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    College athletes

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    Anida Palavra4A COMM 1020 Is it time for colleges and universities to pay their althletes? I believe that colleges should be allowed to pay athletes. The players risk injury‚ devote their time‚ may forego earnings while playing and will not‚ in most cases‚ be able to play professional ball. Colleges make often over 50 million-100 million dollars in revenues because ticket sales‚ sponsorship rights and the sale of broadcast rights. The NCCA sold broadcast rights over to its annual men’s basketball

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    Overpaid professional athletes The topic I chose for my essay is overpaid professional athletes. I chose this topic because I think athletes are getting paid way too much money. Athletes get paid way too much for what they contribute to society. They contribute very little compared to other careers that give so much to society but make very little salaries. The professional athletes that people look up too are most of the time bad role models and the ones who are the real heros don’t get

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    Why Are Athletes Overpaid

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    YES THEY ARE OVERPAID. Athletes are talented human beings but are they worth the millions that they are paid? Male athletes are among the most highly paid people in the world. Especially in basketball and football‚ every player is enormously paid. Though economics is the key to understanding why these athletes earn such tremendous salaries‚ still‚ it fails to explain why they actually do deserve it. Giving athlete’s high wages does not only distort them‚ but also bring downfall to clubs and the

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    athletes lifestyle

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    D1 Analysis After learning about the factors‚ now with this analysis you can see that most of the factors can influence each other in one way or another. The first factor is stress; this can affect performance because having lots of things on your mind can stop you performing well because you can’t concentrate on the game or training long enough to benefit from it. The positives of stress are that you know that you want it‚ whatever it may be‚ relating to sport otherwise you wouldn’t be stressing

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    Sport Athletes’ Salaries Are professional athletes overpaid? This topic has been argued for some time now. It is said that pro athletes are paid way too much money for playing a sport. On the other side‚ there are the ones that say that the money is fairly deserved because of their hard work to get to where they are. Should pro athletes ’ salaries drop or stay as is? Do the top athletes deserve their pay? Athletes deserve the money they receive because of their hard work‚ dedication

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    are all extracurricular activities. Why would the school pay an athlete to do something that they choose to do? It’s not mandatory to play sports. Playing sports help athletes develop a better talent. Usually when someone’s learning to play the piano they hire and instructor. When you want to learn how to swim‚ ride a horse‚ dance or even act‚ you pay to take classes. You are supposed to pay a tutor‚ a trainer‚ coach etc. and the athletes don’t pay for the services that are provided to them. They get

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    Drug Testing in Athletes

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    However ‚ that athlete may just be one of the many who happened to get caught. Athletes today seem to find no moral problem with using performance-enhancing drugs‚ or in other words‚ cheating. Athletes feel that because they are "stars" there should be no repercussions for their illegal activity. Today‚ drug use in sports has reached enormous proportions in society and destroying athletics from the ground up. The use of steroids and other performance enhancement drugs also effects athletes at the high

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    Female athletes are known to be many manly titles. Many might already have an image in how muscular women athletes can be. People picture a hard core girl with crazy calfs and abs. Female athletes are supposedly these type of women who only care about being fit. According to society female athletes are hard as stone inside and out. Female athletes are easily misunderstood as tomboys because most of them love to compete with male athletes. There is no doubt that female athletes love to beat and win

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    College Athletes Overpaid

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    it professionally. A major issue within college athletics is the monetization of the sports programs and the athletes affected by it. With this in mind and how the athletes generate all of the money to the school from their performances and the amount of work is put in‚ it is right to think that the NCAA should pay college athletes. One side to the controversy of paying college athletes is the monetary/executive part. From games to television commercials there is a substantial amount of money

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    Their athleticism shows how much these female athletes put in. Whether it’s in a gym‚ field‚ or track‚ girls know how to strive towards hard work. People see these girls dress in sweats‚ sweatshirts‚ running shoes‚ yogas‚ and caps on a daily basis. This is why female athletes get categorized everyday by peers. Just because they are apart of the “jock” clique‚ people automatically assume certain things towards these athletes. Female athletes often get taken as “tomboys” simply because of the

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