...Are Professional Athletes Overpaid? Have you ever considered how much money does an average person need to be able to have food three times a day, have a house, be able to send their children to school to get an education and even have a car? Realistically, all of this plus a little more can be done with an income of between $45,000 and $55,000 easily. For some reason, it was decided by us, people who labor is harder than the most, like janitors, factory workers, and even factory workers, should be paid less than someone that sits on a desk all day or someone that gets paid to play a game for living. Athletes today are the highest paid people in the world, with the exclusion of Donald Trump and Bill Gates. If you think about it, it is absurd to believe that someone is really worth millions of dollars and all they do is play a sport. Millions of people would do this for free if they had the chance. For that reason, I believe professional athletes are overpaid for many reasons. In USA Today Magazine, under section Your Life it says, “Although many professional athletes apparently still feel underpaid, just two percent of the public agrees, according to a survey conducted by Roper Starch Worldwide. In fact, the vast majority of Americans think athletes are overpaid.”(USA Today) This is ridiculous to hear for these athletes already making millions of dollars which is way more than they deserve. Also, in this article it states that professional athletes get paid what...
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...exploited and why reforms are needed in college athletics. Which explores the effect of money on college sports programs and the way in which college sports programs can distract everyone from academics. It will discuss some of the methods the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) has employed in an attempt to cure this exploitation. This will fairly compensate student-athletes for their work while preserving the amateur nature of college athletics. It will show 3 reason why it is most disappointing, and about how college sports operate. One thing that disappointing about college sport is that they don’t get pay for playing their sport. Dan Zirin believe that colleges needs to start giving back to the athletes who make the money for the colleges. The athletes are the one who bring in the huge profits to their schools but they don’t receive nothing in return. I think the athletes that play the sport should get a little of money because there working hard for their team to won and bringing money to the schools. Even though they have media attention and promotional commercials many people don’t know that they player aren’t getting pay at all. The president of NCAA Mark Emmert said that he expect college athletes to play as part of their educational experience and for their sport, not to be paid a salary. Even if they get pay they wouldn’t know how it will works. Like would people get pay less if there playing the profitable sport, or will women get paid less than men...
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...Soccer Players Wages Soccer is the most popular sport in the world with billions of people in all countries following their team. But despite soccer’s popularity, it does not seen right that soccer players should get paid the amounts they do when their job is not as worthwhile and life threatening as other jobs like soldiers and doctors. Currently the top ten players in the world earn between $15million to $50million a year, compare this with normal jobs where people earn $32,000 a year. The highest earning player is David Beckham who earns approximately $966,000 per week, working out to be $50 million per year (Kaitlin Madden).The only way to control the salaries of soccer players is for the soccer bodies such as UEFA and FIFA to put a cap on the amount of money a team is allowed to spend on player wages. No countries currently have a cap although Italian soccer teams had looked into it a few years ago but never went through with it. A cap system would not only lower wages but would ensure fairness between all the teams in a league. It is hard to justify these soccer players getting paid so much when they no longer seem to have any passion for the game. When players are representing their country playing for the national team many no longer sing the national anthem when it is being played before the game unlike the rugby players who sing there national anthem with such pride. It seems that soccer players are now only in it for the money and they don’t even care about winning...
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...CONTENTS KEY FINDING 1: WHY SOCCER PLAYER WAGES CAN INCREASE KEY FINDING 2: COMPARISON BETWEEN HOURS OF WORK WITH DOCTOR AND SOCCER PLAYERS KEY FINDING 3: STATISTICS OF PROFESSIONAL SOCCER PLAYERS EARNING IMMESE AMOUTN OF MONEY CONCLUSION Introduction: The purpose of my research project is to answer the question ‘To what extent does the average soccer player deserve to get paid a high salary compared to other careers with emphasis on doctors?’ In order to answer this question thoroughly I have approached it by gathering sources from different ways eg survey, websites and interactions with professional coaches and a doctor. This report here will outline the key findings that should be be taken into account and...
