English 102 19 November 2002 Working Your Way to Becoming A Pro Football Player Anybody in this class could be a football player, but not just anybody can make it to the pro, or even play here at Urbana University. ... Most people play football while they are young, and it is just something to do. ... Now football becomes second nature to you. You eat, breathe, and talk football. ... This is the ultimate part of the game of football. ...

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One thing I liked about starting middle school was the option to play football. I took part in the football athletics program my 7th grade year. ... I enjoyed playing football my 7th grade year, but decided not to play in 8th grade. ...

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At the beginning of my freshman year I couldn't wait to play football, but my real love was track and field. ... Yes I played football as well I am competing in track, but the atmosphere is completely different. ... I was told that track at my school was just as big as football and I loved football. ... So the things that I had heard about track being as important as football at my high school was not the case. ... We never had a weight program in high school for track or football we were just expected to lift on our own. ...

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At my high school, football was everything, and the entire town supported the local team. In the summer, merchants would run special football promotions. ... If they talked about football at all, they usually discussed the regional college teams. ... When I met with the coach before school started, he told me the football team was weak. ... He made it clear that I would play football only as long as my grades did not suffer. ...

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I feel that my experiences as a varsity football and basketball player have given me a firm foundation for the person I am today. ... Also, through my participation in football, I have visited several local elementary and junior high schools on numerous occasions to stress the importance of academics. ...

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What Will I Do Over In life, people make mistakes. From time to time you are asked," if you had a chance to do some things over again what would you do?" So, the things I would do over are my junior year in high school, senior year, and my freshman year in college. These things are the most likely...

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Large Colleges versus Small Colleges When choosing a college, one should take many aspects into consideration. Consider such things as location, majors and minors offered, campus size, sporting events, and student population. The most important feature is the size of the school and stud...

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Imagine life without college sports. You can't, right? I mean without college sports there would be nothing to watch on TV. I am obviously exaggerating, but if there were no college sports a lot more people would be found at home watching TV instead of g...

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When I played football in high school, the special treatment my teammates and I would receive the week of an important game was incredible. ... Three months after the football season I was caught for the same thing, and received an in school suspension. ...

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Until one day, we were asked to run the "Texas lap" in the field behind the school that connected San Carlos Elementary and JFK; the field mammoth - the length of two professional football fields. ... I learned how to play basketball, soccer, and football through athletics. Football was the first sport I joined because our school didn't have enough members to make a weightlifting team. ... Football like every other sport I played in middle school taught me discipline. ... First day of school and they had us already planning on going to football games to practice for the big competitions...

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"They came out with that the average football player is worth the amount of $120,000 for their big-time college and 265,000 for the average basketball player. ... Jim Bollman, the offensive coordinator of the Ohio State Buckeyes football team, told me that the football teams money that is received is used to pay for all thirty-six sports in the whole school. When I finally comprehended what the statement meant I came to the opinion that big time colleges, where football is the main sport, is where the athletes should be paid. But that's when I am hit with the question," isn'...

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The first question that came to mind was, "would there be a limit to playing High School football?" Now is the time for me to refute my parents because football is on the line. I knew I needed strong points to convince them that I was still able to play football. ... Now, 3 years later, my mother is stressing that I should not play football for Goleman Senior High School. ... He consulted with neurosurgeons and doctors specializing in Sports Medicine and they told him that there is no way I could play football. ...

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Do you remember when you went to your school football games and seen the schools mascots. Well how would you like it if the board of education said you were humiliating someone's cultural? The only way to fix it is to get rid of the mascot that has been symbolizing your school for the last thirty ye...

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Imagine being in a pleasant, deep sleep having no worries or anything to think about other than how you never want your dream to end, only because your mind has taken you to a place called paradise. Sounds amazing, doesn't it? Well now imagine this, dreaming about paradise and waking up to an annoyi...

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Learning School the Hard Way School is very important in our society today. More so then it has been in the past. Fifty years ago, you could not go to school and still be very successful. Today you could be successful without school but it would require a lot more work because you are competing wit...

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The "Dumb-Jock" stereotype originated in the 1930's when a football player at Ohio State College needed to pass an economic test to be able to play in the big game, so the whole class got together and tutored him for a week straight so he could play in the game. A classmate painted a portrait of this incident and called it "The Football Player." ... An example of the amount of money college's hand to their athletes is football players. NCAA allows 86 players to be on scholarship on a football team. Each year a coach is allowed to give out 25 new football scholarships. ...

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The "Dumb-Jock" stereotype originated in the 1930's when a football player at Ohio State College needed to pass an economic test to be able to play in the big game, so the whole class got together and tutored him for a week straight so he could play in the game. A classmate painted a portrait of this incident and called it "The Football Player." ... An example of the amount of money college's hand to their athletes is football players. NCAA allows 86 players to be on scholarship on a football team. Each year a coach is allowed to give out 25 new football scholarships. ...

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These sports include boxing, wrestling, football, rugby, ice hockey, and basketball (6). ... For example, if a booster club donates a van to a school, or leases a van, for use by the football team, the total value of the van or lease of the van should be included in the male column of the expenditures table under transportation in the school year in which it was donated. ...

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There's nothing stronger than a dream. Dreams are similar to goals in that you have to work hard to see them come true. Goals are the foundation of a successful life and remind me to keep focused, motivate me to excel, and allow me to maintain a good life balance For this reason, I strive to set s...

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The most common of these activities on Friday nights is football. ... 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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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. ...

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Slave Day Slave Day is a young adult novel written by Rob Thomas. It is very contemporary, and made me feel as if I were back in high school. This book tells the story of a single day from the vantage point of seven different characters. The day is Slave Day, a wacky fund-raiser at a suburban...

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Clean Up or Pay Up Clean Up or Pay Up is a great story for college administrators, staff members and students to read. This story explains how athletes are let through school without any education what so ever. The author, Louis Barbash, explains to the reader how college athletes are made to ha...

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"According to a recent study, just 22 schools profited from football during the 2009-2010 academic year" (Mendelson). ... If you start to pay the big sports, such as football players, then you would have to pay every single athlete; which could result in cutting the non-revenue sports such as lacrosse, swimming, and tennis. ... "The college athlete in tier one, division one sports, in sports such as football and basketball have spend 40 hours per week on their sport, more than a full time job" (Edelman). ...

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Other "typical" high school experiences such as, American football, high school formals, and teenage parties, further solidify the like-ness of Charlie to the target audience. ... Sam is introduced early in the film while Charlie was at a football game, talking with Patrick. ...

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