As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you but I just try to move forward and try to achieve goals.-Lebron James.Many professional athletes and entertainers earn large sums of money. Do you agree or disagree with these individuals making high salaries? Use specific details and examples to convince others to support your position.In my opinion I agree with them earning large sums of money.first why I think they should earn large sums of money because they worked very hard to make…
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While professional athletes are making more than one million dollars a year, teachers in Oklahoma are making an average of 35,000 dollars a year. Overall professional athletes are being paid too much. First of all, according to Bleacher Report, one should be paid according to the job’s importance. This is true because doctors, firemen, and policemen are saving more lives than anyone and they deserve getting paid more. They deserve getting paid more because they are put in very dangerous situations…
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College Athletes College athletes are a very rare breed. Not everyone can perform at the same level that college athletes can on a day to day basis. Not only that, but trying to handle their stressful everyday schedules is enough to breakdown an average person. When they sign to play their respective sport they are practically signing their souls over to the game. Non-athletes argue that college athletes should not be paid. They think they have concrete reasons as to why they shouldn’t be paid. Until…
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Play-for-Pay Doesn’t Really Pay Off One of the biggest controversies in recent years in collegiate athletics surrounds the payment of college athletes. There have been far too many cases in which black-market payments have been made and for this reason the issue needs to be resolved. College athletes, by definition, are amateurs. Hence, they are not allowed to receive additional compensation for the sport they play, including salaries, endorsements, and memorabilia royalties. Opinions on this matter…
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Paying College Athletes The schedule of a college athlete is rough, but it is what they have always dreamed of doing. It is going to practice, then going to class, then back to practice. That doesn’t include all the sports events that they have to travel to. Most of the time they travel to different states, some across the country, to play a game. For most of college athletes it’s for the love of the game. College athletes receive many benefits from their university such as scholarship money, meals…
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as the regular college student on the finance part of school. That is why I think that college athletes should get paid for the sport that they perform. They work just as hard or maybe even harder than people that have jobs do, because they play a sport they can’t really get a job, and they bring in profit into the schools that they are at. I think that there are a lot of pros and cons to this. College athletes should get paid for the sport that they preform because they work just as hard as or…
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make millions of dollars and each year off of students athletes and don’t give one red nickel to these kids. In this research paper I will be so that this is unfair and should give each one of these kids some of that revenue so that they can have some money to spend. I will also show that kids should stand up and say to these major colleges I will pay to play for you. In todays world its hard to make money and especially for college athletes because there is so many restrictions put on them and…
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Professional Athletes and Crime In the world today there is a big problem with Professional Athletes and Crime. This is a problem because Athletes are not following the law of sports and government. Professional Athletes should be punished fairly from the government and the sport organization. Professional Athletes may or may not get out crime because they get paid well. They should get punished fairly because they are humans and citizens like everyone (Rettner). All humans are the same no matter…
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Paid to Play? “What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.” –Albert Einstein College athletics, whose presence permeates every media outlet today, have evolved a great deal in our society over the last 200 years. Before 1850, intercollegiate sports played little to no role in the daily lives of college students. Since its creation, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (or NCAA - the governing body over college athletics) has grown into a multi-million dollar…
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Although some people don't think professional athletes should get paid what they do,most of those people haven't even been to or watch a professional game. Some people ask ,how much do they get paid? What’s the pro and cons about being one of them? There is some good things but also some set backs. Professional athletes get paid quite a bit. Some people say they shouldn't get paid that much. It’s just like any other job some say. High salaries are only paid to those who are part of a extremely wealthy…
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