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    imagination isn't it?[Flattery] As a soccer player i feel it is important to inform others of the unfair payment methods happening today.[Ethos] Because i am not a professional player I cannot talk from my own experiences, but i do play and understand the game.[Anecdote] But, according to the FIFA cooperation, well known professional player Alex Morgan, a player for the US National Women's Soccer Team, gets paid nearly $1,000,000,000 dollars a year. However, Christiano Ronaldo, a player for…

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    “deserve.” Not only are they wrong, but often times their greed can even take away the fun of the game for them and for the fans watching. In fact, combined salaries of the sports baseball, basketball, and football in America totaled nearly 9 billion dollars ("How Much Pro Athletes Pay in Federal Income Tax”)! Professional sports teams should not pay their players, even the great ones, as large of salaries as they…

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    In today’s society NFL athletes are idolized by so many people for many different reasons. Many people may ask themselves “why do we idolize them? All they do is run, throw, and catch a ball.” These NFL athletes are paid millions of dollars to play a game for our entertainment, which is why they may or may not be idols for the public. Do their “jobs” classify them as productive contributing citizens? For instance, do they even contribute to society in a purposeful way? Of course, these athletes…

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    of asking he says yes. Then your mom sees that you've mowed the grass and she takes you out to get your Ice cream. This is a perfect example of Professional Athletes that have used steroids to better their game. Now you might be wondering what does mowing the grass have anything to do with professional Athletes? We'll hear me out. Let's say a professional athlete is on his decline he's no longer the player that he use to be.…

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    steroids are that athletes feel like they’re under pressure, they feel like they’re not as good at the sport they play, or they want to be just like their opponents that might be taking these drugs. One of the biggest problems about the use of drugs like steroids is that athletes my age 16 and even older are beginning to take these drugs. In effect of professional athletes…

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    Steroid use in Sports have made every athlete skeptical when they perform exceptionally well because of the competitiveness, misconceptions, and athletes accused for steroids. Anabolic steroids have tarnished sports a lot recently throughout the years. It hurts the game especially, when a famous or top player takes anabolic steroids. Eventually, they get caught and is basically put to shame and everyone looks down at them after that. Steroids has been a problem since sports ever since athletes…

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    Dope Persuasive Essay

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    All around the world, sports are played to maintain physical fitness and competing to put one’s physical abilities to the test. Athletes everywhere dedicate themselves to their sport; training to be the best at what they do in order to compete and win. A majority of pro athletes spend their lives, or a big part of it training to make it to the top. Players who dope, or use performance enhancement drugs to better their physique and abilities, should be considered ineligible to participate in the…

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    Why Are Athletes Overpaid

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    athlete is paid for how good and talented he/she is. I believe only the best athletes who are at their prime are the ones who are paid the most, and every other average athlete make enough for a good living and with certain perks all professional athletes have. In sports usually the best athletes are the ones in commercials, tv shows, getting sponsorship deals, etc. , average athletes are not usually know and have small fan bases. The athletes who are in there best moment are the ones who get…

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    Why Do Athletes Do Drugs

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    American is known for its great culture, sports are certainly one of them. Most of the sport players get concerned very much about their career. They start to worry very much about either winning or competition and ultimately they want total legacy. Sponsors start to pretty much hype up the players which starts to make athlete even more worried about his abilities to do much better in sports and move up so he/she can get sponsored. Athletes start getting introduced into drugs for various amount…

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    According to ncaa.com, nearly 8 million students currently participate in high school athletics, only about 480,000 of them will compete in college sports. With that, only a fraction of them will achieve their goal of becoming a pro athlete. When I was younger I wanted to be a professional athlete, until I started getting involved in a variety of sports. I was pretty much sorted into a category of athletes at a young age wowing parents like the average sporty child was. Just like all kids, I…

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