Professional athletes can make millions in no time, but in order to secure this kind of hefty income they will often shoot for the biggest and best endorsement deals out there. Big name athletes are usually the first to get signed to endorsement contracts, but every once in a while a big brand will take a chance on a rookie or lesser-known player and strike gold. Here are the 10 biggest endorsement deals in athletic history: 1. Tiger Woods...
There are different theories on how to motivate players and turn young boys into men. San Diego’s Poway High School varsity football coach Damian Gonzalez stated in an interview that his coaching philosophy is to “teach the game of football to develop quality character, discipline, integrity, commitment and work ethic in our student-athletes.” Well Gonzalez may want to rethink his approach. As a result of constantly belittling and berating one the members of the Titans football team, coach Gonzalez...
College sports fans often complain about the disparity between the “haves” and “have nots.” In college football, Alabama, Notre Dame, USC and Oklahoma own a bulk of the national titles from the last 90 years. In college basketball, UCLA, Kentucky, Duke, North Carolina, Indiana and Kansas are the dominant six that have presided over the sport over last several decades. While parity may never truly take hold, the powerhouses will likely change over time, as evidenced by the examples...
The picture is looking brighter for Wake Forest football, and I’m not talking about the Demon Deacons’ 3-1 record and 2-0 record in conference play. When the old gold and black host ACC powerhouse Florida State this Saturday at 12:30, fans will be in for a treat as Groves Stadium will feature its newly minted 6,500 square foot video board atop Deacon Hill. The 22 ton, 1,512,000 pixel screen will be operational for the first time in what will...
Detroit’s Frederick Douglas College Preparatory Academy for Young Men’s football team was about to forfeit Friday’s Homecoming football game because the team locker room was burglarized and over 20 sets of helmets, pad, and cleats were stolen earlier in the week. With no money in the budget, head coach Al Demps was concerned how he would field a team for Friday’s game. Earlier in the week, some players were wearing street shoes during practice because there were no cleats...
The Sandbar Mexican Grill (Sandbar) in Peoria, Arizona, does not want pregnant wait-staff working on football Sundays believing patrons do not like the combination of football and pregnant women. Sandbar’s management was so adamant in its position that it instituted a policy that specifically removed all visibly pregnant women from the lucrative game-day Sunday shifts. Ms. Keli Kozup was adversely affected by this policy when she was removed from her Sunday shift despite her positive work performance. She was...
The utterance of the term “student-athlete” induces a chuckle from those who are familiar with what really drives the highest levels of college athletics — money. With so much at stake for the universities beyond just the publicity that comes with having a winning football or basketball program, the gatekeepers have conveniently snoozed on the corruption that has blatantly occurred over the last few decades. Some of the most notable manipulators of the system from the last 20 years...
For as arrogant as professional athletes can appear, their strong belief in superstitions suggests they don’t have as much faith in their abilities as they’d like us to believe. Most athletes have some kind of ritual they go through before playing a game, which can be as simple as putting on their equipment in a certain order or eating a specific food. But some people take their compulsions to an extreme, whether it’s a player, a team’s fans, or...
