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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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    have been duelling over this topic should student athletes have to attend physical education‚ to that the response is very simple the answer is no. Athlete kids also have to get some school help after school.Don’t kids get enough physical education in practices or games? Well to some schools the answer is no‚ but facts show that kids have a way more advanced education when they don’t have to go to practice and physical education every day. In fact‚ if athletes have their practice during school

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    organization the NCAA averages an annual profit of 6 billion dollars. The volunteers of this company are made slaves by the system. The athletes no longer scoring the game winning touchdowns are soon forgotten about. Many of these athletes going in their thirties and forties are barely able to walk‚ and cannot go through the day without a headache. Student athletes deserve to be compensated for risking their bodies for the NCAA‚ and the millions of fans watching for entertainment. Conferences such

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    players from both sides should definitely see some type of benefit.” (Marvin Williams). Marvin Williams was a college basketball player who thinks that the NCAA will be able to pay their players. As Marvin says the NCAA is capable of doing this so if one of the most successful college basketball players ever and who was behind the scenes for many years he will know best about what is going on. This is one of the biggest reasons why the NCAA basketball should pay their athletes because they have so much

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    The transition from high school to college can be stressful for any student‚ but athletes may experience even greater levels of stress and other health issues due to the balancing act of athletics and academics placed on them during their freshman year. For the first year freshman student athlete‚ these demands may at times seem overwhelming and can have effects on mental and physical health. Coming into college as a freshman there are numerous things that can stress out any student‚ being in an

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    When going to college today‚ it costs a fortune just to earn a degree. Instead of charging so much for tuition‚ students should be able to volunteer through service-learning‚ and pay for college through the services they provide. By volunteering‚ students would benefit the professors‚ themselves‚ and the community‚ as well as the school. Students could participate in this program‚ and not have to worry about working through school‚ professors would be able to keep up with grading‚ and communities

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    now an all year type of thing‚ a famous quote said i“there is no off-season”. Athletes are being pushed to be in one sport all year long‚ instead of multiple sports per year. Pushing one sport is taking place so skills can be practiced continuously. This is a problem for the athletes during the summer. Summers should be for summer jobs and lake days‚ if we have sports constantly then athletes have no time off. Athletes need time to recover and just

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    Why student athletes get drug tested Student athletes should get drug tested before they get to play the sport they want to play. If a student athlete get drug tested it increases their chances of going to colleges‚ if the athlete does not get drug tested then him or her will have serious problems in the future like poor academic outcomes‚ and finally is that schools are making their campus a drug and smoke campus. The first one is that if they get drug tested it increases their chances in going

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    pressure to go to college. The reason behind this is that parents push their children to perform on getting good grades in school at any cost. Everyone has different abilities and are not the same so parent cannot make a comparison to their children who get higher grade being compared to lower grades students who don’t get all straight A during high school and college years. So‚ parents and teachers should not place unrealistic expectation on high school students to achieve a high GPA‚ which contributes

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    Should Gay Athletes Participate in Professional Sports? Critical Annotated Bibliography English 112 Moebs April 4th‚ 2014 Borden‚ Sam. (2013 Nov 14) Robbie Rogers Reflects on the Season in the Spotlight as a Gay Athlete. Nytimes.com. 2014 Apr 4. Borden is writing about Robbie Rogers‚ a MLS soccer player who came out in early February and played for the Los Angeles Galaxy this past season. Rogers appeared in games prior to Jason Collins and was coined the first openly gay

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