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    Professional athletes are often rewarded extremely substantial amounts of money and lucrative endorsement deals. Many people argue that their salaries should be reduced to smaller amounts of money. Male athletes are one of the most highly paid people in the world. Athletes are some of the most talented people‚ but are they worth the millions that they are paid I do believe athletes don’t deserve the millions of dollars they make for what they do. I believe that all athletes are being overpaid just

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    that anyone who makes the case that sports stars are overpaid may be suffering from wealth envy. Athletes work incredibly hard to achieve what they have accomplished according to Hammond. He also says professional athletes produce much more money for others than they themselves receive. Who gets the money then? The people who already make millions a year owning sports companies? It is simple; Athletes get paid too much. The truth is that basketball‚ football‚ and other sports are just games. Being

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    Athlete classes at Pursuit are designed to build muscle while strengthening and maximizing athletic performance. Our Athlete classes follow a cyclic program that helps organize approaches‚ protect against overtraining‚ and enables athletes to improve continuously. This class focuses on the stages of muscle building‚ strength‚ and athletic performance. As a member of this class you will see: Proven Results The coaches and trainers at Pursuit help members and athletes focus on results. This reduces

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    Effects of Being An Athlete. Student athletes are all around the world working hard not only for their grades‚ but for their sports as well. Being a student athlete can be very time consuming and the only way to stay on top of their game is working ahead of schedule. There are many different results that occur from being a student athlete such as the character traits‚ and the passion that are picked up along the road to success. In order to be a successful student athlete not only must a person

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    1 Prapassara Songpim Professor Zardinejad Eng 122 MWF 16 September 2013 Summary of “Athletes and Education” In “Athletes and Education”‚ Neil Petrie states that colleges give the smallest amount of assignments for student athletes ‚ and they receive the special compassion from the teacher. He takes mercy for student athletes by let them do their tasks and became famous college. The important thing to loose focus on the academic are the mental and physical energy by using the whole

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    female athlete triad might occur if over-training is maintained over a long period of time and accompanied by other issues. The triad is a combination of three disorders. These are disordered eating in which not enough calories are taken in to fuel energy needs‚ disturbed menstrual cycle and low bone density. Athletes at highest risk of the triad are gymnasts‚ dancers‚ swimmers‚ runners or any sport that places extreme emphasis on weight or maximum performance according to the Female Athlete Triad

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    Professional Athletes are not overpaid In my short life‚ if there is one thing I have noticed about the sports industry‚ it’s that money talks. Drew Brees just recently signed a $100 million dollar contract with the New Orleans Saints to play for five more years. Kobe Bryant of the Lakers made $25 million last year alone‚ while Alex Rodriguez made $32 million. This sure seems like a lot on money for men to be making just to play sports‚ or is it? Professional Athletes are very good at what

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    Olympic Athlete Compensation DAN Management and Organizational Studies Compensation and Benefits Management Thursday‚ April 4 2013 Purpose The purpose of this research on compensation of Canadian Olympic athletes is to determine how athletes that represent Canada on the National level are compensated and rewarded for the time they put in to their rigorous training to prepare for an event once every four years. Professional athletes in leagues such as the National Basketball Association‚ the National

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    There has been major discussion recently if college athletes should or shouldn’t be paid while they are in school. The first thing opponents say is‚ "They’re already getting a scholarship! That’s more than anybody else! Don’t be greedy!" Fine‚ let’s not be greedy and look at how much a scholarship is actually worth. On average‚ a full Division 1 scholarship is $25‚000 per year. "That’s $100‚000 over four years!" Yes it is‚ but most athletes don’t last at a school for the whole four years. Once

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    2008 Paying College Athletes College sports have gained a lot of positive attention over the past couple of years due to the athletes’ passion and desire for the sports. Being nationally televised and making it deep into big tournaments can rack up a lot of wealth that colleges and universities can respectively cash in. Only the schools and sponsors of these profiting tournaments and bowl games collect the profits that athletes bring in and it is not fair. The athletes do not garner any benefits

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