Jay Nicholls Economics of Sports Prof. Enz 4/5/13 Why do so many professional athletes go broke after retirement? After watching ESPN’s 30 for 30‚ Broke‚ my mind starting pondering this question of why and how so many professional athletes are blowing through the millions they make while playing their specific sport? It is amazing that someone can spend that much money so quickly. What are they buying and who are they buying things for? Where are they spending it? Where do they go wrong?
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and naive children we were‚ adults always told us to never give up on our dreams. This statement usually applied to the impractical dreams of becoming president of the United States‚ transforming into a superhero‚ or playing alongside professional athletes. These were all big ideas and aspirations that fueled our carefree childhoods‚ and were appropriate practice for shaping the paths to our true passions we discover later on in our lives; particularly in high school. High school is where teenagers
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workouts. If they are more cardio based you will lose weight and lean out. That is why track runners are leaner than the disc throwers‚ and the baseball players are thinner than the bowlers. Depending on your workout that you or your coach puts you through depends on your outcome of your physical appearance. By exercising on a regular basis your body will be healthier‚ which means fewer diseases and fewer injuries. Some athletes take a break when they finish their sport or career‚ and these people regret
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hemisphere of his brain was damaged because the left part of the brain controls the functioning of right part of the body. 2. What imaging technology would best reveal the location and extent of damage to Tim’s brain produced by his stroke‚ and why? Answer Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) may be helpful in this case because it is a modern‚ non-invasive diagnostic tool that can provide a high level of anatomic details. Through MRI‚ stroke can be located and the extent of damage could be determined
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Should Amateur Athletes Be Paid? The involvement of agents and boosters in collegiate level sports has become a major topic amongst headlines in news recently. If you were to pick any athletic program at random it is most likely that they have committed some sort of a violation. Many people argue that college athletes should not be paid because they receive scholarships that pay for their meals‚ housing‚ tuition‚ books‚ and so on. At some universities‚ these scholarships equal up to $200‚000
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Mandatory Drug Tests for Athletes In 1986‚ Len Bias‚ a star basketball player at the University of the Maryland tried cocaine. Shortly after‚ Len Bias died from cardiac arrhythmia as a result of cocaine overdose (Peck 36) . Not only do drugs ruin the health of athletes‚ but the use of performance enhancing drugs also ruins the integrity of the sporting world. Therefore‚ there should be mandatory drug tests for all athletes. Performance enhancing drugs were first used in the 8th Century B.C. by
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Paying College Athletes Every single year‚ thousands of student athletes across the United States sign the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Form 08-3a‚ the “Student Athlete” form‚ which defers their right to receive payment for the use of their name and image (McCann). This form categorizes student athletes as amateurs who are not allowed to earn any sort of payment for playing their sports. Student athletes cannot ever earn one single penny from their college athletic careers‚ yet their
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After becoming South America’s first country to be awarded the opportunity to host an Olympic Games‚ country officials assured the committee for the XXXI Olympiad that top security measures would be employed to keep athletes safe. It hasn’t help bolster confidence that a recent alleged gang rape of a 16-year-old Brazilian girl in a poor section of Rio de Janeiro is creating quite a worldwide stir among women’s rights advocates and law enforcement. According to reports‚ the young rape victim may
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college athlete can be described using numerous words‚ but the biggest one is motivated. Almost every athlete has worked to be where there are today. Some harder than others‚ some gifted with god given talent‚ but one thing nobody can deny is the fact of being motivated to succeed. A college athlete is expected to balance everyday situations while being active in sports outside of life itself. This is something they strive to be great at‚ something they want more than anything. These athletes bust their
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Marketing Athletes The Effect of Athlete Endorsements on the Product They Represent Research Concept I intend to study the positive and negative effects that athlete endorsements have on the product and the brand itself. In being the huge sports fan that I am‚ I have seen many athlete endorsements become extremely successful. A great example would be David Beckham’s endorsement with Adidas. However‚ I have also seen some athlete endorsements go terribly wrong‚ like Terry Keane’s endorsement
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