Hello Classmates,
Looking back at ABC's Silver Anniversary Wide World of Sports video, the sports world has changed dramatically. The amount of camera crews, news correspondence, and news stations has increased greatly. They way the nation watches every event and the reaction of those events has such a huge following throughout the nation. Having so many technical advances over the years has made it so the events on the television are captured in different angles and views, making the experiences sometimes better than that in real life.
Many sports have maintained their value and appeal, with the following falling into that category; Car Racing, Olympics, Baseball, and Football. All of these sports have experienced huge audience gains and cult followings. Car Racing like Nascar, Indy Racing, and the Grand Prix have not only have had some of the largest crowds watching in the stands, the racing leagues have made the thrill of the chase very captivating week to week. Football went from probably being the third ranked sport (behind baseball, and basketball) to being the most watched and followed sports league today. Even though the Olympic events are years apart and they have their preliminary events for qualifying spread out throughout the year, have turned TV. coverage on the Winter/Summer games into a larger than life event and spectacle.
At the same time a few sports have had huge drop off in their appeal and value. Those sports are: Horse Racing, Cricket, and Boxing. Besides Horse Racings Triple Crown (Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes) the sport has seen a lot of changes to their industry. The popularity outside those three races leaves a lot to be desired and has 10 1/2 months of lightly watched races and events to fill in fans for the year. Cricket still remains a minority sport in the United States, failing to gain a substantial following. Even after all the years. Cricket is on the edge of completely dissolving in the U.S. and was saved in 2008 by the West Indies Cricket Board and the ICC to continue playing the sport. Boxing is another sport that has gone from one of the most covered and talked about events, to being an afterthought today. Whether you blame the MMA, UFC, and the likes for taking the Boxing world spectators, I believe it to be several reasons. Boxing has a water downed product with little exposure and poorly run owners and managers that are too money hungry.
The different events that play out on the broadcast networks and cable networks have little effects to my viewing habits. Since I do not have access readily to a television, the choices are made for me with what is on the local broadcast stations channels. If I had to decide between the two, I would have to go with the broadcast networks every time and watch the local areas sports teams instead of the national games of the week that is predominantly on the east coast. In the big picture of things, as long as there is some sort of sporting event on the television, I will be tuned in and be watching intently even if it’s the Yankees/Red Sox, Celtics/Knicks, or Redskins/Eagles.
Here is a website that I found that had an interesting take on the Boxing world's demise.
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