds no evidence of any shift in this direction. This result is consistent with the view that football clubs in England have been much more oriented toward profit objectives than is normally allowed. Keywords: economics of sport, objective functions JEL classification number: L21, L83 We thank to Dirk Nitzsche for assistance with data collection. We thank Peter Sloane and seminar participants at the CARR Outreach workshop on business history for helpful comments. “Those clubs which have floated to become public companies – Manchester United, Newcastle United, Aston Villa, Chelsea, Tottenham- now have as their principal objective the making of money for their shareholders.” -David Conn, The Football Business, p154. 1. Introduction In North America it is commonplace, especially among economists, to think of the owners of professional sports teams as...
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...Reebok disputes sweatshop claims A News item from Business Respect, Issue Number 85, dated 22 Jul 2005 Reebok has described as 'inaccurate and unfair' accusations by the National Labor Committee that workers at its Honduras factory work in sweatshop condictions. The NLC said that Reebok paid only 19 cents to workers for each $75 jersey produced and suffered other treatment such as required pregnancy testing for women workers, and sought to draw attention to its claims through a demonstration outside the National Basketball Association store in New York. The company said in a statement that it would take further steps to assess workplace conditions at its Hansoll factory, but that it believed the claims were unjustified. The exchange comes as Nike and Gap have recently produced social and environmental reports giving new levels of frank disclosure around problems in the companies' supply chains. Posts Tagged ‘reebok’ Nike Just Did It. What Are Timberland, Adidas, Reebok and Clarks Waiting For? Friday, August 7th, 2009 Soon after we released our “Slaughtering the Amazon” report, Nike got in touch with us. The report showed that demand for shoe leather is one of the key drivers of deforestation in the Amazon, as rainforest is cleared to make room for the expanding cattle ranching industry. So Nike was keen to make sure that their business wasn’t contributing to Amazon destruction. Over the last few weeks we’ve been working with the company, and the good news is that...
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...Contents FOREWORD A.G. LAFLEY 9 CHAPTER 1: START ME UP 11 Here’s what I learned from five great businesses I’ve worked for: • Always surround yourself with Inspirational Players • Zig when others zag • Get out of the office and into the street • Live on the edge • Nothing is Impossible CHAPTER 2: TIME CHANGES EVERYTHING 23 The journey from products to trademarks, from trademarks to brands. A quick look at why brands are running out of juice as they confront the Attention Economy CHAPTER 3: EMOTIONAL RESCUE 37 Why I believe emotional connections can transform brands. If you spend your days reviewing data, read every word of this chapter. Twice. INSIGHTS: Maurice Lévy, Publicis Groupe CHAPTER 4: ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE 49 Taking brands to the next level depends on one four-letter word: L-O-V-E. INSIGHTS: Sean Fitzpatrick, sportsman; Tim Sanders, Yahoo! CHAPTER 5: GIMME SOME RESPECT 59 Love will change the way we do business, but only if it is built on Respect. No Respect, no Love. Simple. Let’s celebrate what Respect has achieved CHAPTER 6: LOVE IS IN THE AIR 65 Okay, so how do you create Loyalty Beyond Reason? INSIGHTS: Alan Webber, Fast Company magazine CHAPTER 7: BEAUTIFUL OBSESSION 73 So what are Lovemarks? They inspire Loyalty Beyond Reason through their obsession with Mystery, Sensuality, and Intimacy. Here are our first ideas about putting them into action. INSIGHTS: Jim Stengel, Procter & Gamble CHAPTER...
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...Contents FOREWORD A.G. LAFLEY CHAPTER 1: START ME UP Here’s what I learned from five great businesses I’ve worked for: • Always surround yourself with Inspirational Players • Zig when others zag • Get out of the office and into the street • Live on the edge • Nothing is Impossible 9 11 CHAPTER 2: TIME CHANGES EVERYTHING The journey from products to trademarks, from trademarks to brands. A quick look at why brands are running out of juice as they confront the Attention Economy 23 CHAPTER 3: EMOTIONAL RESCUE Why I believe emotional connections can transform brands. If you spend your days reviewing data, read every word of this chapter. Twice. INSIGHTS: Maurice Lévy, Publicis Groupe 37 CHAPTER 4: ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE Taking brands to the next level depends on one four-letter word: L-O-V-E. INSIGHTS: Sean Fitzpatrick, sportsman; Tim Sanders, Yahoo! 49 CHAPTER 5: GIMME SOME RESPECT Love will change the way we do business, but only if it is built on Respect. No Respect, no Love. Simple. Let’s celebrate what Respect has achieved 59 CHAPTER 6: LOVE IS IN THE AIR Okay, so how do you create Loyalty Beyond Reason? INSIGHTS: Alan Webber, Fast Company magazine 65 CHAPTER 7: BEAUTIFUL OBSESSION So what are Lovemarks? They inspire Loyalty Beyond Reason through their obsession with Mystery, Sensuality, and Intimacy. Here are our first ideas about putting them into action. INSIGHTS: Jim Stengel, Procter & Gamble 73 CHAPTER 8: ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DREAM ...
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...April 9, 2013 Live UP Marketing Campaign Client: Jawbone Product: UP Health Wristband Industry Background The Jawbone UP is a band and smartphone app that allows its’ users to be able to track their movements, sleep, and food consumption (Jawbone). The wristband makes it easier for users to live a healthier lifestyle in an organized manner. The Jawbone UP would be considered in the industry of fitness and wellness. Its competition includes companies like Basis Band, Fitbit, DirectLife, Adidas miCoach Pacer, Nike+, Valencell, and many other devices. The industry size for this product can be seen as large for that there are many competitors with the Jawbone UP and living healthier lifestyles is trending. Many companies such as Nike+ and Fitbit have been in the industry for quite some time creating most of the industry’s market share, but with many new companies creating tracking devices of their own as well as smartphone apps have made the industry larger and more competitive. Current trends involved in the fitness and wellness industry are being developed from individuals as well as corporations. Today, individuals are looking for new ways to lose weight, reduce the amount of stress in their lives, and live healthier lifestyle trends. Individuals will start to become more proactive in trying to keep up with these healthier lifestyles that will lead companies to involve themselves in this new market to combat the higher healthcare costs. Another major trend in the fitness...
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