College athletics

Claudia Wilken’s ruling in O’Bannon v. National College Athletic Association. Judge Wilken’s ruling in the case was truly monumental; it not only irreversibly altered the NCAA’s current student-athlete compensation policy but it also represented a defeat, or at the very least a non-victory, for an organization that had emerged victorious in all previous student-athlete compensation-related court cases. The implications of O’Bannon v. National College Athletic Association are certain for the…

Intercollegiate Athletics: A Worthwhile Pursuit Working in the intercollegiate sports sector is challenging due to academic integrity issues and complying with NCAA rules and regulations. Just ask John Bailey, who was interviewed via email on September 28th, 2016 at 12:30 p.m., due to the experience, expertise, and advice he can offer someone pursuing a career in intercollegiate athletics. Ultimately, although contending with academic integrity and complying with NCAA rules and regulations is…

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…

scholarship, the talent possessed by them brings in a wealth that outdoes the amount of their scholarship. Being a college football or basketball player can be a full-time job. These players invest their lives in the sport they play; some athletes can spend insane amounts of hours on one sport. Athletes spend time in their sport and also have classes to tend to every day. Because college athletes have been bringing in billions of dollars annually for their universities; it is time they should be…

all this work was even worth. Many college athletes put in work from a very tender age, then continue to work their entire lives to have the opportunity to play in college and one day possibly have the opportunity to play the sport they do not only love, but something that they sacrifice for on a daily basis thought-out their lives. The on-going debate of college athletes being compensated for their time and long “job-like” hours that athletes put into their athletic careers is a heated one,…

Introduction: The concept of character is not new; however, many college sports programs focus not only on building winning teams, but also building strong character in athletes. For instance, not all college athletes get the chance to play professional; therefore, coaches strive to implement characteristics in their athletes to be successful on and off the field. Why is this prevalent? While it is true that the origin for this phenomenon lies in traditional beliefs that character trumps talent…

training while playing and maintaining their studies. In the article Are players School Employees? by Reed Karaim shows how students have the right to unionize, along with class-action lawsuits demanding more compensation and better treatment for college athletes, has amplified debate over whether they should be paid. Reed Karaim discusses how the top of collegiate competition deserves greater compensation for their efforts rather than scholarships. Meaning these athlete’s deserve…

tradition of regarding its athletes as amateurs needs changing. That is to say, college degrees should not be the sole reward student-athletes receive for their services to schools. Having a college degree is not nearly as valuable as it once was (Siebold, par. 4). Bachelor’s degrees are now quite common, which devalues them dramatically. For too long, the NCAA has refused to regard sportsmen as employees of schools. College leaders dismiss the idea of classifying student-athletes as…

College is very important and plays a major role for anyone that attends. It is where they learn life lessons, and find out who they really are as a person. Very few people are fortunate enough to be able to go to college, much less being able to continue to play sports. College can be very expensive for some people but some can also use their talent from the sport to get scholarships. Which brings up the reason of why college athletes should be paid. Most of the athletes aren 't able to receive…

For many years, the debate on if college athletes should be paid for publicity has raised controversy throughout society. According to the NCAA, Division I and Division II schools provide $2.7 billion in athletic scholarships annually to more than 150,000 student athletes (“Recruiting Fact Sheet,” 2016). Yet, sports administrators argue that paying for athlete’s college tuition simply is not enough as the athletes publicity is producing revenue for universities and the NCAA (Breslow, 2013).…