...Analysis, I chose the essay “Do Professional Athletes Get Paid Too Much Money?” by Mihir Baghat. This particular essay is about how athletes make way more money than they deserve and how wrong that is due to the fact that the American society is a place where salaries and wages are based on the value of ones’ work and that a person should be paid according to the economic importance and value to society. By writing “Do Professional Athletes Get Paid Too Much Money?” Baghat is trying to inform the reader about the amount of money professional athletes are making now a day and that they should get paid a lot less. He is doing this by giving examples of jobs that he thinks deserve a lot more money than what professional athletes are getting paid. Teachers are great examples of this. Baghat states that “Teaching is one of the most economically important occupations if you really think about it. Our future economies rely on how well we educate our youth, and yet teachers are paid a mere fraction of what a professional athlete receives” (Baghat). Another example is when Baghat talks about President Obama and how he gets paid a lot less than professional athletes even though the President makes important decisions affecting the entire world. This essay is very one-sided at times but overall it does achieve its goal of convincing the reader that professional athletes get paid too much and that the amounts of money being spent on paying these professionals could be better used to pay the...
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...Today, professional athletes are one of the most overpaid careers in the country. Baseball players make more than a teacher, and football players earn more than a doctor. These everyday jobs teach students and save people’s lives. However, they do not earn as much money as an athlete, who gets paid for playing a game. These professional athletes cause an unbalanced power in society. Today, professional athletes get a high salary for just playing a game. Baseball players in the Major League Baseball earn an average pay of $1.37 million per year. The average salary for a basketball player in the National Basketball Association is $2.2 million every year. However, a teacher only makes $38,000 annually. A doctor, who saves lives everyday, earns about $130,000 a year. These athletes are mainly for entertainment, but earn more than these important careers. Hockey players, in the National Hockey League earn a paycheck of about $892,000 each year. A National Football league player can earn about $795,000 every year. In the United States, a fireman averages about $40,000 annually; this is not even close to the amount a football player makes. Police officers average a paycheck of about $29,000, this seems very small when comparing it to the high paying salary of these professional athletes. Professional athletes earning this much money is negative because they are basically playing a game, which many people play everyday for free, however they get paid thousands and millions...
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...for multiple hours a day, putting in hard work and dedication and not getting paid. This is the life of a college athlete. If going to school isn't already stressful enough, imagine adding practice multiple times a day, working a job (if possible), doing homework, and finding time to relax all into that one 24-hour period. College athletes should get paid because their restricting schedules denies them the opportunity to work. The National Collegiate Athletic Association(NCAA) is a multi-million dollar non-profit association in charge of thousands of athletes. The 460,000 plus athletes compete in 24 sports year-round which are divided into divisions appropriate for the school of their attendance. Of those 460,000 plus athletes, none of them receive any type of payment for their services legally. They can receive things of monetary value illegally, but this would unnecessarily if they got paid for their services. People or even you may wonder why this topic is important. The importance of this topic is that it's been a rising issue for years but there has never been an answer to this issue. Hopefully, I can help with the issue but for now let's discuss why they should get paid. The famous Ball brothers Lonzo (19) and LaMelo (15) were both scouted and drafted from early on in their basketball careers. They...
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...| Debate Paper | Are professional athletes overpaid compared to other leading occupations? | Joe Harris | XBCOM/275 | 5/19/2014 | Introduction A. Are professional athletes overpaid? B. Professional athletes are not overpaid Body A. Comparison of athletes salaries to that of other major professions B. Professional athletes are making too much money (Opposing Argument) C. Reason #1 D. Reason #2 E. Reason #3 Conclusion A. Conclusion B. Restated Argument C. Lead-out Everyone loves to watch sports, well almost everyone. I know that I do, but it seems to me that fans debate on who the best teams and players are, in any of the multiple major sports associations, year in and year out but the one question that has never been answered is, are these athletes being overpaid? Now for the sake of this particular debate I have chosen to compare athletes in all of the major sports compensation to that of someone who is considered to hold a more prestigious role in society. Professional athlete’s compensation does not just stem from the money that they receive via contract from their leagues, but also from the endorsement deals that are signed with other companies. Keeping that in mind, here is a list of the top 5 highest paid professional athletes: 1. Tiger Woods (Golf) with an annual salary of $78.1 million, in which $65 million comes from endorsement deals and $13.1 million from his respective employer the P.G...
