... knows it, almost everybody played it once. I will you inform about the history of the game, some important facts and rules. History Fist some historical facts. Eighteen-hundred-and-ninety-one Dr. James Naismith, professor at the Springfield College in Massachusetts, invented the real basketball. The new sport should be without body-contact. At the beginning there were 9 players for each team ... most important thing is the ball. It s mostly made of leather. Another important equipment every basketball-player cares on are the shoes. Rules Now a short lesson in basketball-rules. There a...

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... . He was accepted in the University of North Carolina through a basketball scholarship. At the university, Michael took on the challenge of driving his teammates to a level of performance that they might never have achieved on their own. He scored the winning basket in the National Collegiate Athletic Association championship game in 1982. A sportswriter describes 'the relentlessness with which Michael Jordan ... that will be worth hundreds of dollars. Those of us who have seen him play will always remember him and what he has done for the game of basketball. For those who haven't will ...

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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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... from American International College (A.I.C.) in Springfield, Massachusetts. His ability to be a leader emerged early on as he lettered for three years on the basketball team, and served as their captain for his senior campaign. He graduated as the school's fourth all time leading scorer, and is a member ... with a National Invitational Tournament Championship in 1988, as well as the granddaddy of them all, a National Collegiate Athletic Association Men's Division One Basketball Championship in 1999. Spirit Jim Calhoun is a great role model for us all. The fierce competitive spirit trans...

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... he was but a young, pre teen boy. He talks of manual score boards and athletes who played sports, in a true amateur era, for the love of the game. Williamson recollects, " from a courtside perch as an operator of UNC's old manual scoreboard" (601). This is, according to him, when his own "love affair ... tactic employed by Williamson. The reader is drawn to a different time and is given a vivid image of a late fifties game of basketball, a far cry from any modern day college ball game. This helps the reader to become close to the writer and view him in an almost favorable light. This is g...

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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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... student-athlete has become capricious, unnecessarily punitive and hopelessly out-of-date (McCallum, 1996). One of the biggest complaints lately from college basketball fans is that to many athletes are leaving college early to enter the draft. Now some athletes are going straight from high school ... NBA and skipping college altogether. A record number of athletes who are still eligible to play college ball have entered next month's National Basketball Association draft, and have plans for two new professional leagues for teen-agers threaten to diminish the talent pool for college teams (...

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... of the student-athlete has become unnecessarily punitive and hopelessly out-of-date (McCallum, 1996). One of the biggest complaints lately from college basketball fans is that too many athletes are leaving college early to enter the draft. Some athletes are even going directly from high school to ... the NBA and skipping college altogether. A record number of athletes who were still eligible to play college ball entered the National Basketball Association draft. There are also plans for two new professional leagues for teen-agers, which threaten to diminish the talent pool for college t...

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... 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 ... 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 kids have been misled by bookies than they have ... has, on occasion, placed lines on such...

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... to a recent study, just 22 schools profited from football during the 2009-2010 academic year" (Mendelson). College athletes should not be paid because playing the game is a privilege, not a right. An additional opposition to as why college athletes shouldn't be paid is because the main goal is to earn a degree. ... on tuition or the other benefits these athletes receive as being a part of the team. Athletes receive more than the average student such as, game meals, expensive quality clothing, and special attention tutoring. Players get numerous pairs of shoes, shirts, sweats, jackets, sh...

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... as much pay? Those teams would not get the same pay as higher division teams. As an example, Duke University is known for their basketball team, it seems to always sell out and they recruit the best of the best players. So people can see why society would feel that Dukes ... basketball team might get paid more and more benefits than other sports. After a recent survey fifty -three percent of students were concerned that they would ... to other students and student athletes that are not highly ranked (Arndt 16). Arndt statement is true; if athletes got paid due to their ranking in the g...

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... . Statistics show this ever-growing rate of betting in college. "A quarter of 648 Division I football and basketball players surveyed, admitted to gambling on other college games. Four percent of players gambled on the game in which they played. Three of those surveyed received money from a gambler for not playing well." (College ... team. A true team player would never do something like that. Through all this scandal in recruitments and at the colleges is the actual game. It is an exciting game. At the end of the season there are a series of highly commercialized bowl games. These games ...

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... Contact sports include any sport whose purpose or major activity involves bodily contact. These sports include boxing, wrestling, football, rugby, ice hockey, and basketball (6). On August 30th of every year, each school system must submit a School System Compliance Report. The following items must be reported: Participation rates ... , pro teams play 16 regular season games, plus playoffs. College teams generally play 10 or 11 games, with the possibility of a bowl game for the top teams (4). In addition, pro players are heavier, faster and hit harder, so the likelihood of injury, and the...

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... HE"S IN!! THE NITTANY LIONS HAVE DONE IT!!!" Here's a situation everyone at Penn State is familiar with, the excitement of a Penn Sate football game. But you have to wonder, at what cost are the whole student body as well as thousands of alumni and fans entertained? A growing debate is ... standings (Stress in College Athletics). Others argue that the risk of injury is too high to be putting students in that kind of danger. Not a game goes by that someone doesn't pull a muscle or twist an ankle. Every now and then an even worse injury occurs, like tearing an ACL ... are other wise lackin...

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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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... 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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... deserve. Another reason college athletes should be paid for playing a sport in college is that it will support higher education for athletes in college. There had been more then 100 basketball players in the past 5 years that left college early in order to make some money being a professional athlete. About half of them are ever drafted and less then half of ... 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 ...

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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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... 1998, he received no penalty, even though the human body rapidly converts this compound to testosterone, which builds muscle mass. The International Olympic Committee (IOC), National Football League (NFL), National Basketball Association (NBA) and National Collegiate Athletic Association all prohibit use of androstenedione. The NFL, NBA and IOC prohibit steroids and test for them. The National Hockey League and Major League ... unidentified coach gave them a syringe containing it. THG apparently was designed specifically to be undetectable by the standard test given to athletes(msnbc). ...

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