Week ??? Flashcards
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What is amateur vs professional sports ?
- amateur - non-professional
- U.S college football and basketball players
- baseball prospects in Latin American countries
What has Nathan Kalman-Lamb stated about amateur sports ?
US college sport has become a site of professionalized, value-producing work that does not equitably compensate the campus atheltic workers responsible for the production of value therein
What is the NCAA ?
- National Collegiate Athletic Association
- intercollegiate sports
- Division I, II, III
What are “revenue-generating sports”?
- men’s basketball
- women’s basketball
- men’s football
What did David Berri estimate ?
Economist David Berri has estimated that men’s basketball players at an elite Power Five school like Duke hold an economic value up to 4.13 million per year
What are college and univeristy atheletes ?
- amateur or professional
- “student-athlete” or employee
What did R.A McCormick state ?
This characterization that atheletes at NCAA-member schools are student-athletes is essential to the NCAA because it obscures the legal reality that some of these athletes, in fact, are also employees
What do employees have ?
- wages and benefits
- contract/collective agreement rights
What do student-athletes have ?
- scholarship/grant-in-aid
- amateur
How are student-athletes employees ?
- exhange services according to agreement
- economically dependent on univerisities
- subject to control by athletic departments and coachs
What is involved in being a student-athlete ?
- atheltic participation vs. education
- coaches vs faculty
- grant-in-aid/scholarship with provision of services
What are the NCAA rules ?
- limit cash/gifts from family members
- forbid cash/gifts from non-family members
- limit eligibility = 4 years
How do coaches control atheletes ?
- practices
- diet and training
- class schedules
- majors
What does academic potential vs academic performance cause ?
- “special admissions”
- lowered academic standards/eligibility
What does revenue-generating university sports cause ?
- other university sports increases
- other university departments/students increases
- educational opportunities increases
What does NIL stand for ?
- name, image, likeness
- the legal right of an individual to control how their name, image, and likeness are used, especially for commercial purposes
What debates does the NIL cause ?
- most NCAA athletes vs stars re: NIL
- third-party compensation vs NCAA
What did Kalman-Lamb state regarding compensation ?
traditional compensation cannot immediately or adequately redress the exploitation that campus atheltic workers experience
Would paying college athletes end exploitation?
No, NCAA paying college athletes wages would not end exploitation
What is involved in the globalization of sport ?
- diffusion of culture, practices, etc (e.g., baseball, basketball, soccer)
- exploitation of talent, institutions, etc (e.g., developing countires vs developed countries)
What did Angel Vargas state ?
the globalization of baseball has its greatest impact before a Latino baseball player goes to the United States. The intial contact, signing, and training in baseball acadeics take place in Latin America
What is involved in scouting and signing in the MLB ?
- MLB teams scout talent at young ages (12-14 yrs old)
- teams can sign players to contracts when they turn 16 yrs old
- signees attend MLB-run baseball academies to develop skils
What did Vargas state about exploitation ?
The appetite of powerful MLB teams for Latino talent combined with the vulnerability of children and their parents in these countries is a recipe for exploitation
What debates can be seen in regards to MLB exploiting domincan youth ?
- baseball academics vs traditional education
- academy staff vs medical staff
- corruption and exploitation vs wages and compensation
- PED use
