Professional sports have gained a reputation for outrageously high player salaries. The challenge for team owners is to attract the best talent while balancing their overall investment. The five major sports in the United States – Major League Baseball (MLB)‚ National Football League (NFL)‚ National Basketball Association (NBA)‚ National Hockey League (NHL) and Major League Soccer (MLS) - have differing systems for managing player salaries. No one sport has the perfect model; there are issues with
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Can a Certified Public Accountant’s professional CPA designation be a marital asset? I am going to elaborate on the state of North Carolina‚ my state of residence. In many states if a spouse has acquired a degree during the marriage then it can count as an asset in terms of spousal support. Normally it does not carry a physical value like a car or house‚ but it does have value because the financial situation of a married couple would have had to suffer during the course of education for the specific
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Compare how schools and colleges in the USA help prepare young people for participation in professional sport to those in the UK. Evaluate the effectiveness of both systems. In the USA the main aim in sport‚ even from a young age‚ is winning and they heavily adopt the ‘Lombardian’ ethic‚ meaning in general they strive much more greatly for excellence rather than mass participation. This is dissimilar to the UK‚ who is in general much more concentrated on mass participation than they are on elitism
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Should we pay professional athletes more? The problem is are Professional athletes paid too much? There are many opinions on this issue. The owners should pay the professional athletes more money to counter the fact that they can be injured and the time spent away from their family. The skill of the players is undoubtedly the best in the world. Job security with the athletes doesn’t exist. The injuries that the athletes can endure can ruin their career and also their life after the sport. To conclude
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opinion‚ professional athletes deserve their salaries because of their talent‚ the huge revenue they draw‚ the demands of their job‚ and society’s emphasis on sports and entertainment. Irreplaceable In order to be a professional athlete you have to be “the best of the best” (figuratively). To become “the best of the best” requires hours and hours of practice. These athletes are born with amazing athletic abilities and then must develop and fine tune those abilities to become professional; those
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I once thought that engineers were intelligent people who could get lost in their own little worlds. I’m happy to say that that isn’t entirely accurate. Yes‚ they are intelligent‚ but there’s more to them than just IQ and assumed absent-mindedness. After a little research here and there‚ I found out what real and potential civil engineers are actually like. Here’s a glimpse into what I’ve found. The Right Stuff Civil engineers have an interest in (or at least an aptitude for) mathematics
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set out what I want to be in life. My ambitions are to obtain an athletic scholarship for football‚ to help pave the way to becoming a civil engineer. It will be a bumpy ride along the way‚ but I can propel myself to achieve anything. I anticipate though sports such as football‚ can fund for my schooling to become a civil engineer. If I have a phenomenal upcoming season I can hopefully get recognized by athletic scouts and receive a full ride scholarship to a university. Though
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Do professional athletes get paid enough? Yes‚ they do‚ and for many different reasons. Athletes have to deal with large commitments‚ the danger of playing sports‚ and common life expenses. Often‚ professional athletes are offered contracts by a certain team or sponsor. Some of these contracts can be for a long period of time too. Next‚ playing sports has a very large risk for injury. These athletes never know when they will have a career ending injury. Lastly‚ athletes still have to pay for common
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Professional athletes get paid over a million ¬¬dollars each year just to compete and advertise for companies while teachers get paid $40k- $158k per year. Boxer Floyd Mayweather‚ Jr. is the highest paid athlete of 2015-2016 making $150 million yearly with soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo of Spain coming in a close second with a yearly salary of $80 million. Teachers and professors in Luxembourg are paid the highest amount in the world with a starting salary of $79k that can reach over $138k. The
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Many claim that professional jobs should get paid more money than normal jobs. They say that they do more work‚ and that they deserve more money for having jobs that require more training and skills. Although having a professional job should get paid high ‚ normal jobs such as a teacher shouldn’t get paid any less; therefore wages are not fair. First of all‚ some people have very dangerous jobs and don’t get paid enough. For example the military people. The military put their life on the line to
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