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    not college athletes should be paid is like the “The Mobius Effect”- it only has one side. College athletes ought to be paid for their services as entertainers; consider the profits that sports industries make off of them. The college sports industry generates $11 billion in annual revenues. Fifty colleges report annual revenues that exceed $50 million. Meanwhile‚ five colleges report annual revenues that exceed $100 million. - According to “The Case for Paying College Athletes”. Evidently the

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    College Athletes Deserve To Be Paid November 17‚ 2011 College Athletes Deserve To Be Paid Almost every week there is some sort of story that makes the news about a university breaking the NCAA rules. The debate is bigger than ever to start paying college athletes to play sports. It does not matter which sport it is‚ athletes need more than just a scholarship to pay for expenses outside of tuition‚ room‚ and board. A scholarship is strictly limited to these‚ but what about the expenses outside

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    Athletes Shouldn’t Get Paid 58% of college coaches think that there athletes should get paid for playing sports at the college level. Even though they are marketing athletes on merchandise‚ athletes should not get paid because they are student’s first and athletes second. Colleges don’t have a huge budget for paying athletes and the students are required to go to school. The students are at the age where they won’t budget the money and they will waste all of it. They are already be taken care

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    After becoming South America’s first country to be awarded the opportunity to host an Olympic Games‚ country officials assured the committee for the XXXI Olympiad that top security measures would be employed to keep athletes safe. It hasn’t help bolster confidence that a recent alleged gang rape of a 16-year-old Brazilian girl in a poor section of Rio de Janeiro is creating quite a worldwide stir among women’s rights advocates and law enforcement. According to reports‚ the young rape victim may

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    Research Report 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

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    Don’t Pay To Play Every year‚ colleges send out recruiters from their schools to search for the most talented‚ unique‚ and determined athletes all over the world. Some students come from halfway across the country‚ or even half way across the world just for the privilege of attending‚ studying‚ and most importantly‚ playing a sport for a universities sports team. Some of these students can barely speak English‚ or hardly passed high school‚ but in the end that is all irrelevant because these

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    College Athletes Should be Paid Jean M Denis 11/03/14 Enc-1101-10320 Freshmen Comp I I. Background and Thesis There has been major discussion recently concerning the topic if college athletes should or shouldn’t be paid while they are attending school. The first thing the opposition wants to say is‚ "They’re already getting a scholarship! Isn’t that’s more than anybody else? Don’t be greedy!" Contrary to what the opposition states‚ being a college athlete is a full-time job

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    Play Since athletes bring millions of dollars into their colleges every year‚ universities should compensate their athletes. College athletes today put in as much time as someone with a full time job. Ramog Huma‚ a Korean College athlete and president of the National College Players Association says “college athletes are just like all other hard www.scholastic working Americans’‚ they should receive a fair days pay for a fair days work” (sic)(Rebeca Zisscu np.) College athletes often work 40

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    Should College Athletes Be Paid? Believe it or not‚ student athletes currently on a full scholarship to play their desired sport are struggling to live. Simply‚ because scholarships do not provide the full cost to be able to live a healthy lifestyle. Essentially‚ athletes may be starving themselves because they have no other options. Place yourself in their shoe for a second‚ although that may be a fairly large shoe to fill. With many athletes not coming from a wealthy background‚ they have limited

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    In the past twelve years‚ the amount of money generated by these two sports has increased nearly 300%. The student-athletes who participate in these programs are part of the reason why these schools stand to make such handsome profits: through ticket sales‚ endorsement deals‚ broadcasting deals‚ and jersey sales. Does it make sense for an academic institution to run a multimillion dollar entertainment business‚ which is what college football and college basketball have become? (Meshefejian) College

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