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    College Athletes Shouldn’t Be Paid While catching up on some game day scores for college football‚ an article popped up on the side with a title reading‚ College Athletes Deserve To Be Paid. I noticed it was written by Michael Wilbon‚ one of the hosts from the ESPN show‚ Pardon the Interruption. Already disagreeing with the title before even reading it‚ I was skeptical‚ but I clicked on the link and started to read. Wilbon brought up a number of decent points throughout the article‚ but for

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    pay to play category. There are numerous ways that college athletes can be compensated for their time dedicated to the sport. They consist of scholarships‚ free tuition‚ fees‚ and room and board. “Athletes on scholarship currently receive tuition‚ fees‚ room‚ board‚ and books—costs that can exceed $30‚000 to $50‚000 a year at many schools. Last October‚ the NCAA agreed to let college conferences decide whether to pay student athletes an additional $2‚000 annual stipend to more closely match the

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    Sierra Wilson Bolender English 1010 11/28/16 Compensation of College Athletes The biggest achievement of student athlete in this day and age is committing to a big time NCAA Division I athletic program in his or her respective sport. It is an immense accomplishment‚ but an equally immense commitment. The term “signing your life away” more than an expression. The coaches and staff of those programs monitor every aspect of life in big time college athletic programs. College athletics has also become

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    surrounding the compensation of college athletes has garnished widespread attention across America. While very few institutional athletic programs are able to achieve a sustainable budget‚ the NCAA should not allow institutions to provide salaries for student athletes because it will impair the mission of higher education‚ and destroy the true meaning of college sport. First and foremost‚ institutions cannot afford to pay student athletes. The majority of college athletic programs

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    yearly.” All this money goes to support championships and programs that benefit student athletes and for building operations. The NCAA is supposed to be a non-profit organization but they sell jerseys with the star athletes names on them. The “student-athletes” get none of the money that is made by selling their name on the jerseys. Even though they get a free education with their scholarship‚ college athletes should be getting some compensation for their hard work and abilities because they are expected

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    today’s society‚ student athletes have begun play the game only for individual satisfaction. Sports such as football‚ volleyball‚ basketball‚ and baseball are now full of players with selfish attitudes instead of having team-driven mindsets. Athletes have lost their hope in coaches who do not give 100 percent devotion to their team during practice or game time. If a coach cannot give his or her all to the team‚ then neither should the players. Both coaches and student athletes must be able to come together

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    Article Review: “How to Grow a Super-Athlete” In response to a request from Dr. Edwards‚ I have reviewed over this article twice to verify if it would be useful in an analytical report written by a Santa Fe College student‚ explaining the concept of deliberate practice. Summary * Neurologists theorize that myelin is being seen as an epiphany and a common link between the Spartak Kids and all other blooms on the talent map. * A sausage-shaped layer of dense fat that wraps around the nerve

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    Should College Athletes be Paid? Maybe it was the annual spectacle of March Madness and the fact that UCONN came out of nowhere as an underdog to win their 3rd national NCAA men’s basketball title. Maybe it was the excitement of watching the UCONN football team playing in its first ever BCS Bowl against Oklahoma last year. Whatever he reason‚ the media and sports critics always ignite a fresh debate over the merits of paying college athletes for their services to the schools. Over the past few

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    Readers‚ 2005. This book does a fenominal job in explaining life before Title IX‚ and what women had to go through in order to participate in their sport. It provides quotes from important women athletes such as Maria Pepe. After providing multiple stories women shared of their struggles as a female athlete the book talks about Title Ix‚ and what it provided for women. Also‚ the book talks about the threats to Title IX and then how women finally stood up for themselves. Finally‚ it ends with a timeline

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    Paying College Athletes Every single year‚ thousands of student athletes across the United States sign the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Form 08-3a‚ the “Student Athlete” form‚ which defers their right to receive payment for the use of their name and image (McCann). This form categorizes student athletes as amateurs who are not allowed to earn any sort of payment for playing their sports. Student athletes cannot ever earn one single penny from their college athletic careers‚ yet their

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