The college experience is one that allows an individual to pursue his or her academic interest in a controlled environment while having freedom to be independent. This experience often has a monetary value referred to as tuition. If even more were added onto this experience like an opportunity to practice and improve with some of the best athletes as well as exposure and recognition‚ the value of the experience increases. Along with the increase in value should come an increase in price‚ instead
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What is going to happen to college sports? The sports them self’s are becoming bigger than the school instead of being a school activity‚ college sports are also becoming a separate entity through the help of the NCAA. In the book Game Over author Dave Zirin sheds light on how college players are exploited for profits for the faculty of the NCAA including the university’s coaches‚ some making over six figure salaries while the schools that endorse sports teams are making cuts to teaching and maintenance
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you couldn’t catch a ball‚ to the time when it hurts just to stand‚ there are risks with any sport. So whenever college athletes step on the court‚ field‚ or wherever they compete‚ they are putting their bodies at risk‚ as well as future paychecks. In the history of NCAA there have been many professional careers either derailed or stopped forever because of injuries. In the 2006 college football season one of the best players‚ Michael Bush was playing for the Louisville Cardinals when he suffered
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Becoming an athlete‚ let alone a college athlete‚ is not a path paved in gold. There are times you will be doubted‚ challenged‚ and cast aside. There will be mornings you are awake before the sun rises. There will be nights you cry yourself to sleep. You will push your body to points where it will fail. In fact‚ you might be blindsided by an injury that ends it all. There will be coaches that will give you a false sense of security or flat out lie to you‚ and there will be coaches that change your
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To Pay or Not to Pay College Athletes? In the article‚ “The Shame of College Sports‚” noted author and historian Taylor Branch discusses the injustice of the National Collegiate Athletic Association not paying their college athletes. Branch references and goes into detail about several legal cases‚ in which the NCAA blatantly takes advantage of players and their families. He lectures his audience on the extensive history of the NCAA‚ pointing out many ignoble and hypocritical actions committed
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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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manifest the most dominant world athletes. The winners are deemed the best in their sport for their abilities to be biologically and physically gifted and to harness that potentiality. These athletes train strenuously‚ often ingesting synthetic or natural additives to increase performance. To remain competitive in increasingly higher levels of play‚ athletes should have the choice of using their natural gifts and/or using performance enhancing drugs. Neither an athlete who has a gene that prompts a
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others should follow? Although numerous times‚ some of sport’s best athletes have done this in the past‚ one athlete‚ Colin Kaepernick‚ has earned quite the public response after he chose not to stand up during the national anthem. Some people argue that sports is not a time for protesting and politics. However‚ professional athletes should be allowed to use their status or position to protest events taking place today. These athletes who are protesting are just like any other American‚ raising their
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Should Athletes be allowed Recreational Drugs? In professional sports‚ the topic of drugs‚ both recreational and performance enhancing‚ has been a major issue and has been discussed and viewed over time after time but the result has always been the same. Professional sports people are not allowed to use recreational or performance enhancing drugs. The part of this law that says performance-enhancing drugs are banned should be left in to make sport fair‚ but professional sports people SHOULD be allowed
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sport‚ and college is the beginning of that dream. Kids dream of making a huge living in sports in the college and professional level and it’s growing rapidly growing. At this level athletes put a lot of their time to spend hours every day practicing. Right now‚ a college athlete cannot be given money for their effort or marketed in a way that could profit the school or themselves. A growing debate centers on whether these athletes should be able to make money for all their hard work. Every year
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