October 2014 Should College Athletes Be Paid? The NCAA makes billions of dollars every year off of college sports (Johnson). Last year the NCAA men’s basketball tournament made nearly 1.15 billion dollars just off of the television ads ran during the tournament (Johnson). Athletes should be paid for their time and efforts put into the sport. They are making a ton of money for other people and they don’t get to see any of it. There are many reasons that college athletes should be paid‚ they make
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they want more than anything. These athletes bust their tails everyday to climb the ladder to success‚ they don’t take shortcuts and they don’t take the easy way out of things. This describes a true student athlete‚ someone who is driven to one goal‚ bettering themselves. So why can’t an athlete be paid? Is it because they aren’t in the big leagues‚ the schools don’t have the money‚ or because most are already on scholarship. These athletes go above and beyond to be the best at what they do‚ no matter
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children should not get paid to do chores. I don’t think children should get paid to do chores. Children should not get paid to do chores for many reasons. The rest of this essay will give reasons children should not get paid to do chores. Your parents do not get paid to do the dishes or take out the trash. They don’t get paid to do laundry and other chores. Chores are just apart of family life. Doing chores is not the same as a paying job. Some people think that kids should get paid to do chores
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Under any circumstance‚ the debate of whether or not college athletes should be paid is like the “The Mobius Effect”- it only has one side. College athletes ought to be paid for their services as entertainers; consider the profits that sports industries make off of them. The college sports industry generates $11 billion in annual revenues. Fifty colleges report annual revenues that exceed $50 million. Meanwhile‚ five colleges report annual revenues that exceed $100 million. - According to “The
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even be associated with them. That day will forever remain in my mind. I can recall with nostalgia an incident‚ which took place five years ago. Back at home; my parents would me for the good grades I scored in the term papers. On this one occasion‚ my mom rewarded me with two hundred dollars for the good grades in the end year finals. In order have fun; I decided to invite my best friends to a hotel for lunch. On arrival at the hotel‚ I told my friends to order as much as they wished to take.
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Professional athletes get paid millions of dollars to play a game. Do you think they really deserve that much money for tossing a ball around? The money that pays the athletes for a game we all play competitively can be used for someone who actually shapes the future and fights for our country. For instance‚ Floyd Mayweather is the top paid athlete in the world for boxing‚ earning a total of three hundred million dollars. Do we really need to promote a dangerous sport by paying someone three hundred
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With college athletes practicing and playing in the games‚ the National Collegiate Athletic Association‚ the NCAA should be paying their college athletes to play. College athletes spend the same amount of time on their sport as a full time job‚ college athletes are struggling to make ends meet‚ and a salary would help the athletes to manage their money. For all that they do these college athletes definitely deserve to be compensated for what they do. These college athletes spend an average of 43
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Should College Athletes be Paid? Maybe it was the annual spectacle of March Madness and the fact that UCONN came out of nowhere as an underdog to win their 3rd national NCAA men’s basketball title. Maybe it was the excitement of watching the UCONN football team playing in its first ever BCS Bowl against Oklahoma last year. Whatever he reason‚ the media and sports critics always ignite a fresh debate over the merits of paying college athletes for their services to the schools. Over the past few
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College Athletes Shouldn’t Be Paid While catching up on some game day scores for college football‚ an article popped up on the side with a title reading‚ College Athletes Deserve To Be Paid. I noticed it was written by Michael Wilbon‚ one of the hosts from the ESPN show‚ Pardon the Interruption. Already disagreeing with the title before even reading it‚ I was skeptical‚ but I clicked on the link and started to read. Wilbon brought up a number of decent points throughout the article‚ but for
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from getting paid (NCAA). "Everyone is making money off them except them‚"(Reshke).“The United States is a sports-obsessed nation‚ and National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) football and basketball contests are some of the most widely viewed‚ highly rated‚ heavily bet on‚ and highly profitable sporting events in the country‚” (Garcia). College athletes fail to get paid‚ they always put their health at risk when playing‚ and the sport takes up extra time used for jobs. This gets in the way
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