... This especially goes for the people who are walk-on's for a team or join a club team. Think about how many friendships would be lost had college sports never happened. Some of the best friends a person makes is practicing with them everyday and playing their hearts out with them. How would those friends ... use is there for a mascot and school colors if there are no sports? A big debate right now in both college and professional football is whether or not Maurice Clarett should play pro football. He sat out his whole sophomore year to try and get in the draft. The official rule is three ...

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... well that sports team performs, which can mean higher standings, the better they are and a chance to win a national title may bring an ample amount of money to the university. College atheltics compared to the ungraduates is no where near even these days. It's hardly a secret, for instance, that most major universities today are primarily interested in two things: research ... coaches' salaries have escalated. At the same time, officials at the athletic conferences are not interested in having the NCAA invade their increasingly lucrative turf. The seemingly endless stories in college at...

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Why I picked why girls should be allowed to play boys sports is because I played football. I didn't see anything about girls are not allowed to play. I loved playing football. I think its fine to allow girls to play boys sports because they can do the same thing boys can do. If you look ... Both girls and boys learn lessons from it. The girls learn that to be more competitive and the boys learn to be more cooperative. Gen King, a college athlete said that "playing seven years with boys sharpened my skills". If she hadn't played with the boys and improved her skills, she might not ... have go...

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... profit for the entire season would be between eleven hundred twenty-five and fifteen hundred seventy-five million dollars" (Should College Athletes Be Paid 1). Those estimates are just for football alone and there are many other sports that generate just as much. Some of the other sports are baseball, basketball, ... CBS for rights to Division 1A tournaments is bigger than any single professional sports league deal with any other network" (Research Finds Greed Rodriguez 2 1). College Athletics today is a billion dollar industry in which the athletes are a big part of. "Division 1 schools...

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... the student athlete. The NCAA has created rules and regulations to stricken the athletes from certain behaviors and necessities of life, like money. As a college student I have particularly become friends with a lot of athletes who are struggling to survive because of money problems. It is a privilege for them to ... will be paid (Division I)." It may sound like a good deal, but what about clothing and food. Because of certain life necessity I propose that college athletes should be paid. On November 17, 2002 the University of Alabama was charged with public infractions. In other words, ...

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... feelings of anti-professionalism amongst the biggest gurus of their own sport. Sports such as boxing, horse racing, college football, not to mention baseball, dwarfed pro football in popularity and revenues. Pigskin is an excellent book that vividly describes the ascension of professional football from the days of under the table payments from Ivy League programs and athletic clubs to the television era ... at any cost.... And now along comes another serious menace, possibly greater than all others, viz., Sunday professional football (6). " Despite college football's resentment of the id...

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... men's minor sports. Adding to this, is the problem of football making compliance with Title IX very difficult and almost impossible. Many feminists and supporters of Title IX are claiming that the closures of men's minor sports are due to men's football sucking up all the resources. This is not true! College football is usually the only profitable sport at most schools. The only ... thing that football does is cause proportionality to be very hard to reach, because football has so many male athletes on their rosters. This large number of male athletes ... , then many more men's sports, ...

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... are Anabolic steroids, amphetamine, and human growth hormone (HGH). ANABOLIC STEROIDS Anabolic steroids are the most common drug used by athletes. Body builders, football, track and field power events, and weight lifting mostly use these. There are two ways athletes take steroids orally and by injection. Oral steroids ... most common symptom of steroid users. The use of steroids creates and increased aggravation level due to the presence of too much testosterone. Most football players consider this good thing because it makes them really aggressive and crazy in the game. A person on st...

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... wondered why we were put in the category as being not educated so I felt it's time to research it. The "Dumb-Jock" stereotype originated in the 1930's when a football player at Ohio State College needed to pass an economic test to be able to play in the big game, so the whole class got together and tutored him for a week straight so ... play in the game. A classmate painted a portrait of this incident and called it "The Football Player." But during the 1930's athletes weren't perceived as uneducated, it wasn't until the late 1980's that statistics could back up the theory that athletes ...

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... football is going to continue to have an enormous budget and rightfully so. What most women do not realize, in my opinion, is that almost everything in this world revolves around money, even sports. If you do not have enough money to support something, then it is most likely nothing will get done. A good example of this was when Dartmouth College ... the correlation between an athlete's education and the sport they participate in. Statistics show that Division I football players earn their degree within six years of entering college and only 43 percent of college basketball players earn a...

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... wondered why we were put in the category as being not educated so I felt it's time to research it. The "Dumb-Jock" stereotype originated in the 1930's when a football player at Ohio State College needed to pass an economic test to be able to play in the big game, so the whole class got together and tutored him for a week straight so ... play in the game. A classmate painted a portrait of this incident and called it "The Football Player." But during the 1930's athletes weren't perceived as uneducated, it wasn't until the late 1980's that statistics could back up the theory that athletes ...

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... become worthless promises if they do not result in a certificate. According to Louis Barbash, a television producer, 3 out of 10 basketball players graduate, while 4 out of 10 football players graduate. Many athletes emerge from college illiterate, without a degree, and without a professional athletic career. The system is cheating these individuals. It is a known fact that 44% of all African Americans in collegiate ... to pay its principal producers zero salary. Shannon Brownlee and Louis Barbash stress this point in their essays supporting professional zing college athletics. Athletes ...

