Academic source 2

A USA Today article in 2005 called "College football fumbles minority hiring," gives statistics on how college football has a lack of black head coaches. Only 5 out of the 115 D-1 college football teams have black head coaches. The article explains that the NFL is growing in number of black coaches because more are trying to be hied because they feel they have better chance then the NCAA. The reason is because top of the line unviversities follow what they call tradition and they pride they consitency, even in their sports programs and espically their head coaches. Some consider this on some count of racism because it is almost impossible for black male to become a head coach, but their is a bigger chance in the smaller market unviserities and even lower divisions. 






This article really gives a good reference and explains clearly and rough situation black cpahces are faced with to get better coaching jobs. This is on some count i think of racism, but its not intended. But it just proves not not everyone has the same chance as everyone which is stated in the consitituation. 




"The NCAA does not have the powers that the NFL owners have delegated to their commissioner. Yet the NCAA has been able to impose some uniformity on other fronts. Earlier this year, for instance, it adopted tough new academic standards for student athletes; they are not perfect. If the NCAA had national hiring standards, they wouldn't be either."




"The fact that they are denied that opportunity is a national embarrassment, and a marker of racism's lingering grip a half-century after desegregation began."

Precis

IN "Racism of Sports" by Richard Lapchick, he goes into detail about certain academic programs that have shown how racism and segregation without them even knowing that they are, Geogretown made an national championship run in 2004, during the big east tournment and the national tournanmnt, their were signs that the Team was treating their differnet race players, diferently. People were noticing that the black students usually stayed in a different hotel for space issues, there were no space issues. Another example of racism that they brought up was how their are not enough black colleges in college football. They have a better percentage then the NFL of having black coaches but still do not have enough according to people.

The New Plantation. Phil Hawkins

The aricle i have found has gone into detail on how their is too much diversirt in sports teams in highly white unviserities. Top notch schools are mentioned such as ASU, CU Boulder, BYU and other division one colleges are being critized for the llopsided population. But this comes down to sports where the football, soccer, baseball, basketball, and hockey teams have little or no diversirty in race. In football their isnt the biggest issue but in the other sports. It is coming to a concern to the adminstrative and staff, and the NCAA.


"Black students have made a major shift from attending traditional Black colleges in the south, to atteding white colleges throughout the United States."

"Many Black Athletes leave communities and schools where they are the mahority not really being "outnumbered""

The New Plantation examines the controversial relationship between predominantly White NCAA Division I Institutions (PWI's) and black athletes, utilizing an internal colonial model. It provides a much-needed in-depth analysis to fully comprehend the magnitude of the forces at work that impact black athletes' experiences at PWI's. Hawkins provides a conceptual framework for understanding the structural arrangements of PWI's and how they present challenges to Black athletes' academic success; yet, challenges some have overcome

and gone on to successful careers, while many have succumbed to these prevailing structural arrangements and have not benefited accordingly. The work is a call for academic reform, collective accountability from the communities that bear the burden of nurturing this athletic talent and the institutions that benefit from it, and collective consciousness to the Black male athletes that make of the largest percentage of athletes who generate the most revenue for the NCAA and its member institutions. Its hope is to promote a balanced exchange in the athletic services rendered and the educational services received.

Racist topics

1. schools, 2. sports. 3. classrooms. 4. home. 5. firends 6. hosspitals. 7. in america. 8. and in the world.

Raciscism in sports good be a good topics because it is very wide kn own that some sports have very few races

Introduction

Since 2005, 32 players in Major League Baseball have been suspended for performance enhancers, that is the most by any professional sport. No sport is perfect, every sport has some sort of drug using issue that needs to be addressed, but i pick on MLB because it that biggest growing problem. Our decade has been labeled as the steroid era, which already presents a problem. I'm not as disappointed in the steroid use as much as people are now not caring anymore because they love their favorite players. Another reason why i think MLB is becoming a problem in society is that is literally encourages its players to be disloyal to their original teams. It wants the biggest named players to go to the biggest market so more people can have a chance of watching them. Perfect example is that it seems every star, after his contract is over, wants to side with Yankees or Red Sox and that's how its been for awhile. This on going departure of superstars from small market teams gives these teams no chance of winning a world series for years to come as well.

