National Collegiate Athletic Association

paycheck of about $250,000 a year. College football players should not be getting paid more than an average person does in an everyday job. College athletes are not professional athletes, and if they get paid they may not work hard to get to the NFL (National Football League). If college football players…

play. One reason that pro football players should get paid is that they start in high school and play football in college then when draft day comes they hope and pray that they were good enough to get selected by the national football league to play for one of the teams.Then they train to build muscle and drop calories to meet the standards that the NFL wants them to meet in order to play.Then the players work on the of the position they play for example a wide…

“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…

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 platform. UCONN’s Shabazz Napier was preparing for the biggest night of his entire career when a reporter brought up the topic of paying collegiate athletes. Napier…

professional’s. It is a really good benefit because it gives them a good sense of independence to build wealth, a family, and many more luxuries in life. It also gives the athletes the power to study or do anything in preparation for when their professional athletic career is finished. The first reason why it is okay for college athletes to leave early and enter the professionals because it gives a good sense of independence to build wealth, a family, and the…

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…

televised games has been described as influencing fever and madness. During these discrete times, exposes and editorials proliferate, resolving in low graduation rates and the recruitment and commodification of young men and women simply for their athletic talent and potential. In society today, people believe that there is somewhat a commodity for black athletes. One might think that sometimes the black athletes…