The Green article I thought was more interesting than the
Hachleitner and Manzenreiter article for one main reason, I’m not that
interested in the business behind soccer.
I thought the article on sports and politics was much more interesting because
it related to me and what I thought was newsworthy.
While I may not be interested in the topic the article about
Euro 2008 still raised some interesting points. The first thing that caught my
eye was the sentence that talked about how the soccer sports writers were the
sport’s biggest advertising agency. If that was said about my writing for The
Temple News I think Joe Cranney would be going to jail for a very serious crime
against me. Furthermore, the talk about the media in this article reminded me
of the stories we read about Babe Ruth as they called the sports media, “myth-makers.”
Green describes in one of his first paragraphs that sports
have taken center-stage, even using United States President Barack Obama to
reinforce his point by calling him the “sports president.” Then directly after
that he said that G.W. Bush was once called the “sports president.” Green then
goes on to compare sports to a bar, which is an excellent comparison and then
goes to talk about how women are blocked out of the political realm. When one
sits back and really looks at it it’s amazing how much sports and politics are
related, although unfortunately I don’t think President Obama will be taking
his talents to South Beach any time soon.
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