Sports

First 2 pages – Watch Schooled: The Price of College Sports. This video discusses, in great detail, the tremendous growth of the NCAA. You will get a glimpse of the history of the NCAA. However (and more importantly), you will see how the NCAA grew into a multibillion business all while exploiting the student-athlete.

After watching, write a 2 page paper reviewing the video. In this video review, you will want you to discuss material that youve read in the text chapters and how it ties into to content you just watched. Some items that you can discuss include history of the NCAA, development of the term student-athlete the NCAA as a multibillion dollar business, etc.

As part of this paper, I also want you to provide an update to the OBannon vs. NCAA suit. You will need to research outside material for this update. Make sure to cite your references. Feel free to use your favorite streaming service to watch the video. For example, it is also available on Netflix.

Page 3 – For this discussion board assignment, I would like you to focus on the current hot topic, pay for play.

For part one of this assignment, discuss your argument for either paying college athletes a stipend to compete or to keep things status quo with the student-athlete not receiving additional benefits beyond their current scholarships.

For the second part for this assignment, you will need to comment on at least 2 of your classmates posts. Provide your perspective to their answers regarding pay for play. For the assignment, you may need to reference outside sources to back up your post and responses. Please make sure to properly cite your references

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