sponsorships. Team Owners and Sponsorships pay athletes a reasonable amount. They also are role models for kids that look up to them a lot. People make athletes role models because they want to be just like that athlete in the future and follow what they do off the field. The kids will always look up to athletes. The brands that people wear‚eat and drink are mostly having Pro athletes on the cover of their product to sell it. Also‚ a player might want a big contract if they go to a team that they know
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can only do for their job for a short amount of time. Athletes are not overpaid because the Teams make much more money than what they are paying their players. In Major League Baseball‚“Almost 35 percent of the total league wide-revenue is earned from ticket sales.Television and media rights constitute another important stream of revenue. In 2012 MLB reached
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wearing a helmet defending his country should get paid more than a man wearing a helmet defending a football.” This quote shows that we pay more money to people who entertain us rather than the ones who protect us from harm and danger. Men and women in the military‚ compared to a professional athlete‚ get paid on average one hundred percent less than one of these athletes.This is a very controversial issue in today’s world. Most professional athletes get paid more than a person makes in one lifetime
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There is a heated dispute over whether the career as entertainers‚ such as films stars‚ pop musicians and sports stars‚ is overpaid. In my opinion‚ I am in favor of this view. It is generally recognised that individuals who can perform‚ sing or play good sports are paid by high salary. There are a number of reasons which might explain why they get paid that much. Firstly‚ entertainers bring in enormous profit for the companies they work for through door recipes‚ TV deals or merchandise deals.
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ARE ACTORS AND PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES OVERPAID? I am a huge fan of the entertainment industry. I believe it takes a lot of skill and tact to do what they do and I also strongly know that professional actors and athletes are not overpaid. My reasons are: Firstly‚ there are certain roles actors and actresses play in movies depending on the genre of such movies. For instance‚ if an actor or an actress is having a play a sexual role‚ he or she will have to be paid a large sum of money because
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Are professional athletes overpaid? Do they warrant the astronomically high salaries they make each year? The simple answer is no. No one person playing a sport that is meant for entertainment should make more than a whole family working at jobs that contribute to people’s health‚ or make a city safer. Do athletes deserve high salaries? Maybe so‚ but as of right now there is so much separation between the pay of an athlete and the pay of the average american that athletes are quite frankly not worth
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Professional athletes are overpaid. Yes‚ they are talented. But they are talented on the court‚ field‚ pitch‚ pool but they aren’t running our country or fighting for this country’s freedom. How about saving peoples lives? Or even education? These athletes get all that money but they don’t know how to spend it. We have so many other people who should get paid that make a huge difference in this world. The NBA has the highest paid athletes. The average salary for the NBA is $5.2 million. Kobe Bryant
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athletes on average spend practicing or working out incredible‚ it can get up to 60+ hours a week (Compensation 1). Due to this amount of time‚ the athletes can not get a job to earn money for themselves. It is widely known that students in college do not have a lot of money to begin with but they might have time for a job unlike the athletes‚ barring the fact that they get paid by companies illegally. Furthermore‚ Division 1 schools do make a considerable amount money and it can benefit by improving their
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are paid. He states that anyone who makes the case that sports stars are overpaid may be suffering from wealth envy. Athletes work incredibly hard to achieve what they have accomplished according to Hammond. He also says professional athletes produce much more money for others than they themselves receive. Who gets the money then? The people who already make millions a year owning sports companies? It is simple; Athletes get paid too much. The truth is that basketball‚ football‚ and other sports
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Athletes Are Overpaid What/who are athletes really playing for? Professional athletes are getting overpaid‚ but no one is really stopping and thinking about it. I think that Professional athletes shouldn’t get paid as much money.But on the other hand‚ many professional athletes may disagree and say that it’s the right amount of money and not too much. However I think that the facts that support my opinion overshadow the counter statement because there is a bundle of information that exists to support
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