Countless hours are spent in meetings, on practice fields, and in the weight room getting ready for that first game. ... Now, logically you would think USC would be playing in the national championship game, which this year is the Nokia Sugar Bowl. However, due to a Notre Dame loss in the final day of the regular season, USC's strength of schedule was lowered enough to put them all the way at the #3 spot on the BCS rankings, leaving Oklahoma at #1 and LSU #2. This may turn out to be a great title game, but there will always be the thought of what if USC had been given the opportunity. ...

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Bigger universities have tradition, name recognition, and school pride to uphold with every game. ... The competitive nature of the sport now leeks off the field and may be more competitive than the actual game. ... CBS Television paid 6.2 billion dollars for the contract to show the Final Four Tournament on their station for the next ten years. Although not as profitable as some professional sports, sponsors pay a lot of money for television advertising during the tournament and especially during the Final Four. The price for advertising on television during the championship bowl game for...

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My revised informative essay has come out to be a complete different paper than my original final draft. ... Communication is one of the most important aspects of Football, and as the game has evolved over time, so too has the communication. ... Hand signals are surprisingly the most common form of communication in the game today. ... Success in a game comes from effectively communicating with your team, adjusting your offense on the field accordingly, and attempting to read what the other side is communicating. It's easy to say that communication is the single most important aspect of...

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Both "The True Believers" and "The High Mark" establish that football has taken the place of religion in some peoples lives by using religious terms and ideas to depict the game and the culture as a type of devotion. ... In the two poems under discussion here however, Dawe gently satirizes football fans in the way that they commit themselves wholly to the game, as if it were their religion. ... Both of the final lines in the poems under discussion follow the same idea. ... In " The True Believers" Dawe states that "All things are possible for the true believer, In the fond imagination of t...

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" Although croquet was never a popular men's game, it had both social and economic advantages: men and women could play together, and it required little equipment and no special clothing. ... " The final type of entertainment that was big during the Victorian Era was theater. It was only in its final decades that the Victorian era created works that are still a big deal in todays terms. ...

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They are getting the chance to attend some of the best universities in the world, sometimes for free, get access to world class facilities, and have the chance to play the game that they love. ... For example, according to a Virginia Tech study, Football players were struck in the head 30 to 50 times per game and regularly endured blows similar to those experienced in car crashes If college athletes were compensated, some of that money could be put towards an insurance plan that could help pay for those potential long lasting effects. The final and probably the most crucial reason to pay coll...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate