Amateur sports

Imagine, you were a MLB player and you had millions of dollars. What would you do with it? Nobody deserves that much money unless they found a cure for cancer, or are saving lives. Athletes get paid too much. Athletes don’t think about the real world. Many athletes buy 3-5 cars when they can only drive one at a time then later on wonder where a chunk of their money went. Also so some athletes buy million-billion dollar mansions. Then when they retire can’t afford that type of house. Lastly if…

It is another home run, penalty kick, a three-pointer, touchdown, and another underpaid athlete. Every day in America, thousands of professional athletes are being underpaid and overworked. Coaches are pushing athletes to their limits to ensure they perform their best ability on the court, field, or pitch. With these hard working schedules and sore muscles, it is only right we originate back to the way things are supposed to be. Year after year, athletes are given the same paycheck and some…

stack up against their competing sports peers, who are normally the greatest athletes at what they do in the world (“6 Reasons Why Professional Athletes Are Not Overpaid”). Victims of the green-eyed monster really need to think about that before they start wanting to transfer the athlete’s money to themselves. Plus, using logic, the real reason professional athletes are paid high wages is because the entertainment market in competitive sports is extremely large. Sports fans pay big bucks to…

Professional athletes are dedicated, hard working people, who inspire and entertain millions of fans. Yet, do they need to get paid in millions? Athletes earn extreme salaries, while people who save lives can’t come close to the amount of money an athlete like Lebron James gets paid within a year. There are many people around the world who deal with the pressure of saving lives and those who handle dangerous, life threatening jobs . According to the author of “Are Athletes Overpaid?”, “Nurses…

Are reading and writing connected? People may have a different answer to that question, some can argue that throughout someones’ life reading and writing are both essential to be successful; while others believe that reading and writing are not necessary to be notable in what one can achieve in his or her lifetime, thus resulting in a different life choices according to one’s belief. There are certain jobs that do not demand reading and writing as part of their fundamental job requirements, and…

Coming into college I found I only had a passion for one thing, soccer. I have played soccer since I was four years old, so the opportunity to play collegiate soccer is the sole reason I decided to attend Concordia University Irvine, but little did I know this would be the best decision of my life thus far for a much different reason. Within my first semester I had changed my major three times. I applied to Concordia as a psychology major, then switched to business, and finally found my calling…

ESPN’s documentary “Broke” in the 30 for 30 series uncovers the unfortunate truth about professional athletes’ inability to control their finances. It was originally written in 2012 to either prove or disprove Sports Illustrated’s report which stated 60 percent of NBA players and over 70 percent of NFL players file for bankruptcy within five years post-retirement. ESPN did in fact prove this staggering statistic. The glamourous thoughts that all professional athletes are wealthy, high-rolling…

future, but in reality that chance of making it is very slim. The NCAA states that “eight million kids participate in high school sports each year in the U.S., 460,000 make it to play in college and only a fraction will go pro” making everyone else dream still a dream. You have to be one of a kind, have the best talent in the country and have a go hard work ethic at what sport you play everyday for the rest of you career even in the offseason. With all of this hard work that you put in since…

Could you imagine making millions upon millions doing what you love? Well that’s what professional athletes do. They make more money than they know what to do with. Professional athletes should not be paid as much as they are. The people and fans going to watch them and support them, can hardly afford a ticket. Don’t forget about the famous ballpark hot dogs either, but those will cost you an arm and leg. Of course, you need a souvenir so people know you were really there. It will all start…

ridiculous because they are entertainers such as actors and actresses. Others, these professional athletes are role models to young children and even older adults. Another reasoning is these professional sports can be extremely harmful to these humans. In popular opinion, these people train all year for this sport, so their bodies are in right condition to continue to play. Little do people know, if these athletes get harmed, most insurance companies do not pay…