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...Letting kids play in a professional league a year removed from having to ask to use the restroom sounds a little ridiculous. The NBA has set an age restriction to enter the league at 19 years old in 2006(Rossen, Jordan Michael. "NBA's Age Minimum and Its Effect on High School Phenoms, The." Va. Sports & Ent. LJ 8 (2008). Although there was no former restriction, this approach in drafting players still appeares to be too young. Former players have said the quality of play in the NBA has taken a toll as more college freshman elect to forgo the rest of their college careers and enter the NBA draft. Not only has the quality of play suffered in the NBA but in the NCAA as well as more of heavily scouted players head towards the draft. There has also been problems with players getting released from the NBA that have not acquired their bachelor's degree. However there could be a problem with high school phenoms not choosing to go to college at all but play overseas. This is why The NBA and its potential employess would benefit from restricting domestic players from entering before the age of 21. The NBA is a professional league making roughly $5 billion dollars and is comprised of the top basketball players in the world(Mitchell, VyShaey. "Will NBA Players go to...
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...Fundamentals of Speech The NCAA Brothel The NCAA Brothel For many years, the NCAA college athlete organization has been a huge success with fans all over America. Millions of people attend big tournaments and exhibition games on the regular basis. Sports are no longer fun and games; it’s a business. Universities make an ample amount of money due to the praise college sports receive. Yes, some players on the team do go to school with a free scholarship, but is that it? People would be truly grateful to obtain a scholarship for an expensive university, but the situation that college athletes are in has to be examined closely. You can even compare the college athletes to your local prostitute. They are using their bodies for the income growth of huge universities, which will be the pimp. The school receives money from ticket sales, television contracts, sport-related merchandise, and many other sport-related revenue builders. The income that the universities obtain compared to what the athletes earn is nothing, a ratio of 1:0. Student athletes should be paid because they risk their health, it’s not fair financially, and it leads to students doing illegal acts. During the act of playing a competitive and physical sport, there are health risks that each player takes. Basketball players become injured all the time during playing their sport. Whether it’s an ACL tear, meniscus tear, broken ankle, there are all critical injuries that may jeopardize one’s career or pockets. The...
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...our business plan about the film ALL FOR ONE, that’s why we come here. C Glade to see u A. Glade to see u too, C we have read your project and we’re interested in it, it’s our pleasure to have you here for some further information. A Thanks for your interests. Let’s get down to business. First of all, we’d like to give a more complete introduction about our film. B All for one is the story ………..page 30 C comments A Just as shown in the b plan, our film lasts 110 mins, there wil be a four month shooting schedule and sex weeks of editing, All we need is about 1 millions euros conclude actors’ salary, marketing cost and others, there will be about 30 million euros in return in 3 years. C good budget. If we invest 1m, how long can return? B if everything goes well, within 5 years we can repay 100% your investment. Then you can share 40% of the net profits of the film C no, 120% 60% A too high 100% 60% but pay in full at the pre-production stage C deal. Title friends forever B no all for one is perfect. Everyone I have asked loves it. C ok, what about change the location for the scenario in Berlin . less well known and more interesting and mysterious B no Paris is where we study and live, all the story is based on Paris. But I agree with your opinion about Berlin, we may take some shoots over there. C ok, by the way the story is very good, I love it and I’m happy for QI to be the director, do you have some ideas about music A yes Myriam ever...
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...The answer can go both ways. There are some people that view them as role models and some that do not. I personally think that it’s the parent or guardian place to be role models for today’s children. Kids this day in age have so much access to so many different things such as the internet and there is hardly anything that you can’t find on television now. There isn’t anything wrong with kids admiring athletes and wanting to be like them. But how often does that child actually see that athlete or famous person that they are admiring, it is very rare. There are a lot of times where those athletes or professionals did not have role models themselves and that is why you see them become famous they do not know how to handle them fame and glory that comes with it. As parents we should do things that help our children grow as a person and be responsible. To take a quote from Charles Barkley, he said (and this is not a direct quote) I am not a role model. I am not paid to be a role model. Parents should be role models. Just because I can dunk a basketball does not mean I should raise your kid. Read more: http://www.city-data.com/forum/sports/738186-should-parents-role-models-athletes.html#ixzz0gCGHSlUw Rather they like it or not athletes are role models especially if they have children of their own. You have athletes that are using performance enhancing drugs or illegal drugs, and how do they explain that to their children when they are caught or found out. It seems now that most...
