...In America, sport is not only a physical activity, which is used for competition or games but it is also one of the main missions in schools of the US. However, there is a post named "The Case Against High-School Sports" written by Amanda Ripley, which are on a website named The Atlantic. In this post, the main idea of the author is that sports are taking too many times and money in schools and that makes some negative impacts on students, schools, and society. In this post, she claims that she can see the benefits of high-school sports and these sports are becoming likely more important than other academics in schools. However, she has wondered about a trend that participating high-school sports too much could lead to some problems. Although high-school sports are beneficial, students...
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...10 March 2014 Amateurs or Professionals? Big-money college sports takes your breath away. College football and men’s basketball have become such huge commercial enterprises that together they generate more than $6 billion in annual revenue, more than the National Basketball Association. A top college coach can make as much or more than a professional coach. Powerful conferences like the S.E.C. and the Pac 12 have signed lucrative TV deals, while the Big 10 and the University of Texas have created their own sports networks. Last year, Turner Broadcasting and CBS signed a 14-year, $10.8 billion deal for the television rights to the NCAA’s men’s basketball national championship tournament (a.k.a “March Madness”). And what does the labor force that makes it possible for coaches to earn millions, and causes marketers to spend billions, get? Nothing. The workers are supposed to be content with a scholarship that does not even cover the full cost of attending college. Any student athlete who accepts an unapproved, free hamburger from a coach, or even a fan, is in violation of NCAA rules. Nevertheless, the NCAA prohibits any form of payments, beyond scholarships, to any athlete who is responsible for producing the revenue. The NCAA also restricts the ability for any college athlete to earn income from an outside source. In a study sponsored by the NCAA, they discovered that college players have less money than non-athletic students, and almost fifty-eight percent are not even provided...
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...Play? Collegiate Sports have always been popular in society. Many people would argue that the things the collegiate athletes do is worthy of being paid to play their respective sports. Collegiate athletes should receive a minimum salary yearly for the hours of training, and how much they bring in revenue for their colleges and universities. Professional athletes today make an outstanding amount of money for running around, jumping, tackling, and knocking people out. The “minimum wage” for a professional athlete would be around one hundred thousand dollars per year, which in many cases is a healthy amount compared to other working citizens. Do these athletes receive too much money for what they do? Are they worth the millions of dollars they make for playing sports? There are many different arguments for these questions, but one question that should be asked is, how many of these professional athletes skipped out on going to college for a few years to better their education, just to make the big bucks? Some would say they can go back to school if they choose to leave early or in the early 2000s not attend college at all, and go straight to the professional leagues, but if given the opportunity to make millions of dollars and have all the luxuries they can get their hands on, what is the point of wasting time that they can be partying and having a marvelous life, and decide to take college class instead? Is there a way to entice the youth that going to college instead of going...
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...Should College Athletes be paid? What really is the true definition of an amateur? The true definition is a person who engages in a pursuit, especially a sport, on an unpaid basis. If this is the true definition then why are the schools paying their athletes to come and help bring the attention there school. I believe if this is going to happen, they need to do it equally and give the athletes what they are deserving of. Many athletes are giving their health and stability to help make their colleges revenue. I believe the only thing that is standing against this becoming the future instead of just an idea is the men at the corrupted NCAA (National College Athletic Association). I think the NCAA and the athletic boards throughout the United States are corrupt and are money hungry. However, not every collegiate sports bring in the revenue such as football and basketball do for their universities. So if college athletes were ever to be paid it would be because of these sports. Mostly, as the U.S. News reports that the NCAA brings in more than 1 billion dollars from the NCAA Men’s and Women’s basketball tournaments (U.S. News), where does the money go for the athletes who bring them such wealth? It ends up into to the hands of the men and women that have enough money than they can handle. Which is not setting good examples for their athletes that they are in charge of. If they NCAA truly wants the amateurism to stick throughout time and not have to pay their athletes,...
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...College sports have always been enjoyable and entertaining to watch. March Madness and the College Football Playoffs are some of the most exciting sports events to view. The Super Bowl and NBA playoffs may be exciting too, but the key difference between professional athletes and collegiate athletes is that college athletes do not get paid. Many professional athletes play for money, so the passion may not be there. College athletes on the other hand, play for pride, their school, and for their team. The passion is obviously there, so it makes the game more intense, more energetic, and more intense. In recent years, a conflict has occurred as in deciding if college athletes should receive a salary or not. College athletes should not get paid...
