What's Right About College Football?

During the summer have Columnists write about what is wrong with the current landscape of college football. they have told us that the NCAA football is a farce, offering players under the table on major universities are paid to play football, and coaches are throwing good college kids on the bus to further their careers. While many of these allegations and, in particular, on the national championship game is a joke, it still doesn't hurt the game of the Division I football. Why is that?

Other sports don't have the endurance of the Division I football. NCAA Football Division I football scandals of point shaving, steroids, deceit, arrests and take care of that worship disingenuous (both in the polls, different conference officials and the actual officials at the games). However, it seems that the public more ready to forgive the deficiencies in the system of Division I football.

Many writers have this forgiveness of college football credited to the real and serious shortcomings in the system. Many have written that the corruption, greed and the flaws in the system of the Bowl what makes the sporting ideal. They claim these errors cause people talk about the College football game, these errors cause people are passionate about the game, and these shortcomings should not be changed or else the College football game would fail.These writers "sport" just do not understand the sport of college football. the game of the University is football is great in spit of the flaws in the system. To change these shortcomings would be just an amazing sport.

What really makes great college football is the fact that it might be the highest level of pure sport that a person can view. The majority of the College football players will never be paid to play soccer.For most players college football is the highest level of football that they will play. each year in college football there are a handful of the elite players, those players that even a casual fan, see special. These players are going to play in the NFL, and just enjoy the short period of time they spend in the NCAA football. The rest of the players play, more or less, for the love of the game of football.

The players get a compensation?Yes, they get a free education. For someone who does not has recently looked is a large amount of money. all players have a romantic view of the football to play, and really the love of the game? Of course it is not.A lot of players just see it as a business and the feeling that the NCAA them as removable parts in the big business in the College football. yet, there are too many good players and good stories in college football and the good outweighs the bad.

There are players who have stories and show what it means to be a collegiate athlete. These are the players who play by the rules of the NCAA, they are better through hard work and sacrifice. These are the trainers and staff who understand that even though they might be fired up for losses, they achieved more things as their players Honorable productive life after graduation.

Fans feel what is great about the sport of college football, and they therefore support the even in the current defects and corrupt State. The students see the players among them, and although the players the big men on campus, they are still able to comply with the same classes and the same challenges of a normal student.

There are players who what it means to illustrate what it means to understand to a student athlete.Eric Weddle, former Utah players, now the charger of San Diego, was one of those players. Brandon Gaskins on BYU is currently one of the players.LaVell Edwards is one of the big buses to pass on the legacy of good I football to a new generation, and Ron McBride, head coach of Weber State, shows that he understands the purity of the game.

Is there any other sport each region has a team?Any other sport has players who play on the team for a period of at least four years?Any other sport fans so many classic games, and any other sport? makes all teams start, for the most part, equal to, and can be a team have a magical undefeated years? any other sport has so many local legends?

There is something special at the beginning of each college football season. it is important to remember about the sport, to be happy with what we see.

Unfortunately, the time of college football, the last alcove pure collegiate sports is coming to a close the greed grows in football. NCAA football is more likely to be led to paying players, more steroid scandals, more, and even more Conference elitism. the average football fans can hope for is that the sport that we all love, the stupidity of those who currently at the helm of the NCAA football can survive. Let's enjoy what makes college football great, although it is still part of the game.

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Football trying to make it in the football world

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In most countries, the name of the game sound alike. Words like football, fussball, futbol, futebol... don't just sound the same, they are the same game. In the U.S., however, they call it soccer. Major League Soccer (MLS) as an American professional soccer league has been around for some time now.

Unlike other American major league sports, MLS does not dominate the sport's public attention on global scale, nor its champion is crowned as the 'World Champion'. MLS has been going through constant development. Did it gain significant public and media attention in the world football? No!

Soccer as the 2nd, 7th or 10th most popular sport in the U.S. doesn't make a great difference, the American public will still follow the NFL, MLB, NHL or NBA. The world public would follow those leagues with same attention as they are world's most prominent sports leagues.

In recent years with the globalization of media, the world sports scene has started to change; in that process, English football Premier League, promotes itself as 'The Greatest Show On Earth' and is in fact the world's most popular and most watched sporting league, with a current worldwide viewership of half a billion people and media income for seasons 2007 to 2010 worth over $5 billion. If the world will watch football leagues like English Premiership or Spanish La Liga, who will watch the American major league sports other than domestic spectators? Will a part of the American public turn to watch overseas football leagues as well? Such questions made soccer be an issue in the U.S sports.

Every now and then, the MLS officials would wake up from the drowsiness of being in shadows of Top 4 American major leagues around the time when World Cup takes places and it becomes evident how immense the game of football is in the terms of world public interest, media attention, sponsors.

