Entertainment Justifies Professional Athletes Pay “The sports market in North America was worth $60.5 billion in 2014. It is expected to reach $73.5 billion by 2019” (Heitner). Sports in America is a culture in itself with millions of fans turning out or tuning in to games and sporting events all year round. Professional athletes are notorious for the amount of money they make for their occupation. Whether you are a sports fan or not‚ there is no escaping the debate regarding professional athlete’s salaries
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Do you think athletes deserve the amount of money they make ? I do not think athletes are overpaid. Athletes are not overpaid because they dedicate their lives to their sport‚ have short careers and have chronic health problems. To begin with‚ athletes dedicate their lives to their sport. According to Mackenzie Carro “Athletes like LeBron James dedicate their lives to their sport- to training to traveling and pushing themselves to the limit.” This shows how dedicated athletes are to their sport
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Gray ENG 4U1 – 11 25 Sept 2013 Professional Athletes Should Not Be Criticized In a world with numerous and various types of occupations‚ it is often difficult to measure the importance of each profession monetarily. Each person‚ society and organization has a different perspective on the significance of certain occupations but it seems that cross-culturally there is a common belief that professional athletes are extremely overpaid. Professional athletes worldwide are often questioned regarding
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someone in professional sports gets paid 20 million a year all of a sudden‚ they work for it. Athletes aren’t overpaid with all the expenses and health risk that they take for our entertainment. To begin with athletes aren’t overpaid in their careers. Athletes work hard‚ almost every day they travel to different cities for games which means a lot of nights in hotels‚ so they are always on the road. Athletes use spare time they have to practice for games‚ so they are always busy. Athletes don’t get
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shows that athletes are getting paid loads of money for doing little things. The Issue with overpaid athletes is when they step on the field‚ or pitch‚ or court‚ they earn hundreds of thousands or even millions. Nowadays‚ athletes don’t play for the love of the game. They just play for the money so they can fill their needs. Athletes in professional sports must get a lower salary because‚ Their job isn’t as important as other jobs‚ Athletes don’t know how to manage their money‚ and Athletes get paid
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opinion‚ athletes are way overpaid. They are only playing a game against another team and they get paid thousands of dollars just to do so when people who save other people’s lives don’t get paid enough. On the other hand‚ we sometimes take the time out of our day to watch people play football‚ basketball‚ baseball‚ etc. We stand in front of our TV to watch and cheer them on. They play for us. There are a couple reasons why I think athletes are overpaid. Those reasons are that athletes make up to
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“More money more problems‚” have you ever wondered why athletes make more money than others. Today many athletes make several million dollars a year‚ hence athletes are significantly overpaid. Athletes jobs don’t have an effect on the world as a whole. Therefore doctors and others for example‚ should be paid more money than professional athletes. Some athletes make several million dollars a year. “It seems morally wrong that athletes would be paid more than people like firefighters‚ who serve the
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Are Athletes Overpaid? It gets the wheels turning in your head when you hear that the budget is falling apart and people are losing their jobs on the news. Following that is the sports news where athletes are signing several million dollar contracts and debating player’s performances. We all know that there is a lot of talent out there but should we paying millions of dollars for someone that plays a sport for a living? Can someone that can run fast or throw a ball so good that they deserve
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Are Athletes Overpaid? Many people in today’s society say that athletes make too much money and they are paid just for playing a game. What people often forget is how difficult it is to make it into professional sports and that ultimately sports is a business and like any other business athletes receive a salary for a service they provide. Many people believe athletes are being paid for little work‚ but in fact they work at the same level or even a higher level as other workers do. Making it into
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Are Athletes Overpaid The average athlete can make more than the President of the United States; how is that fair? Athletes‚ like Tom Brady‚ are overpaid and make more that the average families that work till they are 70 years old. Do athletes really deserve to make that much? The answer is no‚ they do no. First‚ athletes make way over a million dollars in one year. The average income of an American family is about 54‚000 dollars a year. A nurse only makes 70‚000 dollars a year. Compare that to
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