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    mean that people should have to suffer for the rest of their life because of their mistakes. Just like everybody else‚ professional athletes who have been involved in illegal behavior should have the right to return to their old life once they have paid their debt to society. To keep athletes from playing in their sport goes against our country’s bill of rights‚ destroys the athlete’s life‚ and would leave them out of a job. Athletes who are being kept from playing their sport should be protected by

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    Should NCAA athletes be paid? The NCAA makes six billion dollars annually(Frederick). Davis points out the SEC recently surpassed the $1 billion mark for football receipts. The Big Ten is close behind at $905 million. He reminds us that the football programs at Texas‚ Florida‚ Georgia‚ Michigan and Penn State earn between $40 million and $80 million each year in profits. The NCAA received $771 million from CBS and Turner to broadcast last year’s basketball tournament (Davis). The athletes get none

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    There’s a big controversy right now about athletes (especially in football) who bring in millions of dollars to university while never getting paid. Some say that the scholarship is payment enough. Others say that the athletes deserve a part of the money‚ and they might deserve it‚ but they doesn’t mean they need it. Athletes shouldn’t get part of what they make for the college. Athletes in college may not make money from the games they play‚ but they don’t really need it either. They rarely

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    Even though there are many amazing athletes not every single athlete deserves to earn ten of millions of dollars. There are very few athletes that deserve to make that much. The one athlete that makes the most money is Lebron James‚ he makes the most money in the NBA. The best athletes in the games might deserve to make that much money. Others do not. Some athletes that make a lot of money decide to spend their money wisely. Some give their money to charity‚ or travel to a different country to give

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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-athletesget 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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    So most people know how hard college athletes work‚ as in workouts‚ school‚ and playing their sport aggressive. They’re so busy doing these things‚ that they don’t have time to get a job‚ so how is it they get money to buy what they need? Start thinking about that‚ imagine how much money their parents have to give them so they can afford stuff. Lots of parents don’t mind but what about the families that don’t have that kind of money to be giving to their child‚ that puts a lot of unneeded stress

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    I’m going to start by saying that I am a college athlete and it’s very interesting the number of people fighting and defending the topic if players should be paid. The price for college has never been higher and will only continue to grow as time goes on. Going along with that college athletics have never been more popular. The most prominent example would be a division 1 football program. Back in 1906‚ when the NCAA was created‚ a law was put in place to prevent exactly this. This law is called

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    Schooled is a documentary about if D1 college athletes should be paid even if they have a full ride scholarship. I think that if athletes can’t buy or afford things outside of school that they should be provided with money to do so. If these colleges are earning revenue off of these athletes‚ but the athletes themselves are seeing none of it. Not being able to do things outside of a sport like get a job is harder on kids who don’t have a full ride because they also have to pay for part of their tuition

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    Athletes are playing in sports every left and right all around the world. But many people think they are getting paid too much. But many don’t think that they do because they earn their money‚ have chronic health problems when they retire‚ and they dedicate their lives to their sport. To begin with‚ athletes do get paid a lot but don’t you think they earn it? Athletes get paid billions and doctors don’t get paid that much but athletes get paid more because they earn it. They earn it like LeBron

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    sfgate.com/2011-01-20/sports/27038888_1_barcelona-winter- sports-asian-cup According to the Associated Press the University of Texas starting this year will have their own TV station through ESPN. ESPN is giving the University of Texas $3 million dollars over a 20 year period. They’re going to highlight every sport they have and show all the sports that the University of Texas has. The University of Texas is going to make a lot of money from this that the college athletes will not get any of the money

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