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Math in Track and Field Track and field is a sport consisted of running, throwing, and jumping. Track and field was first recorded in Olympia, Greece at the Ancient Olympic Games in 776 BC (1). Yet track and field first began when cave dwellers chased a deer, jumping over logs and other obstacles, and throwing rocks and spears trying to capture their prey (Marx 3). The Greeks made the idea that track had a great influence on physical and mental health, which is what makes it so popular today…

The National Collegiate Athletic Association also know as the NCAA is a multi-billion dollar business that controls just about everything in college sports. A question asked over and over again when talking about college sports is, where does that money go that the NCAA makes from games and merchandise? According to the NCAA, the money they make goes into the scholarships the school 's offers, stadium upgrades, gear the athletes have, and getting the best coaches to get them into the…

Attending Buena Vista University it seems as if everyone plays a sport, the small campus and even smaller student body creates an environment that puts an emphasis on athletics. In my three years attending Buena Vista, I have had two different roommates, both athletes themselves. Living with athletes creates challenges and opportunities that are special to athletes. For a washed up high school athlete getting the chance to live vicariously through some of my best friends at the collegiate level…

players. The organization that was founded in response to Roosevelt’s urging was the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States. Four years after its founding the organization changed its name to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The NCAA’s main focus in the years following its founding was player health. As time went on though, the commercialization of college athletics started to shift the focus towards the financial stability of the NCAA’s member…

Paid The NCAA, coaches, players and fans are debating whether or not D1 College football players should be paid for playing their sport. Division 1 football is the highest level of play for intercollegiate athletics authorized by the NCAA. The NCAA stands for the National Collegiate Athletic Association and governs hundreds of colleges and thousands of athletes. There has been an ongoing discussion by media, fans and people across America whether student athletes should be getting paid or not…

Why Collegiate Athletes Should Not Be Paid The NCAA (National Collegiate Athletics Association) is a not-for profit organization, bringing in $912 million in revenue in 2015, nearly a billion dollars and has deals worth multi billion dollars with its broadcasting partners, Turner/CBS. These astronomical profits are what is leading some to call for collegiate athletes to be paid for their services for their collegiate teams in NCAA tournaments, the proponents of pay-for-play believe that players…

The Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard once said that “life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” It is almost every athlete 's dream to get to play at the collegiate level, but only 6% of high school athletes who play basketball are given scholarships, giving some of them the opportunity to choose where they want to attend school; all of them are given all four years of their college paid in full. In men’s and women 's basketball there are roughly 345 D1 schools. 28…

Out of all of the Division I student-athletes, approximately 53 percent of them have a scholarship of some sort. College athletics are becoming more and more popular each year. Along with the rise in popularity that these collegiate sports have, is an increase in revenue. The issue that is constantly coming up with colleges, specifically regarding sports in this day and age, is the question of whether or not college athletes deserve to get paid. The NCAA currently does not have a plan to pay…

For many, the concept of athletics and education seem to be a flawless pairing, a coupling that has seemed to simply be the way things were for as long as anyone can remember. In today’s society, it is so relevant, that certain colleges are immediately recognized because of their outstanding achievements in either athletics or academics, much like the way Harvard is known to be a tough, academically driven law school, whereas Pennsylvania State University is vastly well known for its football…

Sport Networks: The Surprising Saviors of American Education During the 1980s, Ronald Reagan’s budget proposal consisted of a $2.3 billion cut in federal financial aid by raising restrictions on student loans and Pell grants (Spero n.p.). Why did Reagan want to do this? Reagan’s secretary of education, William J. Bennett, formulated an idea known as the Bennett hypothesis. Bennett suggested that an increase in federal aid money accelerates tuition rate spikes thus making it harder for students…