Amateur astronomy

Colleges get millions of dollars for their sports departments, but how much do the athletes get out of it? Athletes are some of the hardest working people out there and they deserve to get paid for their work on the team. There are many reasons why athletes should get paid. They spend all the time with the sport, but some never become professionals in their sport so there was no point in their hard work. Because athletes don 't get paid some have to turn to illegal sponsoring. The biggest reason…

Ameatur athletics at the college level of sports is a huge business. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) generates millions of revenue every year and colleges and their programs get paid. Yet, the players that are on the court or field bringing in the millions of revenue get no reward no money their way. Ameatur athletes barely can afford meals, clothing, and other possessions while professional athletes get everything and more for doing the same job. Goldman responded to this…

Wrestling is a sport well one person battles it out with another, you can basically call wrestling a street fight with rules. If your not ready for the fight ahead then maybe you go look for a different sport. I was not physically ready for this match. I got hurt pretty bad with a concussion and it did not feel good. My painful concussion happened at Mountain View High School almost a year ago. I was wrestling this kid named Kyle Rice, Kyle is a kid who has wrestled for so long and beat me…

Around the world professional athletes are paid between hundreds of thousands dollar to millions of dollars to play a sport, whether its catching, throwing, shooting, passing, or hitting a ball. These types of money should be given to American who are contributing to our society. American like firemen. police officer, or soldiers are being payed less money who are risking their lives every day. Teachers who work five days a week grading papers, teaching new material, and provide instruction in…

There are some several reasons why top sports people are paid high income. Famous athletes must experienced many years of training to develop the skills and fitness required and sometimes they could risk their lives and health. The number of people having real talent in each sport fields are often very few and sometimes they is unique. For example, it is rare to find someone with the tennis skills of Roger Federer who is regarded as the greatest tennis player of all time and it can be argued…

Performance Enhancing Drugs have affected numerous well known athletes in today’s society. Baseball Player Alex Rodriguez face many allegations of using performance enhancing drugs throughout his professional baseball career. According to Gottlieb, Performance enhancing drugs many of Rodriguez’ successes early into his career were contributed to performance enhancing drugs.(citation..) In this paper you will learn about ethical dilemmas, core beliefs, resolution, evaluation, and the comparison…

Getting paid after already reaping benefits like free schooling or free job training should not be allowed. Listland.com stated that, ¨A student athlete is an amateur just like a student accountant who is making a choice to participate in a sport as their overall educational experience” (Anderson). Using a scholarship can save an athlete thousands and sometimes more than a hundred thousand dollars. Listland.com…

I think it’s not cool to use PEDs in sports. Even though it has been shown that taking these drugs improves performance. I remember an old Gatorade commercial where it talks about how Gatorade originated with the Florida Gator football team. Toward the end the narrator says” those boys drank that stuff and they became a second-half team.” Gatorade helps with endurance but it’s not a drug. It replaces fluids and electrolytes during physical activity. It’s legal. It doesn’t make you bigger,…

As Phil Jackson (basketball executive, former coach and player) once said, “Good teams become great ones, when the members trust each other enough to surrender the “me” for the “we”.” This quote proves that when teammates work together as one team, they achieve more than they would working alone, by themselves. Participating in team sports does help to build character. In the article, “Team Sport Build Character” by JuniorC, it shows great examples and reasons of why team sports build up…

Professional athletes are some of the most famous people in our country, and on top of that, they get payed a lot too. From NBA superstars like Lebron James to NFL superstars like Peyton Manning, they are idolized by many. People pay lots of money to watch them and spend lots of their time watching them as well. The question is -- are they paid and idolized too much? The answer is no, they are not. They are important to American culture, they worked extremely hard to get where they are, and they…