Professional Athletes are not overpaid In my short life‚ if there is one thing I have noticed about the sports industry‚ it’s that money talks. Drew Brees just recently signed a $100 million dollar contract with the New Orleans Saints to play for five more years. Kobe Bryant of the Lakers made $25 million last year alone‚ while Alex Rodriguez made $32 million. This sure seems like a lot on money for men to be making just to play sports‚ or is it? Professional Athletes are very good at what
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the way we turn boys into men. One thing that strikes me as absurd is his remarks towards sports and towards the people who play them. He compares sports to being “a drug worse than marijuana and is a recipe for creating bad marriages‚ social misfits‚ moral degenerates‚ sadists‚ latent rapists and just plain louts.” He also says how few athletes are gentlemen and when reading this I could not disagree more. In fact I think that sports build character‚ toughness‚ work ethics‚ confidence‚ team work‚
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an opportunity to practice and improve with some of the best athletes as well as exposure and recognition‚ the value of the experience increases. Along with the increase in value should come an increase in price‚ instead‚ athletes are offered all the benefit and extra for no cost. Former head of the NCAA‚ Myles Brand believes that free tuition is an adequate reimbursement for a student athlete. On the other hand‚ many college athletes believe they deserve more. The
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Good hydration is important for athletes as their body lose water through sweat to keep it cool down. Control levels of fluid and water balance even before‚ during and after training or during matches are essential aspects for the athletes. For low intensity exercise lasting for a short duration such as low intensity training or during rest between each training session‚ water is very good for rehydration (Nutrition Australia‚ 2009). In addition‚ high intensity and endurance sports last longer than
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How much time should a high school student athlete commit to their sport? Many people would say that the answer to this question depends on whether the coach feels that his team is ready to compete or not. Others would say that it depends on the sport. Of course‚ certain sports may require more or less time. For example‚ tennis might not require as much time as basketball simply because unlike basketball‚ tennis doesn’t have an extensive handbook of plays or defensive and offensive formations that
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athletics‚ somatotypes can cover a wide spectrum and no one person has the exact same physique as someone else. There are three different types of body components according to The Sheldon method which are Endomophy‚ Mesomorphy‚ and Ectomorphy. Endomorphy being the physique that is soft and round in contour‚ suggestive of a tendency towards fatness and obesity. Mesomorphy describes a physique that is well-defined muscularity and balanced body proportions. Ectomorphy is a physique that is the leanest of the
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female athletes often succumb to these pressures and take drastic measures to supposedly look and perform their best. Young people need to know that they dont need to alter themselves to be the best. Action needs to be taken to put young female athletes on the path to realization and healthy lifestyles. Research has been done to prove the excessive amounts of pressure and its effects on female athletes. The National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA)‚ in a study of Division One NCAA athletes‚ found
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goes around the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Student athletes that works so hard to compete in college games and get no compensation for it when the NCAA collects millions of profits out of them. Student athletes should get payed because of the sacrifices‚ hard work‚ and dedication they put into college sports and to give credit where its due. In the beginning of the article‚ Zirin calls out the NCAA for being greedy and using the students to earn money and for the students who dedicates
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Should College Athletes Be Paid George McCray Research and Writing Professor Pittell Strayer University Corruption‚ scandals‚ suspensions‚ firings and a systems that is systematically flawed all the while the fact of the matter is that the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a organization that is bringing in billions of dollars each year yet the labor force generating the money gets a scholarship that many athletes believe doesn’t pay enough for everything that is needed
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Enhancing Drugs For Athletes Athletes that take enhancing drugs so they will be better at the game and more. So when the player takes the drug it is there so they will hit bigger at the bigger at the game most games will not allow these kinds of drugs in the pro sports such as baseball football etc. “The drugs or also known as “doping” has been a problem for baseball since 1960” as players will dope to get bigger arms in the sport to throw that ball harder so the batter will not hit it. So that
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