I love sports. From playing all kinds of sports, to watching events with family and friends, sports are a staple in my life. And when one wants to know the happenings of any athletic event, the only place to turn for all the coverage is ESPN. ESPN is one the largest news publishers in the world. What separates this network from the other news giants such as Fox, CBS and CNN is it primarily covers news around the sports world. A majority of people would recognize ESPN’s signature news program “SportsCenter”. SportsCenter is the number one sports news program in American television (Badenhausen, 2012). From elementary school buzzer-beaters, to figure skating, to the Super Bowl, if sports news happens, SportsCenter will cover it. SportsCenter has become so popular because it allows men to feel masculine by giving them an outlet of competition and the ability to act as the primal men of thousands of years ago. Where SportsCenter sometimes runs into trouble is when they cover something too much. SportsCenter has built up a reputation of being biased towards certain teams and athletes. This bias leads to questions about SportsCenter’s journalistic ethics. How SportsCenter chooses to deal with these issues directly leads to their success or failure. SportsCenter has become so popular due to the way it can make people, especially males, feel when watching sports. It can create feelings that connect back thousands of years to when none of the modern day sports even existed. During an episode of SportsCenter “(It) all adds up to the perfect story: a staged contest that fittingly resembles the drama inside the ancient coliseum, from which they can carve a gripping tale of heroes and villains”(Pelosi, 2012). This shows that people feel the... ... middle of paper ... ...s Worth $40 Billion As The World's Most Valuable Media Property." Forbes. Forbes Magazine, 09 Nov. 2012. Web. 26 Feb. 2014. . Kent, Milton. "It's Time for Some Changes at ESPN." AOL News. AOL News, 16 July 2010. Web. 27 Feb. 2014. . McVeigh, Alex. "Miami Heat: ESPN's Coverage of LeBron James and Co. Bordering on Irresponsible." Bleacher Report. Bleacher Report, 27 Oct. 2010. Web. 27 Feb. 2014. . Pelosi, JP. "Why Do Men Watch Sports?" The Good Men Project. WordPress, 21 Mar. 2012. Web. 27 Feb. 2014. .
Rick Reilly, in his ESPN column (2007), contends that sports competitions are more than simple games, instead, they are events capable of bringing people together in unique ways. He reinforces his contention by integrating inspirational anecdotal evidence, bold syntax, and unvarnished diction. Reilly’s purpose is to point out the importance and humanity of sports in order to convince a college professor and readers of sports magazines that sports writing is indeed an advanced and valuable profession. He assumes a humorous tone (“...most important- sports is the place where beer tastes best”) for an audience of sports magazine readers, but more specifically, a professor that told him that he was “better than sports.”
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Every man sitting around our big screen T.V. has his own team to cheer for, which usually causes many spirited discussions during the four quarters of testosterone induced insanity. As the game plays on we all grow further and further engrossed in watching. As the women talk in the kitchen and the children run around, sometimes even right in front of the television, our stares never stray from the glowing giver of joy.
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In the United States, Football is one sport that most men love watching, may it be on television or live stadium (Chandler, 1988). For example, men are willing and able to sit down at home in front of the television for more than six hours just watching the football games and wouldn’t sit down doing any other thing for more than 15 minutes. The questions needed to be asked in the back of our minds are; by the men watching football games, what are the gains met and what the satisfactions are they get after watching them after hours, weeks and even months. What attracts them to devote most of their spare time to watching the football games? One obvious answer to this is the entertainment within the games as the men get something to entertain them apart from what they do in their boring daily routines. Taking another directional argument; rather than the amusement football games offer to the men, they offer some thi...
In a state known for sports, from high school to professional, Tampa Bay is a city that lives and breathes sports. Teams like the Rays (MLB), Buccaneers (NFL), and the Lightning (NHL) are all competing for the hearts an attention of the citizens of Tampa and beyond. In order to win this competition, teams need media exposure. The purpose of this paper is to perform a content analysis of the Tampa Bay Times by looking at the frequency and content of the sport media coverage of the professional sports teams in Tampa Bay from January 29, 2018 to February 16, 2018.
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Coakley (2009) starts off the chapter by introducing how participation in organized sports came about and how gender roles played a major role early on. He describes how most programs were for young boys with the hope that being involved would groom them to become productive in the economy. Girls were usually disregarded and ended up sitting in the stands watching their sibling’s ga...
Can women's sports establish itself as a topic of on-going media and journalism curiosity? Currently TV stations do minimal coverage of women's sports, while newspapers and magazines do just a little bit better. In a recent interview with Gary Webb, a sports writer for The Spectrum, he says that "the people have demonstrated that there is an audience that loves hearing about women athletes. After all, they are somebody's kids, sisters, and moms". I learned that these sports writers love to cover women's games, especially girls highschool basketball games. Gary said that he would rather watch a Parowan-Beaver girls game over the boys anyday. Karen Winegar, staff writer for the The Star Tribune of Minnesota said., "Portrayal of female athletes is improving, but despite increasing interest and participation, their sports are getting no more coverage than they got five years ago" (1A+). Women's sports participation will surely continue to grow in the future, so the media and journalists better be prepared to increase their coverage accordingly.
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ESPN also likes to give the viewer a little bit of knowledge about the players of a particular game. Most of these interviews or stories are extremely short and really, a viewer gains no real amount of knowledge. The viewer must sit back and hear what the producers of the show want them to hear. There is no choice of whether the viewer watches highlights of baseball or gets the story about Sarah Hughes and how she injured her leg muscle. The website www.msn.espn.go.com gives viewers another look at a lot of the same stories as the television show, but it offers something more.... ...