I've watched perfessional sports since i could turn on a TV. Sports is my true hobby and what i like to do on my spare time. I enjoy all sports and true sport talent and I have dedicated my profession to have something to do with sports. Professional sports portrays the best talent in the world, but their are problems in all sports that shows fraud and lies. I see the biggest and most growing problem in Major League Baseball. The past 15 years have been known has the steroid era and it is clear why. Some of what people call the greatest players to ever play have admitted to taking some sort of steroid, Babe Ruth, Mark Mcquiere, Sammy Sosa, Alex Rodriguez. It teaches young ones that its really ok to do these drugs, if your great.

Schloraly Scources

http://s3images.coroflot.com/user_files/individual_files/298168_SZayHvStASQTCK9aFFVPPAi5n.pdf

http://www.nesl.edu/userfiles/file/lawreview/vol40/3/Carroll.pdf

http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/soliveros/documents/EWMBA%20211/Final%20projects/Steroids%20and%20Major%20League%20Baseball.pdf

http://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1048&context=sportslaw&sei-redir=1&referer=http%3A%2F%2Fscholar.google.com%2Fscholar%3Fstart%3D10%26q%3Ddisloyalty%2Bin%2Bmlb%26hl%3Den%26as_sdt%3D0%2C6#search=%22disloyalty%20mlb%22

http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2555&context=colpub_review&sei-redir=1&referer=http%3A%2F%2Fscholar.google.com%2Fscholar%3Fstart%3D10%26q%3Ddrug%2Bproblems%2Bin%2Bmajor%2Bleague%2Bbaseball%26hl%3Den%26as_sdt%3D0%2C6#search=%22drug%20problems%20major%20league%20baseball%22

Working thesis statement

There is, at some level, a problem in every professional sport. Pure sports are turning into business trips instead of games and it controls peoples ambitions and goals. I pick on Major League Baseball because i see a rapidly growing problem that encourages disloyalty, and shows a progression of cheating that fans have grown accustom too.

MLA Citied/Retorical Precis

Adam Fletcher

Works Cited

"The Greatest Laker Ever?" Magic Johnson Talk. 21 Jan. 2012. Vinayak1000. 16 Feb. 2012 <http://magicjohnsontalk.com/news/greatest-laker-ever>.

            This aricle goes off describing the prior great Lakers that have played and their Impact. The author mentions the career of Kareem and James Worthy but no Laker career is comparable to Magic’s 5 championships. Also, the love he got for Los Angeles was near god status, he was loved by everyone.

"Magic Johnson." Featured Articles From The Los Angeles Times. 05 Nov. 2011. LA Times. 16 Feb. 2012 <http://articles.latimes.com/2011/nov/05/sports/la-sp-plaschke-magic-johnson-20111106>.

            All of Magic’s on court achievements speak for themselves while is HIV virus spoke even louder. When he announced his retirement from the Lakers in 1991, people thought from the disease he had that he was going die soon. People freaked out because they were scared, but if they knew, espically Magic, what we know today he would probably still be playing. Ervin represented a symbol of hope.

"Magic Johnson NBA & ABA Statistics." NBA & ABA Basketball Statistics & History. Sports Reference LLC. 16 Feb. 2012 <http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/j/johnsma02.html>.

            This article is list of Magic Johnson’s stats over his career and how he compared to other point guards of past and present. The biggest highlight stat that he has point guard wise is that he is the All-time leader is assists per game(11.2). Also the all-time leader is assists per game for the post season as well. Magic is most definitely the greatest point guard in Laker history but the debate for greatest Laker all-time lives on.

"Magic Still Greatest Laker." Nesn.com. 12 Feb. 2012. 2012 New England Sports Network. 16 Feb. 2012 </2011/02/magic-johnson-still-greatest-laker-in-storied-history-but-kobe-bryant-is-closing-fast.html>.

            The only player that has comparable stats and actually the only one who can compare in general to Magic is Kobe Bryant. As they both have 5 rings while playing with two of the most dominating big men of all, now we must look at the era in which each of them played in. Kobe played in an era of everytime he played for a rig it was a different opponent. Magic had to play the dominate Celtics three times which was more stressful every year.

Dwyer, Kelly. "Magic Johnson’s influence,." Yahoo! Sports - Sports News, Scores, Rumors, Fantasy Games, and more. 7 Nov. 2011. Yahoo Sports. 16 Feb. 2012 <http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie/post/10283?urn=nba,wp10283>.

