Northwestern Wildcats football

The single cost for a minor injury in a high school sport is $709 dollars. Just imagine how much a professional player's injuries would cost! Pro athletes deserve every penny they get because of their hard work. Professional athletes have to do a lot of things to gain and sustain their salaries. People think pro athletes are just entertainment. but they play for the love of the sport. Professional athletes are undoubtedly not paid too much and they deserve every penny they get because they have…

In today's society watching or playing sports is most people's favorite “leisure” activity. Many people will choose a team as a youth and root for them for the rest of their life regardless of the team’s abilities. These lifelong obsessions include both professional and college level teams. In amateur sports, regardless of how many billions of dollars are passed around between the NCAA, its broadcast partners, and various sponsoring corporations, the players themselves still make no money.…

the revenue made by the NCAA comes from the Men’s Basketball Tournament. This tournament pays for other championships and funds the conferences. However, my favorite question of the night was when Emmert was asked why the NCAA is not in charge of football. Emmerts response was “Lawyers and the rest was history”. He did not go into it after that and I thought that was hilarious. The rest of the questions asked by the Professor were questions you would expect, but one of his answers really got to…

Collegiate and high school baseball are very similar but also have many differences within the two levels. Both levels of baseball players have to work as hard as they can every chance they get, which come into play with the players earning their positions. There are also many differences between collegiate and high school baseball, there is better competition in collegiate, and the work ethic is much different. Collegiate baseball has a year round program while high school does not. The…

“In the high school ranks, players are just getting their feet wet in the world of boosters, gifts under the table or losing a game on purpose” (Monroe 46). Sports is definitely a game on and off the playing field or court. You have to take what you can get while the getting is good or you will be broke wondering what happened to your chance at being a star athlete (Fuller 86). Today’s athletes are pampered beyond belief and think they should be treated differently simply because they were given…

Kids all around the world have heard the phrase in almost every language known to man, but is it really true? Do your parents really know what's best for you? After reading ‘How Soccer Explains the American Culture Wars’ by Franklin Foer I realized that sometimes this is not the case. From Foer’s experiences I could tell that sometimes when his parents thought they were doing something that would benefit him, they were actually harming him. They subconsciously convinced themselves that Soccer…

Etreece Adams Professor O’leary English 102 1 March 2016 College sports have grown enormously in the eyes of sports fans over the years. The results from the growing fan population has increased revenues for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Many colleges with the increasing fan population has started a new debate whether college athletes should be compensated beyond their athletic scholarships. The questions are left open to whether college athletes should get…

The idea of recruiting at Universities and Colleges in the United States is the process wherein college coaches, of all sports add possible athletes to their roster during off season. This idea of recruiting allows coaches to seek out the top potential athletes to come and attend their university while playing on varsity sport teams. During this process coaches get the opportunity to change high school and junior college athletes lives by awarding them athletic scholarships, that covers; tuition…

In the United States, the idea of playing sports is ingrained from a young age. With the combination of the education system’s gym curriculum and media coverage of many different types of sports, many children will decide at a young age that they want to become a professional athlete. Although many universities offer athletic scholarships for those pursuing a professional sports career, it’s often not enough to cover the full costs of a college education. The simple solution would be to pay…

How do you feel about athlete’s high salaries? Do they get overpaid? Well, in my opinion I think athletes deserve the money they get paid. For example, athletes put their whole life towards training, athletes can only play for a limited amount of time so they need high salaries to carry them through the years they do play, and sports are their passion so it should pay off for them. Athletes get a lot of money to play sports, but they put their whole life towards training. For example, athlete…