Not all people know about the used of doping but it seems to be used nationwide and it is many reasons why athletes tend to use it. Each year over 300,000 athletes worldwide test over positive over banned substances. For every sport you know of, some athletes from the field has been caught using drugs. I read about the International Olympic Committee banned Russia for taking the national team to the February 2018 winter games in South Korea. This part reveals on how this is a nationwide thing. I believe that Russia let their fans down and many more. The big question is, whether the usage of performance-enhancing drugs should be allowed in sports in some form. Steroids was the first drug that I have ever heard that athletes were using. I believe many athletes use this drug so that they can beat their opponent. I can guess that so many athletes are getting caught using a specific drug is because you can see the difference level in their performance. Many players want to stand out so this is a reason many athletes enhance drugs. The better the player the more in earning that player will make. In professional leagues their is so much competition between each other and many athletes will take the shortcut for an typical advantage. Dr. Gary I. Walder said athletes live in the world of invincibility and denial. I think he means that usually athletes hide the fact that they are using drugs and when the caught using the drug they have many explanations. The athletes usually say they were not using the drug or they were using the drug for their health issue. I was surprise about the fact on the total amount of athletes that were test positive. Another surprise to me is knowing that many athletes are enhancing doping at this moment right now. Every athlete wants to be the winner but cheaters never win.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/roomykhan/2017/12/31/doping-in-sports-cheating-or-leveling-of-the-playing-field/#63f709e575ec

Sport and corporate sociability encourages companies to be more aware of their impact on society. It focuses on areas such as education, health, gender inequalities, and the environment. This is the new alternative sports. The first international conference on social responsibility and sports management was held in Spain. Social responsibility has became a mainstream issue to sport related organizations that is becoming more important. Many corporations post information about their social responsibility on their website and encourage players to get involved in promoting sports as a social way to address existing concerns. The corporate sociability in sport is positive and essential. Community partnerships and investments can be produced. Also education, health, gender inequalities, and the environment is very important and always will be. Each community is different and children participating in sport and recreation activities is popular. Sport and corporate sociability can help poverty, youth development, youth development, and gender integration. Social responsibility is finding it’s way in community sports. This allow other clubs attract new members that will help engage in more activities. Allowing yourself to be involved in club activities, will only make your community better and you will be more comfortable with the people around you. This will allow all people of all ages help work together and understand each other more to help reach their next goal. I believe focusing on poverty in the the communities is very beneficial because social responsibility will decrease the rate and find many way to decrease the poverty level. The social responsibility will determine our future on sports and it is a big culture all around the world. Many organizations will be improved by in which they advertise their practices. Social responsibility around the sport will make the sport better and will continue to help the problems on health issues and more.

https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1P3-2233842631/the-future-of-sports-management-a-social-responsibility

There has been some issues on the fan violence in sports. There has been an incident at the M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore against the Oakland Raiders which was an argument that turned into a full blown altercation between Raider fan and Ravens season ticket holder. The ticket holder name was Baeur who suffered a brain injury and was giving a 30 percent chance to survive. Many arrest has been in sports has been made in the NFL. Division contest and night results in considerable more fan arrest, according to records collected from the city, county, and state police. We should look more into how we can stop the fan violence and set more boundaries to this situation. If the home team loses, no matter the opponent or schedule kickoff time, arrest increase. The closer the loss, the more arrest tend to rise. I feel as fans get too much excited and pumped up where they the lose control. Also we know that many fans get very frustrated when their team loses and especially in big games. Evening games have more arrest and I predict this situation happens because people tend to drink more later throughout the day. The worst thing I read in the latest article was in the month of October, a man was shot outside a Dallas Cowboys game A&T Stadium and later died. Fan violence can definitely can ruin the game for others who are there just to watch the game. The games are suppose to be to have a great time and not to cause violence between fans. In 2013, a 30 year- old man was beaten to death in the parking lot at Kansas City’s Arrowhead Stadium. Violence is never the answer and fans getting into altercations between each other at games is simply a disgrace to me. This fan violence is an issue for all 32 NFL teams in the league and is looked more upon. Fans need to come together so that violence will not be involved.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/redskins/a-quietly-escalating-issue-for-nfl-fan-violence-and-how-to-contain-it/2016/10/28/4ec37964-9470-11e6-bb29-bf2701dbe0a3_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.94363409b2ca