As the noise around World Cup passes, the MLS would fall back in drowsiness. It was not to be like that after the World Cup 2006 in Germany when the world public had clear picture of European football's modern stadiums, multi-million player contracts... the world sports spotlight got a hold on football.

This time it's not the MLS who is to take the initiative of promoting MLS, it's the whole of American professional sports entertainment industry. It is an economic opportunity where the money revolving around the world football was too great to be missed or discarded.

In the summer of 2007, U.S. soccer attempted to take over the world football by storm by offering David Beckham a $250million contract, the most expensive football player contract in history of the sport, some described it as the deal to bring Beckham to America is thought to be the biggest in sporting history. MLS sent out a message to the world.

In the midst of summer when European leagues were between the seasons and the waters were still, MLS got the wanted exposure with news stories being dominated with the Beckham family moving to LA. Did the stories overtake the world football media and public attention in favor of MLS yet? No!

Is $250 million worth of exposure in the long run? Time will tell. Autumn came, European and international leagues are in full swing, the world sports news publish less articles about Beckham, LA Galaxy and the MLS. To make things worst, LA will hardly make the play-offs, giving the media less to write about.

In the league that has had an overall lost of more than $350 million in the first 8 years after its foundation (a BusinessWeek report from 2004), where at the present time only two teams, LA Galaxy and FC Dallas, are profitable with 3 additional teams expected to be profitable within a year, a $250 million one-player investment seems like a gamble. If so, what are the odds?

In recent years, several notable players chose to make the step away from the bigger leagues of Europe and South America for a financially good contract with teams from the Gulf countries. The headlines reported rich transfer deals, though there was no to little follow-up in media coverage of those leagues.

Not to be forgotten, prior to David Beckham's arrival, MLS attempted to gain exposure with Freddy Adu, a player under the age of 16 that was crowned as the next Pel é. Adu received significant media attention, the world knew he's playing for DC United of the MLS.

Many may or may not know that Adu, this past summer at the age of 18, signed a contract in Europe with Benfica FC - Portugal. Prior to joining Benfica, Adu spent some time during summer in the Man Utd's training camp, Alex Fergusson did not give him the reason to stay.

Benfica paid to the club from Salt Lake City $2million for the player's release note and Adu will receive $1.2million per year, solid but not the contract that tops the news. Adu was not on Benfica's Champions League match roster against Milan on Sept. 18th, in compare a player like Messi at the current Adu's age was already among the starting 11 for the football giant FC Barcelona. The MLS didn't appear to have gained substantial attention for the sport with Adu, nor contributed to his development into the world dominant player as expected. Through history, some of the best players of all times played soccer in the States, including Pel é, Beckenbauer, Eusebio...

After the decades long attempts that did not give hoped results for the success of U.S. soccer, what difference Beckham's playing (currently on a 6 week absence due to the injury) may makes now? Let's have a brief look at the MLS, a professional soccer league that started in 1996 with more than 10 seasons of experience under way.

Logistics and facilities:

On the day of publishing this text, September 27th 2007, Beckham's LA Galaxy is playing against the KC Wizards. SPORTiana.com, as the author of this text, had the insight in MLS through KC Wizards in the summer of 2006, a year prior to Beckham's arrival in the MLS. At that time KC Wizard's head coach complained about having himself and 2 more assistant coaches to run the team's training, forcing him to leave several players from 26 man roster sitting on the bench because of not being able to have them all on the field during trainings at the same time.

The training facilities included one open-air field and the in-door field with gym used by the NFL team KC Chiefs, within the Arrowhead Stadium complex. The Wizard's open air-training field was situated next to the fence aside KC Chiefs training fields.

Grass on the Wizards field was almost separated turfs on the ground as hard as a rock, a field where many players would pass on training in order to avoid injuries. A head coach, 2 assist coaches, fitness trainer... NFL stadium and facilities... small office space at the corner of a stadium... it would be quite a contrast to the clubs from leagues where Beckham previously played.

Players:

Majority MLS players come in the league as drafted college players. College soccer usually means player's playing for a full ride scholarship with the first pro contracts signed at the age of 22 or so. In other countries, first pro contracts are usually signed at the age of 18, at the age of 22 the player is coming out of a 4 year contract and managers have a better understanding of a player's capabilities in pro football.

This means college players are 4 years behind. By signing a first pro contract at the age of 22, they would come out of the 4 year contract at the age of 26, at that time, major world football clubs would rather invest their money in a 22 year old's prospect who has also had 4 years of pro football experience. College players hardly pass over playing in the MLS (players' first pro contract) on their way to better paid leagues as most foreign clubs would not sign a college league soccer player with no pro football experience at the age of 22.

