professional sports athletes make many millions of dollars for playing these kids games, the importance of them has risen. Status among these athletes have gone to new heights, placing them on the forefront of society. Our society needs to re-evaluate what is important, and start placing emphasis on that. What used to be an escape from the everyday realities of life, has become a bidding war for the elite players of a particular sport. People in professions should be paid accordingly to…
Student Athlete Compensation: 4 years a slave Every year, College sports bring in millions and millions of dollars to their respected universities, yet 70% of college athletes struggle financially in life after college. A typical student in college has a job that helps them maintain a steady income,, but this is not the case for student athletes. Student athletes are not receiving any type of income, they are being exploited by their college and the NCAA and universities are making…
Likewise, most athletes who have reached the pinnacle of their careers, expect some sort of large check from their team because it’s what they “deserve.” Not only are they wrong, but often times their greed can even take away the fun of the game for them and for the fans watching. In fact, combined salaries of the sports baseball, basketball, and football in America totaled nearly 9 billion dollars ("How Much Pro Athletes Pay in Federal Income Tax”)! Professional sports teams should not pay…
not the traditional characteristics a women should have. Thoughtout time gender inequality has been a huge issue within the sports world paying women a lot less, and giving them less notice as well as credit for the same things their male counterparts participate in. This inequality reveals an assumption that women are incapable of physical strength, and that aggression and…
My first class at Greenville College was Core 101 and the professor Mrs. Estevez. One of our assignments she made us do was an analysis paper. When she explained this assignment to us, the whole class was confused. The reason that the whole class was confused was because she would explain…
them, I had a few that stuck out. Why College Athletes Should Be Paid, Obesity, and Safe Sex. Why these papers stuck out to me so much was because of the information that was provided throughout the essay. When reading, them I wanted to read more. I wanted to learn more information about all these topics I was kind of ignorant on. While on the topic of these essays, they also need to be worked on to fix mistakes throughout their essay. Why College Athletes Should Be…
Athletic Association, or NCAA, regulates various conferences and athletes within their affiliated leagues. The NCAA considers itself as a non-profit organization, yet the company runs very similar to a business. The NCAA has reportedly generated “over $11 billion in annual revenues” (Benedykciuk 2). Two of the most marketable sports, football and basketball, generate the most revenue based on viewership and advertisements. The athletes whom share a large part in generating the money collected…
College sports, such as men’s football and basketball, generate millions of dollars for there institutions. In 2014, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (“NCAA”) reported $989 million dollars in revenue (NCAA, 2013-14 Financial Statement, NCAA.ORG). However only a small portion of this money goes to the student athlete in the form of scholarships. This raises the question, since these athletes are making all this money for their collegiate institutions should they not get a part of the…
question of whether or not the athletes in the NFL are paid too much or if they deserve what they are paid. If you ask me, the answer is perfectly obvious. NFL player are grossly overpaid for doing a job with zero productivity other than entertainment and the money being spent on them should be put to use for much better causes. There are many people who think that, because they work really hard, NFL players deserve the surplus of money that they are currently paid. This is false though because…
Women are serious athletes, who have become champions, intense competitors and sporting icons, however, there is still a significant gender gap within pay rates between female and male athletes. Female athletes can clearly generate immense interest worthy of equal pay for example, the women’s Rugby Seven Olympic finial attracted over 1.2million television viewers. Clearly women’s sport is equally as professional and attention-grabbing as men’s. They are defiantly generating enough interest to…