Why is a professional athlete able to get away with certain crimes that a normal everyday person couldn’t get away with? There isn’t a good enough answer to that question today. Some judges and law enforcement seem to look passed the wrong doing of a professional athlete because of their social status or importance to the league or association. Obviously this is unjust‚ athletes can’t get away with what whatever they want just because of the status they hold. One definition of the judicial system
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"Should College Athletes be paid?" Have you ever had a job and never got paid for it? It has never happened to me and hopefully it never does but unfortunately college athletes do not a choice. The Chris Webber scandal brought up the question "Should college athletes be paid?" Webber decided to receive thousands of dollars along with his University of Michigan teammates from Ed Martin. Martin was the former Michigan booster who was arrested on charges of money laundering. There was also "unproven
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Today ’s professional athletes make ridiculous salaries and are only increasing year after year. Every year we hear how a professional athlete just signed a contract worth a record amount. Then about the same time next year we hear about another athlete is signing a new contract worth even more than the previous high. Professional athletes are making too much money in a society that salaries and wages are typically based on the value of ones work. In today ’s society where salaries are determined
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Cody Withrow November 28‚ 2014 Dr. Folkworth To Get Paid or Not Get Paid “Everybody gets rich off the NCAA Tourney -- the colleges‚ the conferences‚ the networks‚ the announcers and analysts‚ the coaches‚ the fans who win their office pools -- everybody‚ that is‚ but the stars of the show: the players themselves.” (ESPN) The National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) essential principles about the role of student-athletes and its economic model received a partial rebuke from the courts.
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Paying College Athletes Money is everything in today’s society. We buy our food with money. We buy our clothes with money. We buy everything with money and people are constantly demanding for more‚ but what about those without a job? What about students in college who have to focus on their education and can’t get a job to make money? What about the student athletes that play sports for the school; bringing in millions of dollars of revenue every year? They get paid nothing while their coaches
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average American makes. Look closer‚ should an entertainer really get paid such a profound amount for one fight‚ rather than those who work to
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English 102 24 April 2012 Income for College Football Athletes College football athletes have been selling their jerseys‚ selling signature footballs‚ and committing crimes in order to be able to feed and support themselves financially to survive in the real world. Student athletes don’t have enough time on their hands to work during the season or during off season workouts. It’s considered a year round sport due to the fact that in offseason‚ college football players in training to stay in
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Advertisement/endorsement deals for the athletes College Athletes feel like that they should somewhat get a portion of the money that the colleges are making off of them‚ especially if companies and shoe brands are wanting to use them as the face of their brand. A lot of the athletes come from a background where they may not have a lot of money from their families to support to support the college athlete throughout college. Some of the athletes do not even get a full scholarship and ma only get
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Student Athletes: A change to come Here we go again; a stand-out high school athletic star has a choice that will determine the rest of his life. This is what happened to Koby Clemens son of baseball star pitcher Roger Clemens. He intended to play baseball on full scholarship at the University of Texas a NCAA college baseball power house. After graduating high school he was drafted into the MLB‚ an eighth round pick by the team his father played for. Now for the hard part‚ to go to college for free
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Although some may disagree about athletes getting paid more than 10 million dollars they do hard work for that money. I think that they should not be paid almost 10 million dollars because that type of money can go to homeless people and kids they can go to kids to get their diploma to go to college and get a good job. Ten million dollars could go to buildings that are needed. In my opinion is i think it should go homeless people more than anything cause they could have been through a lot. For example
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