            After his days of playing were over, Magics impact on the game and to others just grew. Since his announcement of having HIV, he has done many things to support others that are going through the same. The biggest contribution he has made would be starting  Magic Johnson Foundation. The MJ Foundation goes around the country spreading the news on HIV, Magic is an example of someone living with this disease but goes on with living his life the way he wants, and doing the things he wants to do.

Springer, Steve. "Los Angeles Lakers legend Earvin Magic." ESPN: The Worldwide Leader In Sports. ESPN Internet Ventures. 16 Feb. 2012 <http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/story/_/id/7193605/los-angeles-lakers-legend-earvin-magic-johnson-others-reflect-20th-anniversary-hiv-announcement>.

            Ervin Johnson’s announcement that he had HIV was one of drastic and heart breaking news to thousands of people who loved Magic and thousands of people who were unclear about HIV. The technology we have now has shown that someone who takes the right medicine and lives healthy and exercise, they can live with that virus. Magic is now a symbol of hope for people who couldn’t believe their loved ones could not live for any longer than five years.

Witz, Billy. "Magic still making impact off court." Foxsports.com. Fox. 10 Feb. 2012 </nba/story/magic-johnson-still-making-impact-as-hiv-aids-activist-113010>.

            We all see Magic Johnson now, after all the news that HIV can not be transfered by touch and all the support. But before all that he was almost exiled by his town and other players. Karl Malone, after hearing the news, was afraid to play with him cause he didn’t want to get infected. All the insults and people not giving him hugs or high fives really hurt Magic’s feelings. But he kept his head up, he was going to “beat” HIV and live long and proper.

 Schattner, Elaine. "Magic Johnson is Alive 20 Years after Announcing He Had HIV « Medical    Lessons." Medical Lessons. 8 Nov. 2011. 16 Feb. 2012 <http://www.medicallessons.net/2011/11/magic-johnson-is-alive-20-years-after-announcing-he-had-hiv/>.

            This a reaction to the video of Magic announcing his retirement from the Lakers. Newscasters reported that it was first time where you could see reporters crying from what is happening in front of them. But even when he announced it he wanted to beat it rather then it beat him. People thought he was crazy, people who had no knowledge of the disease thought he was going to die painfully and soon. Magic took the first step to defeating his illness and that was by facing it like a man, he has daily morning workouts and takes medicine and spreads what he knows to others around him.

                     

Working Thesis

Los Angeles, the birthplace of thousands of superstars and sports icon, but the biggest highlight and attraction in LA the past forty years has been the Lakers. Producing some of the greatest basketball players to ever play, while also having the pressure of needed success. Some have steeped up to the occasion, others have failed. LA can make or brake you, for Ervin Johnson, it made him. Through his prestigious career as a Laker, he has convinced me to call him the greatest Laker of all-time.

10-15 Questions

1. What is Magic Johnson's actual name.
2. Why did abruptly retire in 1992.
3. Has he had the biggest sentimental impact in NBA history.
4. Is he the greatest point guard of all-time.
5. How is Magic affecting the world today.
6. Why is he a greater Laker then Kobe, or Jerry West
7. What statistics give rights as the greatest Laker ever.
8. Can he be considered the greatest player ever.
9. Does off-court maturity overcast people like Shaq and Kobe.
10. Does his overall popularity over the 80's in LA just dominates Kobe's popularity.
11. Where does he stand on all-time assists and steal records.
12. What does he do for his community.

In Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital Age by Trip Gabriel, it goes through several different universities and how they approach plagiarism and how they manage it. But most of all it dis cuss's the expansion of copy and paste from the Internet to a word document, people are mix and matching their own work with others online to either enhance their own work or make it longer. The article ways in on two specific topics, one being that kids are plagiarising without knowing and two, and controversy occurs when students get caught plagiarising but the original author does not care if his or her work is copy-righted.

Ch. 3 Rhetorical Precis

In "Finding Arguments" of Faigley and Selzer Good Reasons, they explain how distinguish and analyze different arguments. It also it explains how to approach arguments in different environments like campus's, community's, and the world. This chapter encourages taking questions and accepting different point of views when creating an argument, this can improve a persons ethos and logos in there writings.

CH2 rhetorical precis

In "Reading Arguments" by Lester Faigley and Jack Selzers Good Reasons, it explains the different ways an argument can be shown and represented. This chapter goes through different examples and diagrams to give the reader a more clear understanding in how to enhance his or her argument. It explains the two different fallacies of logic, and emotion and language. Fallacies of logic are more broad then of emotion and laguage where they are more specific.