High School Athletes becoming Professionals Lebron James‚ who is the so-called next Michael Jordan‚ and Freddy Adu‚ the American soccer phenomenon‚ both have something in common. They are professional athletes and with millions in their pockets with a countless number of endorsement contracts. Whether it is high school athletes skipping college and discontinuing the development of their education for millions of dollars‚ or teenagers signing contracts with businesses for massive amounts of money
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Why Not to Pay College Athletes After numerous scandals over the past several years of college athletes receiving improper benefits‚ the question has come up whether or not college athletes should be paid or not. College sports are a growing industry‚ and we have seen money destroy organizations‚ teams‚ and players in this industry. The determination and motivation of college athletes supersedes professional athletes by their will to win; therefore‚ college athletes should not be paid. The law
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the world are doing. High school athletic programs are now an all year type of thing‚ a famous quote said i“there is no off-season”. Athletes are being pushed to be in one sport all year long‚ instead of multiple sports per year. Pushing one sport is taking place so skills can be practiced continuously. This is a problem for the athletes during the summer. Summers should be for summer jobs and lake days‚ if we have sports constantly then athletes have no time off. Athletes need time to recover and
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thousands of adoring fans‚ the majority of professional athletes started off at some point as wide-eyed‚ college freshman recruits‚ eager to bring glory to their school and to themselves. The hierarchy was set. Starting off at the bottom of the totem pole‚ they knew that the only way to gain any kind of playing time was to work hard day in and day out‚ during every practice. Sure enough‚ the rookie freshman became the All-Star senior who led his school to a championship season. This triumphant story of
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This paper evaluates the dynamic stress levels of high school student athletes. Researchers surveyed subjects participating in spring sports (N=77). Subjects answered questions about their stress levels on a scale of 1 to 10‚ 1 being not stressed and 10 being extremely stressed‚ The relation between student athletes and psychological stress‚ has commonly been recognized as a rising struggle in the lives of high schoolers. Student athletes nowadays are playing multiple sports year round. In addition
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Sports Classes Shouldn’t Be Cancelled in High School There is a point that sports classes in high school take up too much time which should have been devoted in study and are better to be cancelled. In my opinion，however‚ those sports classes are so useful and significant that must exist all the time. Above all‚ exercise are meaningful for those students to keep healthy. Playing sports may enable them to gain more energy and vigor‚ which in turn improves their studying efficiency. Now that they
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November 19‚ 2007 At the age of 10‚ I would jump off the couch and chair to be like Superman‚ I would spin‚ put my hand in the air and scream to be like Michael Jackson. Nowadays‚ high school students do much more to be like their idols. Many high school athletes contribute to the steroid epidemic by taking steroids to emulate the abilities of their sports idols‚ others take steroids to look like the Hulk and Hercules. Steroids and sports can easily be compared to Napster and music. Both‚ steroids
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Sports Literature Salaries & Pro Athletes Most people in America probably have a pretty good argument when they say they are being paid too little to do too much. Professional sports stars‚ on the other hand‚ display a lot of nerve when they use such a phrase. Sports stars are also held to lower standards than are other people. With the high-salary and low-moral standards‚ sports stars are the most overrated and overpaid people on the planet. For example‚ Kevin Garnett of the Boston Celtics‚ who
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Should high school athletes should play multiple sports or only specialize in one sport? Almost 7.8 billion high school students play a sport. Majority of them athletes play more than one sport. Playing more than one sport benefits Athletes because they could possibly get a college scholarship for one of the sports they participate in. With an increased emphasis on college scholarships high school athletes should play multiple sports because it reduces injury rates‚ creates more well-rounded athletes
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Anabolic Steroids: And the High School Athlete Anabolic steroid abuse has become a national concern among high school athletes. There has been a dramatic increase in the number of athletes using these performance enhancing drugs in high school almost double the number using since the 1980’s. These athletes feel that steroids gives them the competitive edge that they think they need to boost themselves past the competition. Steroids have been used in bodybuilding and other sports since the 1950’s
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