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    Greed In Sports

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    trade with any other franchise unless the player has enough power to put stipulation in their personal contract” (Witt, 2017, NFL Trading Rules). All college athletes when getting drafted into the NFL have no say as to what team pics them. A college football athlete has one of two options. Either they can play for the team that picks them or they don’t play at all. This too shows how not even in the sport of basketball but any sport that there is an ongoing plantation metaphor that still exists.…

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    After more than 20 years of education, a very well paid doctor makes average of a little bit fewer than 400,000 U.S dollars a year. Now imagine that, a man who saves the lives of people all the time, but yet only making that amount. The United States President only makes roughly 400,000 U.S dollars a year. A person with the responsibilities of an entire nation and another who is continuously saving the lives of many, yet the combined total of their salaries is about 800,000 US dollars.…

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    Jose Hernandez Mrs. Lozares English II 15 February 2017 The pursuing of my dream of becoming a pro soccer player 1. I am going to be talking about what I have been researching about the last week. In this research paper, I will be talking about my future career as an adult. The career I have been researching about has been a soccer player. Being a soccer player has always been my dream, ever since I was a little kid. As a kid whenever I would watch the games, I would always try to imagine…

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    Companies and organizations like the Veteran’s Administration, Apple, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, Wall Street, and Congress pay their interns through stipends which are not based on performance. The stipends are used to help them cover expenses that usually occur during their course of agreement. The website thepennyhoarder.com reports that some of these interns receive over $5,400 a month. College athletes should be paid because they spend hours laboring for games, they bring in an incredible…

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    Since the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act was signed into law in 1992, sports betting has been illegal in all but four of the fifty U.S. states: Nevada, Oregon, Montana, and Delaware. Nevada could offer single game sports betting, while the others were limited to betting on multiple games simultaneous through a sports parlay lottery. Introducing the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) posed unprecedented challenges to the U.S. betting market. Yet, consumers' and…

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    Sports Fan Research Paper

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    In the world of sports there are millions of fans, of any team across all sports. As such every fan varies, because everyone is different in how they watch and represent their favorite team. Though there may be millions of completely different people all of these sports fan can be classified into 3 main types of sports fan. It is often easy to tell theses 3 groups apart. Firstly, there is the casual fan. This type of fan may have a favorite sports team, in one or maybe a couple of different…

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    Pursuing a Career in Sports There are hundreds of different types jobs under the category of sports. Out of all these jobs, the best choice is a sports agent. Sports agents act as both agents and friends to their clients. They negotiate contracts, salaries, and much more. A sports agent needs to go to college for four years after highschool and can be paid very well if they find the right environment. Sports agents are there for their clients on and off the field. They deal with all the legal…

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    In these Modern times, I don’t agree on the large salaries paid to athletes and movie stars. I am not against these jobs, but I feel more could be done with the salaries that are paid to these individuals. There are other work fields that are more serious and even harder than being an athlete or movie star. Being a movie star is not an overnight process, just going to an audition can’t guarantee you a job on the spot. Most movie stars had to start off with an agent. They get a script, usually…

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    Are Footballers Overpaid? How much money are footballers really paid? Footballers get overpaid way to much money for the answer. This is true because, playing soccer is for entertaining purposes, and skills only. Some soccer coaches think it is right to give the most money to just one footballer star of the team. The main truth for that to happen is unfair, because there are many young talented players that should get paid money, but not overpaid. The owners for the soccer teams should just…

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    Are Athletes Overpaid?

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    Are athletes overpaid? Depending on who you are, you might see them as people who play games, or you might see them as role models who bring joy to others. No matter which side you agree with, there is no denying that they make lots of money. Because they only play games, they make more than people who save lives, and they can go on to lucrative jobs, I believe that athletes are overpaid. First, athletes are only paid because they play games. Although they are at a high risk for injuries, people…

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