What has Become of Sport

What Has Become of Sports? This is a persuasive paper that tackles the idea that sports has become simply a marketing agent and a business game rather than a sport that promotes competition, values and respect. The author argues that sport has recently been transformed to a commercial mechanism whereby the media promotes ideals of heroes and contribute to the ideals of falsity and corruption. Sports has become a commodity and a marketing tool and …

…their ideals they see success and for them it is hope. Especially for the minority groups and lower class it is a way to escape their fates. By exploiting these ideals the advertisers and the sports figures themselves are sending out the wrong message regarding ideals. Sports is no longer a game it is a business and at a time where sports figures are the last heroes commercializing the games is not what is recommended.