Sports Most Important Events

The five most significant events in the history of sports are:

5. In 1966, Ohio University established the first sport management program in the country. The sport industry is a 600 billion dollar industry, and it only seems right to have a college level program to prepare students for that business. Now there are over 200 sport management programs in America, and they're growing at about the pace of the sport industry.

4. In 1919, some Chicago Black Sox players got involved with gambling on the World Series that they played in, and they ended up throwing the World Series. In response to this, Major League Baseball created a ruling authority in baseball, which was to be one person, who has complete control, and the man they named was Kennesaw Mountain Landis. The name they gave him was commission of Major League Baseball. This event created the commission in sports, now commissioners in sports are the most important people in that sport and have played major roles throughout the history of sport.

3. On September 7th, 1979 the first 24-hour a day sports broadcast channel was launch, it was called ESPN, or Entertainment and Sports Programming Network. ESPN has become a staple in the American society, it hosts many sporting events over a variety of sports ranging from bowling to football, it has also been in several movies. What ESPN did was show broadcast channels that America wants sports, and a lot of sports and they want to watch sports on television. This has led to many other 24-hour sport networks and even 24-hour networks devoted to a certain league or sport, for example racing is on the speed channel and the NFL Network.

2. In 1869, the Cincinnati Red Stockings became the first all-paid professional sport team. The team was ten players on salary for eight months. This was the spark of the professionalism in sport. Now there are plenty of professional teams over many leagues. You can find multiple leagues for specific sports, all with paid sports teams. And of course, it can't be called professional sports and sports wouldn't be as big as they are today without the first paid professional sports team.

1. It should only make sense that the most influential person in the history of sport be apart of the most important event. In 1945, baseball was reintegrated when Branch Rickey signed Jackie Robinson to the Dodgers. This opened the door for Negro athletes to play professional sports and to compete with the rest of the professionals. And now, all of the sports are integrated and Negro's are getting important positions high up in the management of teams and the leagues. The one event, signing Jacking Robinson has sparked a change in sport that will forever be realized.