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...influences it in a way to help the athletes. Then we will focus on how the salaries affect the players themselves. We take a look at today’s professional athlete and wonder what it be like to live like that. Even though the professional athlete is few in numbers, the popularity of such sports industries as the NFL, NBA, MLB and etc. are well documented by the lucrative pay days. The major sports industry is at least a 100 billion dollar business and growing. The athlete’s income only consist of a small percent of this amount, which leaves the majority to the industry itself. Though we must take into account the exploits of the professional athlete. The perception of today’s athlete has drastically changed from that of the last decade, and even as early as the 80’s. One of the major changes would be the drastic increase in the salaries paid to professional athletes. The high salaries have robbed what most would say the passion for the game that the athletes of early age played before the luxury contracts of today. Has the professional athlete luxury payday affected their love for the game? To truly know and understand this question, which is debatable, we must factor in elements to support this notion. First, we take a look at the different salaries in the respective professions. Then we will examine the effects of the professional athlete in regards to the college athletics. Last, we...
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...Analysis of Commercial Slogans A long run on a rainy day, lifting an extra fifty pounds, spending the extra hour at the batting cages; whatever lights that fire in all of us motivates us to get up and work can be triggered by the phrase “Just Do It.” “There Is No Finish Line” keeps you motivated for even better success. Just because you do it doesn’t mean you have to stop once you meet your goals. These phrases can also be recognized as campaign slogans for the Nike Company. These campaign slogans have proven to be effective at selling the product and picking up strong support along the way. Nike products are seen everywhere whether it be the actual product or an advertisement which means Nike is doing something right. Nike as a company is able to hold a strong ethos and a popular warrant in advertising their products. The Nike slogans appeal to a wide audience variety, and Nike’s appeal to one’s emotions through pathos may be the strongest aspect. The Nike Company has proven themselves well over the years with supporters such as Michael Jordan, LeBron James, and Kobe Bryant. All three of those names are applied to highly paid NBA basketball stars that everyone has at least heard of. Having supporters such as famous athletes gives Nike a strong ethos in their campaign because if the highest paid athletes are using Nike products, then the logical thinking is that Nike must be the best. For example, in a television commercial that aired in 2007, Nike gathered a variety of athletes...
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...immensely happier if one thing did not exist in their life: stress. What is the one thing that Americans’ have in common that causes them the most stress? It’s something that takes up a majority of peoples’ time and puts food on the table. That one thing is work. Work is a large part of why people in the United States and all across the world want to pull out their hair and call it quits. An enormous aspect of why work might be stressful is caused by the actual work environment. You can tell the difference between stress levels when walking into a newspaper HQ and walking into a jewelry store. An article called “Toward Human Sustainability: How to Enable More Thriving at Work” talks about how to create a less stressful work environment. The article gives managers and companies detailed instructions on how to lower stress and what its positive outputs in the workspace are. An issue that works against lowering stress in the workplace is the fact that Americans just are not taking days off from work anymore. A website by the name of “Project: Time Off” creates blog posts and detailed analyses on what exactly happens when Americans do not take time off. One of these analyses include “Overwhelmed America: Why Don’t We Use Our Earned Leave?” This analysis includes abundant data and explanations on how the relationship between worker and company are when relating to days off. Creating a leisurely and stress-free work environment should be the end goal of all future managers. Many college students...
