I have won multiple athletic awards in football, basketball, and baseball. ... I have taken a total of six (AP) classes and one college math class (pre-calculus) during my four years of high school. ... Goals - Short-Term My short-term goals are to earn acceptance to college and earn a scholarship to play baseball. I have completed numerous college applications and I have gained acceptance to several colleges, which includes but is not limited to, Coastal Carolina, George Mason, High Point, Jackson State, and Salisbury. I have also received several scholarship offers to play football and bas...

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Football was all white. ... He was good enough that he earned a college scholarship to play baseball at Pasadena Junior College. ... Most recently, this topic has been debated in the National Football League. ... "According to the Black Coaches Association (BCA), ethnic minorities represent only 2.7% (15 of 547) of head coaches at all National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) institutions (not including those coaching at historically black colleges and universities), while ethnic minorities make up more than 50% of the student-athletes playing college football" (Graves, Jr. 1). ... A...

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He competed in football, baseball, basketball, and track. ... He set many records in track, baseball, and football. Babe Horrel wanted to recruit Jackie from Pasadena Junior College. ... He played track, baseball, basketball, and football. ... Jackie decided to drop out of college and join the army. ...

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While at UCLA, Jackie Robinson became the first athlete to win varsity letters in four sports: baseball, basketball, football, and track. In 1941, he was named to the All-American football team. Robinson was unable to complete his college education due to financial problems, so he then went on and enlisted into the U.S. ...

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Since then, organizations such as the National Football League and National Collegiate Athletic Association have also put drugs on their lists of banned substances. ... They can get full scholarships to colleges through a mix of cheating and talent. ... A drafted football player from a High School to a NFL (National Football League) team can already rely on the use of drugs to reach success. ... I"m not going to spend the next two years training- away from my family, missing my college education-to be an Olympian and then be cheated out of a medal by some guy from Europe or Asia who is on ...

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Imagine playing in front of three thousand screaming fans just waiting for you to do something spectacular. Imagine being swarmed by the media after stepping out of your thirty two thousand dollar car, leaving practice to go to a photo shoot for the cover of Sports Illustrated. This mu...

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In 1921 Lou attended Columbia University to study engineering, and to play baseball and football. ... McGraw wanted Lou to get professional experience although it was illegal for a college athlete to play a professional sport. After playing 12 games Gehrig found out playing pro ball while still in college is illegal. After college coaches saw his name on the pro-teams roster he was ineligible from playing at Columbia again. After college in 1923 Lou signed with the New York Yankees, batting well and showing promise. ...

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It is not uncommon to hear of football players being drafted into the National Football League after playing only two or three years of Collegiate level football, or a basketball player playing in the National Basketball Association straight out of high school. ... An aspiring baseball player must compete and excel at both the high school and college level before he is eligible to play in a three tier amateur division of Major League Baseball called the Minor League. ...

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Jackie Roosevelt Robinson was born on January 31, 1919. He was born on a farm in Georgia. People called him Jackie. His father left his family when he was 1 years old. His mother worked hard to support the family and she was the most important person in his life. After Jackie graduated from...

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Jackie Robinson (1919-72) Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia., on January 31, 1919 to Jerry and Mallie Robinson. He grew up in Pasadena, California. In high school and at Pasadena Junior College he showed great athletic skill in track, basketball, football, and baseball. He left scho...

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Football players pound each other for about five months each year while playing one game per week. Basketball and baseball players play a much longer season then do football. ... The twenty-one year old phenom who did not even go to college signed that contract after he turned down a $103 million offer over six years (Infotrac). ... Ticket prices have almost doubled for professional football games in the last ten years. ... For example, in the most popular incident of them all, in 1994, the outstanding football player O.J. ...

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Not long after the family moved to Pasadena, California Robinson's mother enrolled him into Pasadena Junior College. At Pasadena Junior College Robinson set a National Junior College record in the long jump of 25' 6 ½- (Ringer 22). After only one year at Pasadena Junior College Robinson received an athletic scholarship to UCLA (23). ... Robinson was a standout in football, baseball, basketball and track (26). After three years of college Robinson left college to work to support his mother (29). ...

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Jackie Robinson excelled in four sports at Pasadena's John Muir Technical High: football, basketball, baseball and track. He went on to Pasadena Junior College, where he set a National Junior College record in the long jump of 25' 6 ½- before accepting an athletic scholarship to UCLA. ...

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Jackie Robinson was born Jack Roosevelt Robinson on January 31, 1919. He was the youngest of five children. His father, Jerry abandoned the family and ran off to Florida. Jackie's mother Mallie was left to raise her five children alone. In the Spring of 1920 a year after Jerry left, Mallie moved ...

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While attending there he won letters in football, baseball, basketball, and track. ... Even today the Jackie Robinson Foundation continues to fight for human dignity and brotherhood by supporting college-bound minorities and poor people seeking to develop their potential. ...

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As stated in the Dictionary of Sports Quotations, by one of Sports Illustrated's writers in 1968, "Sports has increased the opportunity of the Negro, and other minorities, to go to college" (9). These disadvantaged children, look at the status of these icons, and think to themselves that by playing basketball or football, etc., they could also be there in years to come. ...

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"Money makes the world go 'round." Sports could not exist without the presence of money. You have high paid athletes asking for multi-million dollar contacts, while at the same time you have doctors not even making close to that amount. There are corporation buying out sports teams, buying stadiums, and buying everything that has to do with sports. Someone may ask why they do this. ...

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