... prestigious tournament. The tournament itself is better known as "March Madness." Sports analysts, commentators, and announcers use of metaphoric terminology to help describe, explain, and illustrate why the men's NCAA basketball tournament is so highly prestigious. A metaphor allows one to describe a text so that it gives meaning and is understandable to others. Michael Osborn and Douglas Ehninger suggest that that a metaphor ... ." The National Semifinals would be foreign to most people but the phrase "Final Four" is widely common. A team would then advance to the National Championship ...

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... not receive payment for play? It seems these days everyone has an opinion on the perks that college athletes receive mainly in the football and basketball arena. These two arenas have traditionally, and continue to bring the most money to colleges and universities as well as carrying the load for other ... by any stretch of the imagination see the numbers of spectators out on the college greens as you do in the bleachers of a football or basketball game. When you walk into any Division I school's bookstore, they"re not selling jerseys or coffee mugs with the golfers names on them. That pl...

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... The poll stated that 49% believe that college sports gambling should be illegal and 47% believe that it should not. Strikingly, college basketball fans are stuck on 48% on both stand-points. The possibility of abolishing gambling on college sports is not very likely nor does ... was Bill Bradley, a former basketball star and Democratic Senator from New Jersey. Bradley expressed, "state-sponsored sports betting could change forever the relationship between the players and the game, and the game and the fans. Sports would become the gamblers" game and not the fans" game, and athletes woul...

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... a sport that has many qualities of many other sports. It is somewhat of a combination of basketball, soccer, and hockey. It is a game that requires speed, coordination, quickness, and agility. It is a game that is full of long field sprints with precision passing and dodging. Lacrosse was invented by the ... Gary were excellent athletes and did many amazing moves, such as the Air-Gait, lacrosse's version of basketball's slam dunk. The Gaits' ability to execute such maneuvers helped the game of lacrosse because they were the first lacrosse players that were given extensive media attention...

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... team. As an amateur athlete on the NCAA level for example you naturally a hard worker because you are playing for the love of the game and not getting paid. When people gamble on a sport I believe it is fine, but when gambling effects the sport in a negative way ... www.ncaa! .org, "A study by the University of Cincinnati of 648 Division I intercollegiate men's basketball and football respondents indicated that 25.5% had gambled money on other college sporting events, 3.7% had gambled money on a game in which they had played, and that 0.5% received money from a gambler for not playing wel...

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... Looney 43). Dick DeVenzio, in his book, Rip-Off U., supposes that if each member of a premier NCAA basketball program were to receive just half of the gate receipts from one game - not any other revenue but the gate receipts - the player would receive $120 thousand (28). Since colleges ... and universities make a fortune from their athletics, it is only right that the athletes share this revenue. It is like someone working a steady job and turning the paycheck back to his employer. Being an NCAA Division I football or basketball ... gone to college and played for even two years, he woul...

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... need of an overhaul. Solutions are simple. Students should be paid to play the sports they were recruited for with restrictions that make the game fair for players and organizations alike. Keywords: College Sports, Labor Equity, College Athlete Pay College Athletes: Slaves to the NCAA "Every ... Collegiate Track and Field Championships. This event created more committees in the NCAA and more sports began holding national championships such as the first basketball national championship in 1939. After this, various issues arose with the start of World War II. Post season football games wer...

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... , Swoopes paid her dues in the Italian league in 1993-94 averaging 23.0 points per game. This shows the amazing dedication and the strength of a woman to is true to her game. The entrance into the WNBA is not all Sheryl Swoopes has accomplished. She has had a stellar basketball career, which began through pick-up games played alongside her older brothers. After high ... and an NCAA Most Valuable Player award playing for Texas Tech. Swoopes has played one-on-one with Michael Jordan and like him, is the first woman to have a Nike Basketball shoe named after her, the Air Swoopes. This trium...

