Collegiate wrestling

When looking at the sociology of sports, I found that sociological theories of Karl Marks and of Feminism present the most useful perspective. Statistics show that there is gender inequality among many sporting disciplines in the United States, affecting not only women but also men. Also, there is a vast exploitation in the sporting industry, making a profit of sportsmen and consumers. Moreover, gender inequality and exploitation overlap in numerous sporting disciplines. In this piece, I will…

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…

” 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. 28,000-32,000 men and women get the chance to play at the collegiate level and only a handful of them have the opportunity to…

I’m going to write on the opportunity costs about playing a sport in college. I play basketball and as you probably know it takes up much of your time, usually about six or seven months out of the nine we are in school. The big opportunities that I lose out on are studying more, joining clubs or sororities, getting to know more people outside of basketball and spending time with family. I also lose out on some sleep during these months because there are early mornings and late nights. I know I…

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…

Collegiate athletes are some of the most important students at every university. They represent their school, and they are highly valued by the university they attend. “University of Missouri Campus Protests: ‘This is Just a Beginning’” explains that about thirty black Missouri University football players stated via Twitter that they would not participate in football activities until their president, Tim Wolfe, resigned for his recent mishandling of racial issues at the university. Soon after…

become more globalized as network and cable companies have fought to get college games on their programs and other corporations are looking to collegiate programs for sponsorship opportunities (Masteralexis, Barr & Hums, 2012, p. 174). The most well-known division of intercollegiate athletics is the Division I program of the NCAA. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is an organization of 1,273 college institutions that is responsible for creating the rules that these…

be compensated? While this topic has really heated up in recent years, the term education or exploitation seems to accumulate. College athletes have often been exploited for their talents rather than receiving a profitable education. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a billion dollar organization that is responsible for regulating college athletes and athletic programs of universities across the United States (Should). The NCAA generates billions of dollars a year and the…

Athletes getting paid to play has been discussed for long time now. College athletes feel as if they should be played to play since they are bringing in millions of dollars to the university. Some college athletes feel like they should be getting paid because they are the reason that the university is making millions of dollars, but the university doesn’t feel like they should pay them because they gave them a scholarship that covers the athlete’s tuition, housing and other things too through…

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…