College football is the most profitable of the collegiate athletics, but it has become a sham as the NCAA and other associations make millions of dollars off of an amateur athlete and coaches receive six-figure salaries, yet the athlete does not have the ability to profit. Essentially, college football represents unpaid labor in that the talents of the athletes are used to generate revenue for the NCAA and universities. ... Most college football players do not even reach the NFL, and their obscurity makes it much more difficult for them to pursue legal action for compensation. ... Luchs'...

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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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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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Within this essay I will talk about several topics such as my personal experiences which I have learnt throughout my first year of University, how I have managed with the different styles of learning compared to college, mine and other's knowledge of sport development and the effects history has had on it. ... These influences have been British Public Schools, boys playing football in school (use of rules/ control) the value was followed through to working environment/lives. ... Initiatives such as Sportsmark and Gold Star schemes were proposed to be awarded to schools that met specified...

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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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