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...it’s right to have men coaching women’s sports while there are no women coaching male sports such as football. Another issue may be whether or not men are really better coaches then women and what the reason for that would be. The third issue that results because of gender inequalities seen in coaching such as how far is too far for male coaches coaching females in sports. The first thing I would like to talk about is whether it is right for men to coach women’s teams even if there are no women coaching male teams. In my opinion there is nothing wrong with this and I feel like the statistics back this up. To my knowledge there has never been a female athlete at a big time college that has complained that she wants a female coach. And to back this up, Geno Auriemma is one of the greatest coaches in women’s college basketball ever and he continues to get great recruits because girls want to play for him. However if females where to coach a men’s basketball team I doubt there would be many guys at UF that would be happy if some women came in and took Billy Donovan’s place because quite honestly it would be tough for her to do a good job simply because it’s a tougher much faster game then women’s basketball and its a lot easier to coach when you know how to play it. The second reason I think that this is ok is because generally men are better coaches then women and the bottom line is that professional and college sports teams make money if they win so you want to find coaches...
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...5.3 million dollars in a few months once the season begins. Imagine at the end of this semester leaving the school you are at and becoming pro. . It just felt like a little scrape There are really only three sports that make up this discussion basketball, football, and baseball. Next, I will tell you about how going pro affects the athletes of the following sports. ≈≈≈≈≈ First, I am going to tell you how the rule the NCAA has placed are affecting athletes in basketball. When should young college athletes be able to make the decision to go pro? This is a topic for discussion no matter what sport you are playing, and they are all very much different too. The NBA changed its rule in 2005. The NBA made an agreement in 2005 about young basketball players going pro. Going pro 2 “Article X of the NBA's 2005 Collective Bargaining Agreement, a provision that required all potential NBA draftees to be at least 19 years old and one year removed from their high school graduation.” (Hughes, Grant) Why put an age restriction on high school basketball players?...
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...country, for what? They do all of the theatrics to support their schools in the sport of football. College football is unique in many ways, but what baffles many people is how the universities and colleges, along with their athletic program can make so much money from the game itself, which by the way include student-athletes. As the crowds of people I described earlier come into these stadiums and spend money to watch their school play, despite who is on the roster (meaning people trend to support schools not players), the athletes are not allowed to profit from their talents. After many years of debate there has now been enough case-law, scandals, and law-suits (that usually started from a scandal) too have a reasonable fight on why student-athletes among all divisions should receive percentages of in season earnings of all athletic events. As an avoid video game freak, it became rather easy for me to research in examples of how the money may be falling the wrong direction all over the NCAA. Focusing in in EA sports and their version of college football in the virtual in the series, NCAA FOOTBALL (YEAR).In, Gettin' Played: How the Video Game Industry Violates College Athletes' Rights of Publicity by Not Paying for Their Likenesses, author Matzkin, prevents case law and examples of how the names of players publish and profit for EA Sports and institutions. Although gaming is one of the leading factors in how student-athletes are being used for money, there are many examples...
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...dollars a day, equaling out to be 160.97 dollars a second. Even more unbelievable are Mike Tyson's earnings in his match with Peter McNeeley. In a single second, he made 281,000 dollars ("Professional AthletesÉ"). Do these athletes really deserve all that money? "Professional athletes are making too much money in a society where salaries and wages are traditionally based on the value of ones work" ("Professional AthletesÉ"). In today's society, one will be paid more if their job is more economically important. However, teaching is one of the most economically important occupations because our future economy relies on the education of its youth, yet teachers are paid much less than the average professional athlete. The U.S President makes decisions that affect our economy and yet he only makes 250,000 dollars a year (Turner). Professional athletes do not play near as vital role in the economy as the president, but their salaries reflect otherwise. These games are supposed to be played for fun, not for millions of dollars. Opponents of this view say payment is being received for a service, therefore professional sports are a business. Many people believe athletes are being paid for little work, but in fact they work harder than any one else. Not only do they work during their particular season; they also work in the off season. Most professional athletes train on their own striving to become better. They also attend miniature camps and their seasonal training...
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...The NBA is currently in the midst of a work stoppage that is threatening the entire 2011-2012 NBA season. This work stoppage has been all over the news in the sports world and has focused criticism on both the players and owners. The owners are seen as being greedy and playing the role of billionaires simply trying to maximize their profit, and the players are seen as being millionaires who are equally greedy and only care about making money. The news and players will have you believe that it is an equal battle, where it is just a matter of the sides meeting in the middle. The truth is that the owners will not meet in the middle because they feel they have the upper hand. These men have in the hundreds of millions of dollars, and are proven business men. The truth is that the majority of the players do not have college degrees, and the owners do not feel they have to bend to them. The only way to fix this is by improving the player’s education. An extra year of college will give players a greater foundation for their education, and make it easier to pursue degrees part time. The NBA should increase its draft age requirement to two years of college education in an effort to improve both on and off court skills for incoming players. Before the 2006 rule change, that stated players must be one year out of high school before being eligible for the draft, the NBA’s biggest stars were coming straight from high school. Kobe Bryant, Kevin Garnett, LeBron James, and many more of the NBAs...
