This article was published on March the 21st‚ 2010 by senior analyst and author‚ Mihir Bhagat on the website Bleacher Report. The author believes that athletes are getting paid way too much money for their role in society; to play games for people’s entertainment. Salaries and wages are traditionally based on the value of one’s work but this rule does not necessarily follow in reference to high league athletes. In a day where one should be paid according to that person’s job’s economic importance
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College Athletes Shouldn’t Be Compensated Some people‚ like one of our classmates named Isaac Harris‚ believe that college athletes should get paid. That isn’t how it should be‚ though. College athletes should not receive compensation anytime soon because they already get paid‚ every college students will want compensation‚ and college athletes simply get to live the dream. First off‚ college athletes already get paid. They get paid in a way that many others wish they could. They get paid with
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DCI (Drum Corp International) is a professional marching band competition where Brass‚ drumline‚ and color guard perform with no woodwinds. DCI has been having a downward trend‚ but the corp members still continue to march the corps they want to regardless of this fact. DCI in a way is a connector‚ mason‚ and trendsetter because even with its downward trend in interest it’s making money‚ connecting people‚ and changing the marching and performing arts. DCI’s mission statement is “We seek to promote
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Should College Athletes be Paid? “Student athlete. Student comes first”. The question everyone asks is should college athletes be paid? There are many differences in a college athlete and a professional athlete. The thing about paying college athletes is they would just spend all their money on things that they do not need. College athletes should not be paid because they are still student athletes‚ being paid would take the intensity out of the game‚ they would not be focused on their grades‚ and
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There are thousands of athletes getting paid millions of dollars for just playing a season of basketball‚ football‚ baseball‚ and etc. While nurses‚ firefighters‚ police officers‚ and the military are risking their lives for complete strangers. Some people think that these athletes deserve more than they do right now. I personally think that they don’t deserve what they are getting. Look at it this way‚ people are actually risking their lives‚ fighting for our country‚ and trying to keep us safe
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325 million gallons; the average amount of beer consumed every year for America’s classic sporting event‚ the Super Bowl. When it comes to advertisements‚ beer companies pay between 1-500 million dollars per year to showcase their product. The bulk investment for beer companies advertisements go toward events with high numbers of spectators. Given the correlation of advertisement investment and high grossing sale revenue during the Super Bowl‚ one can argue the advertisements as effective. If not
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As shocking as it may sound‚ sports could not exist without the presence of money. An income or revenue is as important as the sport itself. It’s common to see high paid athletes asking for huge contracts filled with multi-millions of dollars‚ while at the same time also seeing doctors who don’t get paid near that amount of money. What makes an athlete more important than a doctor. Shouldn’t doctors who treat people and save lives be getting paid the most in our society? In reality that isn’t the
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Ivan Pyszka Comp. II 6/24/12 Definition Argument Topic Thesis: College athletes who are facing an injury during their season should be assisted by a consoler or a sport psychologist for the overall welfare of players (because they are at risk of a psychological breakdown.) A conflicting argument could be that athletes are always receiving special treatment and should be treated the same as any other college student. My main audience that I would be speaking to would be sport organizations‚ coaches
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Why the SEC is the Best Conference in College Football What do Alabama‚ LSU‚ Florida‚ Tennessee‚ and Auburn all have in common? They are all in the SEC and they all have won BCS championship games! Well today I am going to give you a couple reasons why the SEC is the most dominant conference in college football today‚ as compared to conferences such as the Big 12‚ Big 10‚ ACC‚ etc. First I will go over their top tier recruitment of talented athletes‚ then I will go over their dominant coaching
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Do professional athletes get paid too much? In my personal opinion: No In this modern era this is an ethical issue that comes up more and more often. This has been brought up especially in times of economic hardship and the recession whereby families are really struggling to make ends meet with unemployment‚ delay of retirement and general reductions in disposable income. During this paper it shall be discussed how the ethical issue of high wages came about‚ why it is an issue‚ who is affected
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