Are Professional Athletes paid too much? Healthcare workers save lives on a daily basis for sixty thousand dollars a year‚ while professional athletes receive millions of dollars merely to entertain. Athletes should be paid well because they must train harder physically than other people‚ they must work even when they are not working‚ and their chosen profession sometimes entails great physical risks. Society believes that once a person is athletic they automatically qualify to become
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The Ball and Chain The term‚ “student athlete” is a polarizing one. In today’s America‚ college sports -- particularly football and basketball‚ are as much a part of the sports enthusiast’s landscape as is any professional sport. In any case‚ with enthusiasm comes money. In this case‚ billions of dollars are generated by television viewership‚ merchandise sales and university boosters. College athletes are the driving force behind an industry where television executives‚ university presidents‚ athletic
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it’s poor performance in the classroom‚ deficiencies with college entrance examinations or some combination. For the chosen few alluded to earlier‚ universities will waive their standard requirements for scholarship athletes – no matter what they say. However‚ even the superstar athlete occasionally presents too many red flags and corresponding academic risks to allow through the front door. Despite that‚ the community college becomes an invaluable method of rectifying academic risks by mastering
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prepare these young athletes for a pro career. The NCAA has no reason to complain about being the primary “developmental league” for the NFL and NBA because they generate a tremendous amount of revenue through lucrative contracts and endorsement deals. Student athletes have seen this and have started wanting some of the profits. Paying student athletes is not needed because the primary focus of going to college is to get an education‚ most other students have to pay for what they get for free‚ and
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There has been major discussion recently if college athletes should or shouldn’t be paid while they are in school. The first thing opponents say is‚ "They’re already getting a scholarship! That’s more than anybody else! Don’t be greedy!" Fine‚ let’s not be greedy and look at how much a scholarship is actually worth. On average‚ a full Division 1 scholarship is $25‚000 per year. "That’s $100‚000 over four years!" Yes it is‚ but most athletes don’t last at a school for the whole four years. Once
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always the poor or the underclass that always ends up homeless. In many cases famous athletes‚ celebrities‚ and the upper class end up homeless around the world and it shocks us all. But the chances of an athlete becoming financially or structurally unstable is something Americans think can’t occur because athletes make so much money in their profession‚ but more times than not it does. Homelessness
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For decades‚ people continuously compete for the title of being the best at something. While people can be the best at one specific thing‚ CrossFit athletes strive to excel at multiple tasks. CrossFit requires world athletes to succeed various tasks and to possess determination in order to be the best. CrossFit was created by the Founder and CEO Greg Glassman. The workout can be described as extreme levels of prolonged activity that generally work a majority of the body. CrossFit achieves extreme
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Women Deserve More Respect Femininity is the quality of being a female‚ which includes the behaviors and roles that are generally associated with women. In the 1960s and earlier‚ mothers usually stayed home‚ did the household chores such as laundry‚ cooking‚ cleaning‚ as well as taking care of the children. The men would go to work then return home after a long day and expect dinner ready‚ and then relax. Within families‚ in many generations‚ women taught their daughters to do the same to be the
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Ever since contracts began in professional sports the price of athletes has continued to rise. So why are athletes worth so much? And where does all the money come from? It is all about the revenue‚ a team’srevenue determines how much they can pay their players.Athletes deserve their pay because they aresome of the hardest working people and are the cornerstone of a business that makes billions of dollars.` ` Athletes are some of the highest people not only in the United States but possibly in
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Athletes: the Good‚ the Bad‚ and the Ugly As a casual reader of the sports section of this newspaper‚ you come across many articles depicting the triumphs of local athletes. However‚ very rarely do these articles describe the actual athlete behind the success. Athletes come in all sorts of sizes and shapes. They range from the incredibly talented to the horribly uncoordinated. Some are great teammates while others would rather be a one man team. Certain athletes seek out attention from the people
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