Should college athletes be paid? ... "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. ... Just for a second thin...

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The National Football League is the biggest, and by far the most popular sports league in the country. ... The first NFL championship conference winners were the unrivaled Akron Pros from Ohio, which is now the name of the college team the Akron Zips. ... Teams soon began drafting college players and eventually incorporated multiracial teams, though segregation was an issue for several decades. ... During this time, a rival professional football team known as the United States Football League posed a serious competitor to the NFL. However, the National Football League survived the competiti...

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American football is now intermingled into the psyche of the American people. ... Football is able to play very well into this kind of mentality. ... Football has become an avenue for social bonding. ... Football lends itself to bonding through the game experience as a fan as well. College football is an integral part of large university life in today's society with players being treated with nearly godlike status, with that same atmosphere extending to professional football as well. ...

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Notre Dames football team has helped develop a mystique that is very unique to the University. ... The football team fights through all of the prejudice they face. ... Contributing to the allure of Notre Dame is a program filled with accomplishment and their football. Football at the University of Notre Dame is so special because of what they have been through. ... The football team was often mocked and despised because of their ethnicity. ...

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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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Timmy was the star on Sino High School's football team. Timmy and his family prayed he would get a scholarship to play football in college. ... Based on Timmy's sophomore and junior years of football at Sino High School, most people were pretty confident Timmy would be offered a scholarship somewhere to play football. He had been recruited by college coaches since his sophomore year. ... After his injury all colleges lost interest in recruiting him to play football for them. ...

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For example, with sports, schools would never sacrifice the football team to save the art club. If a football team were lacking, the money would somehow show up. ... Many young children are encouraged to find activities that they are interested in and excel at, from football to dance to community service. ... The University encourages creativity, and is very much based on it, being a liberal college. ...

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Specifically, one commercial used animations to show a football player pop out of a magazine and use a Budweiser beer bottle cap as a football to play against another animated football team. ... The first thing I saw was a attractive blonde girl, wearing pink lingerie and holding a beer, then the words "college and free". These words made me want to continue reading the flyer because I am a college student and the word free is always good. ... From personal experience, college students are on tight budgets and looking for deals like this one the bar is offering. ... I then wondered...

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"Colleges have dropped more than 400 men's athletic teams in order to produce precise proportionality between men's and women's enrollments and men's and women's rates of participation in athletics" (Will). ... According to the NCAA's Gender Equity report, over the last 10 yrs., an average of 30 male athletes have been lost per college campus each year, compared to only gaining 7 female athletes. ... Big time football usually carries the most in a schools athletic program, the most expenses, the most players, but also the most revenue. Often times the footba...

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Lacrosse Speech There are professional hockey players, professional football players, and professional soccer players. ... Lacrosse is a mixture of three sports hockey, football, and soccer. ... It grew so popular that college teams started forming in the early 1900s. ...

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At times I also wanted to be black, because I loved playing sports and I wanted to one day become a professional football player.go pro to the NFL one day. ... In college, Pham did well excelled in school makingattaining membership in Phi Betta Kappa, and eventually then landing a good job out of collegesecured an engineering position after college. ... When it came around to colleges, I did not get into any but the easiest state school. ... I decided to go to the local city college in San Francisco, only because they had the best football team in the nation for city colleges. I did better...

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This issue has been on the forefront of college campuses the country over; this issue is gender equality in sports, introduced in 1972 as Title IX of the Education Amendments, was put in place to set standards for universities; stating in short that no person in the United States on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation, nor be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program receiving federal financial assistance (collegenews). The basis of my arguments will be the pros and cons of men vs. women in sports and the impact that women have had on ...

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Introduction Athletes have been taking performance-enhancing drugs in different forms for centuries; the furthest dated supplement used to increase performance was used in Ancient Greece, when they would ingest doop with the hopes of increasing their performance and becoming some of the first Olym...

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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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In a study stated by the Equity and Disclosure Act on Community College intercollegiate athletics, Castaneda, Katsinas, and Hardy (2008) report that inequity is found most in the National Junior College Athletic Association when dealing with the salary difference among the coaches. ... For example, football has the highest budget of male sports compared to women sports whose highest budget team is basketball. That being said, football spends about an average of $100,000 per year where the women basketball teams has an expense of about $38,7033 (Castaneda, Katsinas, and Hardy 2008, p.95). ...

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Engineers are individuals who went to college and graduated with degrees after four or more years of demanding schoolwork. ... I am going to take a stab in the dark here and say that most "sanitation engineers" did not go to college; many probably didn't even finish high school. ... In the National Football league you have The Kansas City Chiefs and Washington Redskins. ... The list is endless if you figure in all the High School and College mascots. ...

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One path is to get a college degree in Business or sports management or even both. ... Especially today when the NCAA has implemented a 1 year minimum eligibility for college in basketball and also 3 years to play for college football. ...

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Many college students/athletes are now getting involved in this sort of gambling. ... It found that 33% of males and 15% of females in college gamble at least once a week. ... Many cases of college athletes loosing eligibility over gambling exist. One in particular was at a Division I university where student athletes lost 20-30% playing time in a season over betting on professional football and basketball games. ... So in essence, the poor pay for the wealthier students to go to college. ...

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The Roaring Twenties The Roaring Twenties was a decade of fun and general good feeling in the United States. The country was caught up in new music, new dances, new games, blossoming literature, different fashions, new heroes and heroines, and booming business that left everyone with a good fee...

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Fair amounts seek jobs to pay for necessities: car insurance, clothes, and college expenses. ... For example, high school senior Brian Holle gave up playing football to work at his time-consuming job at Jiffy Lube. ...

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TEN MAJOR EVENTS THAT SHAPED THE UNITED STATES Over time instances occurred throughout history that affected the United States, for the good and bad. They affected many people emotionally and physically. The following ten events have affected the nation culturally, politically, economically, ...

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Aside from professional sports teams having offensive names, high school and college teams also have offensive names. ... There are other offensive team mascots aside from Indian mascots as the Imperial Valley College Arabs and the Hollywood High Sheiks. ... Like at a football game when a team is playing another team with a Martin Luther King Jr. mascot, they might have a sign that says "Murder the Kings." ...

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Aside from professional sports teams having offensive names, high school and college teams also have offensive names. ... There are other offensive team mascots aside from Indian mascots as the Imperial Valley College Arabs and the Hollywood High Sheiks. ... Like at a football game when a team is playing another team with a Martin Luther King Jr. mascot, they might have a sign that says "Murder the Kings." ...

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Many people believe that affirmative action playing a role in admissions acceptance for minorities to selective colleges is taking away future learned skills from others. ... UCLA School of Medicine accepted twenty-seven blacks while admitting no whites or Asians with GPA's of 3.24 or below and Medical College Admissions Test scores of 93.4 and below. ... If you are fortunate enough to graduate from college, you will begin applying for the job that you went to college for. ...

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A survey in 1970, showed that five American universities had at least 15% of college athletic abusers. By the year 1984 20% of college athletes were using steroids (Koziris. 2000). ... It is not only the football player or weight lifter or sprinter who may be using anabolic steroids, nor is it only men. ...

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