Sports... Not Just Sport

For my research/blog topics I have chosen to explore many different areas of sport. I would like to explore the history of sport and how inequalities have managed to fester within sport based on sex or race and what is being done to offset those inequalities today. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106486162

I would also like to look at the affects of globalization on sport and demonstrate how sport plays a much more significant rule in everyday life then one might think. Also I aim to look at the many different motives or causes of inequalities in sport such as consumerism and profit maximization and explore the true reasoning of why these inequalities still exist in sport today.

Sport offers a unique way to view globalization as well as the ways sexism and racism affect us in today’s society because it is something we all see or hear about on a daily basis. It is extremely relatable because many of us grew up playing sports and that transfers over to a general interest in sports for many.
The issues we discuss in class can be found in sports headlines almost daily and we are seeing the globalization of sport year after year with bigwig companies such as Nike pushing their campaigns global for profit maximization. It is because of reasons such as these that I have decided to explore the world of sport and how it has changed into what it is today and how it will continue to change as time presses on.