Athletics are a huge part of the university or college's income. ... Football and basketball are two major sports that result millions of dollars being directed to the school as a whole with only a small percentage going to athletics. College football programs across the USA average over 50, 000 tickets, not to mention the multi-million dollar broadcasting rights, and still the players don't ever see a cent of their hard work. An example of how college athletes struggle financially happened recently. A Kansas University football player was arrested for sticking his rear end up to the...

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XFL American football has surpassed baseball in recent years as "America's past time." ... There are also other football leagues available to the consumer such as the Arena Football League which was drawing over a million fans per season in 1999, college football, and the NFL. However, these other football leagues do not coincide with the XFL schedule. ... It is an attempt to create the most fun and fan football game, as none of the rules are actually created, rather they are borrowed from other leagues and assembled to create this new style of football. ... The football fan felt the...

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Harvard, Stanford, and Cornell College are all renowned colleges, but have you heard of the Electoral College? ... The Electoral College has no campus, meal tickets, football team, or even academics. ... The Electoral College is not actually a "college," it is a voting method. ... The Electoral College and popular vote have elected different candidates in history. ... The Electoral College also reduces voter turnout. ...

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Since the beginning of college sports, athletes have not been financially rewarded for their efforts. ... College athletes should be paid an allowance for participating in college athletics. ... Many argue that participating in college athletics is similar to holding a full time job, except without the financial benefits. For example, a male college football player is almost always doing something football related, with nearly all seven days a week dedicated to practice, film, running, or lifting weights - not to mention their academic responsibilities. ... Scandals like this not only risk rui...

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College basketball lives for a game scheduled on CBS or ESPN (highly recruited high school players are more likely to go to a team that regularly gets national television exposure), and I'd even go far enough to say that television coverage has dictated the pace and feel of American football. ... There is no serious objection however because without television, football simply wouldn't remain in the homes and hearts of Americans. ... Second, Americans love violence, and soccer doesn't deliver on that subject the way that American football and hockey do. ... America loves its foo...

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I've been taking part in various extracurricular activities like robotics,dance,football..Being on the football team has taught me many values such as team work, discipline, skilled thinking, perseverance and most importantly team spirit. ... My intended major is study business management.I am applying to the universities that appeal to me academically as well as culturally, so I've decided to apply to the Wharton School of Business, which has been my dream college since 8th grad. ...

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I have not yet accomplished my academic goals, as all along I've always viewed college as more of a stepping-stone to law school than a finish line. ... I've stayed consistent academically, as reflected by the fact that I've earned the same grades in college as I had earned in high school. ... I've learned from, and bonded with all sorts of different people, including the ever so passionate FSU football fan, to the dedicated and selfless community servants of the national service fraternity of Alpha Phi Omega. ... This proved to not only be the closest I could get as a c...

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Steroid maker and former body builder David Jacobs directed football players to use HGH during the season and to use steroids during the offseason. ... The Associated Press conducted an investigation, which closely monitored the situation going on in college football and based its results on dozens of interviews with players, testers, dealers and experts and a strict analysis of weight records of over 61,000 players. ... Players are more likely to test for street drugs by their colleges and universities than by the NCAA. But despite an overwhelming number of colleges and universities having p...

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Specifically, one commercial used animations to show a football player pop out of a magazine and use a Budweiser beer bottle cap as a football to play against another animated football team. ... The first thing I saw was a attractive blonde girl, wearing pink lingerie and holding a beer, then the words "college and free". These words made me want to continue reading the flyer because I am a college student and the word free is always good. ... From personal experience, college students are on tight budgets and looking for deals like this one the bar is offering. ... I then wondered...

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You see for a young African-American male with a dream, no college savings, and a resolve to win - I made a way in a very non-traditional way. Instead of the glorious path of chasing a football dream until no end, even if it meant moving 1,000 – 2,000 miles away from home, I had to be more creative concerning that phase of my dream career. Instead of a guaranteed ticket to being an Athletic Administrator through the small college route of being a student and playing football for example at places like – Northeastern University, Slippery Rock University, Salve Regina University, Sto...

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During the fall of high school, juniors and seniors aren't overly enthused about the upcoming choices for college, or any sort of schooling for that matter. ... The most common of these activities on Friday nights is football. ... Many other colleges are sought out for their outstanding sports teams or having the greatest music program, but few colleges make you feel welcomed. ... At first sight, it looks like any typical egg-shaped football stadium, but the full comprehension of beauty of this arena cannot be achieved strictly by admiring from a distance. ...

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Roy Williams Roy Williams when they hear his name some think of him as one of the greatest free safety to play the game of football, some think of him as one of the hardest hitting free safety of all time and some think of him as no one. ... Roy Williams is not just a football player but Roy Williams is a black man and helpful man and after Roy Williams signed his first pro contract he contributed 100,000 toward a new strength facility at the university of Okalahoma, which became part of the schools workout complex. ... As a college student Roy Williams majored in Sociology at O...

