Interview

I interviewed Kara Walker to get an inside opinion on social media’s impact on sports. She runs Digital, Marketing, and Social for the Boston Celtics. She explained the positive impact on sports. I learned a lot of new things that I wasn’t really thinking about much prior to the interview. One thing that I found

Athlete vs. Fan

In order to choose a side on whether or not social media has a positive or negative impact on sports and athletes, I need to look at this from the perspective of athletes and the fans. Looking at it from the athletes’ standpoint, some of the pros are that this serves as a nice platform

Medias negative effect on athletes

This article starts off by disliking the fact how athletes check on social media during practice and competitions. I see what he is saying by this and agree that this is a negative because I think that checking in on social media definitely lowers their intensity and takes them out of the zone. Also, if

Young Athletes

I read this interesting article about the impact of social media on young athletes. It shows both the positive and negative impact on these young athletes. Lets start off with some of the negative impacts. This article talks about how these young athletes get distracted and this distraction is caused by social media. I know

Impact of Social Media

I really liked reading this article because this shows both the negative and the positive impacts of social media on athletes. It says that the negative impact is that fans via social media can talk trash and athletes can’t respond to it because it would look bad on them. I agree with this because whenever

Original Entry

Social media has made such an impact in sports, through the players and the organization. The question is, has it been a positive or negative impact? It had me thinking while I was scrolling through Instagram, seeing many football players posting pictures either the day before, day of, or day after about the team and

Arguable Question

For my topic, I want to focus more on social media in sports. My question is how has the involvement in social media changed from the ’80s to today?

Book Overview

This was a good ending to the book but I honestly preferred the rest of the book more because in the end Bird was just talking about each team he played against, arena he played, playoff experience, etc… One thing though that stood out to me was his opinion on the press. That is what

Original Entry

There was no school today thank god so last night I was able to and decided to watch the Monday night football game. I have Amari Cooper on my fantasy team so I was intrigued to see how he would perform. So, as I was watching the game I saw him catch like a 25

Bird’s Success

I loved reading this section of the book because Larry was able to go into detail about what it was like playing for the Boston Celtics and his relationships with his teammates from a first person point of view which I always love to see because it also kind of defines who a player is,