Prominent American players like DeMarkus Beasley ($2million to PSV - Netherlands, currently for £700,000 with Rangers - Scotland) or Tim Howard ($4million to Man Utd - England, currently with Everton after being loaned), joined MLS directly from high-school without playing college soccer, just like Freddy Adu.

For an average football fan with the choice to watch a variety of matches, e.g. the giants of the game squaring up in domestic leagues like this past weekend when it was Man Utd vs Chelsea in England, Barcelona vs Sevilla in Spain, Roma vs Juventus in Italy, PSV vs Feyenoord in the Netherlands... Boca Juniors games in Argentina, Lyon in France... there's little space for MLS.

A football fan wants to see the competitiveness, passionate fans, decades-long fierce rivalry between the clubs, tradition, the world's best players, established players with reputation of playing for prestigious clubs, ultra-modern football-specific stadiums, most of which the MLS does not offer. The MLS needs to gain the interest of the American public and media in order to gain the same interest with the world public. Hard-working, attractive all-around players like Eddie Johnson of the KC Wizards or DC United's Jaime Moreno, who proved their quality in this summer's Copa America 2007 are the prototype players for a successful competitive league.

The MLS's proposed soccer-specific modern stadiums for all clubs are a step forwards. German Bundesliga witnessed tremendous boost of public interest and media attention on domestic and global level prior to and after the World Cup 2006, with a legacy of great new and renewed old stadiums. The MLS ought to internationalize as much as possible, the English Premiership did it, when foreign billionaires started buying clubs, world class players arrived in even great number to make it the most watched and profitable football league in the world. Many writers have speculated on why football is not as popular in the U.S. as it is in some other countries, most of them point to the fact that the game does not have enough scoring. Changing rules of the game in favor of having more goals per game may be beneficial this time around.

Football is a powerful force, it already changed the North American major league sports philosophy, MLS clubs are competing in the Super League and the Copa Sudamericana, The New York Red Bulls new stadium will feature a full "European-style" roof, in 2007 MLS started selling ad space on the front of jersey (a floor of $500,000 per shirt sponsorship), following the practice of the international football.

As the Latin American immigration increases in the US, so is the interest in football. With football being the most popular recreational sport for both boys and girls, the MLS has potential. In 2006 Don Garber, MLS Commissioner, expressed his expectations for the league's clubs to be profitable by 2010 overall. LA Galaxy's merchandise sales through Beckham's next 4 four years with the club may not top $600 million as it was during his time with Real Madrid, still an MLS player made onto the covers of Sports Illustrated magazine and gather a crowd of 66,000 spectators at a packed Giants Stadium.

In the words of David Beckham about his move to MLS: "I'm coming there to play football... I'm not saying me coming over to the States is going to make soccer the biggest sport in America". It's about taking one step at the time, if soccer aims to make it in the football world.

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Football Memorabilia

Memorabilia has a similar meaning to souvenirs. If you football souvenirs you also get football memorabilia. If the word memorabilia of the football football souvenirs that, as a result of its memories are treasured says. Football memorabilia could be for a particular history of football teams for a particular football game. Football memorabilia would even on a particular football player who plays football no longer because they have withdrawn from the game or have died. We think about the famous football players as Bobby ball and George Best just to name a few. Memorabilia of football can be in all forms, such as pens, photos, calendars, mugs, posters, and so on.

Which they organize, football clubs may sell hundreds and hundreds of football memorabilia items every day for the real fans and many millions of pounds of this sale, only recently David Beckham's move to Los Angeles Galaxy had been declared by the volume of memorabilia items that as a result, would sell not only football memorabilia generates revenue for the football teams, that it can also be used to the close family of football players who can no longer the game and, as such, does not fully support their wives and families to provide financial help.

Footballer who currently plays as a signed autographs and photos is a popular form of football memorabilia.DVD is telling you that about a famous football player or a famous football team are collected around the world as soccer memorabilia. There are passionate football fans who their hard earned cash on football memorabilia spend to keep side boards on the walls and shelves. They will even old tickets are still on sale for a certain day or event.

In the next few years, some football memorabilia can increase its value and an investment can be for the buyer.Supporters even goes so far as to buy programs of old football, soccer programs that are signed by the known good is good to create a real collector and will be bought and sold by football fans.

You can walk to your local mall and you'll encounter souvenir shops sell football memorabilia.With the advent of the Internet web sites there shooting all over the place of sale football football memorabilia items that a large part of their inventory items. A can look at this website for your preferred collectible and find that prices are much cheaper than the football souvenir shops sell them for.

The beauty of the Web is that you can take your time to the various websites available for your selected football memorabilia surfing and buying at a price you can afford. you do not have to pay the cost of transport to the shops and, as such, save even more money. If we crash in what is known as a credit that can not be a bad thing.

