league focus
TRANSCRIPT
League
Focus
By By John Begg
National Collegiate Athletic
Association
A Non-profit association that has more then 1200 institutions, conferences, and organizations
It is committed to providing opportunity for more than 450,000 college student-athletes who compete annually in college sports
The NCAA dates its formation to two conferences convened by Theodore Roosevelt
Today the NCAA is Divided into three divisions and made up of several conferences
Mark Emmert
Current President of the NCAA
Fifth President in NCAA History
Best Know for the sanctions
against Penn State Football
NCAA Headquarters
NCAA Headquarters
https://www.google.com/maps/place/NCAA+Hall+of+Cha
mpions/@39.765872,-
86.170235,17z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0xf2121dc75a8f15
e6?hl=en
Located in White River State Park, Indianapolis, Indiana
http://www.ncaa.com
NCAA Championships
The NCAA currently awards 89 national championship
yearly
44 women’s and 42 men’s and coed championships for
fencing, Rifle, and skiing
NCAA Basketball Tournament
BCS National Championship Game
NCAA Tournament
March Madness
Single game elimination
68 teams in the field
32 teams receive automatic bids for winning their
conference
36 teams receive “at large bids” from a selection
committee
Defending Champions men-
Uconn
Women- Uconn
College Football Playoff
113 members of committee consisting of 5 athletic directors from the 5 major conferences, media, coaches and former players
The teams will be selected by strength of schedule, head to head results, comparison of results against common opponents strength
Its designed to have the best teams play each other to preserve excitement and significance of the games
6 bowls will be played to get to the championship Rose bow, sugar bowl, orange bowl, cotton bowl, peach bowl, fiesta bowl
2013 Champions Florida State
went undefeated
Defeated Auburn
QB Jameis Winston 2013
Heisman winner
How Americans root in college
football
NCAA and Controversy: A Great
game but troubled Environment
Wall street Journal
http://search.proquest.com.jerome.stjohns.edu:81/abicom
plete/docview/1552019199/E0F07DECE13843F6PQ/1?a
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https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=96129914&authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=B5OX&locale=en_US&trk=tyah&trkInfo=tarId%3A1413297288996%2Ctas%3A%20micheal%20cioroianu%2Cidx%3A1-1-1
Sources
http://www.vault.com/
http://campusguides.stjohns.edu/friendly.php?s=databasesA-Z
http://www.ncaa.org
http://search.proquest.com.jerome.stjohns.edu
http://www.collegefootballplayoff.com/selection-committee
Non League Focus
About
Started off as a popular basketball shoe. Worn by Larry
Bird, Magic Johnson, Andre Miller, Kobe Bryant
Retailers in over 160 countries through 85 company
owned retail stores nation wide and half dozen
international store
Converse inc. located in Andover, Massachusetts
Nike Subsidiary
Under Nike, Converse has morphed into a fashionable
footwear maker off the court
It has sold some 750 million pairs of its classic, chuck
taylors, canvas basketball shoes
It also licenses its name to sports apparel makers
Jobs/Careers
http://jobs.nike.com/careers/converse-corporate-jobs
http://jobs.nike.com/careers/internship-jobs