Commercial Sports
Money Changes the Game
Power & Ownership
College & NIL
Fans, Athletes & Labor
100

These sports are organized and played for profit.

What is Commercial sports?

100

Money can cause rules to change to make games faster, higher-scoring, or more this.

What is more engaging for the viewer?

100

Most professional teams are owned by wealthy individuals, investment groups, or these organizations.

What is Corporations?

100

These three letters stand for Name, Image, and Likeness.

What is NIL?

100

Fans spend money on tickets, food, parking, merchandise, and these digital services.

What are Subscriptions?

200

Tickets, media rights, sponsorships, and merchandise are all examples of these.

What is revenue sources?

200

This new MLB system lets players challenge ball-and-strike calls using automated technology.

What is ABS(Automated Strike-Ball) challenge system?
200

This NFL franchise is the major exception to traditional private ownership.

Who are the Green Bay Packers?

200

NIL allows athletes to earn money through endorsements, appearances, camps, and these online posts.

What are Sponsored social media posts?

200

These organizations represent players when negotiating with owners.

What are Player associations / unions

300

This term means the growing influence of money and business interests in sports.

What is commercialization?

300

Commercial sports often favor this orientation because danger, excitement, and dramatic moments attract audiences.

What is Heroic orientation?

300

This term describes a league becoming the only major provider of elite professional competition in a sport.

What is a Monopoly?

300

Companies provide equipment and apparel to college teams in exchange for this exposure.

What is branding/promotional exposure?

300

These agreements establish employment terms between players and ownership.

What are Collective bargaining agreements?

400

Teams, athletes, events, and venues increasingly become these things that can be promoted and sold.

What are products?

400

UFC 229 between McGregor and Nurmagomedov had about this many PPV buys according to the presentation.

What is 2.4 Million?

400

Professional sports leagues can use their structure to limit outside competition and give existing owners significant economic power over how teams operate.


What is league control/ownership power?

400

The growth of NIL raises questions about whether college and amateur sports are becoming more like this type of sport.

What is professional/commercialized sport?

400

Commercialization can cause athletes to be viewed not only as competitors, but also as workers ____.

What are entertainers?

500

The presentation’s main takeaway is that sport is not just a game, it is also this.

What is a Business?

500

Super Bowl LX generated approximately this much economic activity across the Bay Area.

What is $720 million

500

This term describes professional team owners cooperating through a league to protect their shared economic interests.

What is a Cartel?

500

NIL is changing the traditional meaning of this concept in college sports.

What is Amateurism?

500

Disagreements between players and owners often center around this major financial issue.

What are salaries?