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    football team,does it change your mind.I think the coaches and school should continue paying the players to play. One reason that pro football players should get paid is that they start in high school and play football in college then when draft day comes they hope and pray that they were good enough to get selected by the national football league to play for one of the teams.Then they train to build muscle and drop calories to meet the standards that the NFL wants…

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    Cam Newton makes $53,000,000 a year for playing football. That’s $3,312,500 for one of his sixteen games. He is only one of the thousands of professionals being overpaid. I believe that professional athletes and performers should not make the amount of money that do on account of the other men and women who work harder, the money could be used in other ways, and trained athletes and performers influence kids in a negative way. To begin, professionals should not earn large sums of money…

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    Why Athletes Are Overpaid

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    Cadin Chaplin ¾ In 2009 75% of athletes in the NFL after 2 years of retirement are bankrupt. Athletes are overpaid to play something for “fun”, even some athletes seem to be paid limitless amounts of money to play sports. Most athletes pay is more than most people who are actually important. Stanton scored 325 million dollars for only 37 home runs. Even the president's annual salary is only 400,000. People who devote their lives to try to make cures for cancer don’t even get half as much as a…

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    "Should College Athletes Be Paid To Play?." Diverse: Issues In Higher Education 28.10 (2011): 12.MasterFILE Premier. Web. 23 Nov. 2015. The source gives both sides of the argument whether college athletes should be paid. Two law professors argue college athletes are “employees” under the federal labor laws. The common laws has three test whether if the athletes are employees. One of the test provides they are employees because coaches have control over the athletes. The NCCA believes that…

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    The exploitation of college athletes, particularly African American college athletes, has been a tenacious topic of dispute within American higher education for the past half century. This debate is punctuated yearly by football and basketball championships, when the public passion for parades, pageantry and an expanding number of televised games has been described as influencing fever and madness. During these discrete times, exposes and editorials proliferate, resolving in low graduation rates…

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    The NCAA is a multi-billion-dollar company. There are many sports fans that enjoy watching college athletics compared to a professional sport. The NCAA knows that millions of people are willing to pay absurd amounts of money for tickets, merchandise, etc. In 2015 at the NCAA Men’s Final Four the least expensive seat in the house was $1,151.98, per CBS Detroit and TiqIQ (Peebles). This was the least expensive seat among a crowd of 143,387 people. (Peebles). The Final game was watched by more…

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    The Working Student College Athletes are being convinced that they are being paid enough. They are constantly getting cheated out of money. Players should be paid because they bring in revenue from playing on television, and playing is like a full-time job. As a team they need to take back their money. College Student are paid with their education They are provided with various benefits. But even removing this educational asset from the equation “NCAA Division I athletes still receive expert…

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    College Debt In College

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    College debt is almost inevitable for all college students due to colleges expensive tuition and the lack of scholarships for students who have 3.5 GPA in high school and 22 or higher on the act.Most colleges only offer scholarships to students who have a 30 or above on the act;And almost all universities only offer a full unpaid scholarship if you have a 34 or above on the act and were either valedictorian or salutatorian,but yet most high school football players get full scholarships from…

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    Belhaven University

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    Oftentimes many may wonder what the differences in students between liberal arts colleges and national universities in the U.S. and, which is better? The answer to the question depends on your personal interests, educational needs, career prospects and maybe where you live. Here at Belhaven University is a private Christian liberal arts university located in Jackson, Mississippi. Already with its location and Belhaven being a Christian university, it brings it a lot of diversity within students.…

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    one day is college athletics specifically in an administrative capacity. With the hopes of becoming the head athletic director. The people I talked to within the athletic department at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill included Brandy Battista, a female with the Athletics Communications Department, This particular segment of the sports industry deals with collegiate athletics. The services that they provide include athletic facilities for practice, scheduling of games, athletic…

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