Sports writing assignment – Favoring Paying college athletes

Favoring Paying College Athletes.

EASY AND SIMPLE ASSIGNMENT.

I have attached a sample outline that you can use as an example to understand.

You must finish the SPELIT Outline I have attached and follow all directions. Include citations/resources at the bottom.

SPELIT Environments (Know wording of definitions)

You must answer for all 6 Environments.

1. Social Environment – How people behave in various group interactions

2. Political Environment – The process of making decisions within groups and is closely tied to the concepts of power and influence

3. Economic Environment – Concern with production and consumption of resources

4. Legal Environment – How official laws or accepted rules affects customs and ethics of a sport organization

5. Intercultural Environment – Culture and differences between cultures that would be a driver for a sport organization

6. Technological Environment – The impact of tools that humans have developed: efficiency or distraction?

• The driving force is the root cause (or causes) of an issue

• The result is the consequence from the driving force
• The actions needed is what needs to happen for the driving force to be altered • In order to rectify X, we must do Y

Example:
– Overall issue: MLB does not have a salary cap, which caters to bigger market teams

– Social driving Force: Players object to a salary cap because it will hinder the size of player contracts
– Result: Takes away the opportunity for competitive balance (smaller market teams cannot afford to acquire such talent in comparison to bigger market clubs)

– Political Driving Force:Lack of trust between the players union and owners

– Result: Each side becomes self- invested in either making and or saving the extra dollar

– Economic Driving Force: Players only collected 42% of the total revenue of $8 billion. In comparison to 2003, players originally had 62% of total revenues

– Result: Disagreement between the players union and owners over fairness of revenue split