Nobody expected that the return of golf after 112 years would be faced with such a mess. Various players such as Shane Lowery, Charl Schwartzel, Jason Day, Adam Scott, all announced their withdrawal from the game. There are a number of many others expected to withdrawal from the game. Jordan Spieth is also expected to be among the players who will pull out from the game since he has been hesitant. At the press conference for the WGC Bridgestone Invitational, the 22 year old player announced that he was uncertain of whether he would engage in the game since there were a number of factors to consider before engaging in the game.

One of these factors is the major support from Coca-Cola which supports golf game in a big way. Olympic golf in all the 112 years has not has a top shot hit and the game is already suffering, despite the fact that Spieth will not be joining them. Golf will be played only in 2016 and 2020 in Tokyo and there is a possibility that after the Games, it will be dismissed just like baseball and lacrosse. People are not being blamed for their lack of zeal to go to Rio due to concerns for their family. This is because Zika virus is posing a threat though Geoff Shackelford said that the Zika virus was not connected with those building the golf course.

Mosquitoes in Brazil are few due to the winter season and since the golf course is located in a windy area of Rio the Zika mosquitoes pose no threat. Even though most golf players have withdrawn, the golf field is still quite strong. Bubba Watson, Danny Willet, Sergio Garcia, Justin Rose, Henrik Stenson and Dustin Johnson are among the top 10 players that are planning to play. The strange thing is that only men are withdrawing from the game while no woman has at the moment withdrawn. Women are ready to embrace the opportunity of taking part in the golf game and they are hoping for safety assurances.

There are various aggressive Canadian players that are likely to represent Canada in Rio. Those ready to represent them in the Maple Leaf include David Hearn and Graham DeLaet from the men’s side and Alena Sharp and Brooke Henderson from the women’s side. There is still hope that with the Olympics golf will pick off at the competitions but at the moment no golf player is willing to take that chance thus leading to the falling of golf at the Olympics.

NFL will have a new major online distributor as the main media partner. For a long time traditional television networks such as NBC, CBS, network ESPN, FOX and the satellite provider DirecTV have been NFL’S main media partners. Michael Bidwill who is the Cardinals President on PTF Live said that he hopes that online video distributors such as You Tube, Amazon, or Netflix will one day outweigh the traditional media companies and start transmitting NFL games. The Cardinals president is very much hopeful that NFL will someday be transmitted by online video distributors.

However, he has worries on how they will be able to evolve to online media distributors. In his statement he said that the best thing to do for now is listening to what their fans have to say about the online media distributors and whether they would be open for NFL games being transmitted online. He also noted that a number of their fans were now using digital devices and also made use of mobile devices and other handheld devices such as iPads. Michael Bidwill says he wants to make use of that digital migration by fans.

The new documentary series of All or Nothing which makes its first performance on July 1^st is as a result of the partnership between Cardinals and Amazon. It will be aired on Amazon Prime and Michael Bidwill has hopes that the series will be able to capture various new fans for the NFL games from outside Arizona. The series will also be a sure way of broadcasting their story all over the country and expanding their footprints as well as their fan base. According to Michael Bidwill NFL still hopes to expand its fan base all over the world, and the use of online distributor services such as YouTube, Netflix, and Amazon will be the start of broadcasting their games online.

NFL fans had a lot to say about the new expected transition. Most of them were in support of it while some said that the transition was not entirely possible. One of the fans said that NFL had to first expand a Prime-ticket like service in order to transition to online distributors.