Josh Samuels is a junior at Ohio State University. He recently told a New York Times reporter that he made his decision to attend college there when he attended a football game back in November, 2007, when he attended a football game in Columbus with Illinois as the opponent. He was taken in by the scope and pageantry of the game played before a crowd of over 100,000 fans.
(Editor’s Note. Drug policies remain a point of contention around the world. Great Britain continues to advocate for its hard core policy on athletes caught violating anti-doing rules. The British rule remains in opposition to the official policy of the World Anti-Doping Association (WADA)).
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(Editor’s Note. Legalized gambling is an emotional issues for many Americans. Evan Weiner offers an opinion in favor of legalized gambling on team sports events. In these tough economic times, it is difficult to ignore the potential tax revenues available from an activity that flourishes legally offshore and illegally throughout the United States).
In the past 20 years over 100 new or renovated sports facilities have been developed in cities across the United States for use by professional sports teams. In Major League Baseball (MLB)l alone, 9 new stadiums were built between 1990 and 2000. When the Miami Marlins open their brand new facility in April it will be the 14th new stadium opened between 2000 and 2012.
(Editor’s Note. One of the major issues that any Olympic Games creates is what to do when the Games end with the facilities constructed to accommodate the competition. The following article deals with how the London Summer Games organizers and city officials plan to utilized the Olympic Village buildings following the Games).
On January 25, 2012 an article appeared on The Chronicle of Higher Education blog. The article covered the decision by the University of Maryland to name the basketball court at its shiny new basketball arena after Gary Williams, the long-time men’s coach who retired after the 2010 season.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is an organization created by colleges over 100 years ago in an effort to avoid federal government interference amid a growing number of serious injuries related to football. It was given regulatory powers regarding playing rules, eligibility, championship competitions, etc. After World War II, as college sports became more popular and television began to look to college sports for programming, the NCAA established, the first comprehensive recruiting rules.
(Editor’s Note. This piece is a review of the most recent book, “The Long Shadow of Coach Paul ‘Bear’ Bryant,” by Dr. Gaylon McCollough. It is the second book he has written that deals with lessons he learned while playing football at the University of Alabama for Paul “Bear” Bryant.)
This past weekend marked the 29th anniversary of the death of coaching legend, Paul “Bear” Bryant. Alabama fans may be basking in the spotlight created by its football team’s dominating win over LSU in the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) championship game on Jan. 9 and the fact that Coach Nick Saban has now guided the Crimson Tide to two national championships in three years. But Alabama fans will never forget that in the 25 seasons that Bryant was the head coach, the Tide won six national championships.
New head football coaches at major-college programs will be paid an average of nearly 35% more next season than what their predecessors made in 2011, a USA TODAY survey finds. The increase means the average basic compensation at the schools making changes will go from a little more than $1.1 million this past season to a little more than $1.5 million next season. This rise will fuel what is likely to be another annual increase in the pay for all head football coaches in the NCAA‘s Bowl Subdivision, even as instructional spending at many schools slows or declines amid economic struggles and shrinking state education budgets.
(Editor’s Note. Association football is the second most popular sport in India, behind cricket. India has won two Asian Games championships (1951 and 1962); but over the past few decades the sport languished with little financial support and poor leadership. In 2006 India signed an agreement with Brazil to import coaches and administrators to train coaches and help improve the sport’s infrastructure. The game was introduced to the sub-continent by British soldiers. Indeed, the Indian Football Association did not have any Indians on its governing board until the 1930s).
