Conclusion

Here we are, Thursday December 9th, 2010 and tomorrow is the last day of the semester. It feels like yesterday that I was standing in front of the class explaining how I went about setting up and designing my blog.
Although this semester seemed to fly by quicker than any other, I feel as though I am walking away with a great deal of knowledge about sports in the global market. Aside from rugby and soccer, I did not have a great background with global sports. However, I strengthened my knowledge about hooliganism in soccer, as well as the issue of racism in England. I was able to get a grasp on the game of cricket as well as hear from Dr. Cho about how globalization opened doors for him. I was also able to express my hatred for the self proclaimed "King" in the NBA through in-class discussion. Looking back, this was a great course and I really enjoyed it.
As far as blogging goes, I really wish I could find a way to stay on top of it. About a year ago, I was doing this same thing with scrambling around trying to earn the desired blog points, however, instead of 2:00 PM it was more like 2:00 AM. I must say, I was doing just fine until Dr. Spencer had to travel the world and go to California and New Zealand!
As for future classes, I would change the blog and journal requirement format. We altered the original idea and said we would turn in blog and journals weekly. Nonetheless, that turned into, when you have them done, turn them in. I would recommend collecting the evaluation forms and grading on a given day of the week, and stick to that day. For our class, that could be Thursday and if someone didn't have their blog completed for the week, they would not receive the credit. This may seem as a more strict idea than what we were going by, but the blogs themselves are not difficult. The only hard thing is sitting down to write them.