Cricket is a very big sport in India; some even say that it bridged the gap between the rich and the poor in some cases. The relationship between cricket and politics were viewed as positive (3, 4, 5, 6, 2) and prideful (10, 9, 1, 6).…
The opinion piece, “The Athlete as Agent of Change,” by Lonnie Bunch and David Skorton discusses how athletes use their platform to address injustice. “Sport has always been a way used to challenge convention.”(Bunch and Skorton, paragraph 3). Athletes have the power and ability to change an idea or convince people of their ideas. The position they are in allows them to use their fame to promote their beliefs and causes they support. I believe that athletes should use their fame to promote a political agenda. One reason why athletes should use their fame to promote a political agenda is because athletes’ platforms allow them to easily persuade or sway the fans and audience to the idea they support. “Sport is a powerful way to do so because…
The way that cricket and politics are involved with each other is mainly because of the cricket players writing petitions to a political leader because of conflicts that cricket players have with other sports. One of the examples where the cricket players had a conflict with another sport was in Bombay, India, 1881. Their was a conflict between the cricket players and the polo players. The cricket players wrote to the governor of Bombay, India about letting them get new fields where they could play…
In “A People’s History of Sports in the United States,” David Zirin asserts that “...one can hardly say that sports exist in a world separate from politics.” In other words, politics are often intertwined in the inner workings of sports, and sports figures often address and reflect issues seen in politics. The idea that sports and politics are separate and unrelated entities is an overly simplistic and superficial analysis of the complex relationship between sports and politics. Muhammad Ali was an image breaker in the the midst of the age of conformity, where black men had limited options on their public image. He was simply more than a polite and well spoken gentleman such as Patterson, and even more disliked than the public image of the…
Houlihan B and White A – The Politics of Sport Development (Routledge, 2002) ISBN 9780415277495…
Green, M. & Houlihan, B. (2010). Elite sport development: policy learning and political priorities; Routledge; Oxon.…
This segment would focus on how this political infrastructure affects particular demographic participation in certain sports, as well as how it either inhibits or promotes socioeconomic ability and where opportunities for socioeconomic mobility exist under current political infrastructure. The goal of this segment is the goal of the class: to not only understand why and how these socio-economic implications exist in the US, but to utilize that knowledge to benefit society. Discussions in this segment would aim at understanding current political infrastructure in hopes of crafting more egalitarian policies to better promote diverse socioeconomic…
To many people, the sports world is a place in which none of the normal problems of the "real" world could possibly exist. The participants seem to be rich beyond measure, many are educated and well spoken, and though there are disputes, they usually center on money-not…
Coakley, J. (2004). Sport in society: issues and controversies (8th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.…
Going right along with Dyreson’s sporting republic, sports made it easy for American culture to embrace politics as a parallel to following the rules or playing by a code of fair conduct in sport. The idea of athletic technology became a popular thought in which sporting republicans believed “all forms of rational recreation and any strenuous games or contests contributed to their schemes of progressive social reform” (Dyreson 19). During this time sport was also heavily supported as a common language to promote social ideology which like Gulick believed was no longer found in the industrialized society. President Theodore Roosevelt popularized these claims stating “government support of sports programs was the only available republican method for making urban children “strong and law-abiding” (Dyreson 28). Roosevelt envisioned sport as a way to create a masculine culture with the world’s strongest people, restore civic virtue, create a sense of fair play for economic and social relations, and provide real experiences (Dyreson 29). In addition, the entire Olympic movement play on this idea. The Olympics are and have always been political, one way to showcase a nation’s dominance over the others, with the two games already discussed in this essay (1904 and 1931) being clear evidence. Economics were drastically affected by sports. Advertising exploded…
cricket. In document 1, Indian cricket players were getting fed up with the English polo players…
In South Asia during 1880-2005 politics gained an unusual bedfellow. Cricket was introduced to India by Great Britain for a purpose that was widely discussed. Some believed cricket brought their people together and unified different castes and cultures within India and Britain, some believed the sport was just another way for the British to rule over India and appear superior, and others criticized the religious nature present in many of the tournaments. This issue could be better understood by including an article by a British commoner who participated in the Quadrangular Tournament to make it evident that they really did want to spread religion and it wasn’t an overreaction by the Hindus or Muslims. It would also be conducive to include an article written by an Indian ruling elite who was the main source of any sort of political power or political relations with British elites so the reader can get a greater understanding of the actual role of cricket in politics and to experience if there were any conflicts over the solve issue of cricket during political debates.…
The significance of the “intimate connection between cricket and West Indian Social and Political life”…
federations are assisted by the Netaji Subhas National Institute of Sports, Patiala, which provides intensive training for…
Sport is a big phenomenon of today, it is very important part of today life. However, sport is rather contradictory phenomenon. It is connected with big humanistic values and it formats life and values of billions of people on the one side. It is also connected with dirty business, doping, corruption and violence on the other side. Corruption in sport should be matter of concern not of pessimism. We are not speaking about decline of sport values. But we are facing of a new challenge. This…