Athletes‚ under the age of 21 years‚ should be eligible to be drafted into a professional sports team. Playing in a professional sport is a career and setting a limit based on age to when someone can start his or her career is absurd. “Currently‚ to be eligible for the NBA Draft‚ a player has to be at least 19-years-old or one year removed from high school.” (Jessop.2014) In the one year removed from high school‚ the athlete can choose to attend college and declare if he or she would be eligible
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Native American tribe names for college and professional sports teams. Some argue that the names are racist and stereotypical while others don’t see it to be that way‚ but rather an honor. One article that speaks on this issue is‚ “Indian Mascots – You’re Out‚” by John Shakely‚ and he writes about his opinion on the issue speaking from the Native American perspective. He argues that removing Native American Names and mascots from college and professional teams is the right thing to do. Another article
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proficient in sports or other physical exercises. Do you really feel that someone of this standard should be handed millions of dollars for playing games? Athletes jobs pay them enormous amounts of money. Some people argue that these athletes deserve their high paying salaries‚ even so others disagree saying that they are overpaid. These men and women are great sources for entertainment‚ but they’re paid way too much to play games for a living! After athletes retire from playing sports they still often
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Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sports Estevan Pena Devry February 28‚ 2013 Composition February 28‚ 2013 Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sports Athletic competition has been a part of our society since the beginning of time. Although‚ professional athletes are fully equipped and good enough to play in professional sports‚ many of these athletes feel pressured into using performance enhancing drugs to better their athletic skills in the sport. Throughout this essay‚
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Taxpayer Money being Used to Fund Professional Sports Organizations; Credible Economic Stimulant or Implied Catalyst? Sports are something most Americans can relate to; many of us played some type of sport as a kid and some of us are diehard fans. Sports have developed with us as a society and have become an important part of our culture and you can see their effect in many cities countrywide. Professional sports remain a centerpiece of many major metropolitan cities across the United States
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THAN PLAYING THE GAME Spectator sports is very popular everywhere in the world. In Malaysia‚ the most popular one is football or soccer. Tennis and basketball are sports that have worldwide appeal. Fans are willing to pay a lot of money to see high quality sports. Thus‚ there has developed in the most popular sports a group of athletes known as professional sportsmen. They are paid for playing in a team. Their payments are not paltry sums. Professional sports is a very big business‚ and these
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Analytical Summary Paper: The Doping Dilemma In “The Doping Dilemma”‚ Michael Shermer writes about the consequences and the ethics behind performance enhancing substances in professional sports. He begins with an anecdote‚ which describes the feeling of getting “dropped by your competitors on a climb” (420:2). As described by the author in the development of the story‚ every athlete has a genetic limitation that regular training cannot exceed (421:4). According to Shermer‚ the only thing to be
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How much money does a professional athlete make compared to many other people who have different jobs like nurses or teachers? On average‚ the money a professional athlete can make yearly can be around forty million dollars while a nurse or a teacher can only make one-hundred thousand dollars yearly. Many people don’t realise what the problem is. The problem is that athletes can cover millions of dollars or even billions of dollars. The fact that remains is that athletes are getting overpaid yearly
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much time a student would need if they go to school and on top of that they have to juggle playing a sport. College students who do both are called student athletes because they are students and athletes. On average‚ a “Division I spend about 40 hours a week on athletic activities‚” and on top of that‚ if full time students‚ they would spend an average of 15 to 18 hours in class (New). The sport they practice could be seen as a full time job because they devote a great amount of time and dedication
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phenomenon that many teenagers have played competitive sports from the time they were young children. Some of them start so young as five years old. Whether or not they should do this‚ there are different opinions‚ some people think they should not start at so early age that they will have to move away from home and leave school. However‚ I strongly believe that exceptionally talented young athletes should be allowed to play professional sports. It is a good choice for them‚ even though they will have
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