Source number 4

Another source that was really helpful is this Journal written by Allen R. Sanderson and John J. Siegfried. In the article The case for Paying College Athletes, gives a thorough explanation of the idea of paying college athletes. The main point of the article is why and how NCAA athletes should be paid a salary. The article names famous coaches such as Nick Saban, and John Calapari and how they make millions of dollars yearly. While the coaches do hard work the players are putting their entire life on trying to become successful athletes. This source is useful because it displays how the college sports system is very wrong. The players make absolutely no income and one of the biggest reasons athletes try to become professional is for economical reasons. I can use this source for my research paper by helping answer the big picture question which is what makes college basketball dramatic. Also this paper helps shape my argument because in my paper I discuss a situation where recently a player complained that some nights he has to go hungry even after a game because of his financial situation even though he is a star player. Soon after the NCAA released a new rule that guarantees all NCAA athletes will get a meal plan for free. This article just helps me generate many new points to help answer my topic question. Also the article helped me back up these topics by giving great quotes.

Source Number 3

One of the main points in my research paper is choking under pressure. Many college basketball players choke under pressure because they are literally playing to get a job as a professional basketball player. In the journal: On the fragility of skilled performance: What governs choking under pressure, by Beilock, Sian L he examples difference scenarios that show how and why people start to choke under pressure. The point of this article is to show the researches experiments which explain why people start to choke. This source directly correlates with my research paper because one of the things a college basketball player goes through is pressure. Athletes in their heads always think about what is going to happen if I miss this shot. They ask themselves will I never make it to the NBA, will I lose my scholarship? This source helps me be by proving my point that people do definitely break under pressure. Also the research that was conducted proves that if your experienced in what you do the less pressure there will be. This will help me because college kids have never been in a situation where if they play bad their chance of becoming professional basketball players might be over. Or even if they do become professionals 1 missed shot can become the difference of making 500,000 dollars a year or 6 million dollars a year. This will help me prove that college basketball is in fact dramatic and melodramatic.

Source for Research Paper

I was having trouble looking for sources because I felt like my topic was something that happened recently. The NFL Super Bowl took place on February 1st 2015, which is only exactly two months ago. After doing some research I realized that my source didn't necessarily have to be on how media effected this Super Bowl, but on how media in general has a immense impact in the way we perceive things. In the journal Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, Dardis states "With the advent of a greater number of media outlets, the rise in investigative journalism, and the hardening of media's self-understanding as moral watchdogs in society, the stage was set for scandals to emerge" (310). Dardis is stating that because of all the media coverage we have, especially in modern era, a scandal is bound to happen and be released to the public. One of the reasons the deflate gate was such a big deal is because of the amount of media coverage we have today. The 2015 Super Bowl drew an average of 114.4 million viewers which made it the most viewed broadcast in U.S television history (CNN.com), and I can guarantee that one of the reasons was because the scandal which made it more interesting.

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