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    Are professional athletes being paid too much? According to Charles Ray‚ athletes are making a lot more then they should be. Some players are making more then a brain surgeon would‚ yet the athletes don’t have to go through the pressure of saving lives. The money they’re getting paid could most definitely go to a different cause‚ instead of paying excessive amounts to hit a ball or shoot a basket. So‚ why do athletes get paid like they do? According to Chris Butterfield‚ it’s somewhat part of

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    favorite sports team‚ or working at your dream job and the opposite gender is making more money than you are for doing the exact same thing‚ how would that make you feel? These are some situations where men and women are not being paid equally for working at the same thing. Gender equality is a big issue in the sports world especially for women because they are mistreated. Women athletes should make the same amount of money as men athletes because they both have dedicated their lives to their sport‚ represent

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    movies focus on an examination of American values as seen through the lens of a professional sport‚ both on and off the field. Any Given Sunday and North Dallas Forty do indeed have many striking similarities. Furthermore‚ it seems that both movies try to give a detailed depiction on the corporate mentality of modern day professional football; while at the same time‚ still working to deliver a traditional‚ likeable sports flick. Though there is a large time gap between the two films‚ they have similar

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    Unrealistic Role Models

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    model kids think of is professional athletes. Most kids only pick professional athletes because they think their job is fun‚ cool‚ and they will make a lot of money. I believe professional athletes are unrealistic role models. The reason i believe this is because what if these kids get it in there

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    looked at a professional athlete and wondered how they could possibly have such defined muscles in their arms‚ legs‚ and even their abdominal region. While I am watching any kind of professional bicycling event I wonder how these men and women could possibly have the endurance to bike for such a long time. Some of these athletes have a dark secret. The use of banned performance-enhancing drugs (PED) in sports‚ also referred to as doping‚ is on the rise not only in the professional sport world‚ but

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    Enhancing Drugs Performance enhancing drugs should be illegal in professional sports. Players found using these drugs should be banned from playing professional sports. The reasons why are because using these drugs is cheating‚ unfair to other players‚ and unfair to fans. Using performance enhancing drugs is cheating in sports. Players are boosting their performance instead of using their own abilities. The point of playing a sport is to see which team or person is the best at what they do and if

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    be able to pay their athletes‚ due to athletic programs bringing in so much money for schools. Not paying college athletes would be good because students already receive compensation towards college‚ students are given many auditions to become professional‚ and college is not a job. On the other hand‚ others argue that college athletes should be paid because schools and coaches are rich from the students’ work students do not have any time to have a job‚ and not paying the athletes may violate federal

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    ufeffDakota Wilson April 1‚ 2013 ENC 1101 Laura Radford Are Convicted Athletes Being Fairly Punished For Their Crimes? When a college or professional athlete is charged with a crime‚ it seems the whole world is watching; the story is covered by nearly every newspaper‚ tabloid‚ and television station. Regardless of whether or not they were given a fair trial‚ or if the outcome is actually even true‚ the extent of their punishment stops directly after their sentence has been carried out

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    performance. However‚ while other careers have a long-life period to develop themselves‚ there are just about twenty to thirty years for those who work in the entertainment and sport fields to excel their achievements.

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    Question: - 3 Sports has rapidly become an established part of the entertainment industry and the smallest detail of sportsmen’s private lives is exposed by the media to public scrutiny. Top professional are often described as ‘stars’ and large business interests exploit their skills. Considered profits are made out of selling sports gear which is a replica of the gear used by the professional; newspaper sell more copies if their sports coverage is good and substantial gains

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