Players have drifted away from what it used to mean to play college sports. ... The N.C.A.A. should not have jurisdiction over a player's earnings outside his sports participation. ... Another illegal activity that athletes fall into is accepting gifts from sports agents. ... Two of the team's players had accepted gifts from a sports agent and were therefore ineligible to compete, according to NCAA regulations (Naughton, 1997). ... Colleges profit greatly off big-time college sports. ...

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Michael Jordan in Sports Marketing and Advertising The best ever to play the game. ... In that same year at North Carolina he helped his team full of future NBA stars, such as Sam Perkins and James Worthy, to a NCAA National Championship. ... When it comes to sports marketing it comes down to three things: how the company looks, how the athlete looks, and how the "goods" to be sold looks (Pemberton). ... This is a good reason as to why Jordan has been so successful with sports marketing because marketers look for top notch quality performers like Mike. ... His style, personality, talent ...

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"As a junior he appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated and was dubbed "The Chosen One". ... Another reason they are trying to make high school athletes play college ball is because of all the hype college sports gets. Last years NCAA championship game drew just over 24 million viewers. ... "The NCAA is concerned about losing a lot of that revenue if athletes don't go to college and instead play for the NBA," says Bruce Stern, president of the National Rookie League. ... Warsaw Sports Marketing Center. ...

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It is when sixty-four Division 1 college basketball teams go to the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) national tournament, and only one becomes the National Champion. The tournament itself now ranks among the major sports event of the year. ...

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It seems as though there has been a lot of negative examples in sports world lately. One of the negative examples was published in the December 23rd issue of Sports Illustrated of last year. ... Today in sports there is a large amount of violent attitudes and actions, this example is just one of them. Ken Keiper, the chairmen of the NCAA's Division II baseball, talked about the brawls in major league baseball. ... Sports is one alternative to gangs and drugs and Athletes Against Drugs helps the kids to make the choice to choose an activity like sports over these other two harmful choices....

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One way he tried to get out in the open besides sports was tape-recording a show once a week on station KLWN in Lawrence, playing records and talking about sports (6). ... Soon he led the Jayhawks to the NCAA finals where they lost to North Carolina in triple overtime. ...

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Coach Wooden led UCLA to an unprecedented ten NCAA Basketball Championships in 12 years, including seven in a row. ... It all starts at home, the parents must guide their youngsters thinking, show them there is more to life than sports, and show them how to treat and respect others. ...

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He sports a clean-shaven head and a marked grin on his face. ... Unlike Jordan, Carter did not win a national championship, however he did lead them to two final four appearances in the NCAA tournament. ...

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Michael Jordan Known to millions of sports fans as unarguably one of the greatest not only basketball players but also as one of the greatest athletes to play any professional sport. ... His freshman year Jordan's team, the Tarheels, won the NCAA men's national championship against the Georgetown Hoyas. ...

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History of Basketball The game of basketball has evolved a great deal throughout the years. Basketball was invented on December 21, 1891. The inventor of the game was a Canadian clergyman, James Naismith (Joseph Morse, 1973). The game of basketball was fashioned from fragments of other games...

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