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... the way athletic scholarships do (par. 5). Despite their obvious advantages, college athletic programs have problems. First, not all athletes "or all programs "are valued equally. On many campuses money, equipment, and facilities have traditionally been allotted to football and basketball at the expense of less visible sports such as swimming, tennis, and field hockey. Men's ... college athletic programs are under considerable pressure to institute reforms. The problems associated with athletic scholarships are numerous and complex, but they have less to do with the scholarships themsel...

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... Athletics teams were divided into black and white teams. Professional teams were also segregated. Baseball had the Major League and the Negro League. Football was all white. Basketball also had separate leagues for blacks and whites. Segregation was just as prevalent in sports as it was in ... This barrier was broken by Woody Strode and Kenny Washington. Strode and Washington became the first African American players in the modern National Football League. The National Basketball Association followed closely when it added its first African American in 1950. His name was Earl Lloyd. The ...

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... are born with the notion that involvement in sports is necessary to portray a masculine image. Woolf describes the importance that is placed on male-related activites by noting that while " football and sport are "important"; the worship of fashion, the buying of clothes "trivial"..." (p.74). Men have this masculine importance drilled into their heads from and early age. From the baseballs ... and basketballs embrodered on their baby blankets, to the pressure of highschool football tryouts and the fear of rejection by their peers, men are brought up with the notion that sports are an im...

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... they attend, yet there are negative effects if payment to athletes occurs. People whether they are students or fulltime employees expect recognition of their services through some form of compensation. College athletes are no different than full time employees as they provide a service to their respected institutions. Athletes endure long hours of practice and criticism from their bosses or in ... . Athletes bring in millions of dollars and feel they should be compensated for more than just tuition. Football and basketball are two major sports that result millions of dollars being direct...

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... around the country. They way that hockey is covered in the newspapers, on television, and not just professional hockey. It goes the same for college hockey and also high school hockey. Lets start at the top with the NHL. The NHL has a TV deal with ESPN and ABC so ... able to watch three college hockey games a year! Its bad enough that the games are on only ESPN, but too only televise three games a year, that's just terrible. College basketball is on every weekend on CBS and during the tourney all you hear about is college basketball. College football is also on network TV ... and also...

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... addressed. Many colleges have had to face suspensions and firings due to illegal gambling done by faculty and staff. Colleges such as Arizona State, Tulane, Boston College, Northwestern, Maryland, Miami, Alabama, and Kentucky have all violated NCAA rules within the past ten years. (Toohey, "Low Odds, High Stakes, Higher ... to start sometime in the summer of 2003. There are a number of big name coaches who want college gambling to end. Joe Paterno (head football coach at Penn State) and Lou Holtz (head football coach at South Carolina) are the two most notable ones. (Beres, 2) Coaches b...

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... they think, so they leave school early only to be disappointed on the day of the draft and not hear their name called. These players left college early thinking they will have a job with a professional team but find themselves jobless and unable to go back to school and finish their four years ... pay for their schooling. They probably work about 20 hours a week doing this job. Well from my own personal experience I could tell you that athletes in college spend just as much time on their sport if not much more. They have practice every day for at least 2 hours, team meetings for at least...

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... taking money from endorsements that the colleges receive from TV networks or big-time businesses such as Nike or Reebok. CBS spent over $6 billion dollars to secure the NCAA men's college basketball tournament (Bagnato, 2001, p.1). By the time you divide that up between the years under the contract and all the teams involved in the tournaments through the years each team ... each school. This gives them just enough to keep up the gyms, and pay all of the coaches. Paying all college athletes to play would be very expensive. They have discussed just paying athletes who play the four major...

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... that, since it would be unfair to the rest of the students, who are not in a football or basketball teams. Tony Lopez says that scholarship is enough salary for student's athlete in the article "Paying College Athletes: Point/. Counterpoint". For some student the only way to college is through sports, because they come from low-income families. Thus, scholarship is a unique opportunity ... also saying that elimination of the scholarships will bring the schools more students as students, not as athletes who have to struggle to graduate from the college. The athletic scholarship guarantees ...

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... internationally renowned sport. Every four years, the World Cup is watched by literally billions all over the world, beating out the United States professional football's Superbowl by a large amount. In fact, it is estimated that 1.7 billion television viewers watched the World Cup final between France and Brazil ... the commercials some people love to see during their sporting events, the main point is that television coverage is the heart of American sports. College basketball lives for a game scheduled on CBS or ESPN (highly recruited high school players are more likely to go to a tea...

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... was is measured by an item concerning whether the respondents ever phycially harmed or injured other persons outside sport. Sexual assault on college campauses has received increasing public attention especially involving athletes. Several serrveys have found that a disproportionate number of admitted asquaintance rapes on ... pattern of behavior with roots firmly planted in the very structure and culture of sport. The members of football, lacrosse, hockey. And basketball teams have been among those college men most likely to be accused of participation in gang rape(Bohmer&Parrot,1993)...

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... has turned sports into more of a business than a game. I have gone to many different sports in person; I have been to every high school football game that my high school played my four years there. I also have attended pro football, basketball, and baseball. I have seen minor league baseball and hockey in person as well. My mother has been to many games as well ... , she has been to high school and college games, hockey, golf and soccer. My grand father has been to high school football, basketball, boxing, minor league baseball, and almost everything else, because he is a media photograp...

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... for men and women athletics. In most schools, there are more women sports than men sports and I believe the following is why: because of college institutions with football programs. Football teams, many times, carry up to 80-90 football players, most of them of which are there on athletic aid (scholarships). Since scholarships are to be equal for men and women athletes, and since ... women's football does not exist, all those scholarships have to be accounted for in other women's sports to equal the amount of scholarships offered to men sports. So basically ... , football eats up most o...

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