Pro Athletes

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Many kids that are younger look up to pro athletes and admire them and set them as the type of person they look up to. I think that if pro athletes don’t set good examples now it's only going to get worse in the future thinking that the pro athletes in the future will think that’s it’s okay to do bad things and there rights are giving to them that laws don’t apply to them and they get a free pass since there a pro athlete. I feel that athletes now like shaquille o'neal and javale mcgee trash talking to each other in the media is not what you would want high school athletes or even to show to college athletes. Everyone pays attention to what happens to the pros everyone is looking for their favorite players and their teams and when they act

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