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...College Athletes College athletes juggle busy academic in addition to practice schedules throughout their week. Team sports like basketball and football, as well as individual sports, are extremely popular worldwide, especially in the United States. Pro athletes have statuses similar to Hollywood celebrities, and wages that match. However, no matter how well they currently play, all of them once were amateurs. In this perspective, college athletes are not much different from professionals, yet college athletes have never been financially compensated for their efforts in sports. The NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) prohibits college athletes to be monetarily compensated for their effort. College athletes should be fiscally compensated for a number of reasons. Playing a college sport is like a full time job, except for no financial benefits. A typical 1st division college football player trains approximately 43 hours per week. To put that into perspective, a typical American works 40 hours per week. In addition to the 40+ hours per week of training, college athletes also need to dedicate time to studying. With an intense schedule like this, college athletes are left with no time to make a living. Additionally, NCAA tournament rules often require college athletes to skip classes in favor of nationally televised games that bring in revenue, going to the NCAA, not the athlete who is possibly sacrificing their grades. Based on this alone, college athletes should...
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...sports has been whether or not student athletes should get a share of the revenue they generate for the university in which they are attending and participating in college athletics. If college student athletes were to begin receiving compensation, it would cause universities to prioritize the more market-value sports over the non-revenue-generating sports, cause disputes due to unfairness of the more profitable programs being able to recruit the best athletes, and propose many...
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...Should student athletes get paid? COMM/215 The question of should student athletes get paid is an argument that is growing in debate in recent years. Mostly pertaining to college Football and Basketball. Especially when the revenue generated from these sports rival those of its professional counterparts. Some would argue that receiving a full athletic scholarship is payment enough. Or, student athletes are no different from any college student working their way through college. However, these student athletes are not guaranteed full scholarships and deal mostly the same pressures of athletes that make their living playing these sports. For example, a four-year scholarship is not available for student athletes, students receive one year renewable contracts which are at the discretion of the coach. “The current one-year deals are, believe it or not, renewable at the discretion of coaches, who can effectively cut injured or underperforming “student athletes,” as the N.C.A.A. likes to call them” (Nocera, 2011). Student athletes can be cut for anything from performance on the field to behavioral conduct, or poor grades. These athletes are not afforded special privileges however, unlike their working student counterparts, they make their school millions of dollars in revenue each year. “College football and men’s basketball have become such huge commercial enterprises that together they generate more than $6...
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...1. Title of Speech: “Athletes Salaries’. Are They Justified?” 2. Speaker Role/Audience: Student/An Athletic Board 3. Specific Purpose of Speech: To convince my audience that athletes’ salaries are not justified. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I. Brief Introduction and History of Topic: $90 million, $80 million. That adds up to a lot of money. Imagine how many mouths you could feed or how many kids could go to college with that money. Unfortunately, $90 million is the contract Nike gave Lebron James before he even touched an NBA basketball. $80 million was his contract extension in 2006 (USA Today). During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the biggest news in pro sports was Babe Ruth's contract, which paid him $75,000 per year, more than the President of the United States. (Show me the money!) According to the Seattle Times, when confronted about making more than the president, Ruth famously replied “Why Not? I had a better year than him.” Now even the lowest paid pro athletes earn almost as much as the President, who makes $400,000 a year. Later, in 1964, the Saint Louis Cardinals and the New York Jets got in a bidding war over Alabama quarterback, Joe Namath. The Jets came out on top, showing Namath a pretty decent deal. According to Harvey Frommer, sports author, Namath was “signed to a four-year contract at $25,000 per season, plus a $200,000 bonus. Scouting jobs...
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...Ethics and sports go hand in hand at any level of competition in and of the court. From the time when sports were created many years ago, diverse cultures have recognized the importance of fair competition, well-being of the athletes, and the respect for the game. Sports have evolved and their role in society seems to be more important every day since the media now continuously informs and criticize all type of competition. Furthermore, in today’s society sports impact kids, shape young adults, and motivate grownups to be better and stay healthy. Subsequently, the way athletes act and interact is an important part in the playing of sports because it is these actions what determine the fairness and fellowship of the game. This actions and interactions...
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...December 2014 Should College Athletes Be Paid? College sports is one of America’s biggest industries. It is an industry that brings in almost 4 billion dollars every year to the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association). The NCAA is not the only one profiting from this large industry. TV networks like ESPN and CBS, retailers, and of course universities make millions each year because of the work of college athletes. It seems that everyone is profiting off the college sports industry except for the ones who are actually performing. College athletes are not being compensated for their hard work and diligence in this highly profitable market industry. While some college athletes get scholarships, which are renewed each year depending on the athlete’s performance and usefulness to the team, that is still not enough to meet the needs of the athletes. Also these college athletes cannot profit off their marketability and their name. College athletes are not allowed to receive anything of monetary value in exchanged for autographs or memorabilia. Every year, thousands of student athletes across America sign the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Form 08-3a, the “Student-Athlete” form, waiving their right to receive payment for the use of their name and image (Infante et al). However, retailers and college universities make millions off these athletes with university apparel with the athlete’s number on the merchandise. College athletes also bring a lot of interest...
