Under Further Review: Sports Media Carousel Keeps Turning

Your brain may be on summer vacation (don't tell your boss), but the sports world never sleeps.  Ever.  That's one of its greatest attributes, actually.  Sports media certainly does not sleep either, and in just two short weeks, there has been enough news to keep us all busy for a week.  Here are some major stories that you may have missed:

Water Cooler Talk: Case Study on Controversial Sponsorship

Florida Atlantic University was recently in the news for all the wrong reasons.  They had agreed to a naming rights deal for their stadium with GEO Group.  GEO Group has a controversial past and also runs for profit prisons.  This decision caused a lot of backlash not only from the students but also the community.  Even though the company’s founder gave a lot of money to the scholarship programs at the school this was not enough to stop the backlash.  Finally earlier this week after a month and a half of controversy, Florida Atlantic dropped their deal with GEO Group. 

An NFL Stadium for Racing

Nascar is about to have some huge renovations in their main racetrack. Joie Chitwood III recently said, “If you’re going to claim to be the ‘World Center of Racing’ or the Super Bowl of the sport, there’s an expectation that comes with that – big, grand, the best.” This is exactly what Joie has in mind to do and he recently has gotten the approval to renovate the ancient track. These renovations would make the track look more like an NFL Stadium and less like a racetrack.