PLEASE HELP Due Today Will Give Branliest 1. Read the first two paragraphs of the piece. Then look back at what you noticed and wondered about the graph above. How does the graph support Kurt Streeter’s assessment of the current situation?

2. According to this column, what power do athletes have when they can get a seat at the table of a team boardroom? Are there other advantages athletes might gain when they have this voice and power?

3. How are LeBron James’s goals and actions as an owner different from those of Mario Lemieux or Michael Jordan?

4. What is your reaction to Renee Montgomery’s activism on the court, and eventual partial ownership of her former team? What other stories similar to hers does this column describe? Have you heard of still more? Explain.

5. What are some of the possibilities and strengths of grass-roots activism led by athletes? What are some of the limitations of this kind of social change?

6. This piece is a column, not a news article. In columns, writers share their opinion in their own voice. How can you tell this is a column rather than a news article simply reporting facts? What is your opinion of what this columnist concludes?