Parents should be role models. Just because I dunk a basketball‚ doesn’t mean I should raise your kids.” – Charles Barkley. Professional athletes are not the best people to be role models for kids. Steven Ortiz‚ a sociology professor at Oregon State and the author of several published studies on athletes ’ bad behavior says‚ "Spoiled-athlete syndrome begins early in sports socialization. From the time they could be picked out of a lineup because of their exceptional athletic ability‚ they ’ve been
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they saw one of the athletes in the olympics doing it‚ what would you do? I know how I would feel and the answer is not happy at all. I don’t understand why athletes are taking drugs so that they can be able to win. It doesn’t make sense. This is telling us that you need drugs to be able to win in a competition. I find it very sad because there are young kids that look up to those big stars. Yes I know that those olympians feel pressure sometimes but that doesn’t mean you have to go and take drugs
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Are Today’s Professional Athletes Good Role Models? Everyday today’s youth are asked what they want to be when they grow up. Some say teachers‚ firemen‚ police officers and a large response to that question is a professional athlete. Something that all these professions have in common is that they are all role models to children. Firemen‚ teachers‚ police officers have an easy job at doing this; they are after all the people that save children‚ teach children and protect children. But professional
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Wouldn’t it be amazing to be paid nearly $111 million a year just because you played a game? Many athletes are being paid big bucks just like famous quarterback Andrew Luck. But do these famous athletes really deserve all those millions of dollars? In my opinion‚ they are definitely being paid an excessive amount of money. Professional athletes are paid too much money in an unfair way because they are paid more than the people who “perform more valuable services”‚ and the money they earn could be
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Essay Are Professional Actors and Athletes Overpaid? In this essay I will explore a much debated topic in this country pertaining to the undeniable fact that professional actors and athletes overwhelmingly get paid much higher than the average American. As any highly debated topic‚ there are always arguments and viewpoints from both sides of the spectrum. Like many Americans‚ for entertainment I thoroughly enjoy watching both film and professional sporting events. Even though‚ I have always maintained
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The role of professional athletes as role models for the youth is a debatable topic. Should they be the people your children look up to and try to be like? Or are they just popular people who have let fame get to their head and influence them to make poor choices? While there are many people who believe that they should be responsible for setting good examples for the millions of children in the world‚ there are equally as many that believe they should not be put under that kind of pressure on top
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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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is on how sports affect student athletes in different ways from schooling to a student athlete social life‚ and the health of a student athlete playing sports or numerous sports. I decided to go with this topic being a student athlete as well and this topic is a good interest to me. Student Athlete’s most important job is to get good grades because student comes before athlete without the right grade or GPA they will not have a chance to play. Studies have shown tho that sports gives student
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referring to athletes as “jocks”‚ which is thought of as a student who can do a lot on the sports field‚ but not as much as the rest of the student body in the classroom. As athletes move on to college sports it is considered to be even more true that to college athletes‚ academic success comes second to their athletic success. This is a false perception that may be true for bigger (division one) schools but the stereotype is the complete opposite for division three athletics. Division III athletes are‚
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Cap "Major League Baseball has the least amount of revenues going to player payroll than any other sport‚ which is 52%. Compared to 56.7% in the NHL‚ 57% in the NBA‚ and 59% in the NFL." To some people this is proof that baseball doesn’t need a cap‚ but in reality Major League Baseball is becoming far too dominated by big market teams‚ and a salary cap should be put in place. The lack of a salary cap is simply bad for baseball. The Yankees‚ for example‚ buy all of the big-time star players. This
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