Issues in Sport

Types of media involved in sports coverage:

• Videos/flms, books, magazines, internet, radio, newspapers and television

Positive effects on sport:

• Provides money and funding
• Sports become more popular
• Better coverage
• Educates viewers
• Creates star performers
• Greater audiences

Negative effects on sport:

• Some sports cannot or are not being televised so they do not get such a great audience and popularity is lower, in squash the ball moves too fast to be seen on screen 
• It can dictate sponsors
• Can create bordeom due to over coverage
• Can reduce attendance to games 

Sponsorship provides financial support for sports and performers, and sports/performers advertise the products.

Forms of sponsorship:

• equipment, clothing, accessories, transport costs, training costs and money

Major sports:

• football
• formula 1
• city marathons

Minor sports:

• netball
• hockey
• volleyball

Political assistance:

• Finance 
• National Lottery
• Government Sports Minister 
• Provision of sports acts in parliament
• Legislation provides laws for sports venues
• Research into sporting disasters
• Specific aid for individual sports and organisations
• Protection of sports from commercial televeison e.g. just showing tennis on Sky
• Development of health related programmes

Bad behaviour includes:

• Over agression
• gamesmanship e.g. time wasting
• cheating
• sledging e.g. talking to and opponent to put them off during a game
• Intimidating the officials
• Spectators can intimidate players
• Hooliganism from spectators

• WOMEN- despite changes in sexism against women, fewer females still play sport that males
• DISABLED- there are now more facilities for people with disabilities to participate and spectate sport. The Paralympics is a good example of this
• RELIGION/CULTURE/ETHNICITY- sports is much fairer to everyone now. In Germany Hitler had refused to acknowledge Jesse Owens' achievements because he was black