research questions

Below are some of the things that i would like to more about track and field:

Do any of the Olympic US Runners get paid to compete?

Outside of training and competing in he Olympics do they have everyday jobs?

What does it take to be "drafted" into the Olympic track team?

What is your mental approach? How do you stay positive even when things aren't working out?

How do you stay calm but also having to be aggressive at the same time during an event?

What is the salary of an Olympic track athlete? 

In many towns there aren't many youth track clubs. Is there a possibility that track will began to die down even more than what it already is?

Billion dollar ball

Yesterday we met with the author of "Billion -dollar Ball", by Gilbert Gaul. he came a gave a great presentation on his book and all of the research that he did to find it, all of the interviews that he had with different colleges, and how college athletic programs made their money. He talked about how hard it was to get interviews with some of the presidents of the colleges because they were worried about their and the schools image. He also talked about how college coaches made way more money than any of the professors and even the president of the college. He took trips around the world and sat ion on many different press conferences. What was ironic to me was the fact that he had never taken a journalism course yet he was able to write a book as well as this one. Also he claimed that he wasn't a sports fan he just like the watch the game and add up the numbers.

Youth Sports

In class we have been looking into the world of youth sports more specifically football. There are many controversies of the dangers of our youth playing the sport. There should be more attention brought to this subject and the series causes of it. We watched a few videos some were Rethinking youth sports, Youth sports as a development zone Ted Johnson, and Coaches and Parents. The most important to me is Rethinking Youth Sports. There should be way more safety watches since they are children. Though the sport is professional since they are younger there should more attention brought to it and more safety measure that should be taken.

Lolo Drug test

In the world of track and field there are a lot of mayhem of drug abuse in the athletes. Reporter Mike Foss wrote an article about her experience the night of her drug test including her tweets. He was an for the win USA reporter then moved up to vice president of fox news. Lori "Lolo" Jones is an American track and field and bobsled athlete who specializes in the 60 and 100 meter hurdles. She won three NCAA titles and garnered 11 All-American honors while at LSU. She also became a Olympic bob sledder after her time with track But, of course there's always got to be some type of rumor trailing around on these athletes. Lolo Jones was surprised just as we were when she was being forced to take a drug test on her BIRTHDAY. "I was chosen to be drug tested right before I left for my bday party, so the drug testers were obligated to shadow me until i peed in a cup.

— Lolo Jones (@lolojones) August 6, 2013

They asked me to pee at 8. I dragged em to my dinner and went at 11:45pm... They said they didn't know it was my birthday and I had plans.

— Lolo Jones (@lolojones) August 6, 2013

Good night drug testers! and the next time u drug test me at my bday dinner party. bring a present!!!!!! A wrapped bottle of water will do

— Lolo Jones (@lolojones) August 6, 2013"\

 As an Olympic athlete you are required to be drug test and the most normal times. Well, good thing the satr has a sense of humor because she took it as joke the entire time. afterwards she brought the drug tester to her party and played a joke on them all.

Today on March 7, CHS had a presentation. The presenter mentioned Curt Shilling and Yuri weaver. Curt Shilling a former American Major league baseball right hand pitcher maybe wrong in many situations but most definitely not this one. On his twitter, he tweeted about his daughter being accepted to college and being a proud dad. Some of the students from this school saw the tweet and began to throw many sexual inappropriate slurs at her. At first they weren't that harmful but still pretty offense" I'll take care of her" "I can't wait to party with her". But after a while many more started to jump on the bandwagon and the tweets began to get a little hectic.Shilling then had a few choice words to say back to these student on campus.He tracked down the two guys on the campus and posted their information on twitter. He also posted the screenshots of tweets that and DMs that were posted and said about his daughter. Later on the two students were suspended from the campus and twitter had also suspended their accounts. Also, shilling also apologized to his daughter who he felt he might of embarrassed during all of this.

Tennessee AD stands by embattled football coach Butch Jones

"An amended complaint filed Wednesday stated former Tennessee football player Drae Bowles assisted a woman who said she had been raped by two other players and that later he was attacked by teammates and told by coach Butch Jones he had 'betrayed the team.'". A female who reported a sexual assault, accompanied by one of her friends who also happened to be a football player didn't expect the outcome they received. Though the female suffered the most from this act, her friend who supported and helped her also received some heat from his coach and players. He was beat up by his own teammates for helping report the crime and was told by his coached that he " betrayed" their team.
Later on the Athletic Director, Dave Hart finds out about the situation and surprisingly sides with the football coach and team against the female and former player. The coach claimed that he was only trying to "assists" bowels. The AD also claimed that he has "empathy and sympathy" for any victim of sexual assault and will defend himself against any allegations made against him about his character. The AD claimed that each person is entitled to due process so he's giving them the benefit of the doubt.The staff of the Tennessee sports program really needs to be be evaluated  for even considering the fact that these two players didn't sexually assault this female. Also, there was nothing being done about the fact that the third player being beat up for helping the victim.