Keywords: College Sports, Labor Equity, College Athlete Pay College Athletes: Slaves to the NCAA "Every single time you step on the football field, in between those lines, you're putting your life, your career, and every single ligament in your body in jeopardy.... For years the NCAA acted solely as a board which oversaw the rules in college sports. ... This event created more committees in the NCAA and more sports began holding national championships such as the first basketball national championship in 1939. ... Once the NCAA was established, the colleges had a solid platform...

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• Grade Level: High School

The points on each side of the debate are valid, college sports are designed for amateur student athletes. ... The business of college sports becomes part of the pivotal policy making decisions of the regulatory bodies who legislate college sports and ultimately its participants- athletes and coaches, especially when it comes to football and basketball. ... "By the 1980s, intercollegiate basketball was one of the favorite sports in the nation. ... The NCAA, the National Collegiate Athletic Association, governing body of big time college sports is caught in its own web of tangled contradictions...

• Word Count: 3112
• Approx Pages: 12
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate