Should Gay Athletes Participate in Professional Sports? Critical Annotated Bibliography English 112 Moebs April 4th‚ 2014 Borden‚ Sam. (2013 Nov 14) Robbie Rogers Reflects on the Season in the Spotlight as a Gay Athlete. Nytimes.com. 2014 Apr 4. Borden is writing about Robbie Rogers‚ a MLS soccer player who came out in early February and played for the Los Angeles Galaxy this past season. Rogers appeared in games prior to Jason Collins and was coined the first openly gay
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Professional athletes are overpaid. Yes‚ they are talented. But they are talented on the court‚ field‚ pitch‚ pool but they aren’t running our country or fighting for this country’s freedom. How about saving peoples lives? Or even education? These athletes get all that money but they don’t know how to spend it. We have so many other people who should get paid that make a huge difference in this world. The NBA has the highest paid athletes. The average salary for the NBA is $5.2 million. Kobe Bryant
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as professional football players decide to commit crimes when they know how much of a key role they play in our society. The life of a NFL player is very stressful and the athletes rely on their talents to earn their money. Like any item with an excessive amount of abundance‚ the amount of stress that builds up on these players will eventually reach it peak‚ and it will finally burst. The amount of stress that is constantly on these players could be one important cause as to why professional athletes
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Are Professional Athletes Overpaid? In recent years‚ the salaries of many professional athletes have soared‚ allowing them to collect millions every year for merely being on a team. Worshipped by their talent and the appeal of extreme wealth‚ many of these athletes do not see themselves as role models‚ which‚ in turn‚ affects society’s younger generation. Although many of these athletes are perhaps the world’s most talented in their fields‚ their significantly high salaries are unjustifiable
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Steroids and professional athletes Period 9 In scientific terms “Steroids are a group of naturally occurring or synthetic fat-soluble organic compounds‚ whose structure is chemically based on steroid nucleus‚ the nucleus is a hydrogenated cycloplentanoperhydrophenanthrene ring system which is seventeen carbon atoms arranged in four rings” (types of steroids‚ Androgenic‚ Cortico‚ Anabolic-Side effects of steroids). In layman’s terms “Steroids are a class of chemical substances that all
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Mihir Bhagat on the website Bleacher Report. The author believes that athletes are getting paid way too much money for their role in society; to play games for people’s entertainment. Salaries and wages are traditionally based on the value of one’s work but this rule does not necessarily follow in reference to high league athletes. In a day where one should be paid according to that person’s job’s economic importance‚ athletes simply are not. An example used in the article is the difference in salary
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and professional athletes With the development of economy‚ people are satisfied with the physical needs. Thus people began to chase the spiritual needs. Entertainment and sports became an important way to do so. So there are many actors and professional athletes appeared. And they usually can get much money from their job‚ which many people cannot understand. Because people think actors and professional athletes are not worthy to get high salary. However‚ I think that actors and professional athletes
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Is It Fair For Professional Athletes to Receive Such High Salaries? Professional athletes are persons who do sports for a living. These are people who earn on the average $48‚ 310 per year‚ though top athletes can earn millions even in just one game. The topmost earner is Tiger Woods who earns $80.3 million per year (Forbes 2004) and Michael Schumacher who earns $80 million (Forbes 2004). Because of the exuberant salaries that high-ranking professional athletes receive and the above-average
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Professionals in the Olympics Every four years‚ the Olympic Games occur‚ alternating between the Summer and Winter games. Athletes from all over the globe congregate together during this prestigious competition to compete in their respective sport. Originally‚ the Olympics started as a way for amateur athletes to compete in their specialized sport. However‚ the International Olympic Committee overturned the Amateur Rule in 1986‚ allowing for professional athletes to compete in the games as well
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Rachael Dudley Due: 7/19/2015 Professor: Ms. Storey Topic: Issue 6 Side B: Professional athletes should not be expected to be role models. So‚ what really is considered a role model? According to the Webster dictionary‚ a role model is a person whose behavior‚ example‚ or success is or can be emulated by others‚ especially by younger people (Collins). Growing up one of my main role models was my
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