Caleb Fox Nate Kreuter English 101 10/4/14 Rhetorical Analysis On July 23rd, 2012 an article was in Sports Illustrated magazine that was written by Michael Rosenberg and it was titled, “Shattered”. This opinion article is very information filled. It was written in response to the controversy to remove the Joe Paterno statue or not.…
Many of our large systems are functioning on faulty premises. Michael Sokolove provides valid information that college football does need a lot of funding in order to maintain a successful team. He uses factual averages of amount of money invested and lost in athletics, which persuades the reader that no one truly wins when it comes to college football due to all the money spent to get a winning team to the top. Both authors are successful at arguing through the text that a current system is functioning on a faulty premise. Sokolove’s argument is reliable but, Malcolm Gladwell creates an argument on how insurance is expensive and a “moral hazard”, describing the way insurance can affect behavior and how it has been wrongly applied to the healthcare…
The NCAA and the universities benefit tremendously from the profits the student athletes generate. Through various sources of profits the NCAA has grown to a multi billion-dollar industry. The NCAA is broken down into conferences, some of the conferences are more competitive then others. There are powerhouse programs within the conferences that groom the best athletes, get the best recruits, and compete for the most prestigious championships. As a result, these conferences get the best television deals, have the biggest stadiums, and they gain a lot of money through ticket sales.…
In the article, Get Football Out Of Our Universities, Steven Salzburg’s intention in writing this article is to persuade the audience into agreeing with his beliefs. The writer writes about his views on college football in universities. The author uses harsh diction to exemplify his negative feeling towards the combination of education and football in universities. Steven Salzburg’s article explains how college football leads to a lack of leverage over other countries due to universities absence of focus on education. In his article, he clarifies how universities spend excessive amounts of money on football rather than education.…
When you hear that March is around the corner, what pops up in your head? Right: March Madness. March Madness today is a big part of our American culture and is expanding more and more each year. This basketball tournament was set up to draw more attention to the sport The founder of the NCAA tournament, James Naismith, probably did not expect it to take off like it did, into what it is today. The history of the tournament goes back decades, and time after time draws the attention of more and more people.…
The movie Radio is based on a true story of T.L. Hanna High School football coach and a mentally challenged man, named Radio. This story took place in the 70s in the small town of Anderson, South Carolina. The qualities of the facilities in the movie were common during this time period. The football field, basketball court, locker rooms, storage area, bleachers, and offices appeared to be a good quality for a high school in the south.…
College Athletes Should Get Paid College athletes are gifted in the world of sports. Every athlete shows up for practice each day and works as hard as they can possibly work. In college, sports are as important as schooling to athletes. Working harder to be number one is the first priority on each athlete 's list of goals. The sports fan base is captivated by the level of play and dedication that college athletes display, only professionals show a higher level of play.…
As a parent would you let your son play football knowing that the consequences can lead to his death? Football has a history with concussions and severe injuries that have affected players life later on in the future. Most of the athletes who have received concussions do not realize it until it’s too late, which can be later studied on and see a brain disease such as Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE). With this research, I would not give my son permission to play football because it causes concussions and bodily injuries, promotes violence, and causes permanent brain damage and death.…
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Universities and Colleges recruit the athletes, imposing them to operate with a multi-billion-dollar industry regulating them and making a huge revenue of their exposers. The universities offer full-ride scholarships, and free education, which is a huge opportunity, and invaluable experience that many Americans are not able to afford. But looking at all the television revenue, tickets, jersey sales and other product sold, the comparison is incomparable. The athletes despite devoting 40 hours a week practicing, leaving them with little time to place towards academics, the division I athletes are not considered as employees, the source of income go to the NCAA and members that are involved in the business such as the coaches and the staff. Basically, the student athletes are exploited by the NCAA and universities for they athletics skills with no source of income, they are just given the opportunity to get free education, but do the amount of devotion towards their sport they cannot fully dedicate their time towards education.…
Obsessive fans. Owns three days of the week. The Superbowl. America’s favorite sport. What comes to mind?…
“Get Football Out of Our Universities” Should football be in our universities? In “Get Football Out of Our Universities”, the author, Steven Salzburg, attempts to argue that football shouldn’t be in our colleges and universities. This is not a persuasive essay because he doesn’t try to force his opinion on you but rather to argue the facts. He states facts that might in return make you change your opinion but his sole purpose isn’t to persuade you into anything. In this article, the author uses rhetorical devices such as ethos, logos, antithesis, anecdote, kairos (or lack thereof), and appeal to authority to try and convince me and college administrations, his audience, that football shouldn’t be in our universities.…
The PBS documentary League of Denial discusses the normalization of violence and masculinity. The documentary goes on to talk about the NFL’s denial of the connection of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) and football. The NFL has been one of the United States leading representations in our cultures masculine ideologies. This men’s club view point of get back up and go back in, injuries be damned mentality, has allowed the NFL to keep the correlation of football head injuries mental health disease under wraps. If we look at this through a sociological lens, we would look at the role of social recognition has played in the idea that they can become wealthy, and idolized by millions.…
For many years, playing sports in college was merely part of the curriculum, done for the love of the game. But things have changed dramatically and this paper argues that today, college and university athletes should be paid. Discussion There was a time when playing college football or other sports was something young people did because it was fun and because it took some skill to make the teams.…
Athletes are looked upon as heroic, courageous and strong but they’re also human beings who are prone to making mistakes. Some people put athletes on a pedestal but nobody is perfect. Some people are against dominant sports because the events are commercialized and bureaucratic with the interest being how much capital can be made where alternative forms of sports…