Men's Collegiate Lacrosse Association

Seats are filling up, butter soaks the popcorn, and skeleton shaking bass fills the room. The newest action movie featuring this year’s coveted super hero has arrived. Incredible strength, overwhelming speed, and mind bending flexibility, are all physical traits unattainable by the normal population. Viewers are mesmerized by the double life these characters lead. Similarly, miles away, a crowd roars. Not one seat is left unoccupied. Spectators watch their favorite athlete, clothed in his or her…

Have you ever watched football on t.v and wondered if the players on each team should get paid if you do not just set there and think about the time and hard work like training building muscle mass just to play for a professional football team,does it change your mind.I think the coaches and school should continue paying the players to play. One reason that pro football players should get paid is that they start in high school and play football in college then when…

“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,…

Cam Newton makes $53,000,000 a year for playing football. That’s $3,312,500 for one of his sixteen games. He is only one of the thousands of professionals being overpaid. I believe that professional athletes and performers should not make the amount of money that do on account of the other men and women who work harder, the money could be used in other ways, and trained athletes and performers influence kids in a negative way. To begin, professionals should not earn large sums of money…

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…

Schools spend an excessive amount of money on sports, and it really needs to stop. High school dropout rates are higher than ever, and it seems that no one even cares. The school system cares more about sports than the students’ well-being. Schools should cut spending on sports and use that money to educate the future of America. America is the only nation that puts its focus on sports instead of education. Because of this, students who play sports view school as a waste of time. They no longer…

Amateurism or Capitalism: A Practical Approach to Paying College Athletes I. Introduction: On April 7, 2014, the University of Connecticut (UCONN) men’s basketball team was poised to reach their goal of a national championship. The AT&T Stadium was packed with 79,000 fans who paid an average of about $500 to watch the Final Four games. CBS cameras were setting up on the sidelines; the network paid approximately about $800,000,000 a year for the media rights to show the NCAA Tournament on its…

Most families believe that some student-athletes should play, but finish college and join the workforce. The workforce isn’t that bad, but what if the athlete is one of the top ranked athletes in the whole nation? What if the athlete wants to make a lot money in a heartbeat? What if it’s the athlete’s childhood dream? This is why it is okay for college athletes to leave early and enter the professional’s. It is a really good benefit because it gives them a good sense of independence to build…

2015. Web 19 Nov. 2015. Economists believe college athletes should be paid. They claim it is unfair and illegal. The National Collegiate Athletic Association has argue students-athletes should not get paid. Students join sports voluntary. The purpose of the students-athlete is to get an education and not to attend to get paid playing sports. Most schools in the NCAA Division one would not able…

Almost all students want to go to college. Fortunately, in United States there are many ways to pay that expensive cost. In this country it is very easy to get some money or help to pay. Scholarships, working and saving money are some options that students have to go to college and get a higher level of education. To begin, scholarships are very easy to get. Students must apply for as many possible scholarships as they can. With scholarships students can go to college without paying back. It…