League focus

League

Focus

By By John Begg

National Collegiate Athletic

Association

A Non-profit association that has more then 1200 institutions, conferences, and organizations

It is committed to providing opportunity for more than 450,000 college student-athletes who compete annually in college sports

The NCAA dates its formation to two conferences convened by Theodore Roosevelt

Today the NCAA is Divided into three divisions and made up of several conferences

Mark Emmert

Current President of the NCAA

Fifth President in NCAA History

Best Know for the sanctions

against Penn State Football

NCAA Headquarters

NCAA Headquarters

https://www.google.com/maps/place/NCAA+Hall+of+Cha

mpions/@39.765872,-

86.170235,17z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0xf2121dc75a8f15

e6?hl=en

Located in White River State Park, Indianapolis, Indiana

http://www.ncaa.com

NCAA Championships

The NCAA currently awards 89 national championship

yearly

44 women’s and 42 men’s and coed championships for

fencing, Rifle, and skiing

NCAA Basketball Tournament

BCS National Championship Game

NCAA Tournament

March Madness

Single game elimination

68 teams in the field

32 teams receive automatic bids for winning their

conference

36 teams receive “at large bids” from a selection

committee

Defending Champions men-

Uconn

Women- Uconn

College Football Playoff

113 members of committee consisting of 5 athletic directors from the 5 major conferences, media, coaches and former players

The teams will be selected by strength of schedule, head to head results, comparison of results against common opponents strength

Its designed to have the best teams play each other to preserve excitement and significance of the games

6 bowls will be played to get to the championship Rose bow, sugar bowl, orange bowl, cotton bowl, peach bowl, fiesta bowl

2013 Champions Florida State

went undefeated

Defeated Auburn

QB Jameis Winston 2013

Heisman winner

How Americans root in college

football

NCAA and Controversy: A Great

game but troubled Environment

Wall street Journal

http://search.proquest.com.jerome.stjohns.edu:81/abicom

plete/docview/1552019199/E0F07DECE13843F6PQ/1?a

ccountid=14068

Linkedin

https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=96129914&authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=B5OX&locale=en_US&trk=tyah&trkInfo=tarId%3A1413297288996%2Ctas%3A%20micheal%20cioroianu%2Cidx%3A1-1-1

Sources

http://www.vault.com/

http://campusguides.stjohns.edu/friendly.php?s=databasesA-Z

http://www.ncaa.org

http://search.proquest.com.jerome.stjohns.edu

http://www.collegefootballplayoff.com/selection-committee

Non League Focus

About

Started off as a popular basketball shoe. Worn by Larry

Bird, Magic Johnson, Andre Miller, Kobe Bryant

Retailers in over 160 countries through 85 company

owned retail stores nation wide and half dozen

international store

Converse inc. located in Andover, Massachusetts

Nike Subsidiary

Under Nike, Converse has morphed into a fashionable

footwear maker off the court

It has sold some 750 million pairs of its classic, chuck

taylors, canvas basketball shoes

It also licenses its name to sports apparel makers

Jobs/Careers

http://jobs.nike.com/careers/converse-corporate-jobs

http://jobs.nike.com/careers/internship-jobs