College sports plays a pivotal role for universities and the community that surrounds the university. The two major valued sports are football and men’s basketball. These are the sports that generate the most profit for the university. College athletics is a term encompassing the non-professional‚ collegiate and university level competitive sports requiring physical skills and training that prepare athletes for competition performance. Football and men’s basketball teams that have good seasons bring
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should get paid more money than normal jobs. They say that they do more work‚ and that they deserve more money for having jobs that require more training and skills. Although having a professional job should get paid high ‚ normal jobs such as a teacher shouldn’t get paid any less; therefore wages are not fair. First of all‚ some people have very dangerous jobs and don’t get paid enough. For example the military people. The military put their life on the line to protect our country‚ and yet get paid
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In layman terms‚ make money from extraordinary athletes and offer them a free education. Many student athletes have stated that a free education isn’t enough to get by and they need compensation. The NCAA believes a free education is enough for Student athletes. There has been a long disparity among college student athletes‚ claiming they do not have sufficient funds for everyday necessities. The NCAA states that compensation is in place through scholarships‚ but this is not enough and it needs to
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Professional athletes get paid to perform the game they love. The millions they make preforming can lead to millions they make in endorsements. So why can’t college athletes sign an endorsement deal if their not getting paid? This has many positive and negative views on it. I used to argue vehemently against paying college athletes. Tuition‚ room‚ board and books were compensation enough. And even if‚ increasingly‚ it wasn’t enough and virtually every kid who accepted a scholarship was in the red
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average worker (Ferdman). That is more than twice the amount of Switzerland‚ the country with the second largest CEO-to-worker pay gap‚ coming in at 148 to 1 (Ferdman). “What Americans share with the rest of the world is a collective disdain for pay inequality” says Ferdman‚ “People of all ages‚ education levels‚ and income brackets‚ the study found‚ believe that low-skilled workers are getting paid too little and high-skilled workers are getting paid too much” (Ferdman). The CEO of Discovery Communications
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emphasis on sports and entertainment. Irreplaceable In order to be a professional athlete you have to be “the best of the best” (figuratively). To become “the best of the best” requires hours and hours of practice. These athletes are born with amazing athletic abilities and then must develop and fine tune those abilities to become professional; those that make it into a professional sport have been playing since they were children. Their childhood lives were dominated by the sport that they
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Do professional athletes get paid enough? Yes‚ they do‚ and for many different reasons. Athletes have to deal with large commitments‚ the danger of playing sports‚ and common life expenses. Often‚ professional athletes are offered contracts by a certain team or sponsor. Some of these contracts can be for a long period of time too. Next‚ playing sports has a very large risk for injury. These athletes never know when they will have a career ending injury. Lastly‚ athletes still have to pay for common
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Although some may disagree about athletes getting paid more than 10 million dollars they do hard work for that money. I think that they should not be paid almost 10 million dollars because that type of money can go to homeless people and kids they can go to kids to get their diploma to go to college and get a good job. Ten million dollars could go to buildings that are needed. In my opinion is i think it should go homeless people more than anything cause they could have been through a lot. For example
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Do CEOs Get Paid Too Much A CEO’s compensation package affects everyone within a company. Often it can be considered the yardstick by which all other employee benefits and bonuses are measured and negotiated. General Global‚ an eminent electronics and telecommunications company administered one hundred million dollars to it’s CEO‚ Bill Hogson‚ in 2 years’ pay and bonuses. Hogson had only worked for the company for less than a year and throughout that time‚ the company’s performance was poor and
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week to their sport. Athletes devote time and money to become successful‚ additionally‚ athletes raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for the schools that they play for just by getting people to come to their games alone. Athletes receive scholarships to play for schools‚ but these
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