College Ripoff Ed O’Bannon‚ who played basketball at UCLA from 1991-1995‚ recently won a major victory for thousands of college athletes throughout America. He sued the NCAA and EA sports for using his likeness in video games. He went unpaid‚ although he helped make companies like EA sports and the NCAA lots of money‚ because he was a college athlete‚ and it is against NCAA policy to receive any money for your likeness or your popularity. The supreme court ruled that any player in an EA sport video
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Alexander Bello April 20th‚ 2014 Should College Athletes Be Compensated? Doing something we love‚ whether it be a dream job we have always wanted or an extracurricular activity‚ allows us to feel as though we belong. We as humans put in that extra effort to shine in our particular fields in which we find enjoyment. As a result‚ we sometimes look for compensation for the extra effort we pour into it. This compensation or “award” that we look forward to is not always given to us; therefore
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controversies are within college athletics and the NCAA; the sports can provide a great learning experience for yourself and give a great opportunity to play it professionally. A major issue within college athletics is the monetization of the sports programs and the athletes affected by it. With this in mind and how the athletes generate all of the money to the school from their performances and the amount of work is put in‚ it is right to think that the NCAA should pay college athletes. One side to
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Assignment Five College Athletes and Compensation Professor Adam Lawrence Strayer University June 9‚ 2013 PART I: PROBLEM The goal of this paper is to focus on evidence that college athletes‚ specifically‚ football players should be compensated for the talents they demonstrate on the field; for many reasons. It is well documented that college presidents‚ coaches‚ athletic directors often think of athletics as the “front porch” of their campuses (Weaver‚ 2011)‚ as it relates to college revenues.
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NCAA Tourney -- the colleges‚ the conferences‚ the networks‚ the announcers and analysts‚ the coaches‚ the fans who win their office pools -- everybody‚ that is‚ but the stars of the show: the players themselves.” (ESPN) The National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) essential principles about the role of student-athletes and its economic model received a partial rebuke from the courts. On Aug. 8‚ 2014‚ a federal judge ruled that the NCAA’s rule prohibiting student-athletes from being compensated
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Paying College Athletes: The Struggles of Black Student Athletes College athletics provide a way for a lot of students to pay for a college education. These athletes work hard at their selected sport in order to keep the scholarships. Regardless of all this hard work‚ these athletes have nothing to show for it. A percentage of the athletes are black and come from poor inner city community where their families struggle to keep the bills paid and to keep food on the table. These black athletes
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Advertisement/endorsement deals for the athletes College Athletes feel like that they should somewhat get a portion of the money that the colleges are making off of them‚ especially if companies and shoe brands are wanting to use them as the face of their brand. A lot of the athletes come from a background where they may not have a lot of money from their families to support to support the college athlete throughout college. Some of the athletes do not even get a full scholarship and ma only get
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Hobbies? We often look at college athletes as miniature stars. The question is‚ why should student’s athlete get a paycheck for playing amateur level sports? Athletes complain about how they do not get enough for playing a sport. They are forgetting that they are being rewarded with a half or full scholarship. The main goal for these athletes is being academically successful. Not who has the best jump shot or who fumbled a ball‚ that does not matter. The essence of playing college level has been taken
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It’s about time: Stipends for College Athletes Imagine being a college football star and finding out that a jersey representing your school with your name and number on the back is not only selling for $110 in stores nationally‚ but it is profiting higher than some professional sports jerseys. Now‚ imagine that you as that student-athlete will not be making a single penny off your institution using your name for monetary profit. Why you ask? Because according to the governing body of collegiate
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Should College Athletes Be Paid? Frankly‚ there is no simple answer to the question of salaries for college athletes. The NY Times Upfront article “Should College Athletes Be Paid?” poses two fantastic arguments; “yes” says Joe Nocera‚ author of Indentured: The Inside Story of the Rebellion Against the NCAA‚ and “no” says Bob Williams‚ Sr. Vice President of Communications a NCAA. Although Mr. Nocera makes the valid point of how much revenue college athletes earn for their schools‚ Williams states
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