Doping in sports have been a main issue where many athletes take part of it. Doping is the use and abuse of performance enhancing substances in elite sports. Some of us may know of the major league baseball player Barry Bonds who had quite of a successful season. In 2001 Barry Bonds had passed Mark McGwire’s home-run record which at the time he was playing for the San Francisco Giants. He was caught with performing enhancing drugs which was under investigation. Steroids is what he was using and around this time I did hear about Barry Bonds a lot as a child hitting home-runs as usual was just devastating to hear about this type of drug he was caught using. In 2000’s doping was major in the sport field and it seem as most athletes were using this. I believe that Barry Bonds should not have taking steroids because he was good athlete already and it is unfair to the league. ”The game of shadows” grew out of the groundbreaking reporting and is based on interviews with more than 200 people and hundreds of pages of documents, including the secret grand jury testimony of Mr. Bonds by the investigation of the use of doping. This particular action that Barry Bonds took, was not going to go away and he was later going to pay for his actions. Mr. Bonds appeared on Sports Illustrated that discussed the outrage of the use of steroid use of baseball. I feel as Mr. Bonds should have been punished because there is rules to the sport. Barry Bonds speaking out on the use of steroids was the best thing he could have done. We should all know that we are all humans and we all make mistakes. The steroid that Mr. Bond used was created to improve the muscle quality of cattle beef. In later one author mentioned that Barry Bonds looked like a WWE wrestler or a toy superhuman figure. Basically doping can definitely interrupt the league and cause problems within the league.

Promotion and Relegation system is very common in popular in international sports we watch today. Such as the best team in weaker leagues are promoted and the worst teams in the better leagues get demoted. The promotion and relegation system improves the league. This system is everywhere itself of America and is commonly used in soccer. Teams gain more promotion than they lose from relegation. I believe that teams without promotion and relegation produces average players. Players tend to be paid more within this system. The English soccer explains more to it which set up as a pyramid league. At the top is the premier league. The next three levels down are collectively called the English football league, including the championship, league 1, and league 2. Between these four levels are 92 professional leagues in England. Promotion consist of the teams that are high ranking in the league table. Relegations seems to be the spot that consist the teams that are going to be at the bottom. In my opinion such as teams without relegation and promotion new teams usually get entered that will require financial money. In the league you usually have one or two teams winning in the league every season because they are the richest and more successful team that usually picks the best players. They usually have the best coaches and facilities to dominate the league. This whole process of relegation and promotion generates more interest in matches among weak teams in a league and produces better competitive balance within the league. As a fan I would like to see competition between the different teams in the leagues. This process will allow different select of teams that enter the playoff and gain more recognition. Some teams have no way of winning, thereby causing teams to spend less on players during (their) brief stay in a higher league than they spent while they were trying to be promoted from a lesser league. 

https://siepr.stanford.edu/research/publications/economics-promotion-and-relegation-sports-leagues-case-english-football

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmGILrBPGjQ&t=471s

In sports we have discovered corruption and match fixing with professional sport teams. All the leagues have the ability to control the league, coaches, and players. Many journalism does not do a lot of investigating within the leagues. Many things are being ignored. Great cancer that destroy sports is known as corruption and match fixing. Money is taking from coaches and athletes. It’s a powerful gambling market where its illegal. I recently found out that tennis is the easiest game to be fixed. In E-Gaming many people, thought things were going on too. People are not being paid properly either. For example, NFL makes around ten to eleven billions of dollars a season on revenue. Television networks take some of the revenue money that is made in the league. Match- fixing is more common than ever is becoming more of an issue. Many people believe that the advent of online gambling has increased the risk of match fixing for financial gain. Globalization also plays a role – criminal seekings to fix matches that can connect and meet with athletes, coaches, and officials from all over the world. I feels as globalization is disrupting the sport industry and something has to be done about this. The sport leagues cannot be trusted as much and it makes the game less entertaining. I had some previous thoughts on the NFL on the league being rigged. The referees congratulating Tom Brady at the end of the super bowl game. The scene that I had witnessed seem a little bit awkward to me. Many people try to make money on gambling when they know the outcome of the game result.  This corruption and matching fixing should taken more seriously based on the amount of money certain officials make. This is a major threat to the sport and something has to be done because if we do not our future sports will be affected. 

https://www.itrustsport.com/sports-governance/tackling-sports-corruption/match-fixing-betting-and-gambling-corruption-in-sport

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There has been some important things to know about the strategic management in International sport. In the article, I read there are some different types of sport strategies to obtain. It seem, as the International strategy is one of the primary strategies for markets that gives out products and services to different markets. In sports, you will need to improve your business so that you can help the market. In addition, we know that the sports has change and more money is coming in. In the article, it says sport, as a field of industry, is rapidly changing. Therefore, there is an increased need for strategic management to adjust these new things. Strategic management mentions some important factors that involves some everyone at every level of the organization. The development of clear vision and mission statements is key when working on a sport and this is one of the first steps to the strategic management that must be followed. The success of the sport team depend on the decisions that has to be made in the strategic plan. I cannot forget to mention about the most important strategic management, which is strategic implantation that requires budgeting, project management, staffing, and leadership. Leadership is always important in sport businesses because it is the start of something new and expand new ideas has to be form to accomplish that goal. Some people forget that sport is a business and we must focus on the sales and marketing functions to maintain a proper branding and navigate the new marketing channels. The strategic management is the set of decisions, activities, and plans of action for organization. I believe this article is beneficial because it explains how strategic management is essential when it comes to business and sport. It expresses how their needs to be more strategic management where more leadership skills and long-term objectives goals for the organization.

Strategic Management in Sports | The Sport Digest