WATCH OUT! NCAA Conference Realignment Approaches
WATCH OUT! NCAA Conference Realignment Approaches by Jeremiah Tittle NCAA Conference Realignment is upon us. What does it mean for the BIG EAST? Will Notre Dame sustain its independence? What about the WAC? Will we wake up one day and find its all outta whack?!?! Chip Brown of Orangebloods.com (the Rivals Texas site) is reporting that the Pac [...]
Just Do It. Ducks Bow to Nike Power.
On Friday, the Oregon State Board of Education on Friday approved Nike and University of Oregon's proposal to build a huge 80,000-square foot complex for the football team. Because the project will be built under the auspices of a private corporation, the Nike subsidiary of the UO foundation, Phit LLC, the project will not be subject to the state's “Sunshine Laws” regulating public disclosure of costs and contracts nor will it be put out to competitive bidding, as is normally required for facilities built on public lands. However, tax payers remain responsible for maintenance and staffing of the new football facility, the costs of which could be enormous.
Nike Proposes New Athletic Building, Tax-Payers Cringe
According to the Oregonion, Nike and the University of Oregon are bypassing Sunshine Laws to build a football stadium that the public will be on the hook to staff and maintain. The tax-paying public doesn’t get the benefit of viewing the financials which directly affect their bottom line. Phil Knight, Nike’s founder, wants to live by his [...]
Boise State and the BCS
Boise State and the BCS By Scott Kornberg As usual, Bowl Championship Series critics are condemning how the BCS process always seems to find a way to leave out the Cinderella’s of the sports. In this article by Tim Brando, Brando harps on the fact that the college football “National” Championship, is in fact, not “National” because [...]
Know Your Sports History
Here is an interesting article on the history of the Major League Baseball Player’s Association (which will soon need to be updated with the impending Collective Bargaining Agreement expiring in 2011). SFC believed that Sports Fans Coalition can be the biggest thing that has happened in sports since the players gained power through their union in 1970. [...]
SFC Thanks Sports Fan Troops on Memorial Day
To all the sports fans across the globe serving our country, we say thank you for your service on Memorial Day.
Are You With the Owners or Players? I’m with the Fans
Are You With the Owners or Players? I’m with the Fans by Scott Weiss When work stoppages have loomed in professional sports in the past, the media has always posed the question as to whether sports fans would side with the owners or players. Would fans back the billionaires or millionaires? The problem is that neither side [...]
Supreme Court Rejects NFL’s Plea for Antitrust Exemption
Sports Fans Coalition Praises Supreme Court’s Unanimous Decision Rejecting NFL’s Plea For Antitrust Protection Washington, D.C. — Today, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously against the National Football League in its pursuit of broad antitrust law protection. The court rejected the NFL’s request to be considered as one entity rather than 32 individual teams when negotiating contracts [...]
BCS National Championship? It’s Just A Bowl Game
As the 2010-2011 College Football season approaches, college football fans will once again be subjected to the sham that is the BCS system. Computers deciding who will play in the supposed championship game; could anything be more contrary to the concepts of competition and fairness than this? The NCAA wants fans to buy into the contrived game that they create as a championship game. As a fan, I have never considered this to be a championship game. Let’s face it, the game is just another bowl game. There were 34 bowl games played in the 2009-2010 college football season, and to arbitrarily call the winner of one of these games as the national champion is a total joke.
San Francisco Stadium Issue: Worth A Closer Look
The following information has been reprinted from a Santa Clara Plays Fair handout: Stadium = Construction Costs and interest-bearing bonds For a $937 million stadium construction costs, Santa Clara and its agencies will pay $444 million (47%). The 49ers will pay $493 million (53%). Santa Clara’s share of $444 million ($10,000 per Santa Clara household) comes from: $114 [...]
About SFC
SFC is the American sports fan’s advocate in the D.C. public policy arena fighting for sports fans in every city across the country.
Sports Businesses, Leagues, and Universities are grasping for our cash left and right. Let's join together to keep their hands off our wallets unless and until we have a say in how that money is spent. Futhermore, we sports fans believe we should be able to watch our games, no matter how we get our media.
