To substantiate this point follow the path of the Arkansas men's basketball team. ... In 1997 the team won the collegiate sports highest award, the Division One Basketball Tournament Championship. ... Only one of those players was drafted and he was later released before he played a single professional game. ...
"PED (performance enhancing drug) abuse has caused many baseball enthusiasts to question seriously the validity of players' accomplishments and, consequently, the integrity of the game.... To sum up, the mass majority of young athletes today have one or many professional athletes, such as a football, baseball, or basketball players, in which they admire, and all in all look up to as a role model. ... I am paid to wreck havoc on the basketball court....
Over the years, professional athletes have gone from playing for the love of game to playing for the love of money. ... A so-called player can be placed on injured reserve and use television time to be on pre-game shows, or pursue acting or singing careers during this time... Yes, If a seventeen-year-old basketball player from Mauldin, South Carolina, can be drafted out of high school and command annual salary of millions and millions of dollars a year, not including the endorsements, I would say yes, they are over media sized.. ...
