Category: Sports and Athletics

-Job: Teacher and volleyball/basketball coach. 
-please see instructions in files section (read carefully)
-please see grading rubric in files section
-no plagarism

For this assignment,  work on an industry presentation (8-10 min. long) on a sport organization of your choice (e.g. NIKE, ESPN, Dallas Cowboys, Dallas Mavericks, etc.). You will create a presentation to be presented during class time and develop a concise but detailed 10-12 page (double spaced 12 pt font) report of their findings. Title page and reference page are not included in those 10-12 pages. The report does not have to be an essay. Your report can include subheadings, pictures/graphs interwoven through the writing, and some sections might be partly in bullet-point form. The assignment includes questions such as purpose and mission of the organization, its background, its stakeholders, the job types in the organization etc. Some things to consider for this assignment: 
Mission of the organization 
Organizational background 
Organizational chart and leadership team 
Organizational stakeholders (fans/consumer) 
Organizational marketing efforts 
Organizational sport sponsorship efforts 
What is the financial situation of the organization? Where do they get their revenue from? What are their expenses? 
Sociological impact: what are some external forces from outside the organization that are impacting them? 
The job types in the organization 
Internship opportunities 
List at least five (5) research references at the end of your written summary 
**Please note that the best presentations blend your personal storytelling abilities with outside resources (video) to effectively tell your understanding of the topic. 

I will upload instructions and supporting materials.. https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1691465-how-the-nfl-became-americas-sport
https://www.si.com/nfl/2015/07/24/nfl-future-europe
if you are unable to open link I will send pictures of article ..

Please write a 1000-word APA format persuasive essay on why college athletes should be financially compensated. 
I have already figured out my thesis statement:
College athletes deserve financial compensation due to their time and energy commitments, revenue generation for institutions, and hardships compared to non-athletes.
I need to use peer-reviewed journals as sources. 
here are the instructions given to me:
The goal of this essay is for you to persuade your audience to agree with your position. Your written essay should demonstrate critical inquiry strategies by adhering to the following critical thinking principles which will be studied throughout the course:
a)Manage emotions and avoid fallacies.
b)Provide a synthesis of facts and evidence to support your position based on historical current, reliable and valid information.
c)Acknowledge other perspectives and evaluate assumptions about the topic.

Assessment Brief:
This assessment is like
for like. For this assessment, students are required to provide a 2000-word annotated bibliography of
sources to address ONE of the topic
areas below. The annotated bibliography looks like a Reference List, but
includes a written summary, critical evaluation, and relevance statement after
each source that is cited. The critical evaluation assesses the quality of the
work (i.e., its strengths and limitations) and the relevance statement explains
the unique contribution of the source to the topic area.
Using relevant literature, critically review research
evidence on
a)   
The relationship between
physical activity and anxiety,

A coach is interested in determining whether type of stretching (Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation or Passive Stretching) and sex (male or female) influence response to a flexibility training programme in young adults. The coach was particularly interested in hamstring flexibility and the young adults’ perceptions of the programme. The coach approached a sport scientist at Bangor University to help design an empirical study to answer this question.
Imagine you are the sport scientist. Please write:
• A research design section including (approximately one page):
o A title
o A quantitative aim and a qualitative aim
o A quantitative hypothesis and a qualitative hypothesis
o Study design (including a description of the overall study design as given by Page, 2012, table 1).
o Sampling method (note a power calculation is not required)
o Randomisation and blinding
• A proposed quantitative statistical analysis plan including identification of (approximately one page):
o Independent and dependent variables
o The specific analysis (i.e., which analysis you would select in SPSS)
o Any relevant assumptions and tests of such assumptions
o The tests of any relevant hypotheses (including how you will make decisions to accept or to reject such hypotheses)
o Any relevant follow-up tests
• A proposed qualitative analysis plan including (approximately one page):
o The choice of methodology (e.g., ethnography, phenomenology, or grounded theory)
o Data collection method
o Analytical approach
o Any potential ethical issues and the steps that will be adopted to ensure transparency and improve trustworthiness

Students research, analyze and reflect on ONE selected sport organizational charts. Provide a copy of the chart, and critical discussion of its hierarchal organization. Provide any peculiar or interesting aspects of your chosen chart. Discuss possiblities of improved communication or authority lines within the organization.
Provide organizational chart and discussion of a researched sport organization from the    following:
Olympics
Paralympics
Special Olympics
Games for the Deaf
Professional team sport
Professional individual sport
National association (NHL or WNBA)
Provide reference list. APA format. Minimum one chart and 300 words.

Overview 
In this assignment you will investigate the similarities and differences of sporting events when 
experienced online or offline. There are five sections of this assignment (Attending the 
event/Fieldnotes, experiencing the event online, comparing and contrasting, discussion). Be sure  to complete each part of the assignment. The questions under each part are to guide you but you do not need to answer all of them. Be sure to use headings, subheadings, and topic sentences to structure your writing. 
Part One: Attend the event and write fieldnotes (1.5-3 pages single spaced) 
Attend a sports event. You can choose a professional, amateur, college, or social event. Be 
mindful to select an event that you think will have a social media presence. The important thing 
in this assignment is to find an event with a good amount of social media engagement. If you 
must remain 100% online for this class, you are welcome to attend events on Twitch or other 
esports platforms. 
Write about the experience of the event. Allow the topics to emerge when you are attending the 
event. How many people were there? What was there to do? What stuck out to you? What was 
the behavior of the people in attendance? What was the mood, style, and venue? Trust your own instincts in selecting what topics to explore about the event. Be sure to use subheadings to focus your notes. 
Part Two: Social Media Representation (1.5-3 pages single spaced) 
Provide an analysis of the event representation on social media. You can choose to use any social media platform that makes sense of your event (Snapchat, Twitter, Instagram). Discuss how the event is portrayed. Part Three: Compare/Contrast (1.5-3 pages single spaced)
Compare and contrast your experience with the digital representation. 
What was different about the experience and the social media representation of the experience? 
What was the same? Explain why you think the event was captured online in this manner. 
Part Four: Discussion and Recommendation (1-2 pages single spaced) 
Provide a discussion about how you would change both the event and the representation of the 
event online. 
4a) Suggest how the event could have been better in person. Clearly express one
strategy for making the event better. 
4b) Suggest one strategy to better represent the event on social media to a specific 
audience. Clearly describe what you see as the benefits of implementing your suggestion.
4c) Suggest one strategy to improve online engagement at the event. What could they
have done to get individual attendees to post more?

Students will select two of the topics below, ranked on importance in youth sports, and write a research paper on the purpose of youth sports offered by recreation and sport agencies from the standpoint of the three selected topics discussing why they are the most important for youth development:
Competition
Everyone wins (no score is kept)
Character development
Skill development
Fun
Social skills
Physical activity-Healthy lifestyle
This is a research paper and must be strongly supported with academic sources from peer-reviewed journals. Students are allowed to use personal insight, experiences, and opinions in the conclusion portion of the paper. Paper must be three (3) pages in length and must have 6 references.  Papers that do not meet the minimum length will receive a zero.  Citations and references should be written in APA style.  Title page and abstract are not required. 

After detailed research and careful consideration, discuss a minimum ONE current policy area that you feel needs to be altered or changed.
Select any policy from the following organizations:
Olympics
Paralympics
Special Olympics
World Cup
Rugby Cup
Complete all:
State current policy.
State your proposed policy with rationale.
Provide reference list. APA format.
Provide comment to one other student’s post.
Minimum 300 words