Sports and Society Unit 3 Test

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This is used by MOST professional sports leagues to level the playing field and create parity.

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Salary Cap

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This is used by some professional sports leagues to help small market teams be successful, by giving money from luxury-tax paying rich teams to poor teams.

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Revenue Sharing

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Some professional sports leagues use this to discourage overspending by the richest teams

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Luxury tax

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If a NFL team is successful and has a young core of players, what must they do to continue to be successful in light of the NFL's hard salary cap?

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Draft well to add young cheap players to replace expensive ones who leave

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According to analytics and past results, what should NFL teams do in the NFL draft? Options: Accumulate additional first round picks, Trade up consistently in the draft to get better players, Trade down consistently in the draft to get more overall picks, Trade most lower picks for a few higher picks

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Trade down consistently in the draft to get more overall picks

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What strategy to make more money did NASCAR figure out before any other sport? Options: Stadium naming rights, Sponsorships of the sport, TV, Social media

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Sponsorships of the sport

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What new step has ESPN taken to expand sports coverage?

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All of these choices are correct

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What conclusion can be drawn from this image? Options: Baseball makes more money than basketball from TV, The NFL is making money but only at the rate of inflation, The amount of money TV pays for NFL games has skyrocketed, Hockey revenues from TV have declined

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The amount of money TV pays for NFL games has skyrocketed

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Jean Baurillard introduced the concept of hyper-reality. Where in the world of sports is this seen today?

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Sports video games

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What happened to players in professional sports recently when their season was shortened due to the pandemic?

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They get reduced pay that matches a reduced game schedule