NCAA and Soccer

The NCAA and soccer are not really heard nationally like basketball and football. In fact, not that many know about college soccer unless you do some research into it. And the only national attention it gets is when it's the final four. When you look at football and basketball, they have every single game televised, all on different channels too. Soccer also has a tournament just like football and basketball, you just won't know until the final four.

Another thing to point out is scholarships. Football and basketball are able to hand a couple of scholarships. Soccer is only allowed to hand out one scholarship a year. Many people think that soccer should be able to hand out more than one per year. Many people thinks it's unfair that football and basketball can do it with all of their recruits but soccer can only do it one of their recruits.

What the Team Owes the Fans

In sports, the team should owe their fans a good season. Maybe not get into the playoffs, but show that they tried every single game. Even a winning season a good enough. But there are years where some teams don't really try and the fans don't get happy with team. For example, a couple years back the Philadelphia 76ers were really bad. One of the worst in the entire league. Many thought that the team were tanking on purpose. some saw this as good, but a lot saw this as bad. Many people were unhappy with the Sixers and thought that they should at least try. If I were the Sixers organization, the only reason I would be doing this is to restart essentially. And by doing this i would like to make the playoffs in the incoming years and possibly win a championship.

Fans Rights

The fans rights or duties at a soccer is to watch the game and cheer their side on. The fans at a soccer game should not be doing anything else then that. In today's world, fans often like to run on the field and disturb the play of game. Many people don't understand why these people do this because it interrupts the game. Also a lot of fans chant racial chants and very inappropriate chants. A lot of these chants are heard of by the players and it affects them. It affects players so much that they want to be transferred to a different club. For instance, Kevin Prince Boateng played at AC Milan. During one of the games against Pro Patria, Boateng heard racial chants coming form the stands. Once hearing these chants he stops playing, picks up the ball and punts at the fans. After he did that he walks off the field. Boateng after the game said that if he heard any racial chants he would walk off the field no matter what.

Men In Blazers

The show Men In Blazers, ratings gone up and up it seems like after every show. The show is about the week or weekend of soccer in review. The host Roger Bennett and Michael Davies look at most of the premier league games. They also look at a lot of international games, when the premier league is on international break, More recently the Men In Blazers take a slight look on the MLS too. When Roger and Michael do the review on the games from the past week, they like to put their own little twist on it. And what I mean by that, they have there own sense of humor that most people will not get if you don't watch soccer. These guys do a great job of giving the premier league the publicity it deserves and they have fun with it too. If they continue to keep on giving the premier league the spotlight it deserves, more people will watch the premier league in the mornings.

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.