Monday, April 9, 2012

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.

Thursday, April 5, 2012

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

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

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.

Sunday, March 11, 2012

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.

Monday, March 5, 2012

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.