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    included in increasing an athlete ’s performance during competition. This article investigated the relationship between self-esteem and how it would predict and possibly increase the performance of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I athletes. Examining an athletes ’ performance based on qualities that they may posses has been studied for many years but only recent research of self-esteem and how it affects and individuals ’ athletic performance has only been tested for some

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    Student Athletes

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    the laws enacted by the National College Athletic Association (NCAA) remain unchanged leaving players unpaid? Whether or not college athletes should be paid has always been a relevant and controversial topic in the sports world. As a student at a Division 1 sports school and an avid college sports fan this topic interests me. Students need to realize that paying of college athletes would possibly affect the budgets of their schools‚ possibly taking away academic money towards athletics‚ and college

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    and paying college athletes would ruin college sports. College athletes should get paid and there are various reasons why they deserve some form of monetary compensation. The typical American work week is said to be 40 hours‚ “while the typical division 1 college football player devotes 43.4 hours per week to his sport” (Walch 1). That is 3.3 more hours than the typical American works in a week‚ who by the way is being paid no less than $7.25 per hour. If a student has 10 hours of class each week

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    Pay to Play

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    Pay to Play For a while now there has been a heated debate on whether to play college athletes or not. Some people believe that a scholarship should be enough. A thing to point out‚ a scholarship can be easily worth 15‚000 to 25‚000 dollars or more per year depending on what school he goes to or how many years he decides to stay in school. Additionally students receive all kinds of perks while they are in college‚ being the big man on-campus for some people‚ the ladies‚ staying at fancy hotels

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    Amateur Student Athletes

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    organization and wellbeing of college student-athletes‚ made up of over 1‚200 colleges and universities (McCormick.‚ McCormick‚ 2006). I will later argue that the NCAA does not accurately fit this definition as they do not care for the wellbeing of their ‘student-athletes’ as much as they care for the revenue and profit that college sports‚ especially Division I Football‚ brings in years after year. This is due to the lack of care for their football players individually as well as the creation of

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    2017 The Money-Making Ponzi Scheme According to the NCAA website‚ the NCAA has over 444‚000 college student athletes. There are scholarships for some athletes but not all student-athletes receive scholarships. I myself am a scholarship football player here at Kutztown University‚ which means I receive a partial athletic scholarship for my athletic achievements in high school. There are many athletes around the world who do not receive scholarships‚ and those who do are not getting paid what they should

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    Football Recruiting

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    In college athletics in the United States‚ recruiting typically involves a coach extending an athletic scholarship offer to a player who is about to graduate from high school or a junior college. There are instances‚ mostly at lower division universities‚ where no scholarship can be awarded and the player has to pay for all of his or her own tuition payments‚ housing‚ and textbook costs.[1] During this recruiting process‚ most schools try hard to comply with recruiting bylaws that support the National

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    counterpart‚ several colleges and universities nationwide find themselves making millions of dollars of revenue annually. In NCAA Division I sports‚ football and men’s basketball are usually the two main areas where an athletics program generate their revenue and for the most part‚ how athletics programs are able to break even during a year of athletics. Generally‚ in these Division I schools‚ females predominantly outnumber males in enrollment. However‚ per Title IX regulations‚ the ratio of male to female

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    Arsenic Contamination in Drinking Water: Lack of Awareness in Khulna Division Md. Alamgir Hossen Email: auny.du@gmail.com Assignment No # 01 Arsenic Contamination in Drinking Water: Lack of Awareness in Khulna Division Arsenic is treated by World Health Organization as the largest mass poisoning of a population in history in Bangladesh (WHO‚ 2002). Arsenic poisoning through drinking water results pigmentation of skin; enlargement of kidney‚ liver and lungs; failure

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    Introduction: The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) requires student athletes to maintain a 2.5 grade point average in at least nine academic credits to be eligible to compete in their respective sport (NCAA‚ 2011). A study conducted in 2004 found academic performance to be the leading cause of stress amongst university students (DeBerard‚ Spielmans‚ & Julka‚ 2004). According to Anderson and Williams’ (1988) stress injury model‚ athletes experience more physical injuries during periods

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