Rader talks about how many sports teams and games promote themselves. They don't need the help of big time promoters to get coverage or viewership of their game. The teams and the players themselves are enough today to get a sporting event watched. It seems that sports are getting more and more competitive and more emphasis is being put on winning. That emphasis is being put on more by the owners and GMs than the players it seems. The owners and GMs are making more trades and buying and signing more players than ever in an effort to make their team a champion. How do you know if the player you are signing did it the right way? Does it even matter to these owners? There could be a whole chapter in the book about the steroid era in sports. These controversies are not only at the professional level. College teams more than ever are becoming more competitive. With this comes playing players and other illegal acts. Not only negatives will be known to come from this era however.
Rader talks about more and more opportunities for fans to get involved with their own sporting experiences. As mentioned in a previous post, March Madness gets bigger and bigger each year with more and more people filling out brackets. Also fantasy sports are drawing more and more people in, especially fantasy professional football where the fan gets the be the owner of a team and make draft picks and control the team the way he or she wants. More and more people are also playing sports. Whether it be in a pickup game or in organized leagues. A lot of people play softball well into their sixties. While we have seen a lot of change in sports, Rader may be right in saying the time we live in now may have resulted in the most changes sports has seen.
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I have to say that sports continue to change in ways that would have seemed unimaginable just 10 years ago. The internet has dramatically changed the way we consume sports. Who knows what it will be like in another 10 years?
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