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This story begins on a hot, summer Sunday on a neighborhood playground in Ponte Vedra Beach Florida when I was a kindergartener. The playground had one item that I liked the most which was a thing that you would hold onto then someone would push you across ten feet while your feet were hanging down. My dad came up to push me and might have pushed me a little too hard. When I got to the end of the line there was a rubber block that stops you very abruptly. Due to inertia, I was flung off of the…

The special treatment of college athletes in academics is helping them now, but is hurting them for the future. Numerous studies and records show that these athletes start off college unprepared and continue throughout college on the same level. With a lot of side corruption happening they are able to play for the school and not learn a thing. Yes everything is peaches and cream now, but what’s going to happen when they start looking for employment? Reports given by the College Sports Project…

Do you think that college football players should get paid while still in college? There have been many debates on this topic with people thinking it will have a negative impact on the college football games like it will turn into the NFL (National Football League). Issues of gambling will come to people’s minds when paying college football players like point shaving. Many universities make a lot of money off their football programs. It’s fair to say that players should get some money from the…

My half brother, Michael, has always been a very independent individual. Throughout the years, he played the role as big brother and as a dad, since mine hadn’t been around often and Michael is nine years older than I am. Because we were so close, he was never known as my half-brother, only as my older brother. Generally speaking, growing up with a drug addict father, like Michael did, his life would be more difficult since he had an addictive personality already. Teenage years were the…

fun things. We could go to Hayward and shop more often. We could canoe down the Namekagon River again this year. We could even go to Spooner, Wisconsin to go go carting occasionally. We can go four wheeling a couple nights a week. We could go to Florida every year instead of every two years. If my parents had more money we could go every year and take a plane. We go every two years because we don’t have enough money and we have to drive and that takes a while. If we went every year we could go…

From the beginning Aaron Hernandez was destined to be a great football player. He had all the athletic skill in the world and had the physical size to back it up. He had made a name for himself since his high school days, breaking and setting state records, and then in college he boasted that he would eventually make it into the NFL. That day did come but in a matter of seconds Aaron Hernandez threw that privilege all away; one bad decision has now altered his life path. He had gone from a $40…