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    difficult not to admire the passion and effort of these nineteen year old athletes. However‚ while the marketing of‚ and revenue from‚ the tournament continues to grow for the television networks‚ the NCAA‚ the participating universities and their coaches‚ the NCAA athletes participating in it are expressly prohibited from collecting any financial compensation at all whatsoever. There is the argument that NCAA student-athletes should not be paid because of an opportunity provided to pursue a free higher

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    SAIN V. CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT: PROVIDING SPECIAL PROTECTION FOR STUDENT-ATHLETES? The scholarly article I chose was of great interest to me for several reasons. The case is an educational malpractice case in which a student-athlete said he was provided false information by his high school consolor and lost his basketball scholarship as a result. I was a student athlete in high school and sports are still a big part of my life. On top of that I am considering teaching and coaching

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    College Athletes: Should they be paid for play? Andriana Shanklin Dr. Mary Rose Kasraie Research and Writing: ENG 215 October 19‚ 2011 Should college athletes be paid to play? The issue of whether or not college athletes should be paid for play has been a heated debate across the nation for years. Most would say that college athletes are already paid to play by the scholorships that they are given such as free tuition‚ meals‚ books‚ room and board. However‚ some would say that college

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    purposefully adopted by adding certain education requirement to ultimately hinder the amount of scholarships awarded to incoming black student athletes. Throughout this case analysis‚ I will weigh the different evidence presented from both parties and report the court’s reasoning for decisions made in Pryor v. NCAA. Kelly Pryor is an African American student athlete that was being recruited by NCAA Division-1 institutions to play soccer. Pryor signed a National Letter of Intent to play at San Jose State

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    compensating athletes for their hard work and commercial value. Isn’t that like saying an adult should work four years for free? Whatever happened to the fact that professional athletes are being compensated a certain amount of money for being on the cover of a video game but student athletes are ‘amateurs’ and therefore can’t be paid? I happen to sympathize with the student athletes who sign a scholarship letter of intent which contains a fully professional job description. As a student athlete you are

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    Pay to Play

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    Pay to Play For a while now there has been a heated debate on whether to play college athletes or not. Some people believe that a scholarship should be enough. A thing to point out‚ a scholarship can be easily worth 15‚000 to 25‚000 dollars or more per year depending on what school he goes to or how many years he decides to stay in school. Additionally students receive all kinds of perks while they are in college‚ being the big man on-campus for some people‚ the ladies‚ staying at fancy hotels

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    Assistant Athletic Director of Academic Service‚ consists of welcoming incoming athletes and making sure they get with the right staff member in their selected sport section. He then keeps the staff updated on NCAA rules and regulations in order to stay within proper code. His job doesn’t stop there as he manages all 21 sports at the university. Among his many duties his main priority is making sure all student-athletes stay academically eligible and earn a degree he does this by ensuring he has the

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    loses. To succeed athletes must become part of the team by interacting with team mates and learning cooperation. Sheed explains the relationship between coaches and athletes‚ and the classroom and playing field. The tactics and respect an athlete gains from their coaches are reflected into their academic lives as well. Teachers felt sports increasingly interfered with other lessons that must be learned. “Yet sports don’t have to be the teachers enemy‚ at least the young athletes learned discipline

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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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    Athletes Overpaid

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    professional athletes are overpaid. In the present time athletes are being paid phenomenally large amounts of money for their entertainment. It is my claim that all professional athletes are overpaid because they do not offer society an essential function that improves or enhances our world in comparison to other professionals such as medical doctors‚ lawyers‚ and teachers. Society does not value entertainment enough to warrant such high salaries such as those of many professional athletes. There

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