Premier League Rights

In the year 2012 NBC made a three year starting in the 2013-14 season to air all 380 games each season. The deal will run out after the 2015-16 season. Fox was the network that had the English Premier League before NBC bought for about $83 million. By the end of the three years it will be about $250 million. The Premier League is probably the most talented League in the world compared to competition and the teams that are in it. It's a good thing that NBC bought out the contract from Fox because a lot more people are beginning to watch their favorite team play live. When Fox owned the rights to the Premier League, the only showed a handful of games. After the 2014-15 season the league ratings went up 15% from the season before. This year so far the rating have gone up at least 36% from last year, and the year isn't over yet. It seems with NBC buying the Premier League off of Fox the ratings have gone up and it looks like the ratings will continue to go up with NBC having the rights of the Premier League.

Role Models

In 1993, Charles Barkley did a commercial for Nike saying that he's not a role model, he just dunks and scores points on the basketball court. This brought a lot of controversy about players being role models. If you ask me there are some players that people look up to as role models. For example Cristiano Ronaldo ad Leo Messi. It seems like these two players can do no wrong on and off the field. On the field these two are hands down the best on the field when playing. These players are at the top of their class and these players have broke many records in different leagues. And off the field these players are great. They don't smoke or drink. They are always watching film and seeing how they can improve their game. A player that I wouldn't choose to be a role model is Mario Balotelli. This man has had a lot of problems with a bunch of different clubs. He also had some problems off the field to. An example of this would be when Mario set off fireworks in his own house and caught his house on fire.

Szczensy Caught Smoking in the Shower

Goalkeeper Wojciech Szczensy, starting goalkeeper for Arsenal, was caught smoking a cigarette in the shower after a loss against Southampton. After reports of Szczensy was caught smoking in the shower he was fined 20,000 euros. Also with being fined Arsene Wenger has benched Szczeny and has picked David Ospina as Arsenals number one goalkeeper. Ever since this incident Szczeny has been benched ever since. When asked about his decision, Arsene Wenger said, "I don' know, but how can you take a decision? You know how you can take a decision." Arsene Wenger also adds that he didn't bench Szczeny because he was caught smoking in the shower. Wneger said, "Look I don't want to talk too much about that because the more I talk , the less I inform you. Was the smoking incident the reason? No. Honestly, no." Information from http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2905379/Arsenal-manager-Arsene-Wenger-insists-Wojciech-Szczesny-dropped-NOT-disciplinary-measure-smoking.html.

How the World Cup can Learn from the Super Bowl

The World Cup and the Super Bowl are probably two of the biggest competition in the world today. Even these two sports have their own criteria and things they do. For example, during the Super Bowl there are funny commercials that come on just about about television break. Even though during the World Cup does have many television breaks, they can possibly make funny commercials to intrigue people into the sport. It can be a start of a world of new followers and hopefully continue all around the world. Another thing that the World Cup can learn from the Super Bowl is the time of each match during the World Cup. the Super Bowl this year started around 6:00. During the World Cup some of the matches started while a lot of people were still asleep. Even though this depends on where the world Cup is held, they should at least give the a country who doesn't get a chance to see their country play a chance to see them. This can possibly be the biggest thing the World Cup can learn from the Super Bowl.

Super Bowl Reaction

The tickets for the Super Bowl have skyrocketed this year compared to years in the past. These tickets cost a fortune compared to the tickets just a year ago. One of the reason this is because the Super Bowl was held in a city much warmer than last year. With the city much warmer than last year, it attracts more people. When it was held in New York just a year ago it was very cold and not many people wanted to travel to a city that was freezing. Also the Super Bowl had two teams that travel very well. With the teams that travel well, the tickets sell out fast and the left over tickets cost a fortune. According to  http://www.forbes.com/sites/darrenheitner/2015/02/01/why-have-2015-super-bowl-ticket-prices-skyrocketed/ , "It's due to speculative selling, it's common for ticket brokers to sell 'spec' tickets that they don't yet have in hand at higher prices,..." This was another controversy that many people thought they had tickets but the ticket brokers didn't actually have the tickets. The ticket broker told the people who initially bought the ticket that they have the ticket and they could get the ticket at the Super Bowl. But in actuality they had the ticket and sold it to another person for a higher price so they could get more money or the ticket broker advertised the ticket but never actually had the ticket to sell. Many people became upset when they found out that they couldn't go see their favorite team play in the Super Bowl.