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...The Money or The Passion: Is Money in Professional Sport Ruining the Ethos of the Game? Ross Schreuder Supervisor: Mr. Werth English Teacher: Mrs. Schroeder Table of Contents 1. Introduction 3 2. History and Evolution of Sport 3 3. What is the Ethos of Sport? 4 4. Positive and Negative Influences of Money in Sport and an Evaluation of their Impact on its Ethos 5 4.1 Doping: 5 4.2 Throwing Matches/ Match Fixing: 6 4.3 Other Factors Contributing to Unethical Behaviour in Sport 7 4.4 Sportsmanship vs. Gamesmanship 8 4.5 The Money in Barclays Premier League 9 4.5.1 Stadium naming rights 10 4.5.2 Transfers and Individual Sponsorships 10 4.6 Philanthropy 11 5. Conclusion 11 Bibliography 12 1. Introduction Money is, undoubtedly, evident in every aspect of professional sport. Player sponsorships and contracts, team ownership, stadia, media - its everywhere. If sport was not about the game, then arguably, sport would be about the money. Each and every week, transfers of players are made, ticket offices receive income, and money is handed from one profiteering person to the next. Where sport is widely thought to be about fair play, professional sport is, in fact, like war. There can only be one winner and what one team or individual gains, the other loses. Many sportsmen and women around the world are caught up with winning, not just because of the prowess of a title but, also because professionalism is now about money and...
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...Colorado Seminary (University of Denver) v. National Collegiate Athletic Association This action was brought by the University of Denver (“DU”) and several of its student-athletes to enjoin the National Collegiate Athletic Association (“NCAA”) from imposing sanctions against DU and declaring several of its hockey players ineligible. Colorado Seminary (Univ. of Denver) v. Nat’l Collegiate Athletic Ass’n, 570 F.2d 320, 321 (10th Cir. 1978), aff’d, Colorado Seminary (Univ. of Denver) v. Nat’l Collegiate Athletic Ass’n, 417 F.Supp. 885 (D.Co. 1976). Because DU refused to enforce the ineligibility of several of its hockey players despite the NCAA’s declaration of such, the DU hockey team was put on a two-year probation period, all DU athletic teams were unable to participate in post-season NCAA events and have its regular season games be televised, and the University was forced to forfeit its 1973 national title. 570 F.2d at 321. Plaintiffs claimed that the NCAA violated their due process and equal protection rights through its ineligibility declaration, however the trial court disagreed, denying Plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment in favor of Defendant’s, albeit with some conditions. 417 F.Supp. at 893, 900. Plaintiffs appealed the denial, but the 10th Circuit affirmed the trial court’s decision and ultimately held that: the “students’ interest in participating in intercollegiate athletics did not rise to level of the constitutionally-protected property or liberty interest...
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...person to explore a career that they are interested in by spending time with a professional working in that field. It provided me more insight rather than just reading a job description or even asking an employee to describe what they do. While job shadowing, I was able to ask questions and experience the trials, triumphs, and normal day-to-day activities that Marc Pronto, Candice Jackson, and Amanda Taylor might experience while working in their jobs. I was able to experience how the professional approaches the job, the necessary social cooperation, standard operating procedures, and the tools that I need in order to perform the job successfully. Normally, job shadowing usually lasts only a day, but in...
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...Some argue that the scholarships that athletes receive are generous compensation, but as percentage of total revenue their value is paltry. In the ACC and the Pac-12 conferences, total reported scholarship costs averaged only 5.6 percent and 7.3 percent of the school’s football and basketball revenues. In “Indentured: The Inside Story of the Rebellion Against the NCAA” Joe Nocera and Ben Strauss quote a wide range of economists and attorneys who agree that the NCAA functions as an economic cartel by colluding to artificially suppress wages for workers. In 2014, football players at Northwestern University organized a strike to illuminate the fact that they regularly worked more than 50 hours per week for their school’s athletic department....
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...Athletes as Role Models Learning Team A SOC/105 August 26, 2013 Michelle Gardner Athletes as Role Models The effect of professional athletes has always played a big role in society. Talented, young, charming, women and men smashing world records on the field or court seem to be natural role models for our youth. These athletes and their behaviors and actions are so closely observed and mimicked by the youth it makes you ask the question should they really be considered role models? Athletes throughout history have always been considered role models for young children with a gift for sports. There have been many misdeeds that have occurred that makes us question whether athletes deserve to be considered role models. Conversely, athletes make good role models for several reasons such as promoting physical fitness, educational success, self-confidence, and a strong work ethic. The role of being an athlete is a good goal to reach in itself especially with the obesity epidemic that we are currently having in America. Athletes must have a strong work ethic and devote a large portion of their personal time to training in order to become a professional. Athletes also need to display a high degree of self confidence in order to be successful. With the exception of a very small few most athletes do go to college, and are expected to be successful, which promotes children to seek further education (Williams, 2011 ). A current...
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