The Future of College Football

Every Saturday around the United States people turn on their TVs and find a hard way not to see some sort of college football related sports programming. College Football is huge in the existence of American sports and what people dedicate their TV viewing to. With stadiums around the country crammed to the max with screaming fans and dedicated family's, college football rules as one of the premier sports in America today. But Michael Weinrebs article "The End of College Football As We Know It?" talks about the ending of a given era in the college football realm. With the potential National Championship drawing out to be Alabama and Notre Dame, it seems that this will be the last time we will have a strictly drawn championship game that isn't decided on anything more than who you beat and who you might have struck a loss to. Next year is being seen as the first time in sports history that a 4 team playoff system will be enforced and a National Championship won't just simply be 2 teams that the fans love and is politically the most justifiable team. But what will really change? It doesn't matter how many teams you put into a playoff bound spot, it will still be teams that politically are the teams deserving to be playing in those games. It won't matter who won the most decisive games or who has the best record, all it will come down to is TV ratings and what SEC teams should be given the right to play for their 50th straight national title. The SEC is the best conference yes, but a loss on your schedule is a loss no matter what way you cut it. And if an unbeaten team is chosen over a team that has a unblemished record, then in my mind that is a load of bs. So yes, college football is headed in a new direction. But how big of a difference are we really going to see? I won't hold my breath for the same garbage they pull every year.
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8680817/notre-dame-alabama-sec-history-college-football-national-championship-game

The NBA and The Blogosphere

For close to half a century, in order to watch a professional sports game you either had to turn on your TV or the next day pick up a local newspaper and maybe get some coverage of your local sports team. But now a days all you have to do is hop onto your favorite search engine and up will pop a million different things about every athletes where a bouts and every fact about every pro sports team to ever walk the earth. In Carles article "Has the NBA Gone Mainstream?" he talks about the transformation of the NBA from something that only the mega fans could really enjoy to the realm of any bloke on the street being able to learn about any superstar in the league by simply creating a twitter or Facebook. I will admit, I use twitter religiously to keep me updated on what is going on in the league and in any sports league for that matter. But doesn't that take the real passion out of it? It takes away from the true fan being able to boast his knowledge about his team because anyone can do it now a days. With every social media site on earth pumping out constant stories and articles pertaining to even the slight mishap a player might have, it eliminates someone who truly cares about the sport and grew up always being a fan. Granted, there are still the people who simply don't use the internet because they don't wanna give into the 21st century media swing that most people have taken witness to. But I can agree with this, because it shouldn't ruin the passion that people have for a sport they truly care about. People who like to blog about the NBA and what goes on should still be able to take their time and write about what they care about and not have to worry about them being overshadowed by the big time sites that any idiot on the street can read and get his knowledge from. With the NBA diving head first into the social media giant, people don't need to forget about what they still stand for and shouldn't knock on a true fan who still watches the game. I might be a social media whore but I don't dare knock on someone who still finds the love of the game the old fashioned way. http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8602142/the-nba-transformation-internet-friendly-juggernaut