Part 1
Today the article was about why colleges should ban football as one of their atheletic programs. Now, before I go any deeper into this subject, let me just say that whoever wrote this piece, is a complete and utter jerk. How could you think such a thing? Anyway, as I said before, the article is about why college should ban football due to the fact that they don't provide anything academically. Also, because 43% of the 120 schools in the FBS lost money last year. Sounds like a personal problem to me.
According to the article, there aren't many pros. But one that you can get from this article is that the students who are good at football, do get to move on and play professionally. However, the article doesn't focus on the pros, purely the cons. While reading, you find con after con after con. Things such as students don't graduate, players don't make a dime off the profit, coaches make obscene amounts of money, it has nothing to do with academics. But let me pose a question here, what sport does involve academics?
The alternative that the article suggests is actually quite stupid. The author suggests that collegs should cut and ban football from their athletics and put that money towards sports where students actually have a higher graduation rate like swimming or track and field. Let me tell you, I love to watch some college swimming and love it even more to watch track and feild. Give me a break.
In my opinion this guy needs to watch his mouth. The only people who are going to agree with this guy are nerds who were never good at anything in life and over-protective "mommy's." Too many of the American people love football for someone to have the nerve to say such a thing. To be honest, if I were this guy, I would take this article down and hide for a good amount of time.
Part 2
In the last year, the top 2 college football teams were the two who played in the national championship. They are Alabama and LSU. These two schools are constantly at the top of the college football rankings, making them a dangerous team year in and year out. However, these schools are extremely hard to get into. Wheather you play athletics or you just apply during your senior year of high school You have to be the cream of the crop to get in, and even better if you want to play football at one of these schools. Last year, Alabama made $45,221,741 and LSU made about the same. The tution to get into Alabama is $17,825/year and the tution for LSU is 9,684. A large difference between the two schools, but not on the football field.
Monday, May 14, 2012
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
5/2/12
Article 1
Recently, Facebook created a 3 BILLION, not million, BILLION dollar advertising business. Facebook plans to introduce this business on May 18th during an IPO roadshow convention. Although this may seem like a great idea, many investors are uneasy about it. They don't know wheather or not putting all the money into it, will really give them what they want. They don't know what they are getting for their dollar. One of the advertisers that are skeptical about the advertising is a company that had been advertising on Facebook since 2009, Kia Motors. Although they are unsure about the new advertising, they will continue to put millions and millions of dollars into advertising on Facebook. But this is not the first time that Facebook has done something like this. Last year, they launched a feature of their website entitiled "Sponsored Stories." Here, advertisers could repost peoples positive posts on the Facebooks news feed, therefore highlighting them for others to see. For this sort of service, advertisers pay a rate based on the views that the post gets. It will be interesting to see how this new advertising business works out. Facebook has not exactly been on the uprise with the outbreakings of other social networking sites such as Twitter, Tumblr, and Instagram taking the lead, leaving Facebook behind along with past social networking giants in Myspace and Formspring.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304868004577378122958515302.html?mod=WSJ_business_whatsNews
Article 2
How about some exciting news for all you electirc car drivers? Soon, Orlando area WALGREENS will be recieving new car charging stations. Yes, you head it here, brand new car charging stations. How many you ask? A wopping total of 8 or 9 throughout the Orlando area. But there is some bad news that must come with all this exciting news. The locations of the Walgreens who will recieve these electric car charges were not released. These charging stations are compatible with all North American made electic vehicles. Once again, however, we have some bad news once again. It does cost more to charge at a public station like the ones at the Walgreens than it would at home. At these public places, it costs a total of 4 cents per minute and at home it costs less. At the public charging stations, you must charge for a minimum of 15 minutes. Although this may seem outragous, it is not. It is actually quite convient. If someone knows that their car is about to die and they need a charge in the worst of ways, why not stop off at a public charging station at a Walgreens, grab a soda and a pack of animal crackers, and bite the bullet and pay the 4 cents per minute so that you can get to your next destination. It makes more sense.
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-04-16/business/os-walgreens-charging-stations-20120416_1_electric-car-drivers-gas-stations-electric-car
Recently, Facebook created a 3 BILLION, not million, BILLION dollar advertising business. Facebook plans to introduce this business on May 18th during an IPO roadshow convention. Although this may seem like a great idea, many investors are uneasy about it. They don't know wheather or not putting all the money into it, will really give them what they want. They don't know what they are getting for their dollar. One of the advertisers that are skeptical about the advertising is a company that had been advertising on Facebook since 2009, Kia Motors. Although they are unsure about the new advertising, they will continue to put millions and millions of dollars into advertising on Facebook. But this is not the first time that Facebook has done something like this. Last year, they launched a feature of their website entitiled "Sponsored Stories." Here, advertisers could repost peoples positive posts on the Facebooks news feed, therefore highlighting them for others to see. For this sort of service, advertisers pay a rate based on the views that the post gets. It will be interesting to see how this new advertising business works out. Facebook has not exactly been on the uprise with the outbreakings of other social networking sites such as Twitter, Tumblr, and Instagram taking the lead, leaving Facebook behind along with past social networking giants in Myspace and Formspring.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304868004577378122958515302.html?mod=WSJ_business_whatsNews
Article 2
How about some exciting news for all you electirc car drivers? Soon, Orlando area WALGREENS will be recieving new car charging stations. Yes, you head it here, brand new car charging stations. How many you ask? A wopping total of 8 or 9 throughout the Orlando area. But there is some bad news that must come with all this exciting news. The locations of the Walgreens who will recieve these electric car charges were not released. These charging stations are compatible with all North American made electic vehicles. Once again, however, we have some bad news once again. It does cost more to charge at a public station like the ones at the Walgreens than it would at home. At these public places, it costs a total of 4 cents per minute and at home it costs less. At the public charging stations, you must charge for a minimum of 15 minutes. Although this may seem outragous, it is not. It is actually quite convient. If someone knows that their car is about to die and they need a charge in the worst of ways, why not stop off at a public charging station at a Walgreens, grab a soda and a pack of animal crackers, and bite the bullet and pay the 4 cents per minute so that you can get to your next destination. It makes more sense.
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-04-16/business/os-walgreens-charging-stations-20120416_1_electric-car-drivers-gas-stations-electric-car
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