Sports

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Sports Communication:

The world of sports communication is huge and very complicated with many facets and many locations and even levels within the industry to navigate.  It originated as just print for newspapers and magazines with radio following later. It then went to TV with local broadcasts covering sports or specific teams with sideline reporters as well.

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Salary Cap:

Pro athletes shouldn’t have a salary cap. There isn’t a salary cap in Major League baseball. The contracts are also guaranteed. That if you go over the exceed amount you have to pay a luxury tax and only the rich owners and teams with all the money have to deal with the rest of teams

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George Castle:

George Castle has written 13 books and has been a sports journalist for the Times of Northwest Indiana being the beat the reporter for the Chicago Cubs.  Most of his books have been about the Cubs or baseball or general sports history. He also is the historian for the Chicago Baseball Museum and been a

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Brian Tuohy:

When Brian Tuohy spoke to the class he opened my eyes to seeing that in professional sports there is fixing games and that it no one in America monitors betting in this country but they do it in Europe. That college sports are the easiest sport to fix. Between 2004-2008 a survey of 19000 student

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Zach Zaidman:

Zach Zaidman is the radio sideline reporter for the Chicago Bears, hosts ‘Bears All Access’ and is the voice of the DePaul Blue Devils and works for 670 the Score.              From a young age he wasn’t tall enough to play sports or wasn’t smart enough for being a trainer or rich enough to own

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Nick Medline:

When Nick Medline started talking I frankly thought “who is this guy he looks like he’s not a professional he looks like he’s my age in college”. The thing that surprised me was a college student wrote for the Northwestern Wildcats. I liked how he said ‘values are the most important thing to have’. That

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