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When I first walked into the room that the common read was being held in I thought to my self, they don’t have enough room or chairs for all of us. After some time thought they got everyone seated in small groups.

The main point of this video is the magnitude of participating in estate planning. One important aspect is making a will. The You Tube video I chose was from a law firm called, “Argon Law”. The speaker emphasized the advantages and disadvantages of making a will, so your wishes for the distribution of your assets at death/tragedy will be meet. “This includes Assets held by companies, assets held in trusts, and proceeds of life insurance are a few of the processes you must think about. One important statement he made. The law allows for your spouse, child or dependent to challenge your will after you die.”(Gallagher, 2014).

ESPN - a cable and satellite sports broadcasting network. Generates revenue through ads and subscriptions.

Personally I just started watching ESPN recently because the FIFA. I agree many of you because ESPN does changed the sport in the way. Because I am one of the people who do not have time to watch the entire sport events when there are so many and all happened in the same time. Highlight and score broad does help many of people to keep on track of scores and important movement. ESPN does the great job to collect all the sports in one channel and with many different other media resources for people to gain the information they want in different ways. Also we shouldn't forget the negative and the impact on ESPN brought to us. After all the ESPN provided us close to 24/7 with all different favorites sport "candies" for us to chose. It's surprising

Looking into the past couple years, and how each year has progressed from one to the other, it is clear that a cable bubble exists. Starting with the overall viewing of the channel, which has decrease over the years due to ‘cord cutters’. The network is in the middle of a historic struggle in which “the network as a whole lost close to 2 million subscribers in October (Fortune)”. The article on Fortune went on to say that “Late Friday, audience-tracking firm Nielsen released its estimates for November, and they showed that the sports network had lost an estimated 621,000 subscribers in a single month. That’s the biggest loss in the channel’s history.” This is troubling for ESPN as much of their profit comes from cable subscribers. “In a nutshell, the sports network is one of the most profitable traditional media distributors in the world, since it makes an estimated $7 per

As a Team Capitan for the last consecutive 8 years across multiple leagues sportsmanship and safety have always been my number one concerns. My responsibility as a team captain is to protect what is in the best interest of my team.

Fucking A Fucking A is a University of Washington production, written by Suzan-Lori Parks and directed by Malika Oyetimein. The play is about an Abortionist named Hester Smith. Hester Smith’s son was put in jail when he was really young, and to be able to differentiate her son when he comes out, Hester branded her son by a tattoo on his hand.

John M. Barry examines the nuances of power in America by comparting and connecting and the concepts behind politics, sports, and the media in Power Plays. As a means of maintaining the audience’s attention, Barry uses an informative narrative tone through different specific examples along with anecdotal experiences to prevent the topic from becoming entirely conceptual. Barry, a former college football coach, is able to draw parallels between sports and politics displaying how powerful agendas affect lives. Barry focuses much on the devious tactics that are used to create or destroy America’s most powerful figures.

For the last two years, Cameron King has been a writer for Thousand Oaks High School’s award-winning student newspaper, The Lancer. This past year, Cameron took on a leadership role as sports editor. As an editor, Cameron is not only responsible for layout design, but also determining the focus of each piece and the angle in which they are written. This means he has to have knowledge in both women’s and men’s sports and the athletes who play them. This sounds like a “do-able” task, but in truth, it takes much thought, research, preparation and communication. Why? Because not only does Cameron write and publish, he also commands a team of staff writers responsible for contributing to his section of the paper. In this capacity, Cameron continues to demonstrate strength as a leader and mentor. Cameron has a way of cajoling his team into working a little later or a little harder, so even though the sports

Flashback to before September 9th, 1979, all televised sporting events were on ABC, NBC, or CBS, and fans had to wait for the 5 o'clock or 10 o'clock or the next morning's paper to see other teams' highlights and scores of. That was the pre-ESPN era. Now, sports fans have unlimited access about sports anytime they want 24/7 in today's sports world dominated by ESPN. William Rasmussen was the mastermind behind the fresh edgy network that's broadcast to over half the countries in the world. Blossoming into a mini-media conglomeration in its own, ESPN has conquered of the so-called "Sports Nation" does not show any signs of slowing down anytime take over. In addition of being a subsidiary of Walt Disney Company, ESPN's

I really found this book fascinating and helpful to read because it covered the problems in the sports industry that is always overseen by the audience. The well detailed information i’ve gotten from this book made me look at the world of sports much differently.

ESPN is a network devoted to providing the public with an outlet to sporting news, information, analysis, as well as, current and past coverage of sports. This network is also known as the overwhelming leader within the sporting news and entertainment industry. ESPN helps provide content through television, internet, radio, as well as print.

According to Jim Morrison, “Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.” In sports, today, that means that ESPN and other sports channels control which sports and teams you see on TV.

As you know, the 2015 NBA Finals just concluded between the Cleveland Cavaliers and Golden State Warriors, and was one of the most talked about event this year. One tweet about the NBA Finals had 15 thousand retweets alone. The NBA Finals allowed sports journalists to interact with fans during the game, through live tweeting. There is no doubt that social media has changed the way Americans receive and digest their sports news. I wanted to see if you are interested in an infographic created by the University of Florida that illustrates how social media has impacted sports journalism. The graphic points out that 73% of sports journalists admit to using social media to monitor their competition.

To illustrate my understanding let’s talk about the deals that have happened in modern times. The National Basketball Association signed a 9 years, $24 billion dollar deal with ESPN. The National Football League signed a deal with FOX for 7 years, $27 billion dollar deal, which is incredible to see how far sports on television have come. Athletes benefited tremendously from the television bargaining deals. That meant teams could have more money to sign players, or pay the star players mega contracts that is worth hundreds of millions. From conducting extensive research for this paper I have come to conclude that sporting events on television involves multiple partners. What do I mean by this? Let’s be logical, you have millions of viewers tuning in from around the country every week. Sporting organizations generate revenue from TV stations, they also allow advertisements to air during its events, which is extra revenue made. In other words, you have TV stations, Sporting organizations, Advertisement companies, Consumers. It’s a cycle that everyone benefits from except the consumers. For instance if this was a pyramid the consumers would be on the bottom, while the benefiters would be on top. Money is made from the consumers not for the consumers, so in the end we are just getting