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...Joel Carey Persuasive Speech Outline Speech 100 Spring 2007 I. Attention Step: Welcome and thank you for coming. So, how many millionaires do we have in the audience tonight? Well, did you know that according to USA Today the average player salary in the National Basketball Association today is $3.7 million dollars per year? Average! The rookie minimum is over $300,000 and Kevin Garnett the NBA’s highest paid player earned $28 million this season. According to Forbes the average value of a franchise in the National Basketball Association is currently around $240 million, a private business group from Oklahoma recently paid $350 million for our Seattle Supersonics franchise. Thesis: Please keep these figures in mind this evening as I discuss with you why our tax dollars should not go towards funding a new arena for the Seattle Supersonics basketball franchise. Preview: This topic should be of concern to all of you and tonight I will explain why through documented statistical evidence. My research will show why it is unreasonable for a professional sports franchise to ask the taxpayers to pay for their playground through our hard earned tax dollars. II. Need: A. Proponents of sports facilities have tried to justify public spending on these projects with the claim that they enhance redevelopment in urban areas, however very little research exists that actually supports these claims. B. Indiana State Professor Thomas Sawyer reports in his article...
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...TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction …………………………………………………......... 03 II. Theory...............………………………………………………....... 03 1. Definition..........................…………………………………..... 03 2. The Aims of SHRM……...………………………………….... 03 3. Managing Employment Relationship...……………………..... 04 4. Recruitment and Selection…………………………………..... 05 III. Case study: Apple Inc..................................................................... 06 1. Apple Inc Information............................................................... 06 2. Apple Inc Human Resource Management................................. 06 3. Apple Inc Managing Employment Relationships...................... 08 4. Apple Inc Recruitment and Selection........................................ 10 IV. Hanoitourist Travel Company: SHRM…………………………... 12 IV. Conclusion……………………………………………………….. 13 IV. References...................................................................................... 14 There are many factors to create the success of companies and strategic human resource management is one of the most important one to make their companies stronger and more developed. First of all, human resource like workforce or employees is defined as the labor pool in employment; however it describes better about the role, skills, competencies and potential of employees. From the definition of Human resource, the term of human resource management is known as the way employees are recruited, organized...
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...The success for athletes is based on the number of fans and sponsors a player has. Sports organizations rely on the records of the teams and not the player that work to death to make those wins.The athletes of a team don’t get paid enough from their team's commissioners so for their money they rely on their sponsors.To make sports famous the sports organization relies on sponsors and fan bases.The fan bases and sponsors invest in the sports organization instead of the teams. Players in the sports organization only get paid ten percent of their paychecks from their sponsors.Players with a less salary cap get paid more after taxes than the players with a more greater salary cap.Players have to pay two different tax payments a year, one of them is regular tax and a thing they like to call jock taxes.Players who protest the national anthem will lose sponsors which means they lose money but most of them protest for publicity.The overrated players such as Stephen Curry or Lebron James get paid less than the underrated players after taxes such as D'Angelo Russell and Chris Paul. Some of the players that are doing...
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...Most people are familiar with the Nike logo. Most people also know that Nike is a multi-million dollar company that sells name brand shoes worldwide. Millions of pairs of Nike shoes are sold daily, but what people don’t know about Nike shoes is how and where they are made, who makes them, and how Nike spends its money in this process. According to the “Sweatshop Fact Sheet,” Tiger Woods is paid over fifty five thousand dollars a day to be their spokesman. Another famous person that is a spokesman for Nike is Michael Jordan. According to the article “Running Away With the Profits,” (Environmental Action, Academic Search Elite), Michael Jordan is paid twenty million dollars in endorsement fees. Big name sport teams advertise Nike to appeal to the common person. Indonesia is one of many countries around the world that is home to numerous Nike factories. Indonesia is a third world country of 214 million people. The main part of the economy is farmers, with half of these being the labor force. This happens to be an ideal country of choice for Nike to set up their factories for manufacturing their shoes. It allows Nike to take advantage of the local people. These people need to work in these factories to make a living, and they are stuck with the poor working conditions that Nike has provided. One way in which Nike is taking advantage of their workers is through long and hard work hours. According to the article: “We are not machines,” the Nike’s code of conduct states that...
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