... and basketball hold a huge segment of the entertainment industry making those two particular sport seasons year round. Bigger universities have tradition, name recognition, and school pride to uphold with every game. Sponsors, television, and casinos, along with many other businesses have a huge stake in this industry. With so much pressure to succeed, big sport programs like Duke basketball, Florida football ... basketball in itself, is a multi billion-dollar industry that makes money for everyone involved except for the players. CBS Television paid 6.2 billion dollars for the contract...

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... hurt baseball." (Giamatti, 1) Often those inside of the sport view gambling as worse than those outside the sport, as those on the inside see it hurting the integrity of the game. There has been recent talk of lifting Rose's ban, if he would admit to gambling (which he has not yet done), apologize for his actions, and admit what he did ... main problem is caused by bookies who trick the kids into believing that it is okay to gamble as long as they only cover the spread, but still win their game. (Toohey, "Study Shows High Incidence of College - Athlete Gambling" 2) Over the years more k...

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... athletes will stay in school and get a diploma so they have something to fall back on if the professional league doesn't workout the way they were hoping it would. The final reason college athletes should be paid for playing their sport in college is because of all the money receives though what these athletes do. The eight college football teams that ... made it to a BCS bowl game made on average 2.2 million dollars for there athletic programs (www.espn.go.com/abcsports/bcs/). Most major college football teams sell about 70,000 tickets at 25 dollars each. That ... comes to 1.75million...

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