Communication Feedback Paper
             The topic our group was assigned was Sports Communication. Being my concentration for my major of Communications at Marist, I believed this would be a simple assignment. The first objective our group had to undertake was deciding upon a sub-topic. This was no easy task. Our first choice was sports betting/gambling. It was next to impossible to find a scholarly journal article on this topic. Even regular periodical articles were difficult to find omitting any substantial research. Most articles included betting tips or results from Super Bowls and World Series'. Needless to say, our group quickly transferred subtopics, this time to Sports Broadcasting. This is what we went with to make our presentation.
             This topic too, I believed would be easy. Not so. I did learn much about the topic, what went into sports broadcasting, some laws and regulations concerning broadcasts and broadcasters, and also the development of sports networks. I read articles of how Monday Night Football has a certain mystique about it, something that draws fans, and glues them to their TV sets into and past the midnight hour. Now I know it isn't just me who does this on a weekly basis. I learned about the rise of SPORTSCENTER, and how it has grown so large that it defines a large part of American Culture. Gender issues were something I knew that was always prevalent in sports. Everywhere you look in sports Title IX is often being mentioned. But what I didn't know was the unbalance of gender in sports broadcasting; to me it wasn't that obvious.
             The process of researching scholarly journals was not something I personally found very easy. I have had to complete the task for past classes, and each time I struggled through the experience. It was tough for me to locate a quality article, but the most difficult part was analyzing what the author(s) was trying to establish. My first attempt for ...