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Preview of Scotland V Liechtenstein

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Scotland, it is necessary to win against Liechtenstein on Tuesday night, to get your campaign up and running the Euro 2012.

Craig Levein party only can manage with a draw in their opening collision with Lithuania last Friday by 4-5-1 formation may not breakdown protection for obstinate in Kaunas.

Levein has already called his starting XI to cope, Liechtenstein and has opted for more attacking line-up, knowing three points against (I) is compulsorily minnows.

Liechtenstein were Beaten 4-0 by world champion of Spain in his first match, and if Scotland will each port hope to achieve their first major tournament in France 98, nothing less than victory will do.

Their task will be easier, since they are izrignaha on by thousands of Tartan Army Levein Hempd?n Park as his first competitive looks for victory as a Manager.

Kris Boyd will begin his game for three years after having recalled the first together with James McFadden (Scotland).

Middlesbrough striker Boyd will line up alongside his former Rangers team mate Kenny Miller in what is expected to be 4-4-2 formation.

McFadden came off the bench for the last 25 minutes of Friday night with a draw in Lithuania, but in as Chief of Hempd?n Levein looks more attacking markets.

Hearts left back Lee Wallace returns after missing ankle injury collision with Kaunas, while Rangers full-back Steven Whittaker drops after picking up a calf problem identifier of the opening.

Barry Robson and Steven Naismith who lined plan in the USSR in Kaunas, five are also provides a way for three Levein is making changes.

Captain Darren Fletcher is set to win his 50th CAP in Scotland and the lines in THE SOVIET UNION, along with Lee McCulloch and Scott Brown.

Another yellow card or would see them for the next ID miss Scotland against Czech Republic in Prague.

With Spain and the Czech Republic opponents in October, victory will send Levein of men in these difficult games with some much-needed confidence.

McGREGOR Hutton, Weir, McManus, Wallace, Brown, D Fletcher, McCulloch, McFadden, Boyd, Miller.

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Surprised by the inclusion of Bebe

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Bebe has admitted that he was "surprised" by its inclusion in the squad of Manchester United's Champions League.

Portugal U21 international sign of Old Trafford Club last month reported fee of £ 7.4 m solution with manager Sir Alex Ferguson argued that the future is bright Club winger.

20-year-old was named in the squad despite initial reports, it is not carried out, cut along with Owen Hargreaves.

However, Uefa confirmed that Bebe in Portuguese third tier is played last season, have been included, and now he can make his nose Old Trafford against Rangers in the race next Tuesday.

"I am surprised by my involvement in the UEFA Champions League teams," he said.

"It is a dream for me never thought I would have done this, but now I am a very happy man.

Only hope that my confidence returns when started playing some games and scoring goals, as I know how.

Currently I work very hard every day in the field of training.

"I intend to make the most of my friends and hopefully benefit from the possibility offered to me."

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Ireland v Andorra preview

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The new stadium of Aviva is set to see their first taste of competitive activity where the Republic of Ireland host Andorra on Tuesday.

The road to former Lansdowne was completed after his replacement and Irish supporters will be hope, they can celebrate in style in their ID on Euro 2012 against one of the perennial strugglers in Europe.

Ireland began his progress in fantastically functional rather than group, 1-0 victory in a boiling hot Hanrapetakan Stadium against Armenia, but Keith Fahey goal could have a say on issues in the group due to some teams struggling against Eastern Europeans.

Andorra, which are classified in the world, 201st should prove very less difficult test manager Giovanni Trapattoni country with only one win name ever competing against Macedonia back in 2004.

Robbie Keane won its 102nd CAP's country and will hope to add to his tally Andorrans scored against 43, who lost 2-0 against open Russia.

Tottenham Striker missed several chances against Armenia, but if the 30-year-old to get chances in front of the goal, he can fire Ireland for victory, he looks to regain fitness full match.

Trapattoni has insisted, nevertheless, that Ireland will go gung-ho and try to destroy the opposition, favouring a more reserved approach to just three points you need to choose and to move towards an automatic qualification.

Italian coach will stick with one and the same system that won in Armenia and has already said he will play the same country, there should be no late pull outs, meaning the game-winner on Friday will once again start Fahey test.

They will not be able to call on the services of Ipswich Defender Darren o' Dea, which is returned to the Suffolk after sustaining a knee injury.

Fellow Defender Paul McShane can, however, returns the bench after restoring form hamstring knock him by Armenia Tai was forced.

Team Ireland: provided o' Shea, Saint book Dunne, Kilbane, Lawrence, Whelan, green, McGeady, Keane Doyle.

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