Fictional amateur detectives

As Phil Jackson (basketball executive, former coach and player) once said, “Good teams become great ones, when the members trust each other enough to surrender the “me” for the “we”.” This quote proves that when teammates work together as one team, they achieve more than they would working alone, by themselves. Participating in team sports does help to build character. In the article, “Team Sport Build Character” by JuniorC, it shows great examples and reasons of why team sports build up…

Professional athletes are some of the most famous people in our country, and on top of that, they get payed a lot too. From NBA superstars like Lebron James to NFL superstars like Peyton Manning, they are idolized by many. People pay lots of money to watch them and spend lots of their time watching them as well. The question is -- are they paid and idolized too much? The answer is no, they are not. They are important to American culture, they worked extremely hard to get where they are, and they…

“Did you know that Americans spend more than $600 billion a year on legal gambling, making it by far the favored national pastime?” (Doyne, Shannon. "Should Sports Betting Be Legal Everywhere?"http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/. New York Times, 3 Feb. 2014) Over 118 million people have actually bet or placed money on actual sporting events, according to ESPN. Some people have dedicated their lives to fantasy leagues, betting various amounts of money at a time ranging from a couple of quarters,…

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…

The term soulmates has always flown about, scarf-like, through the whims of youth--as if tethered to some mythical upshot of the essence of life. But I know the truth. Oh, how they will tell tales of us, My Dear! How the pallid wash of grey-stone was enough to curse her alabaster heart. Perhaps they will liken me to a whisping strands of light caught thrashing against the estrangement of midnight. Oh, and in those stories she will be agile. One minute: a fragmented piece of daylight wrapped…

“Academics Over Sports” An anonymous source once said, “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” Creating a future is always difficult because a person does not know what they are interested in yet, but without a determined mindset, an individual will never get started. Laziness in school does not get a person substantially far in their lifetime because they fall behind in school and then in life after school. Scholars who are in sports tend to stay out of trouble more than…

The first reason is because the student athletes are defined as amateurs. Amateur is defined as a person who engages in a pursuit, especially a sport, on an unpaid basis. The NCAA has very strict guidelines that the students must follow if they want to participate in any athletics. In general, amateurism requirements do not…

Pro Wrestler Do you remember watching wrestling as a kid? Ever since I was a little kid I was all ways hooked on watching wrestling. I remember watching my favorite wrestler of all time Edge. I remembered as a kid all ways watching Edge and cheering for him I always liked "heels" more. If you don’t know what a heel is, it’s a "bad" guy in wrestling. But just being 5 or so, I knew nothing about the wrestling business just that they were fighting and wanted the championship. But now I now that…

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Overpaid Athletes Have you ever thought of how much money a professional athlete makes? The average NBA player makes $5.15 million and the president of the United States only makes $400,000. The player in the NBA makes the president of the United States look like he gets paid almost nothing. The money theses athletes are getting could be used for better things. This is why professional athletes are extremely overpaid. Decreasing the pay of professional athletes could hinder the performance of…