sorry to Vicki for replying to her instead of the list the first time.
 
>>1.Deprofessionalize college and high school sports.
>>
>>"Let's ban college scholarships in favor of financial aid based on need, as
>>for any other student. And let's keep high school athletes in perspective.
>>Why should local news coverage of high school sports exceed coverage  given
>>to the band, debating society, or science fair? Sports stars are introduced
>>to the culture of athletic privilege at a very young age."
>
>I agree with teh college scholarship part, but I have to disagree with the
local new son high school sports. It's a case of simple supply and demand.
more people are interested in sports, even at the high school level, than
band and debate and everything. I'm Sports Editor of my high school's paper,
and we have 3 of 16 pages per month devoted to Sports, and sports aren't
even that big of a deal at my high school compared to other local area ones.
Still, more people are interested in our 1-4 basketball team than our band
or 2-time state chapmion Academic Decathlon(which I am a member of as well),
and I have no problem with that.
>
>>2.Allow some form of public ownership of professional sports teams.
>Not a bad idea, but then you get into socializing sports, and this isn't
Norway or Sweeden. We're (mostly) capitalists here in America, not Socialists.
>
>>3.Make sports affordable again.
>Sports are still affordable, depending where you live. Here in Omaha, UNO
hockey tickets are $8.50 a piece, Lancer tickets are $7, Creighton
basketball tix are around $8, high school football and basketball are $4.
Even Nebraska football tickets, which should be considered a 1-day vacation
more than a sporting event, are affordable given the fact that most people
goto 1 a year tops unless they have season tickets.
>
>>"Alcohol-related advertising should be banned from sports broadcasting."
>
>Yeah, watching Bud Bowl X during the Super Bowl really makes me want to go
drink alcohol. TV already bans hard liquor ads if I recall, and kids will
still drink beer regardless of if ads continue or not. hell, Budweiser is
UNO hockey's gameday sponser for maybe 1/3 of the home games.
>
>I still get a kick out of people picketing last year's Nike Omaha Classic
(Nike Tour Golf event), telling people to stop buying Nike due to sweatshop
labor. Maybe it's just cause I took 2 semesters of economics last year, but
it seems to me those people should be complaining to India for not having
minimum wage laws, not Nike for taking advantage of the market like a good
capitalist is supposed to do.
>
>>Any
>>male athlete convicted of assaulting a woman should be banned from college or
>>professional sports.
>
>No problem with that, but it'll never happen.
>
>>Fighting in a sport should be as least a misdemeanor and
>>maybe a felony, rather than a five-minute stay in the penalty box.
>
>Strongly disagree here. There is no reason to buck 50+ years of handling
brawls and fights inside the leagues. Maybe if one escalates and involves
the entire arena, fans included, bring charges. But, as we've been down this
avenue before, I think a great deal more, a great great deal more, people
have been seriously injured in the normal course of events in sports than in
a fight/brawl.
>
>>Let's take the sports establishment by its lapels and shake it back toward
>>us. Because even with the maddening messages of male dominance, black
>>servility, homophobia, corporate power, commercialism, and brawn over brains,
>>sports still play an important role in many lives."
>
>Ah, America at its finest. :-)
>
>Living in the Midwest where once you leave the Omaha-Lincoln corridor and
head into the countryside and small towns int he rest of the state of
Nebraska and it's still politically correct to believe half of those things,
if not all, the only thing that'll change these attitudes is $$, either by
fans voting with their $$ at the gates or forcing advertisers to do the same.
>
>>And a very Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.
>
>Amen.
>
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