Student Name: Eric McGee
Paper Topic: What results from glorifying professional athletes?
SourceTopic(s): Airball: American Education Failed Experiment with Elite athletics
Summary of Source (one or two paragraphs):
The author feels that kids that are coming out of high school and going to college forgets about academics and just think that athletic ability opposed to take them somewhere. He also feels that some Colleges are taking advantage of some their players. Most of the profressional sports players in college that are not preforming well also are not doing well in school.
Usable Quotes (what snippets from the source explain something concisely and helpfully?):
“Far too many coaches and athletics administrators continue to believe that athletics is bigger, better, and more important than their educational institution, conference, and even the NCAA”.
Speculative Use of Source for Research Paper (how might this source help you answer your research question?):
I believe this will help my research paper because these are some of the results that happen professional athletes in sports.
Paper Topic: What results from glorifying professional athletes?
SourceTopic(s): Critical convictions: the stupidity of sports
Summary of Source:
There are a lot of athletes in all sports that is using herbal supplements and performance enhancing drugs to better them as an athlete. Research on supplements effects on human biology remains inconclusive overall, and athletes are often left to trust manufacturers' claims or teammate’s advice when it comes to making choices about what supplements to take and whether to take them.
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And all the crap about "sportsmanship" is just talk. “There is very little of that quality left in sports”.
This answer my research question because it talks about the supplements or performance enhancing drugs that professional