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 …showed first 75 words of 931 total…

…showed last 75 words of 931 total…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.