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    outcome of your physical appearance. By exercising on a regular basis your body will be healthier‚ which means fewer diseases and fewer injuries. Some athletes take a break when they finish their sport or career‚ and these people regret it the effect of not staying in shape. They gain weight and lose the muscle the worked hard to get. The athletes that continue to work out after they are finished are people that lead a healthier life and tend to live longer and happier. The second effect has to

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    selling merchandise. Should NCAA pay their athletes? No‚ because they already get free things from their sponsors‚ they get paid by their education‚ last but not least it will trouble other non-generating revenue clubs. The first reason why athletes should not get paid is because they already get free things from their sponsors to their fans. “The NCAA athletes get paid with psychology classes‚ track suits‚ knee braces‚ and ice baths.” This proves that the athletes get free stuff some of it that they don’t

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    National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) requires student athletes to maintain a 2.5 grade point average in at least nine academic credits to be eligible to compete in their respective sport (NCAA‚ 2011). A study conducted in 2004 found academic performance to be the leading cause of stress amongst university students (DeBerard‚ Spielmans‚ & Julka‚ 2004). According to Anderson and Williams’ (1988) stress injury model‚ athletes experience more physical injuries during periods of high stress

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    you think this is right? Having athletes make thousands of dollars for a game. Yes I do. First‚ Athletes do a lot the help the public. Athletes will hold camps to help kids with basic life skills. Also‚ They will go out in public to hang out with kids and meet people and make them happy. Now‚ Athletes will also help at food markets or schools during the off season to give back to the public and the kids who support them in the good and bad. And of course‚ Athletes never forget where they came from

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    athletics‚ it does not come to a surprise that so many student–athletes are giving in to drugs. Many schools that are faced with drug use are turning to mandatory drug tests for student-athletes; however mandatory drug tests are a violation of the Fourth Amendment‚ the Fifth Amendment and drug testing reverses the legal principle of innocent until proven guilty. In order to protect the rights of the American people‚ drug testing student-athletes without suspicion and without sufficient evidence should

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    of “To an Athlete Dying Young” In his poem “To an Athlete Dying Young”‚ A.E. Housman makes a quite different approach on death. People have different perspectives on death‚ but more often than not‚ it is viewed as an undesirable event that people wish to avoid. The speaker in the poem‚ however‚ praises a young and famous athlete for dying before he became old and forgotten. This can be interpreted two very different ways. One can assume Housman believes that the only way for athletes to capture

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    Are exceptional athletes heroes ? Heroics is used very broadly and can consist of many different aspects of ones= feats or achievements. While researching this topic‚ I have found that there are numerous ways to describe a hero. What makes a hero? I have determined in my opinion‚ that the word Ahero@ consists of ones accomplishments‚ actions or service that leads to the betterment of others. From my definition of the word‚ exceptional athletes do have the potential to be heroes. The word hero

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    Though paying for other sports is a big setback to paying college football & basketball athletes another problem is posed when people bring up the beloved term "student-athletes." The kids that are heavily recruited are usually in bad situations and this is their way to get out of that but being a "student-athlete" or "amateur" bars them from any sort of economic advancement. Roughly twenty percent of the athletes graduate with degrees before their football careers are over‚ and all they are left with

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    College sports has become a huge factor in sports. The problem is we don’t pay college athletes like we should. If you were to play college lacrosse you would make no money. Most college lacrosse games you bring more people then you would in a professional game. College lacrosse players should be paid because they bring a lot of sponsors and people pay to watch lacrosse games but where does all that money go? Most of the money just goes to the school. Why wouldn’t they pay the players

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    Concussions in University Athletes By Presented to Dr. K. Brebner in Psychology 100 Introduction to Psychology Department of Psychology St. Francis Xavier University November 6‚ 2012 Concussions can go unnoticed or untreated in athletes by team coaches and doctors‚ this is not their fault or a result of poor training. Athletes tend to try to hide their symptoms from a coach or trainer in order to keep playing. An athlete may feel an obligation to his or her teammates to stay

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