Personal Narrative: From Rams To Los Angeles

Chicago had a unique opportunity this baseball season. They had the power to make baseball cool again. A power shift capable of altering the future of the sport. Instead they blew it. Every year the Cubs fail to reach the world series; youth baseball becomes a little less popular. A tragedy that is becoming harder and harder to stomach.

There are many little boys and girls who want to grow up and be professional athletes. They have hopes and dreams and put in the hard work and effort to achieve them. What they do not know is how different their lives are if they make it in this profession. While the men are able to live pretty comfortably, the women usually struggle to make a living, and they most often live with other teammates or family to help split the bills. They are often “forced” to play all year round, even overseas. This pay difference can discourage the girls that want to become professional athletes. Thus, limiting the sports available for women to play and places to play in. Professional female athletes should be paid the same amount as professional male athletes because women should have equal representation and pay as the men, women are just as successful in sports as the men, and the best players are getting paid by foreign leagues to not

Sports are something most Americans can relate to; many of us played some type of sport as a kid and some of us are die-hard fans. Sports have developed with us as a society and have become an interwoven piece of our culture and their effects can be seen in many cities countrywide. The facilities where these teams play can become a centerpiece of the local community and the teams themselves can bring people from all walks of life together in search of one mutual goal, for their team to win. The controversy arises when it comes to how many professional stadiums are routinely being funded and whether taxpayers should foot the multi-billion-dollar bill. This has not always been a controversy, however, as prior to 1953 stadiums were largely funded

There are no two words in the sports dictionary that make me cringe more than “franchise tag”. So, when Denver Broncos outside linebacker Von Miller posted on his Instagram Thursday that there is “No Chance” he’d play under the franchise tag next season, I was filled with smug satisfaction — and reminded how ridiculous the concept of the franchise tag really is.

In Steven Salzberg, “Get Football out our Universities”, he makes the argument that football in universities are holding the United States back in the race of science. He believes if the United States eliminates football all together in universities we would focus more on what universities were originally made for, which is science and math.  Throughout the argument Salzberg uses different types of rhetorical strategies to compel his audience to sway in his direction. Although, he used strong rhetorical appeals, it was hard to agree with Salzberg due to multiple logical fallacies Salzberg committed.

The St. Louis Cardinals are arguably one of the best franchises in MLB history. The team was officially founded in 1882. Before 1882, the team was called the St. Louis Brown Stockings and played in a charter league in the National League in 1876. John Lucas the team's owner at the time took the team out of the league though due to a pitching scandal. The Cardinals were originally called the Perfectos until 1900. The first owner of the Perfectos was Chris von der Ahe, a German immigrant. Chris von der Ahe bought the team to promote his beer business. He owned the team from 1881-1898. In 1881 the Perfectos played in the American Association(not affiliated with MLB.) The American Association folded after the ‘91 season. The next year the Perfectos

One of those teams is the St. Louis Cardinals. The Cardinals originated in 1882 and were known as the Brown Stockings (St. Louis Cardinals, n.d., para. 2). The St. Louis Cardinals’ success has been second only to the New York Yankees. Some of the elite players on former Cardinal teams are Roger Hornsby Stan Musial, Dizzy Dean, Ozzie Smith, Mark McGwire, and Albert Pujols. In1998, the Cardinals were dealt with the blow that one of their elite stars was using illegal drugs. The use of steroids and performance enhancing drugs became prevalent in the 1990s in the baseball social world. Several teams suffered the embarrassment and disappointment of having players investigated for using drugs, Mark McGwire was among those players. During the 1998 season Mark McGwire was chasing and broke Roger Maris’s home run record. Cardinal fans were beyond excited with McGwire’s accomplishment. The fans were devastated when it was reported that McGwire was one of those being investigated. Fans would question if McGwire success was due to the steroids. Eventually, McGwire admitted to using steroids, and his baseball career was over (McGwire, 2010, para. 2). Like other teams, the St. Louis Cardinals had to work hard to earn the respect and esteem the team had enjoyed since team’s beginning. The St. Louis Cardinals were followed by many young athletes, and like other professional teams, they had a responsibility to provide good examples for these young athletes. The Cardinals would recover and went on to be a World Series team again, but the stain would remain

I can remember as a young girl living in Baltimore that the demolition of Memorial Stadium, the longtime home of the Baltimore Orioles, was a big deal, though I certainly didn 't understand why. I also remember the intense debate about what the new stadium was going to be named and the importance that the City of Baltimore and its residents placed on the name. It seemed as though the entire identity of the City was hanging on the success of this project. This was when Cal "Iron Man" Ripken was still showing up to play every night and the Orioles had more than one pitcher who could throw strikes. We loved the Orioles and were excited that our team was getting a new home. The ultimate legacy of the park was still to be determined, but the enthusiasm

Not only is the National Football League (NFL) the most popular sports league in America, it also draws in the highest revenue of any sporting league in the United States. Los Angeles holds the second largest GDP of any city in the United States, and the NFL runs on a model of revenue sharing among its owners and franchises. Therefore, the lack of an NFL franchise in the city of Los Angeles is certainly a glaring omission, as the opportunity to host an NFL team in Los Angeles would benefit the entire league economically. That being said, the San Diego Chargers and the Oakland Raiders present viable alternatives to the St. Louis Rams in placing an NFL team in Los Angeles. The lack of an NFL franchise in one of the America’s greatest cities is

The NFL is both a public and private group of franchises. All teams, except the green bay packers, are privately owned. Franchises that are private are either owned by shareholders who own the largest portion of the team, or are owned by a single individual. The green bay packers have many owners that create a board of directors that manage the team when decisions are made. Green bay is a smaller market in the NFL, so basically you can say overall the NFL is privately owned. The national football league has been a nonprofit organization for some time now, but they are looking to drop that label. The NFL makes a lot of money, and in their opinion the benefits to becoming profit outweighs the obvious thing that they will have to start paying

It 's insane that a college football coach could make more than $7 million annually. It 's especially crazy in a multibillion-dollar sports/entertainment entity that still — laughingly — passes itself off as a nonprofit operation in order to maintain its federal antitrust protection.

With the Trade Deadline coming up next Friday for Major League Baseball, many teams are faced with the idea of, "Do we buy or sell?" The trade deadline is a huge deal for teams because it can either help get them that playoff spot, or even help them prepare for next year. Last year we saw David Price go to the Detroit Tigers, Jon Lester to the Oakland Athletics and Joakim Soria, who also went to the Tigers. These deals helped those teams reach the playoffs, while the teams on the opposing end received early help to rebuild for next year. Here, we 'll look at some teams that should buy & sell.

The Arizona Cardinals are the best franchise in the National Football League. Although the organization has not had an easy time gaining the loyalty of the fans over the years, it has all changed. They are now contenders for the Lombardi trophy and few franchises have the chemistry that has been established here in the desert. There are several reasons why they are the model franchise to which other teams just do not measure up to. Not only do they have the best players, but their front office, and fan base leave other teams in the dust as well.

After making a large fortune taking over his familys ship building company George Steinbrenner attempted to own a team by purchasing the Cleveland pipers basketball team- he was unsuccessful and ended up going bankrupt with the team.

The grand debate of whether to pay college athletes continues today. Yet, today there are so many other amenities provided to the athletes that they are practically paid through those.