Current Issue Paper Instructions For this current issue paper, the student will

Current Issue Paper Instructions
For this current issue paper, the student will need to research a specific sport management issue of his/her interest. Within the first 4 weeks of the semester, using one of the pictures provided below as a launching off point each student will sign up for an issue based on one of eight broad topics (high school sport, college sport, North American professional team
sport, European professional team sport, professional individual sport, esports, the Olympics, and international sport federations) he/she would like to write about. Once the broad topic is determined, the student will have to narrow it down and focus on one specific issue in relation to this field to delve deeper. For example, if a student is interested
in intercollegiate athletics for this assignment, he/she may decide to specifically focus on college sport’s compliance, commercialization, gender inequality, etc. The student may choose to target the issue from any angle he/she likes, but to ensure the quality of the paper, the student must have a thesis statement that is clearly written in the
introduction section, which should be followed by a brief overview of cases in relation to the issue of the student’s choice. The thesis statement needs to be supported by two well- developed perspectives or arguments, and to make the arguments persuasive, it will be important for the student to cite credible sources. Remember that high quality papers will
generate new ideas based on existing information. Therefore, by conducting some research and using the secondary data, the student should develop his/her own arguments for this paper and provide reasonable suggestions for the sport’s future development. The paper must contain at least two academic sources and at least five sources total. The word count
for the paper should be between 1,000 and 1,250.