replacement costs $35‚500 to $40‚000. Professional athletes don’t get insurance. Imagine needing to pay $40‚000 for a knee replacement. Professional athletes are paid fairly not all of them spend all their money they just don’t know what to do with it besides some people make more money just sitting around. Next‚ athletes are paid fairly they work hard for what they earn. One thing is for certain they have no idea how to have any financial help and they have no idea how to spend their money. Besides
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exist? To the few privileged athletes in the world of professional sports it does. Everybody knows that the salaries in professional sports are outrageous. Does every good athlete think they’re really worth that much money? I know this is professional sports‚ but let’s face it‚ it is still just a game. For some athletes‚ these salaries go right to their heads‚ and they become conceited. The athletes forget that if it weren’t for the fans‚ they wouldn’t have a job. Athletes want as much as they can
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levels of sports has risen greatly in recent years‚ and the way they play has changed too. Women’s sports used to be played by a slow defensive style. Today‚ the sports are played with speed‚ precision‚ and power. With these changes have come increased injuries‚ and female athletes have higher injury rates than men in many sports. Knee injuries have been rising in female sports. Anterior crutiate ligament (ACL) injuries have become the most common injury in the knee to female athletes. Females
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Drugs and Sports Have you ever wondered how many professional athletes take performance drugs? Well about one athlete out of every ten athletes have taken performance enhancing drugs sometime in their career. Athletes take these drugs to increase their level of play on the field or on the court. These athletes gain an unfair advantage on their opponents. Steroids are ruining sports all around the world‚ as they continue to attract people to these substances‚ but we can reduce the steroid use in sports
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Athletes Are Negative Role Models for Society It seems that a day cannot go by without us either picking up a paper or listening to the evening news and there is a story surrounding a predominant athlete that has somehow gotten themselves in trouble with the law. These are the same people we glamorize night in and out on the stage in which they perform. Sport Center gives us all their individual accolades along with astonishing highlights. They’re obviously really good at what they do. Should
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Demand for Sports and Entertainment Justifies Professional Athletes Pay “The sports market in North America was worth $60.5 billion in 2014. It is expected to reach $73.5 billion by 2019” (Heitner). Sports in America is a culture in itself with millions of fans turning out or tuning in to games and sporting events all year round. Professional athletes are notorious for the amount of money they make for their occupation. Whether you are a sports fan or not‚ there is no escaping the debate regarding
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could be used to impact millions in a positive or negative way? Would you make an effort to paint a picture of a righteous act or way of living that others should follow? Although numerous times‚ some of sport’s best athletes have done this in the past‚ one athlete‚ Colin Kaepernick‚ has earned quite the public response after he chose not to stand up during the national anthem. Some people argue that sports is not a time for protesting and politics. However‚ professional athletes should be allowed
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or not professional athletes are overpaid. In the present time athletes are being paid phenomenally large amounts of money for their entertainment. It is my claim that all professional athletes are overpaid because they do not offer society an essential function that improves or enhances our world in comparison to other professionals such as medical doctors‚ lawyers‚ and teachers. Society does not value entertainment enough to warrant such high salaries such as those of many professional athletes
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Players Overpaid? When sports exploded in the 1900’s athletes were paid like regular working citizens. Most athletes had to work over the summer to keep their mortgages paid. In present day‚ professional athletes are dished out astronomical salaries in exchange for their play. Many of these athletes have the opportunity to be set for life within the first years of their contracts. Eighteen and nineteen year olds are given multi-million dollar contracts. While these athletes are getting paid these
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earn money without ever doing their job. That’s how it is for many athletes who sit on the bench and don’t play a single game‚ yet are paid millions of dollars anyways. Professional athletes are paid way too much for the careers they have chosen. Careers that are beneficial to our society have a lower pay grade than the majority of these athletes. The President of the United States annual pay of $400‚000‚ is less than most athletes pay. Also‚ the highest paid doctor makes an average of $500‚000 annually
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