Sports and Society Unit 3 Test

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

• Luxury tax

• Salary Cap

• Compensatory draft picks

• Revenue Sharing

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.

• Luxury tax

• Salary Cap

• Compensatory draft picks

• Revenue Sharing

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

• Luxury tax

• Salary Cap

• Compensatory draft picks

• Revenue Sharing

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?

• Sign premium free agents to replace players they lose

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

• Trade all of the non stars for draft picks

• Sign a bunch of minimum salary players to replace expensive stars

According to analytics and past results, what should NFL teams do in the NFL draft?

• 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

What strategy to make more money did NASCAR figure out before any other sport?

• Stadium naming rights

• Sponsorships of the sport

• TV

• Social media

What new step has ESPN taken to expand sports coverage?

• Creating their own sports competitions like the X Games

• Creating pregame shows that are super popular like College Gameday

• Making their own awards show, the ESPYs

• All of these choices are correct

What conclusion can be drawn from this image?

• 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

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

• Reality sports shows

• Sports video games

• The X Games

• Trying to make regular things like poker and eating hotdogs sport.

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

• Nothing

• They get reduced pay that matches a reduced game schedule

• All sports have moved into bubbles

• Some sports leagues have completely cancelled their seasons