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The Reality of Participation Awards Suppose you are seven years old and involved in a sport. You, along with your teammates, worked extremely hard all season and won the championship. At the end of the season, your team, as well as the other teams, are given participation awards for simply being involved with the activity. How would the participation award make you feel? Participation trophies cause a lot of controversy with people. Do participation trophies have a positive impact, or are…

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…

1. Although the role of genes plays a factor in athletic performance, the process of translating it to the actual playing field is a lot more difficult and important. For this reason, I do believe that sports are fair. In Farrey’s argument, he points out studies that showed that genes appear to deserve credit for about two-thirds of vertical leaping ability and that balance and flexibility are at least somewhat inherited. However, most of becoming a great performer in sport is all in the head…

$100,000 a year. Firefighter only makes around $47,000 a year and police officers makes about $60,000 a year. Soldiers who fight for our country and make such great personal sacrifices only makes about $30,000 a year. While an average salary for a football player is about $795,000, basketball player about $2.2…

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…

you sign up for as many as you can and get the grants you are eligible for. Generally any job that you enjoy should pay depending on how much it affects real world economy. Last I checked, football doesn’t produce anything except entertainment and should be paid less than regular actors because football is football and won’t change unlike…

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…

Over time, athletics have become a major factor in the culture of universities across the united states. For generations, education and athletics have been associated with each other as the culture of sports has become a part of the academic culture from elementary level all the way up through graduate school level. As the role of college athletics grew, so did the argument that athletes are as competent in the classroom as non-student, and they don’t take advantage of the education they are…

Sammy Edmonds Mrs. Hernandez English 5-6 12 March 2017 D1 College Football Players Should Not Get 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…

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,…