College athletics have always been one of American's favorite pastimes. We as Americans love the thrill of hard competition. College athletics have always been at the heart of this competitive rush. They have always been something more pure than professional athletics, more than just the money. In recent years, college athletics have changed for the worse. Players ... a big money maker for advertising it is big for everyone. Behind the super bowl it is the biggest gambling event. In short, everyone who regulates college sports, will make a tidy buck from the event (Economist, 1996). Everyone...

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Paying college athletes Pay College Athletes Sports have always been one of American's favorite pastimes. Americans love the thrill of hard competition. College athletics has always been at the heart of this. It has always been something more pure than professional athletics. In recent years college athletics has changed for the worse. Players have drifted away from what it used ... the biggest gambling event. In short, everyone from the winner of the office pool to the mandarins of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, which regulates college sport, will make a tidy buck from the ev...

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