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    The National College Athlete association is very huge and well known across many of our earth’s countries. There are some of the most known sports in this “league”. The most popular and well known sports would be football and basketball and lesser of baseball and lacrosse. The big key for the NCAA and its funding would be football and basketball. They are huge keys in the popularity and TV shows and such. There’s a question to be had and that is how much are they really making? Who is making them

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    Argument for Paying College Athletes Stephen Elting Mercy College Have you ever heard of a business that made billions of dollars‚ yet did not pay their employees? Seems pretty remarkable doesn’t it? Well this business is known as the NCAA. According to an article in the New York Times‚ the NCAA made $770 million from just the three-week Men’s Basketball Tournament‚ but how much did the athletes who participated in said tournament receive? If you said zero

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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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    modify the current NCAA amateurism by law 12.02.1 making it feasible for college athletes to receive financial compensation. The primary issue with the current regulation is that because of the rule many student athletes are living in poverty like conditions. The current by law is also affecting various aspects of domestic and International students ability to continue to meet eligibility requirements. In the past ten years college athletics as a whole has grown exponentially and it’s clearly evident

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    Growing up as a kid in the 21st century‚ you are always being told to make something of yourself. “Never let your talent be wasted.” “Do something with your life.” These are the ideals that my dad instills in me every morning as I prepare for school. He saw the potential in me but knew that there would be obstacles that could get in my way of my future‚ if I did not overcome them. The next phase of my life‚ as it is for most teens‚ would be college. Many teenagers desire the next level of education after

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    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 colleges take these students

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    Overpaid or Justly Compensated Professional athletes sign huge contracts up to $20 million dollars per season‚ but it does not quite mean that they are overpaid. These athletes play sports for professional teams which is not that easy to get into. There is only a .03 percent chance for a college basketball player to make it into the NBA‚ which the chances seem nearly impossible. These athletes also have to work hard to stay in shape all year round‚ because their jobs depend on it. They also

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    What is a student-athlete? Why is there a need to further describe a student that chooses to play interscholastic or intercollegiate athletics? We do not tend see students that participate in the science club or on a debate team as student-scientists or student-orators. The answer lies in our culture’s promotion of sport participants to a level of recognition not set aside for other extracurricular activity team members. From kids to collegians‚ we loudly applaud those who can run faster‚ throw

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    Samuel Wingert Professor Grimm ENG100G Midterm Research Paper 18 October 2012 Collegiate Level “Pay to play? That’s the question being fiercely debated on campuses and across the college conferences. And it’s shocking to see the level of support the answer “yes” is getting—because the idea tears at the very nature of amateur college sports” (Should). There are views from both sides as this is quite the controversial subject in the sporting world. Looking at the facts‚ it is difficult to

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