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6. The NCAA often receives as much as 90 percent of its total revenue from television contracts to televise which of these?

Title IX was the landmark legislation passed into law in 1972 that prohibited discrimination against women and girls in institutions that receive federal funds.

Which author, touted as “the first important American sportswriter,” referenced The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in his writing about Notre Dame?

A convergence of job roles and a variety of skills are now required for many 21st century sport communication jobs, with many jobs also emphasizing the production of content for the Internet and social media. 

10. Which current ESPN employee essentially launched the business of covering the NFL Draft for media when he produced his first prospectus guide on the NFL Draft while he was still a senior in high school, before the NFL Draft was ever televised?

The most popular professional sport league in the United States, the _____, will collect roughly $12 billion annually starting in 2023 from its most recent television- and streaming-rights deals.

Whereas sport was influenced primarily by network television in the 1950s through the 1970s, its reach was expanded exponentially in the late 1970s and 1980s by cable television, especially by the advent of ESPN.

In esports media, Twitch, the market-leading platform owned by Amazon launched in 2011, has been beating audience records and has attracted a wider audience, reaching 30 million worldwide users in 2022.

Sport and sport media have historically created discourses that framed Black athletes as “natural” athletes who possess superior athleticism while also downplaying their intelligence and decision-making abilities.

In recent years, all of these teams have changed nicknames that some argued were offensive to Native Americans except which one that remains in place?