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    College Athletes Deserve To Be Paid November 17‚ 2011 College Athletes Deserve To Be Paid Almost every week there is some sort of story that makes the news about a university breaking the NCAA rules. The debate is bigger than ever to start paying college athletes to play sports. It does not matter which sport it is‚ athletes need more than just a scholarship to pay for expenses outside of tuition‚ room‚ and board. A scholarship is strictly limited to these‚ but what about the expenses outside

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    Even though there are many amazing athletes not every single athlete deserves to earn ten of millions of dollars. There are very few athletes that deserve to make that much. The one athlete that makes the most money is Lebron James‚ he makes the most money in the NBA. The best athletes in the games might deserve to make that much money. Others do not. Some athletes that make a lot of money decide to spend their money wisely. Some give their money to charity‚ or travel to a different country to give

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    themselves. All over the world‚ mainly in America‚ athletes are paid millions of dollars more than the median individual‚ and all for the fact of our societal calibers. Accordingly‚ numerous people in this homeland will not care if people save sentient creations‚ they only care about people if they can intercept a ball‚ or even run at supersonic speeds. That is why athletes all over the United States of America‚ the land of the unobstructed‚ are being paid astronomical amounts of money for diminutive work

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    If College Sports is a Million Dollars Market‚ Why Are College Athletes Not Paid? Post University If College Sports is a Million Dollars Market‚ Why Are College Athletes Not Paid? College football and basketball athletics at most NCAA division one schools are big business industry. In most division one school‚ college Football revenues can gross up to 90 million dollars in revenue‚ and college basketball revenues can be as high as 48.8 million dollars. For last year’s

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    Not Paying College Athletes 1              College Athletes Should Not Be Paid                  Jason Jia  English III‚ P.2  Phyllis Kadrmas  May 16‚ 2014     Not Paying College Athletes 2  Abstract  In recent years‚ many people debate whether college athletes should be paid  or not. This debate has gone on for many years and soon it will be solved. This  paper will talk about the negative effects of paying college athletes and the benefits  they are already receiving from their schools

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    College football should think about the rules of the NCAA another way. The NFL makes football players wait three years after graduating high school before entering the draft (Bayless). With such a tight hold on players from the NCAA‚ means no income for players in that time frame. Outside of room‚ board‚ and tuition players should be able to receive payment of some sort. Scholarships looks really great to the outside eye‚ but scholarships in the market today isn’t worth the same as it was in past

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    The first college sporting event was in 1852. It was a rowing competition between the Yale and Harvard rowing teams. Since then college athletics have grown into multi-million dollar industries. In 2008 the University of Alabama made the most money with their athletic program – making a total profit of $123‚769‚841. The athletes themselves did not receive any of the money the school made on the sales. College sports are also widely watched online and on television which allows additional people to

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    never got paid. That’s what has happened to the college football players. They are worked like slaves. They generate all this money not to get paid. I think that college players should get paid. College football players play just like the NFL players. NFL players get paid and they play just like they are still in college. If the National Collegiate Athletic Association is getting paid 1.7 million

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    Hour 2 English 2/15/13 Should college athletes be allowed to accept salaries or financial gifts? One of the most controversial topics in all of college sports is whether or not its athletes should get paid. As of now they are not paid‚ but many people are leaning towards paying them for supporting the college and putting their health at risk. These athletes should not recieve money‚ however‚ because they are too young to be paid the kind of money they would be paid‚ and injuries could complicated

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    yearly.” All this money goes to support championships and programs that benefit student athletes and for building operations. The NCAA is supposed to be a non-profit organization but they sell jerseys with the star athletes names on them. The “student-athletesget none of the money that is made by selling their name on the jerseys. Even though they get a free education with their scholarship‚ college athletes should be getting some compensation for their hard work and abilities because they are expected

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