There are also other football leagues available to the consumer such as the Arena Football League which was drawing over a million fans per season in 1999, college football, and the NFL. However, these other football leagues do not coincide with the XFL schedule. ... The leagues ability to raise equity or borrow capital appears to be strong. ... The whole idea and concept of the league is creative, maybe even ahead of its time. ... The league however also made a tremendous mistake in its choice of a time slot, since their major target market was young males. ...

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Our football club has recently joined a new football league in our area. The director of this new league has been discriminating against our football club since the first day we joined. Our team, along with another team that has Hispanic players, does not get the same benefits or acknowledgement as the other teams in the league. ... This meeting was to set up a youth football tournament that is being sponsored by the Latino Chambers of Commerce, and during that meeting, our current league director got up in front of everyone and replied that he will not have any part of participation as lon...

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If we take a look at Manchester football club for example, we know that one of the goals of the football club is to win games and the league. If the club wins the league three years in a row or even once they could easily be classified as a successful club because it has acomplished its goal. However if the football club does not win the league and gets relagated down a division the club can be seen as unsuccessful or a failure. ... Organisations have no control over the general environment, therefore major changes in certain areas of this environment can affect the effectiveness of an orga...

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("NCAA NAIA Basketball") The National Football League (NFL) employs similar tactics as well- "Football players who have been out of high school for at least three years are eligible for the NFL draft. ... The BCS Bowl Championship Series encompasses the major colleges for football- The eight year package which ended in 2006 was worth $930,000,000 with ABC. ... But, are they "free" to choose a major and pursue higher education? When they are red-shirted (held from play for a year) without their consent, and have to choose classes and majors that coordinate with sport practice schedules, when th...

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Whether it be football, basketball, or hockey, since the 2000s, intercollegiate sports have brought in a surplus of revenue to their respective major universities and also increasing the popularity of the college. ... "Paying student-athletes would provide athletes an incentive to stay in school and complete their degree programs, instead of leaving early for the professional leagues" (Should Student-Athletes Get Paid?). ... A lot of star athletes feel the pressure to leave college, one, two, even three years early because of the allure the millions and millions of dollars that the ...

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Although soccer has made an effort in the American sports scene with the starting of the MLS (Major League Soccer), it will never make it into the hearts and markets of American sports the way other American sports have. ...

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