Professional sports

Addiction is taking over! Painkillers are another one of College and professional football’s vast problems. Recently illegal painkillers are being used. Several NFL football players take too much. Marcus Amos, who speaks at colleges and sport campuses about painkiller abuse through his prevention for athletes program says, “It’s a major problem!” Also Marcus Amos say, “But its like this potential addiction wants to be hidden.” Professional football players use lots of kinds of painkillers like…

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 Lebron James dedicates his life towards training and pushes himself to the limit never settling for less. So, the athletes who do…

Jumping the Hurdles: The Path towards a Successful Career Around the world college athletics have become as popular as or more so that professional athletic teams. The most common scrutiny towards schools participating in college athletics is the career readiness of their athletes. I believe that college athletic programs have not perfected career redness goals for its participating students post graduation because of the lack of career maturity of college athletes that has led to low…

Sharii, it is unfortunate that sports celebrities have an attitude of entitlement in regards to expecting immunity from criminal behavior on or even off the field. It also appears that some fans feel that they are an extension of this immunity. The incident you mentioned between Bertuzzi and Moore was absolutely brutal. I agree that Bertuzzi assaulted Moore with malicious intent and he should be culpable! Moore was left brain damaged, his career was over, with his disability hindering him…

when you grow up? Most children want to be a college athlete and later become a professional athlete. Because of Title IX, young women have the opportunity to compete at a college level. It is important to push colleges to treat their athletes equally because we want female athletic participation to keep increasing. There is absolutely no reason that women should not have the same opportunities as men to play college sports. Female athletes are humans, we have ten fingers, ten toes, and red…

As we look deep into sports in our society today, we discover there are many aspects to the athletic world that are often hot topics, or controversial issues. One of the biggest, most popular topics in the society of sports is whether performance enhancing drugs should be legalized and used, or banned altogether. In my own opinion, these performance enhancing drugs should not be legalized, or allowed in the world of sports. There are many reasons that the use of performance enhancing drugs…

school, which leaves these athletes free to attend school while making unfair amounts of money. Inclusively, these college athletes should not be paid because their cost of living is significantly cheaper. These students are strengthening their non-professional athletic ability, and should be focusing on their education instead. College athletes should not be paid because of their cost of living is cheaper. The school pays for living quarters on basic campus traveling gas, money,…

Americans love high performance and we love technology. Why, then, do we get our knickers in a twist when professional athletes—think Lance Armstrong or A-Rod—turn out to have achieved their great feats with a boost from performance-enhancing drugs and other banned technologies? Not everyone turns up their nose when a high-profile athlete dopes. Some offer excuses: the pressure to perform is overwhelming, and the rewards are too tempting to resist. We allow special diets, scientifically…

Have you ever been watching a college sporting event on television and wondered how much the schools actually gain on having these sports? Well the answer to that question really is not that much. In 2010 the average net revenue of division one college football was 3.15 million, but 43 percent of the schools in division one had an average net revenue of 2.87 million in losses (Chua). This is because the schools that play in the bowl games end up spending more to play the football games then what…

of the highest paid coaches throughout all football programs in the nation at nearly four million a year (Yost). Now, where is this money coming from to pay all the coaches for the different sports? For example, Alabama has a $70 million athletic budget that goes towards paying all the coaches for their sports, and other necessary things (Yost). Now, how will these programs be able to pay their coaches on top of paying their athletes? Well, the answer is pretty simple, they would not be able to.…