"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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Television ratings for the NCAA title game have been descending over the past four years despite the fact that media coverage and other attendant hype have grown (McCallum). ... "It's hard to keep boosters if the kids keep leaving," said Coakley, the sports-sociology professor. ... Is whatever Georgia Tech gained from reaching the sweet 16 in the NCAA tournament worth the tradeoff it made, knowing that Marbury never intended to get an education and wanted only to use the school as a one-stop showcase for his game? ... Obviously, economics is the driving force in luring young players, a fa...

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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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Unlike other sports with playoffs, the NCAA takes part in a postseason tournament. ... The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) is a youth league designed to support kids to play organized sports. The AAU League is one of the largest nonprofit volunteer sports organizations in the United States; it was founded by William Buckingham Curtis 1888 (Wood, The History of the AAU Basketball, 2013). The Amateur Athletic Union or AAU is divided into 56 different Districts, which have 34 sports programs to sanction, 250 national champs, and over 30,000 age division events (Wood, 2013). ... Even though the AAU i...

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Sports could not exist without the presence of money. ... There are corporation buying out sports teams, buying stadiums, and buying everything that has to do with sports. ... It is visible to every sports fan that in the past few decades, sports has undergone a whole new renovation. ... Sports become an arena of pure economic activity. ... This is a serious problem facing all sports, but it ...

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