Sports Journal Assignment #1

Since I am a college athlete, my sports media consumption diet is a diet filled with information about football. Since I am consuming more than the normal sports fan, I rarely get the chance to sit and be able to be in tune with other sports. With my love of basketball, I find myself in my free time trying to catch up with everything going on. With it being the off season, there are many moves and important news that all true basketball fans should know so I spend a lot of my time outside of my wide intake of sports learning more about sports. Being directly in the world of sports brought me a new love for consuming sports. Also, being around players that have made it to the “big show” and seeing articles and other news about them truly makes me happy and motivates me to get there one day. I think the closer I get to the next level, I think my consumption of sports media will continue to increase greatly. If I could change anything within the sport communication world, it probably would be the negative interactions that athletes have with fans whether in person or online. I think that these interactions negatively impact the landscape of sports because fans can be looked at as aggressors and if a athlete retaliates in anyway then they can be in trouble when they are only human.