Plus college sports bring a school together. ... If college sports are taken away, then the students not playing sports are more likely to do bad things. Sports keeps them away from drugs and hanging around with a bad crowd. Sports has the potential to help turn bad people good. ... College sports are never going away. ...
The history of college sports has seemed to have created a booming industry of profit and franchises. ... It is a privilege for them to have a free education, but people fail to realize that these athletes have devoted their lives to their sports so they have earned their rights to a free education. ... I propose that theses certain schools draw up each sport's annual earning and divide it by the number of athletes, and then combine the numbers and divide it by the number of sports to come up with an even minimum wage. ... I propose that the athletes be paid to go to certain seminar...
In addition, colleges look for well-rounded and high grade-point-average applicants, hence, the students feel the pressure to participate in sports, community services, and school leaderships besides school works. ... Since the students are taking too many classes and participating with many other outside activities such as sports, volunteering, and leaderships, they do not have enough hours in a day to do all their works, so they cheat to keep their good grades. ... In additional, many students choose to take psychoactive drugs and become a drug abuser as a choice to reduce the stress. ... ...
The team's roster consisted of thirteen players whom were all attending the university on fully paid sports scholarship. In 1997 the team won the collegiate sports highest award, the Division One Basketball Tournament Championship. ... Many have turned to drugs and crime and one player even attempted suicide. ... (The majority of schools have established an academic average of 2.00 as suitable for participation in sports programs.) ... Learning institutions, which have sports programs, will be required to report directly to the commission on a quarterly basis. ...
While our communities are stricken with violence and drugs, many of our youth today do not have a positive example to follow. ... Many tax dollars and revenue seem to go to sports and lottery, and less of our money seems to be going into the education system. ... As teachers we should always find ways to open the doors to success for our children because if we don't some barrel of a loaded gun, drug pusher, abusive boyfriend, drug vial, handcuffs or deadly disease will forever close their doors to success. ...
This could be taught by sports or other friendly competition. ... This may seem like a large sum of money, but if you add up how much it costs to provide them care if they become addicted to drugs or alcohol, get put in prison, commit crimes, etc. it is much more. ...
One cannot but notice that we live in the waste Land 1 where cheating invaded our life: sports, video games, politics, financial industry and relationships. ... They believe that cheaters have no either choice since they are under a big pressure: if they don't cheat they have to stay awake, to take heavy drugs and energy drinks to finish their endless work. ...
According to King, stressed out students begin taking drugs or abusing alcohol in an attempt to cope with their financial and academic problems. ... Another way that working during school may be detrimental to a student's welfare is the lack of time for after school activities such as sports. ... Sports also help integrate needed social skills for everyday life. ...
