Student athlete

10 Period 2 Research Paper March 2015 Pay for Play Whether or not college student athletes should get paid has been a hot topic recently, and it doesn 't look like it 's ending any time soon. This topic has been debated on ESPN, The Harlem Times, in educational institutions, and many college newspapers. Due to the numerous reasons for it and just as many against, it seems to be an ongoing cycle. These college athletes are basically working full-time jobs and gambling their physical health…

Should college student athletes get paid to Play? For quite some time now, there has been a big debate about whether or not college athletes should get paid. Some people believe that a scholarship should be payment enough. After all, a scholarship can be easily worth $15,000 - $25,000 or more per year, plus a career after college that can be worth a million dollars over a lifetime. Additionally, student athletes receive all kinds…

college student athletes do not get any money. Student athletes often put more emphasis on their lives as athletes than as their lives as students. Often times student athletes who do not get a professional contract after their eligibility is up, they do not have all of their credits to graduate and do not have enough money to pay to finish their degrees. The university does not care any more because they can no long offer the team anything. In even more unfortunate cases, if a student athlete…

Should performance enhancing drugs be illegal for student athletes? All the way back in 1865, “canal swimmers in Amsterdam and Holland were the first competitive athletes charged with doping” (ProQuest staff). During these time periods many of these athletes would mix cocaine and heroin to make a concoction called the speedball (ProQuest staff). These athletes would mix the substances to get the extra boost of performance for them to believe that they were at their best every competition. Many…

Why do athletes need more calories than an average student? How is the time involved with eating a healthier lunch? What does it take to pay for this expensive lunch program? Some students have already brought unhealthy foods to school and others, sometimes go off campus to get junk food. Consuming junk food helps some students have the energy to get through the rest of the day and others use it as a filler before practices and games that are after school. Although junk food is bad for people,…

Less than two percent of all student athletes in high school who got college scholarship make it to the professional level. The other 98 percent of these athletes who don’t get chosen to play professionally need to obtain have a good education so they can have a successful career after school. Otherwise, they are at a disadvantage. My point is that student athletes should first obtain and maintain passing grades in order to play sports in high school and college. Playing sports should be a…

speech. The main consideration I had was how hostile each audience would be depending on the speech topics that I selected. That was a major consideration I had to reflect on before I chose my topics. The topics that I chose were: Should NCAA Student Athletes be paid money for their efforts on the playing field or court? Sports besides baseball having a salary cap fair? Or the government imposing a ban on the use of smoking cigarettes in the United States. There are many challenges and…

their lives. Researchers also went a step further to find out what impact they think the chosen item/opportunity would have on their children’s life. Method Participants Participants in this study were University of Wisconsin-Stout student athletes. Six student athletes were selected, four males and two females; one from men’s basketball,…

are still to blame during the teenage years, sparing the rod on the false pretense that punishment is negative and can only lead to negative outcomes on the child’s psyche. Outside the home, teachers give grades to these students to be rid of them, which in turn makes the student believe that they deserve a passing grade simply because they’ve shown up to class. As they move into other parts of their lives as teenagers, these people do not get jobs because they are not required to pay for the…

boys in sports image. With respect to Wimbleton female tennis players have been playing in small colorful outfits that make them stand out in the courts. The sexualization of these athletes has added more pressure to fit into a specific mold. Implementing what is considered the female athlete triad. The female athlete triad includes eating disorders,…