have. One of the major problems for many students is paying for their college tuition. Many students will take out loans‚ apply for scholarships‚ and have parents pay for college. If a student play a sport in high school and are lucky enough to get drafted to play for a college you might get a full ride.Many colleges will profit off of their athletes not give their student athletes anything in return. So one of the biggest questions is should student athletes be paid more than just scholarships? My
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Imagine you are a student athlete; your daily routine would consist waking up early and going to practice. After practice‚ you have to go to all of your classes. Maybe some of your class you are not doing so well‚ so the college provides you with a tutor. Lastly‚ to call it a night‚ you afternoon practice which will likely end late. Athletes are demanded to this routine 24/7 everyday. Most of all the athletes’ time goes towards their sports and studies. They have no time to find a job or work to
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Hom ENG 302 MW 1:30 30 October 2013 Student Athlete Worker Over the decades college sports have gained quite a momentum in its popularity throughout the country. These athletes spend their whole lives preparing to play in college and many receive educational scholarships for the schools. This attention for college sports has grown but also has lead to the rise of a controversial topic‚ if college athletes should get paid to play. Even though these students are already offered scholarships for their
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Why do athletes take performance enhancing drugs? There are many reasons. These range from the athlete being driven by the craving for success and the rewards that come with it‚ to the sheer desire to reach the goal that they set when they first started out in their sport e.g. win Olympic gold. The athlete may not be good enough to achieve these targets through the professional athlete lifestyle alone‚ and so turn to performance enhancing drugs in order to do so. From a philosophical point of view
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FinAid.org‚ approximately 1% to 2% of undergraduate students in Bachelor’s degree programs receive athletic scholarships‚ equaling a total of about $1 billion a year. While that monetary amount is growing at a rate of 4.5% year over year…” Yes giving talented athletes scholarships is great. The state is giving the athlete an opportunity to get a free education just due solely on the fact that they play their sport very well. But why should athletes on scholarships be paid any typeof salary if everything
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Student-Athletes who are recruited to play a college sport are going in with one goal‚ to play their sport professionally by being the best player they can be. Unfortunately only about 3% percent of NCAA athletes in their respective sport go on to play professionally. The other 97% spend hours and hours of their precious time practicing on the field all for no future in that specific field of work. Actually according to Forbes‚ Marc Edelman reports “student-athletes work 3 and a half more hours a
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illegal performance enhancing drugs in sport is a rising problem in professional sports. Drug use is hazardous to the person using them as well as to other people who are dealing with them. There are many reasons athletes choose to take drugs for sports like‚ to be faster‚ stronger‚ or to gain advantage over the opponent. Even though some professional athletes are not using performance-enhancing drugs‚ the fact that they are using drugs whatsoever is a big problem. Athletes are supposed to set a good
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“An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head-Emil Zatopek.” This quote shows that if you’re happy playing your favorite sport then money should be the last thing you should be worried about. The idea of paying college athletes has been thrown around for a couple years. Some student athletes feel that they bring in a great deal of money to their universities‚ but they do not see one penny of it. These students think they should be getting
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Should Student-Athletes Get Paid Wilson Hinds Professor Dorothy Valentine‚ Strayer University 5 December 2012 Abstract For many students‚ the college experience is measured by the success of their NCAA-sanctioned athletic programs. Without the experience and athletic performance the student athlete brings‚ most colleges would not reap the benefit of these significant revenue-generating activities. At best‚ current NCAA regulations need to be revisited to ensure all avenues are addressed
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Drug Testing in Professional and High School Athletics Many people do not see the severity of drug use in professional and High School athletics. Drug use in professional athletics is looked upon as somewhat of a serious problem‚ but also very discrete and low key. Every once in a while and individual might see a prominent figure in a certain sport being reprimanded for the use of an outlawed drug. However ‚ that athlete may just be one of the many who happened to get caught. Athletes today seem
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