SPORTMGT 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Point Shaving, Pinky Higgins, Happy Chandler
19 Oct 2016
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Nbc gillette cavalcade of sports, boxing, wrestling, basketball! Dumont boxing, wrestling, football, shing and hunting! Nbc started off strong with sports, by 1950s it lost the cavalcade of sports! Abc and dumont got into sport business struggled! They became strong by investing in sports programming, but got stronger by dropping it! They used prime time sports to attract consumers to watch other shows family entertainment! Skaters would try to knock each other over! Failed b/c in order for these exciting movements to be seen on tv, the hits would have to be over-exaggerated! Democratic impulses ideological justi cation for entering the war! Wwii blacks weren"t excluded from the war, but they were segregated into their own units! Not as successful as wwe b/c it didn"t have a narrative! After a handoff, he was taken down by an opposing player > broke his jaw! Was drafted later by nfl, but turned them down to play in cfl (canadian)!
