Thursday, September 29, 2011
1999 World Cup
The 1999 FIFA world cup was a huge turning point in women's soccer and women's sport. As we talked about in class the finals were played in Pasadena, California at the rose bowl. It was the largest attendance ever at a women's athletic event with just over 90,000 people in attendance. The match was scoreless after regulation time and came down to penalty kicks which the USA defeated China 5-4 . That game was a historical one in many aspects. One big asset was that it was big for the U.S and women's soccer especially for title IX as it showed women could compete on the same level as men. The other huge aspect was the final kick when Brandi Chastain tore her shirt off after the final goal. I believe that really kick started the way people viewed female athletes. You now see many more pictures of female athletes posing nude or in sexual poses or positions. Do you believe this is a positive or negative for sports and image of female athletes? Or both?
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Dr. Cho
Today in SM 3950 Dr. Cho spoke to our class about globalization and glocalization and how these and sports have impacted his life. It was amazing to hear how he grew up and the influences and situations he has been through and learned from.
First the thing that stood out to me was how similar his childhood was to that of any normal child in America. He grew up doing normal things a kid would do and all of his free time was spent playing sports with his friends every chance they could. He grew up with a "hero" which in his case was Jerry Rice, just like every sports kid had their favorite sports icon. He also touched on his college life as well, which he seemed to hint involved a lot of partying and drinking which is also very similar to the life of college kids in the states. (especially BGSU!)
Second, I was interested in how he got turned on to sports...he then told us about the military channel that televised the sporting events from the U.S. to the troops overseas and it was also televised to civilians as well. He included in that there were no commercials (wouldn't that be the perfect channel?!)
Dr. Cho also spoke of the draft and how he was involved in the military after being drafted. That was shocking to me as we have never had to deal with a draft in our lifetime. I'm not sure how that would feel if young kids were forced into the military against their will. I would have no problem fighting for my country and would do it in a heartbeat if it came down to it but I can not imagine the feeling after opening up a letter and seeing you have to report somewhere. But seeing he did get to spend 8 hours in a car with the cowboys cheerleaders, I would say it's a fair trade.
Lastly, it was neat to see towards the end how supportive Korea is of their sports. Seeing the crowd of 3 million fans to watch a world cup game on a big screen just amazed me. It was an unreal sight on video, couldn't imagine what it would be like in person. It just goes to show that sports are a huge market all over the world no matter where you go.
First the thing that stood out to me was how similar his childhood was to that of any normal child in America. He grew up doing normal things a kid would do and all of his free time was spent playing sports with his friends every chance they could. He grew up with a "hero" which in his case was Jerry Rice, just like every sports kid had their favorite sports icon. He also touched on his college life as well, which he seemed to hint involved a lot of partying and drinking which is also very similar to the life of college kids in the states. (especially BGSU!)
Second, I was interested in how he got turned on to sports...he then told us about the military channel that televised the sporting events from the U.S. to the troops overseas and it was also televised to civilians as well. He included in that there were no commercials (wouldn't that be the perfect channel?!)
Dr. Cho also spoke of the draft and how he was involved in the military after being drafted. That was shocking to me as we have never had to deal with a draft in our lifetime. I'm not sure how that would feel if young kids were forced into the military against their will. I would have no problem fighting for my country and would do it in a heartbeat if it came down to it but I can not imagine the feeling after opening up a letter and seeing you have to report somewhere. But seeing he did get to spend 8 hours in a car with the cowboys cheerleaders, I would say it's a fair trade.
Lastly, it was neat to see towards the end how supportive Korea is of their sports. Seeing the crowd of 3 million fans to watch a world cup game on a big screen just amazed me. It was an unreal sight on video, couldn't imagine what it would be like in person. It just goes to show that sports are a huge market all over the world no matter where you go.
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Globalization of Baseball and WBC
Torey Brummett
Matt Schlitz
Ryland Ward
In the article Klein talks about growing the game of baseball. Growing the game to Klein means gaining supporters for the game of baseball and educating people of the game as well. Growing the game also includes getting kids interested in the game and getting them to play. The WBC has effectively helped grow the game of baseball. It gets viewers to watch in a few ways. First, viewers that may not even be interested in baseball may watch just because of the fact that its team USA. Second, people may watch because of the sake of it being a baseball game because they are fans of the game. Lastly, people may be interested because of their favorite MLB players playing on different teams.
Some of the pros of having international play in baseball would be spreading the game around the world and making it a more internationally recognized sport. Another pro of having international baseball would be that we could get to see more talented baseball players from around the world that maybe would not get the chance to play at the professional level.
I think the best way to make baseball grow in the global marketplace would be to televise the games on more stations and in more places. The games also need to be more advertised. I don't think that the games are very well advertised, not enough people know about the games and they are not made available unless it is an MLB game.
Matt Schlitz
Ryland Ward
In the article Klein talks about growing the game of baseball. Growing the game to Klein means gaining supporters for the game of baseball and educating people of the game as well. Growing the game also includes getting kids interested in the game and getting them to play. The WBC has effectively helped grow the game of baseball. It gets viewers to watch in a few ways. First, viewers that may not even be interested in baseball may watch just because of the fact that its team USA. Second, people may watch because of the sake of it being a baseball game because they are fans of the game. Lastly, people may be interested because of their favorite MLB players playing on different teams.
Some of the pros of having international play in baseball would be spreading the game around the world and making it a more internationally recognized sport. Another pro of having international baseball would be that we could get to see more talented baseball players from around the world that maybe would not get the chance to play at the professional level.
I think the best way to make baseball grow in the global marketplace would be to televise the games on more stations and in more places. The games also need to be more advertised. I don't think that the games are very well advertised, not enough people know about the games and they are not made available unless it is an MLB game.
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