Shortly after, other college sports emerged such as football and basketball. ... Post season football games were held with little control and many other schools were becoming members of the NCAA. ... According to a chart on USA Today (n.d.), the top college football revenue for this year was the University of Texas with a profit of 18,883,901. ... Many college coaches get paid just as much as professional football coaches, yet, the players are still considered amateur. Pro football players are more experienced athletically and reach a wider fan base, therefore, they should be paid more. ...

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Philadelphia Eagles football club Brewer v. ... Philadelphia Eagles Football Club A ground breaking case holding that professional athletes are public figures is Chuy v. Philadelphia Eagles Football Club. ... After he suffered a shoulder injury, he developed a pulmonary embolism which forced him to retire from football. ... An in Donald Chuy's case his ability to continue playing professional football, sports lovers had significant interest. ...

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Loving something is loving it from the very first time you experience it. This is true with "backyard sports"; sports like football, baseball, basketball, soccer, or any other of the activities that children play in the yard. Playing these sports as a child is fun. No one is considered "inferior"...

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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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Some of the major topics in the field right now are: the long term effects from concussions on soccer players, overworking the shoulder in baseball, long term effects from chest injuries in football, reoccurring oankle sprains, and ACL and MCL injuries to female athletes. ...

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One study found, "Each individual football player was nearly 20% more likely to experience a concussion than a girl playing basketball" (Ganley 274). In fast paced games like football where there are a lot of athletes running in and out of plays, it is critical for coaches and medical personnel to recognize the signs of injury and immediately pull the athlete out of the game. Brain injuries are the most serious type of injury that can be sustained at any level of sports, from backyard hockey up to professional football . ... An example of this is the NFL's marketing and training...

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Author of "College Sports and the Myth of Amateurism"," Allen Sack, writes on his own experiences as a scholarship football player at the University of Norte Dame. "Not receiving additional payments for my performance on the football field showed me that education was the real reason I was in college and that we are not professionals, because the majority of us are not going on to play at the professional level " (Sack). ... " She calculated the bill for a Division I football team traveling from the east coast to Los Angeles. ... In the 2007 football season a total for all of the NCAA team...

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Athletics have become more and more competitive each year that most athletes look for that extra edge to get ahead of their competition. In some cases this could be a good thing, but in most cases this turns out to be the downfall of a tremendous amount of athletes. It seems like everywhere you lo...

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It is Heinz Field in downtown Pittsburgh-- better known as "Blitzburgh" to football diehards-- Heinz Field, in the midst of a gameplay moment of wringing suspense: to the team's rabid fans, a moment of epic proportions. ... The institution of professional sports in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Steelers" football, Pirates" baseball and Penguins" hockey, has added much more to the city than a pleasurable pastime for the local sports fans; it has caused an increase in charitable works, a strong, amiable sense of community and union, as well as a source of role models for young, aspiring athle...

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Tuning into a professional sporting event in the twenty-first century, a person might spot at least one of the following: a coach arguing with an official, a player arguing with an official, a brawl between players, or a player being ejected from the game. This type of behavior perfectly demonstrate...

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High School Athletics: Good or Bad Influence? High School Athletics: Good or Bad Imfluence? " In America we have laws, laws against killing, laws against stealing, and its excepted that as a member of American society you will live by these laws. In West Canaan, Texas, there is another society, ...

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Today society is split in two when discussing professional athletes salaries. There are many who believe athletes are far overpaid while others feel as though athletes deserve the enormous amount of money they receive. There are many deciding factors to whichever side people decide to take, but be...

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Sports Figures as Role Models Since the beginning of time people have strived to be the best they could physically and athletically. Sports have always played a large role in society from the Primitive games to Greeks to modern day cultures. Through out time everyone has wanted to be the superstar ...

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Until the late 1970's it was unheard of to hold a coach or owner liable for the actions of a player. Players were seen as grown adults with an intricate skill and knowledge of their sports. They know fully well what actions can and cannot be committed and act on their own accord when they act outsid...

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The average salaries for professional athletes in 2001 were about 1.2 million in the National Football League, 4.2 million dollars in the National Basketball Association, 2.3 million dollars in Major League Baseball and about 1.5 million in the National Hockey League (Wuest 511). ...

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What separates college and professional athletes? The obvious answer is that professional athletes get paid for the sport they play but college students do not. In my eyes, this is strange; both groups are doing the exact same thing but college students are getting a degree while playing a sport. Co...

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Every year thousands of youth and high school athletes receive sports-related concussions. Concussions are among the most common and potentially among the most dangerous injuries high school and younger athletes receive. Recently concussions have been getting more attention from doctors and team tra...

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For my final capstone project, I have decided to pursue and research the sports agent industry and find out who the top agents and agencies are for professional athletes. Sports Agents are the backbone for any professional athlete looking to make it big not only on the field but also in the financia...

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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. ...

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Professional athletes are paid millions of dollars every year, and they deserve every penny of it. In this essay I will demonstrate to you the reasons that professional athletes deserve the high salaries that they are currently taking in each year. To do this the main question needing to be...

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In the past, youth sports used to be fun for everyone. Everyone would have an equal amount of playing time and winning wasn't everything. As Doug Abrams, a law professor at the University of Missouri scans through databases for reports of outrageous behavior at amateur sports events, he claims he ...

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History Seventy-five years ago, people would have to either go to a sporting event or read it in the newspaper to find out about the outcome of a baseball, football, and a basketball game, and a tennis and a boxing match. 1920 was when sporting events were brought through spark transmitters, code, and the converted telephone (microphone). ...

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Over the last two decades the growth of youth sports has reflected the popularity of professional sports in our society. Sporting events and news are available to the public twenty-four hours a day on television and radio: sports are an enormous industry. The outstanding popularity of the sports ind...

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Today sports rule the modern media. They are no longer played for the fun of the game, but for the love of the almighty dollar. Athletes are striving to be better than the best and putting their bodies on the line to achieve it. To be the best today in the savage world of sports, some ...

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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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