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... athletes about NCAA rule violations and found that 25% gambled on college events other than their own. Also, 4% admitted to wagering on their own games, and 3% changed the outcome of a game in which they participated (Saum 2). In 1998, a study at a University in the Southeast Conference involving 1000 students showed that athletes were nearly twice as likely to become problem gamblers than ... college athletes loosing eligibility over gambling exist. One in particular was at a Division I university where student athletes lost 20-30% playing time in a season over betting on professional fo...

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... The result, as Tim Layden cleverly states, is that "the officials called for a measurement, trotted out the chains and, you bet: It was one game short." The two top-ranked teams in the polls never even got a chance to play one another and the national championship was left to the voters in ... of the major bowls. None of them would determine the national champion, however, because there would still need to be a semi-final round and a championship game. I propose that the number one ranked team play the number eight ranked team in the first round; number two would play number seven, and s...

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... 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 doesn ... 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 sports (basketball, baseball, football, and hockey)....

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... prepared. The athlete that is both mentally and physically prepared has it all. That athlete has the right attitude, set goals, and has a game plan. They have visualized what could happen and are ready for anything. They are any coaches dream. Almost everyone is given the ability to ... are the ones that will excel to their greatest potential These are the competitors who in the end reach their goal, whether it be winning a game against a rival team or be standing on the platform receiving the gold medal for their country. Mental preparation is many things, not just one. It ... outcome...

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... Wieberg again reports that, "Only 14 [schools] were operating in the black last year."" The only two sports that make the big money are football and basketball. Baseball, hockey, volleyball, soccer, swimming, softball, and other varsity sports play many games and travel quite a bit, but these sports do not have the ... models for many young people. College athletes become so popular they turn into household names. They are household names and are college kids playing a game. Stores sell their jerseys with their numbers on the back and ESPN spends just as much time talking about college ...

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... & College athletes is a negative perspective when it comes to their intellectual capacity. People criticize the population of athletes by referring to them as "Dumb-Jocks." In High School I played Soccer, Basketball and Baseball, so I heard the stereotypes towards my friends and teammates and sometimes towards myself. I've always wondered why we were put in the category as being not educated so ... '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 he co...

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... & College athletes is a negative perspective when it comes to their intellectual capacity. People criticize the population of athletes by referring to them as "Dumb-Jocks." In High School I played Soccer, Basketball and Baseball, so I heard the stereotypes towards my friends and teammates and sometimes towards myself. I've always wondered why we were put in the category as being not educated so ... '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 he co...

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... as they do a lot for the university as a whole. On the other hand these players coaches are making millions, such as John Calipari Head Coach of the Kentucky Wildcats Men's basketball team who made 5.5 million dollars last season. The NCAA should come up with a payment system for these players whether it's a monthly/yearly payment plan these players deserve a salary. College players ... . A popular argument against why collegiate players should not be paid is that it is considered an amateur sport. Through the years college sports have been about the love of the game, fueled with adrenal...

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... is worth. "They came out with that the average football player is worth the amount of $120,000 for their big-time college and 265,000 for the average basketball player. Even though the athletes as a whole bring in millions and millions of dollars to their school that they generated, yet the athletes get to see none of it." ... think of you as a division one football player. When you are receiving no type of money during the season, but yet there is a video game that has you in it and is the top selling video game across the U.S. Then when you go to a store you see about 30 copies of...

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... coaches.(The Capital Times by Rob Zaleski). Big sports Division I athletes typically receive up to four years of tuition, room, and board. Many universities allow athletes (especially in football and basketball) to spend those four years on campus while barely cracking a book. In these sports, universities keep the considerable revenue that the athlete's talents have generated, while too often the player ... acumen to recruit and graduate athletes equal to or above the percentage of the overall student body been fired for not leading their teams to the NCAA Tournament or a bowl game?( N...

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... for every Division 1A school, which are aired on television. "Each ticket is about thirty dollars and the stadium seats about seventy-five thousand people. The profit for every home game is around two hundred twenty-five million dollars and the 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, and lacrosse. Subsequently, "...

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