Rafi Barash Hour 2 English 2/15/13 Should college athletes be allowed to accept salaries or financial gifts? One of the most controversial topics in all of college sports is whether or not its athletes should get paid. As of now they are not paid‚ but many people are leaning towards paying them for supporting the college and putting their health at risk. These athletes should not recieve money‚ however‚ because they are too young to be paid the kind of money they would be paid‚ and injuries
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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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There are thousands of athletes getting paid millions of dollars for just playing a season of basketball‚ football‚ baseball‚ and etc. While nurses‚ firefighters‚ police officers‚ and the military are risking their lives for complete strangers. Some people think that these athletes deserve more than they do right now. I personally think that they don’t deserve what they are getting. Look at it this way‚ people are actually risking their lives‚ fighting for our country‚ and trying to keep us safe
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My name is Rachael Shields and I am 17 years old. My life has been characterized by experiences on the farm‚ and the work ethic that comes along with it. I’ve learned to appreciate the outdoors and wide-open spaces; some of my favorite activities include skiing‚ snowboarding‚ geocaching‚ and playing with my dogs. In addition‚ I’ve spent all 4 years of high school on the Varsity Cross Country and Soccer teams. As far as soccer goes‚ I’m extremely passionate about my current position as goalkeeper
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Since he was a boy‚ Tim Levesque has always loved sports. From football and basketball in high school through rugby in college‚ Tim enjoyed the hours of training‚ the satisfaction of mastering complex plays‚ and especially the thrill of facing challenging competitors. He remained physically active in the years that followed and spent many evenings and weekends coaching his son Adam’s Little League baseball team. He continued to challenge himself to learn new skills‚ as when he took
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and naive children we were‚ adults always told us to never give up on our dreams. This statement usually applied to the impractical dreams of becoming president of the United States‚ transforming into a superhero‚ or playing alongside professional athletes. These were all big ideas and aspirations that fueled our carefree childhoods‚ and were appropriate practice for shaping the paths to our true passions we discover later on in our lives; particularly in high school. High school is where teenagers
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oblivious to the struggle many people face. Despite the progression and modernisation disabled people’s private lives have undergone in the aftermath of political and medical progress‚ there has been no evolution of their public image (Riley‚ 2005). This is undoubtedly been a result of the misrepresentation of disability in the media‚ regardless of the fact as many as one in every five people in the world is disabled (Riley‚ 2005). There are few examples of disability being represented in various forms
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not college athletes should be paid is like the “The Mobius Effect”- it only has one side. College athletes ought to be paid for their services as entertainers; consider the profits that sports industries make off of them. The college sports industry generates $11 billion in annual revenues. Fifty colleges report annual revenues that exceed $50 million. Meanwhile‚ five colleges report annual revenues that exceed $100 million. - According to “The Case for Paying College Athletes”. Evidently the
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College Athletes Deserve To Be Paid November 17‚ 2011 College Athletes Deserve To Be Paid Almost every week there is some sort of story that makes the news about a university breaking the NCAA rules. The debate is bigger than ever to start paying college athletes to play sports. It does not matter which sport it is‚ athletes need more than just a scholarship to pay for expenses outside of tuition‚ room‚ and board. A scholarship is strictly limited to these‚ but what about the expenses outside
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Athletes Shouldn’t Get Paid 58% of college coaches think that there athletes should get paid for playing sports at the college level. Even though they are marketing athletes on merchandise‚ athletes should not get paid because they are student’s first and athletes second. Colleges don’t have a huge budget for paying athletes and the students are required to go to school. The students are at the age where they won’t budget the money and they will waste all of it. They are already be taken care
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