March 17‚ 2006 It’s Not the Sights‚ It’s the Sounds By TIM SULTAN I WANTED to kiss Lori Austin‚ the waitress behind the counter of August 25‚ a diner near Wales Center‚ N.Y. I had been pretending to look at the wall art — a sunset landscape painted on a circular saw — but was actually straining to listen in on the conversation three elderly women were having at a nearby table. I was not having any success. The more I listened‚ the more quietly they talked. "Thee-at painting?" Ms. Austin suddenly
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L College Athletes Being Paid Sep 18‚ 2013 1916 words 8 pages Should College Athletes Be Paid? For over a century‚ college sports have been among the most popular and loved sports in the American media‚ with the biggest event being March Madness. This event alone generates almost a billion dollars for the NCAA every year. They are well rewarded for the advertising and publicity that they generate around college sports. The athletes however‚ are not. Most athletes in major NCAA Division 1 schools
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College Athletes Getting Paid: Considerate or Materialistic? Now‚ more than ever‚ we live in an era of entitlement. College students are fully aware of the time and effort they must put forth should they choose to participate in a sport. The rules and regulations are clearly stated by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)‚ and receiving compensation for their contributions are clearly not stated. Paying college athletes has been an ongoing debate since the early 1900’s. In 1905‚
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Kevin Lopez APENG11 R.S essay Should athletes be able to go pro before finishing college? This topic is widely debated among citizens across the United States. The answer that is commonly regarded as the safe choice is to finish school then go pro. If an athlete were to choose this choice the benefits would clearly outweigh the risks. The big benefits would be that you will have a fall back and you will be able to get a higher pay in the pros. The only risk of waiting is injury in the final
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College sports plays a pivotal role for universities and the community that surrounds the university. The two major valued sports are football and men’s basketball. These are the sports that generate the most profit for the university. College athletics is a term encompassing the non-professional‚ collegiate and university level competitive sports requiring physical skills and training that prepare athletes for competition performance. Football and men’s basketball teams that have good seasons bring
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Association (NCAA) college basketball players should be paid. This would solve a growing problem as NCAA basketball players quit school after the first year to go pro. If college basketball players were paid they would stay in school longer. Secondly‚ they deserve to be paid if the NCAA is making billions of them. Others say that college basketball players should not be paid because they are already being compensated through education. Adam Silver the current NBA commissioner said that college coaches‚ athletic
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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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March 29‚ 2012 English 112 (B) Research Paper 1 Should We Pay College Athletes? Should we pay college athletes? That is a big topic in NCAA sports right now. People think that college athletes work hard and that they deserve to get paid. Michael Wilbon is one of these people. At first he was against paying college athletes‚ but now he is all for it. He says that he is interested in seeing the people that make revenue share a little piece of it. Then you have people like a reporter from the
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multitude of other areas. Unfortunately‚ the athletes that bring in all this money receive absolutely no revenue and are essentially treated like slaves so that the school can prosper. Even though many people would argue that athletes should play the sport for the love of the game‚ their commitment‚ sacrifice of education‚ and risk of injury or permanent damage suggest they should get some compensation for their performance.
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student-athletes in the United States and none of them are getting paid to play sports in college even though they are practicing for over forty hours per week. Some people say that the student-athletes have already gotten paid with scholarship money‚ however‚ they don’t get to choose where that money goes. Scholarship money that they receive goes toward tuition and room and board. College athletes often need money to pay for food‚ but unfortunately they can’t use that scholarship money. College student-athletes
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