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    University of Kentucky etc. Division 2 is smaller than Division 1‚ and usually finance the students education with a combination of athletic and academic scholarships. Division 3 is the smallest out of all divisions in the NCAA‚ and they are not allowed to offer athletic scholarships. Then you have the NAIA‚ which stands for The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics‚ and these schools have the same level of competition as a division 2 school (NCAA and NAIA). All of these schools are filled

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    The first is that an employee performs work for another person or entity. In the world of college athletics‚ this boss to employee relationship correlates with the relationship of a coach to his or her players. The second element of being an employee is the presence of a contract. The contract‚ in this case‚ would be the National Letter of Intent that each recruit must sign before he or she can receive a scholarship to play in college. The third element states

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    conditioned on athlete protection and reform requirements including improved due process processes for athletes and coaches accused of violating athletic association rules‚ whistle-blower protection for faculty‚ students‚ and others too afraid to report rules violations‚ and national championship revenues earmarked to provide increased scholarship benefits and athletic injury insurance for all college athletes. Just as the Congress replaced a dysfunctional AAU in 1978‚ it should act now to repair a

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    The world of The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a mad one. Its an association filled with disallusions and failed hopes and dreams that never blossomed into realities. The NCAA feeds off of studnt athletes that crave a ticket to stardom and or success‚ so that they can steal all of that away from them and gain it for themselves;therefore‚failing all of them. Student athletes do their best to do it all. They become measuring weights by balancing sports‚ family‚ friends and academics;

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    fully of volunteers for the member schools and this creates more than 125 committees. These legislative bodies govern each division‚ as well as a group of committees that set association wide policies. Each committee manages topics affecting sports rules‚ championships‚ health and safety‚ and matters impacting women in athletics. The Governance is broken down into three separate groups; they are Division I‚ Division II‚ and Division III. The NCAA Board of Governors is the highest governing body; it

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    thousands of student athletes across the United States sign the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Form 08-3a‚ the “Student Athlete” form‚ which defers their right to receive payment for the use of their name and image (McCann). This form categorizes student athletes as amateurs who are not allowed to earn any sort of payment for playing their sports. Student athletes cannot ever earn one single penny from their college athletic careers‚ yet their schools and coaches earn millions of dollars

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    also many fraternities and sororities who participate in many school wide activities such as the homecoming day parade‚ and various mixers and formals. Along with there being many clubs and organizations‚ Baylor is also part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association‚ or the NCAA. Teams include 6 men’s teams; track and field‚ basketball‚ cross country‚ baseball‚ football‚ golf‚ and tennis‚ and 10 women’s teams; acrobatics and tumbling‚ equestrian‚ cross country‚ track and field‚ softball‚ basketball

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    enrollments‚ and nearly 24% of all collegiate scholarship athletes. In some major sports‚ such as basketball and football‚ blacks make up a great percentage of athletes participating. In 2005 over 55% of all collegiate athletes on football scholarships were Blacks and about 62% of all collegiate athletes on basketball scholarships were Black and this is out of the NCAA’s 328 Division I schools. Despite the large number of Black representing the athletes in collegiate sport‚ the percentage of African

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    healed and back to practicing. He was Lucky. Con #1: Many student-athletes already receive scholarships and other benefits. While not all student-athletes are on scholarship‚ many are‚ particularly those who are playing for schools we seeing winning national

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    of dollars or schools‚ but they also help sell prospective students on attending the college. Colleges support into their athletic programs is an investment on students‚ advertisements & revenue‚ and alumni. Without college sports‚ many students wouldn’t have an understanding about what the college world is. The largest thriving sports network within college athletics is college football and college basketball. These sports generate not only hometown fans‚ they can influence out of state fans

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