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...Donovan Rasberry Shame of College Sports Term Paper Organization _ Administration Mr. Bear April 12, 2012 Should College Athletes Be Paid? “…Three-quarters of a billion dollars built on the backs of amateurs on unpaid labor” (Branch). In recent years, there has been much controversy over whether or not college athletes should be paid. The argument has primarily consisted of whether or not college athletes deserve special monetary treatment over the other students at universities. “College Football Players Deserve Pay for Play” by Rod Gilmore, “Why Student-Athletes Should Not Be Paid” by Kabir Sawhney, and “The Shame of College Sports” by Taylor Branch all voice their opinions on this argument. I believe college athletes should have their full tuition, meals, room and board paid for; but I do not think the school should necessarily be responsible for paying the athletes especially since so many are not responsible with their money. Basically, I believe that the school should not be responsible for giving these student athletes money. In many cases, these athletes walk around campus with rock star status anyway. If they were paid it would further that perception that they were something other than simply a student athlete. If they were to be paid, many of the athletes would simply waste that money on their wants, and not save it for their necessities. The debate must take into account the benefits that colleges and the NCAA reap from these athletes, and in turn what...
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...Should college athletes get paid? Does it teach kids that they do not have to have a job to make money, and that they can just do whatever they like because they know they are too good and will not be let off? I find this topic interesting because I want to play a sport in college. I know that a full ride scholarship would pay for the athlete’s college tuition, food, housing, and their books. I also know that multiple hours are spent by the athlete practicing throughout the day and year. Athletes are expected by their coaches to practice before the season starts and after the season so that they can be the best that they can be for the team. With that being said, how do athletes manage their time with practice, school, and a social life? My intended audience is for anyone who is interested in sports or the benefits college athletes receive from a scholarship. Any athletes might find it interesting what the process is to get a scholarship, whether it is high school students or college. More specifically this would be beneficial to any high school student or parent who would like to know about college athletic scholarships. Compensation of College Athletes There has been an ongoing debate continuing since the early nineteen hundreds on whether college athletes should get paid. This argument comes from the coaches, the athlete’s parents, and the athletes themselves arguing that universities make money off of the players and the players, in turn, do not receive any money from...
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... Top college football programs make hundreds of millions of dollars in revenues each year, all without having to pay the people who actually play the game. Is it ethical for colleges to not pay their football stars for playing their hearts out on the field, building popular branding images for themselves and their school, and for the collective big-money earnings and prestige that often comes to their schools? Or is indirect payment to these players in the form of a free undergraduate education and college degree through an athletic scholarship sufficient enough? In the 2012 NFL season, 1,947 players played in at least one game. Of those, 62% attended college at one of the five “power conferences” in the U.S., and only one of those players did not attend college at all.[i] Donald Remy, the NCAA chief legal officer has said, “The NCAA’s rules do not force athletes who wish to be professionals to enroll in school,”[ii] yet premier NCAA schools clearly offer the best path to fulfilling these hopeful football players’ dreams. Nevertheless, despite the more opportunistic path of attending a Division I school, a NFL team ultimately drafts only 1.6% of NCAA senior football players.[iii] Meanwhile, the top schools themselves often profit nicely from their players through ticket sales, alumni donations, media rights, and branding, all while paying large salaries to coaches and building state-of-the-art athletic facilities. The top ten NCAA schools with college football...
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...Are Professional Athletes Paid Too Much? Today’s top professional athletes often have salaries and bonuses in the tens of millions of dollars. Athletes do not deserve such high compensation. There are various social, economical, emotional, and psychological reasons why professional athletes should not be paid as much. Jane Hanigan, who has taught in the Council Bluffs Community School District for nearly 20 years, expresses concern about the excessively high rate of compensation professional athletes earn. Hanigan states, "Over the years, I have known a great number of my students who were lured by the image of what being a professional athlete might offer them. Regrettably, the reality for these students often falls vastly short. It is...
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...is the time of year hundreds of college basketball players take to the floor in hopes of winning a national championship. Millions of fans invest time, money and energy cheering for their favorite teams. Billions of dollars are made by the television and advertising industries, the food and beverage industries and the College and University “industry”. We watch these young men and women play their hearts out never once considering they have classes to study for or calculating the amount of money they make generate. Today’s college athletes or “student-athletes”, as the National Collegiate Athletic Association calls them, are a part of a long time controversy. While they receive scholarships and are allowed to go to college for free, they also have to “work” in practice and games. They are no different than other college students in that they also have to pay for other necessities. Even if a fan wants to help them out in any way like buy them a meal they can’t because it’s a NCAA violation. This is a hot topic especially during the NCAA tournament. Even the popular IPhone application, Instagram has recently put this hot topic on display. This past week, University of Louisville women’s basketball player, Bria Smith posted a picture of an article about this debate. Her teammate, Monique Reid commented on the photo saying, “Pay us!!” Ohio State University women’s basketball player Raven Ferguson also commented saying the same thing. College athletes should be paid because they...
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