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Throughout the book, Homer supports Jim and his dream career in football and his desire to earn a football scholarship, although loved the mine and would have wanted his son to stay in Coalwood. When an unfair acclamation was directed towards the Big Creek High School football team and warranted no future games for them, Homer attempted to file a case and see a lawyer to allow Jim and his team to play in the state championship, although there was little chance. After eventually failing, Homer claimed he would pay Jims way through college, an act that showed just how much he thought of Jim. ......

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The very first cheerleaders were actually men, who began chanting encouragement to their Princeton college football team from the sideline. ... "While sports like football and basketball stagnated years ago, cheerleading is attracting new participants by the truckload; last year the four millionth cheerleader joined a squad. ... "In 2012 a federal appeals court ruled that colleges cannot count competitive cheerleading as a sport when trying to comply with gender-equity requirements, upholding a U.S. ... The WSF works tirelessly to convince colleges and universities that compliance ...

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While in Grammar school he also took a keen liking to sports, which would later lead to a college sports career and brief career playing professionally. ... While in his first year of College he lived in the dormitory alone because of segregation laws that were still in effect but Paul used this to his advantage because living by himself he was able to focus more on his studies. He later went on to be one of only 3 graduating blacks from College and still managed strive and surpass the level of educational excellency that his father and oldest brother had set for him. In college Paul was even...

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Brandon has recently graduated from college with a business administration degree; therefore, one would assume that Brandon would be interested in looking for a job associated with business. ... At a young age Brandon participated in sports such as football, basketball, baseball, soccer and tennis. ... Brandon spent numerous hours at the baseball field, basketball court, football field and tennis court coaching and mentoring the youth in his community and giving back the knowledge and work ethics that he had received from his coaches and mentors. ... As Brandon prepares to pursue his dream and...

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This issue has been on the forefront of college campuses the country over; this issue is gender equality in sports, introduced in 1972 as Title IX of the Education Amendments, was put in place to set standards for universities; stating in short that no person in the United States on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation, nor be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program receiving federal financial assistance (collegenews). The basis of my arguments will be the pros and cons of men vs. women in sports and the impact that women have had on ...

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The second hypothesis was that differences on the RLSS would occur among coaching levels: junior high, high school, and college. ... High school coaches scored much higher than college level coaches in democratic behavior. Junior high coaches were significantly lower in training and instruction than either high school or college coaches. Junior high coaches also demonstrated a lesser degree of social support than either the high school or college coaches. ... Certain coaching styles are more applicable for individual sports (wrestling, track, and tennis) than for team sports (football, ...

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Hearing this in my freshmen year at Fordham Prep. about a guy I played football with made me outraged knowing how hard he had worked in school and how incredibly high he scored on his boards, that anyone could ever infer he wasn't qualified. ... Situations like the hypothetical example proposed here only further racial tension and place distance between the races, only furthering racism, and making racial tension worse on college campuses across the U.S.. ... It promotes hiring of less qualified employees, and accepting less qualified students, because affirmative action makes colleges...

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Alcohol Advertisement Have you ever just sat there and watched Monday night football, or even on a Friday night, watched your favorite NBA team crush the opposing team? ... Beer and wine ads do make a difference only because that is one of teens" and college students" main source of "having a good time!" ...

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For thousands of years, athletes and coaches have held a belief that having sexual intercourse before an athletic event will decrease an athlete's performance. This belief stems as far back as 1st Century Greece and physician Dr. Aretaeus's words of how if a man desired to get the most strength out of his body, he must keep semen inside of him. Move forward nearly two millenniums and the basis of this myth and idea is still in play today. During the entire month of World Cup soccer matches, coaches forbade their players from having sex. ...

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" She also said that after she finished competing in the Olympics that colleges offered the best boy swimmers scholarships to continue their career in college, but for her there was nothing. She knew that to get a good job that paid decently that she had to further her education just as a man would, but she would not receive money from a college for her outstanding swimming, she had to pay for it herself. ... The OCR proposed regulations and interpretations to the colleges; also, they provided them with a set of tests and clarifications in order for colleges to gain an understanding of Ti...

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In the hopes of getting a head start in college, I took AP and Honor classes and worked hard to maintain a high GPA. ... I have strong work ethics and have been able to balance my academic and personal life in addition to devoting my time to extracurricular activities including tennis and football. ... After requiring an emergency hip surgery due to a football injury, I was nervous that my academic performance would be detrimental to my High Honor status. ...

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This fence keeps him naive as he fails to properly understand Cory's opportunity to play college football, resulting in Troy declining the coach's offer for Cory. ... When the fence was being built there was new life, an immature Cory who sees football as his only chance to succeed, but over time as the fence became completed, it brings death; death of the immature Cory but also new life to a mature Cory who finds his identity through the Marines. ...

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I played everything from volleyball to hockey and even some contact games, for example, rugby and football. ... For the past five years I have been participating in college and university sports and this has greatly exposed me the difference of good therapists, compared to bad ones. ...

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