Just a Game

Amber Lee once posted on Bleacherreport.com : "There are more women holding prominent positions in the sports media today than ever before. Some have already found unprecedented success, while many others are stars on the rise who are just getting started." If anyone is up to date on current sports writing or reporting, then they will surely be able to recall hearing from a woman in these venues.  The reason is that it is no longer 1977 .  I feel like the issue of women sports reporters not being treated as equals has been pounded into the ground so deeply, and fertilized by evidence so well that it is finally a flourishing tree.  The first fruit is beginning to ripen and fall.  I disagree with this article that was written by A. Big Country , in which was claimed that the sexism battle for women sports reporters was far from over.  Every case that this guest blogger was referring to didn't happen even after 1990!  Those were old problems.  The main concern amongs

When dealing with legislation, rules, regulations, policies, laws, bylaws, treaties, agreements, terms, etc. It is easy to get burned out, throw hands in the air, and give up.  It is easy to just go ahead and let someone else who is smarter and better qualified deal with the problem. Many sports fans today feel this way when it comes to athletes and mainstream media's use of social media and the policies surround this vast jungle. Ohio State and Clemson Universities met in the NCAA college football playoffs in December of '16.  There was many factors that caused the great buzz regarding this game, and one factor was the social media battle  that persisted between the two teams before and after the game.  Things were said that many argue should never have been said.  Things that cannot be undone, and that are adding to the already complex lives of those student athletes and their respective teams.  One thing that may have helped in the events leading up to th

Among the most popular people on social media are today's star athletes.  For instance, world famous soccer player, Cristiano Ronaldo, has over 51 million Twitter followers .  That's similar to the entire country of South Korea following him on Twitter!  Needless to say, if Ronaldo wants to get a piece of information to his fans, he can do so with a few strokes of the fingers and he has the world's attention. But what about athletes who do not use social media? Why do they not use it, and how does it effect their personal and professional lives? The truth is, I am not aware of any professional athletes that do not participate in social media.  This is an aspect that has permeated our lives, and for very good reason.  There are very many cases where athletes have ruined their image and/or their teams reputation through the usage of various social media platforms. Here are just a few reasons that professional athletes need to have a (well-monitored) social medi