Play Since athletes bring millions of dollars into their colleges every year‚ universities should compensate their athletes. College athletes today put in as much time as someone with a full time job. Ramog Huma‚ a Korean College athlete and president of the National College Players Association says “college athletes are just like all other hard www.scholastic working Americans’‚ they should receive a fair days pay for a fair days work” (sic)(Rebeca Zisscu np.) College athletes often work 40
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In the past twelve years‚ the amount of money generated by these two sports has increased nearly 300%. The student-athletes who participate in these programs are part of the reason why these schools stand to make such handsome profits: through ticket sales‚ endorsement deals‚ broadcasting deals‚ and jersey sales. Does it make sense for an academic institution to run a multimillion dollar entertainment business‚ which is what college football and college basketball have become? (Meshefejian) College
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Effect The term “professional athlete” can and is often applied to anyone and everyone who holds a job as an athlete or sports competitor. Often‚ these “professional athletes” are glorified and held to a standard above what an everyday citizen is held at. They are given the best equipment to compete against the best of the best. However‚ a common factor of criticism is the salary that these professional athletes receive to compete in their various sports. While athletes are often given a large sum
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Athletes aren’t overpaid You think athletes are overpaid well if you really think about it you’re wrong. The reason why athletes gets paid so much is because of what they do for us. Many professional athletes get paid millions of dollars. Some people think that these athletes don’t deserve what they’re making. Athletes have multiple injuries when they play the sport they play. Most of the time they have to pay medical bills afterwards that are really expensive which therefore they need money to
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setting can be applied in sports to help athletes perform and prepare for competition. At the elite levels all athletes have the talent and the physical tools to compete. In an interview hall of quarterback and sports analysis‚ Troy Aikman stated‚ “When you get to the elite level in sports‚ athletically‚ what separates the really great performers are the ones who are mentally tough and see things a little bit quicker than their competitors.” These athletes have the ability to move on after mistakes
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Cause and effect Student Athletes The demands of being a student-athlete in high school or college can be extremely challenging in terms of budgeting your time for your academics/school work‚ and what little free time that remains for social activities‚ or one ’s personal life. In this essay I will discuss the effects about being a student athlete because many people think that student athletes have there life easy but in actuality they have to deal with things that regular students would not
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Jasmine Harbor ENG 112 006 Essay #1 February 6‚ 2012 Life of a Student Athlete Scholar athletes deserve to be given special treatment because we have to go above and beyond more than the average student. There are times that as a student athlete that you will have to miss class due to road trips. When I was a freshman‚ I was assigned two papers in one day and they were both due the very next day‚ because I had to leave for a basketball road trip and we would have been gone the entire week and
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reward youth athletes who earn their trophies? Participation trophies the easy way out. Participation trophies not only harm youth athletes‚ nut are a waste of money in youth organizations. Giving participation trophies decreases motivation. It is ok to give participation awards to 6-8 year old’s‚ but not to older youth athletes. Participation trophies should not be given because it teaches kids that you can get an award for just showing up. According to the "Trophies for All" youth athletes are being
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Imagine how you felt when you realized that your son and daughter were taking drugs just because they saw one of the athletes in the olympics doing it‚ what would you do? I know how I would feel and the answer is not happy at all. I don’t understand why athletes are taking drugs so that they can be able to win. It doesn’t make sense. This is telling us that you need drugs to be able to win in a competition. I find it very sad because there are young kids that look up to those big stars. Yes I know
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starting my research I had hypothesized that athletes were going to be more prone to stress than non athletes since both of the groups are involved in one or more advanced placement classes but on top of that athletes are involved in sports. Based on the data I got back from all of the students in two of the AP Literature and Composition classes‚ it was the opposite. A majority of non athletes students were continuously stressed compared to a majority of athletes who said they were stressed on a weekly
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