We‚ the Public‚ Place the Best Athletes on Pedestals According to William Moller in his essay “We‚ the Public‚ Place the Best Athletes on Pedestals‚” sports fans are a huge factor in athletes steroid usage and we tend to turn a blind eye to the obvious substance abuse because we want them to be the best. On the other hand they know what choices they are making when using illegal substances and the consequences that follow. Moller compares the athlete’s substance abuse to his own experience in
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make about $8000‚ athletes make about 2 billion dollars. The athletes should only make $3000‚ at most. Moreover‚ they should only be getting health insurance temporarily free. Take some money out of their salary and use that to pay it off during the sport
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Based on an article from 2012‚ “Different sports pay very; differently‚ athletes are separated in salary by huge margins” (Bleacher Report). For example‚ actors can perform horribly in a movie or a that leads to them getting paid not so generously. The same goes for athletes if they sit on the bench
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They are not as big as the United States government system of course‚ but they do not have to pay as many people either. Just think‚ at one professional football game there is an average 70‚000 people. Tickets are average $100. There are average 18‚000 at an NBA basketball game. This is one reason they make so much more than military members. People think that soldiers train much more than
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Competitive cheerleading is an aggressive sport; from throwing athletes in the air‚ to flipping heels-over-head in a gymnastics-like tumbling pass. Behind the cheer activity lays a family‚ one that consists of the gym owner(s)‚ management‚ coaches‚ athletes‚ and their relatives. My gym‚ CG Athletics All Star Cheer & Dance‚ opened in 2016 with three full-season cheerleading squads. Between last season and this season‚ we have lost a handful of athletes to other gyms for various reasons. Likewise‚
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phrase most commonly associated with one of the most competitive athletic brands in the industry‚ Nike. Throughout Nike’s “Find your greatness” commercial advertisement‚ Nike tried to set apart itself from Adidas by using nonprofessional athletes as professional athletes. They aimed to suggest that the idea of greatness and other achievements were not necessarily reserved for a chosen few but it is something we are all capable of. The target audience Nike is trying to reach are viewers of Adidas advertisements
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I recently had the opportunity to watch the ESPN documentary Broke. Broke looks into how a myriad of professional athletes end up broke not long after their retirement. Athletes in the present day are making more money than ever before. In spite of this increase in wages‚ more and more of todays’ athletes are also going bankrupt shortly after retirement. Over the course of its hour and a half run-time‚ Broke examines how and why many of todays athletes are able to mismanage their money so brazenly
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Isn’t that like saying an adult should work four years for free? Whatever happened to the fact that professional athletes are being compensated a certain amount of money for being on the cover of a video game but student athletes are ‘amateurs’ and therefore can’t be paid? I happen to sympathize with the student athletes who sign a scholarship letter of intent which contains a fully professional job description. As a student athlete you are a slave of your coaches‚ they have the power to take away
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found is that no matter where the time goes or at what age one is‚ people still have dreams. Dreams do not go away‚ but they may be ultered because of the choices we make and the different paths of life we may take. In the play Troy wanted to be a professional athlete‚ but due to the era which he lived african americans were not looked at fairly when it came to playing time. This dream never changed as time passed‚ but it made Troy bitter and ultimately push away his own child because he was such a great
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in class are mainly physical or genetic. We mentioned that in order to be a successful surgeon‚ you need to have steady hands. For some of us‚ it is not physically possible. Another example that we mentioned was professional athletes. No matter how bad someone wants to be a professional athlete‚ there is a certain level of skill that may not be able to be reached due to genetic traits. Perhaps their parents are small or uncoordinated. The person is simply out of luck. I think a good example would
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