Are professional athletes overpaid? Do they warrant the astronomically high salaries they make each year? The simple answer is no. No one person playing a sport that is meant for entertainment should make more than a whole family working at jobs that contribute to people’s health‚ or make a city safer. Do athletes deserve high salaries? Maybe so‚ but as of right now there is so much separation between the pay of an athlete and the pay of the average american that athletes are quite frankly not worth
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Paycheck. Money. Big houses. Expensive cars. Professional athletes get paid a lot of money for their work‚ so much that they can buy the most expensive cars‚ houses‚ and other items too. For example‚"...Steelers wideout Antonio Brown busted out a custom Rolls-Royce…”(Brinston). While some people may disagree‚ professional athletes are overpaid because they make a lot more money than the people who risk their lives every day for our country‚ also they only work until their 30’s or 40’s‚ and they only
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What would I do if I won a million dollars? For example‚ from the lottery maybe? Yes‚ the chances of winning are just as likely as being abducted by aliens but if I did‚ I this were to happen‚ what would I do with the cash? Winning the lottery is a favorite daydream for a lot of us. If I had a million dollars‚ I’m guessing I would definitely want more. I would probably try to discover a way to double the million‚ probably put it up in a bank somewhere for a few years and let it collect some interest
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xxx 10 Million Dollar Essay When we think of giving to charities today‚ we’re not sure what to think. One might imagine going to a building where we can donate money in‚ or visiting a website where you enter an amount of money and your credit card number. Charities haven’t made themselves highly accessible yet. My charity aims to fix that. With nothing but the clothes on my back and 10 million dollars‚ I will start the non-profit Charity organization called Charity-ception. Charity-ception is
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Wilbon‚ Michael. “College Athletes Deserve to Be Paid.” ESPN.com‚ ESPN‚ 18 July 2011‚ www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/6778847/college-athletes-deserve-paid. Accessed 7 Apr. 2017. In his ESPN article “College Athletes Deserve to Be Paid‚” Michael Wilbon begins by saying that he used to 100% against the idea that college athletes should be paid‚ but has recently reconsidered his former belief. He now agrees that college athletes should be paid‚ but not all of them. He feels that the only
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been a popular topic in American sports. In some cases‚ professional athletes use steroids. Barry Bonds‚ a Major League Baseball (MLB) player‚ admitted that he used steroids while playing in the MLB. Steeper penalties should be implemented in professional sports leagues for those who use performance enhancing drugs‚ because they give athletes an unfair advantage. What does PED stand for? PED means “performance enhancing drugs” that athletes can use to get better. Most steroids are injected into the
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A Call for College Athletes to Be Paid The NCAA makes an estimate of nine hundred and eighty nine million dollars annually. The NCAA is able to make this gigantic profit while paying its employees absolutely nothing. If this situation would happen with a large employer paying its employees nothing‚ the company would get into serious legal trouble. However‚ since they are college athletes‚ society thinks it is okay. While many people say that receiving an education is enough of a privilege and paying
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Salary Caps in Athletics: How Much is the Game Really Effected? Should professional sports leagues‚ such as the MLB and NBA‚ implement a salary cap? This has become a rising issue in the last few years‚ involving players and the leagues and teams for which they play. Salary caps are an amount of money that a team is able to spend on its players. For instance‚ each team gets a 64 million dollar spending limit in which they have to divide between each player on the team. It has led to numerous
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Woods Effect The term “professional athlete” can and is often applied to anyone and everyone who holds a job as an athlete or sports competitor. Often‚ these “professional athletes” are glorified and held to a standard above what an everyday citizen is held at. They are given the best equipment to compete against the best of the best. However‚ a common factor of criticism is the salary that these professional athletes receive to compete in their various sports. While athletes are often given a large
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Professional athletes are role models for many young children & adolescents. If for example a young child hears about an athlete using drugs‚ he might think that using drugs is all right for him as well. Similarly‚ if the athlete is not severely punished then the child will think he can get off easy too. However if a child sees that the sport wants to remediate any and all situations involving professional athletes taking drugs‚ he will be helped to understand that taking drugs is socially unacceptable
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