Wisconsin Badgers football

Due to football and basketball teams generating more money in revenue for the college, they would be paid more than the other sports teams; such as, volleyball, cheerleading, and soccer (Mendelson, Joel). Depending on what sport a student plays, he/she will be paid…

Do you ever wonder what the Universities does with all the money they get from selling tickets, jersey/ fan apparel, or signing lucrative contracts? The NCAA and Universities have been treating college athletes poorly. College athletes are not classified as employees but they do all the work an employe would do. College athletes do not get paid, only receive a scholarship to the university, and they receive all of the stresses and hardly any of the benefits of being a college. Athletes deserve…

College athletes dedicate on average 43 hours per week to their sport. This is not counting personal time, time spent on class, and time spent studying and/or doing homework. An average student spends 15 hours in class each week and spend 3.5 hours on assignments. With all this time spent on their sport, there is no time for a job. Also, many colleges don’t allow athletes to even get a job. Therefore, this leaves them with no money, or parents having to support their child even more. I think…

The documentary ‘Schooled: The Price of College Sports” directed by Ross Finkel, analyzes the perspective of the players in the argument of whether student-athletes should be paid for their services and performances in sport at the collegiate level. Throughout the film, the history of the NCAA is discussed along with its creation and reign to become a wealthy corporation. The documentary analyzes people such as Walter Buyers (Founder of the NCAA), Jonathan Franklin (Former University of North…

trade with any other franchise unless the player has enough power to put stipulation in their personal contract” (Witt, 2017, NFL Trading Rules). All college athletes when getting drafted into the NFL have no say as to what team pics them. A college football athlete has one of two options. Either they can play for the team that picks them or they don’t play at all. This too shows how not even in the sport of basketball but any sport that there is an ongoing plantation metaphor that still exists.…

After more than 20 years of education, a very well paid doctor makes average of a little bit fewer than 400,000 U.S dollars a year. Now imagine that, a man who saves the lives of people all the time, but yet only making that amount. The United States President only makes roughly 400,000 U.S dollars a year. A person with the responsibilities of an entire nation and another who is continuously saving the lives of many, yet the combined total of their salaries is about 800,000 US dollars.…

Jose Hernandez Mrs. Lozares English II 15 February 2017 The pursuing of my dream of becoming a pro soccer player 1. I am going to be talking about what I have been researching about the last week. In this research paper, I will be talking about my future career as an adult. The career I have been researching about has been a soccer player. Being a soccer player has always been my dream, ever since I was a little kid. As a kid whenever I would watch the games, I would always try to imagine…

Companies and organizations like the Veteran’s Administration, Apple, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, Wall Street, and Congress pay their interns through stipends which are not based on performance. The stipends are used to help them cover expenses that usually occur during their course of agreement. The website thepennyhoarder.com reports that some of these interns receive over $5,400 a month. College athletes should be paid because they spend hours laboring for games, they bring in an incredible…

Since the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act was signed into law in 1992, sports betting has been illegal in all but four of the fifty U.S. states: Nevada, Oregon, Montana, and Delaware. Nevada could offer single game sports betting, while the others were limited to betting on multiple games simultaneous through a sports parlay lottery. Introducing the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) posed unprecedented challenges to the U.S. betting market. Yet, consumers' and…

In the world of sports there are millions of fans, of any team across all sports. As such every fan varies, because everyone is different in how they watch and represent their favorite team. Though there may be millions of completely different people all of these sports fan can be classified into 3 main types of sports fan. It is often easy to tell theses 3 groups apart. Firstly, there is the casual fan. This type of fan may have a favorite sports team, in one or maybe a couple of different…