... This may turn out to be a great title game, but there will always be the thought of what if USC had been given the opportunity. Ideally, the college football season would end much like the college basketball season in a playoff format. The college basketball season ends in "March Madness," a sixty four team ... participating in post season football, other than the top sixteen teams in the playoffs, there could be a secondary tournament, similar to college basketball. In basketball there is the March Madness consisting of the top sixty four teams and there is the National Invitation Tourn...

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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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... eight years before the famous Rosa Parks bus incident.("Race" 1) Also, 1966 was the year that Texas Western won the first national champion in basketball with five black starters. That was a year before Thurgood Marshall was appointed to the Supreme Court.("Race" 1) As one can see, these are ... how can you say that black coaches must have superior performances to be a coach in the National Football League. It is not just football coaches though, basketball coaches that are African-American include the coaches at Georgia, Mississippi, Memphis, Miami, Houston, New Orleans, and Atlanta(Whi...

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... restrict their athletes from having jobs to make money because they don't want the athletes to cash in on their image in any way. The average salary for a division I football, basketball, or baseball head coach is $2-3.5 million (Brian). The universities should step up and pay their employees; the student athletes. Virtually every university employs large amounts of student employees. Students frequently ... directly getting their profits and success from. Fortunately, people are coming to their senses for this particular argument. In May of 2014 Lawyers representing division 1 basketba...

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... ). This is saying when a doctor prescribes steroids, the athlete might use them for the wrong reasons. Third, there are different kinds of athletes that use steroids. The first sport is basketball that has a no tolerance policy towards steroids. This means if a player is caught using steroids, he is immediately suspended or expelled from the league. Jerry Conlangelo, who owns the NBA ... and jailed under a thirty thousand-dollar bond. The Texas A&M Coach Melvin Watkins stated, "We do not have enough information right now to make a permanent decision about his future with our basketball p...

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... but are they worth the millions that they are paid? Male athletes are among the most highly paid people in the world. Especially in basketball and football, every player is enormously paid. Though economics is the key to understanding why these athletes earn such tremendous salaries, still, ... distort the players, but it also bring downfall to clubs, the country's economy, and even to the game itself. A normal, typical professional basketball player makes more money playing for only fifteen minutes of a game than a professor can make in the whole year. In addition, that player may perfo...

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... Here, the research compared the characteristics of direct sport consumers and non-spectators. Data was collected comprising the demographic characteristics of more than 900 college students attending a basketball game. This was compared with students who were not attending the game. However, a fault in this research is that it was not considered whether or not the students who weren't attending the ... 1988 by Schurr, Wittig, Ruble and Ellen replicated this first study in respect to results, but instead considered the demographic characteristics of college students attending or not atte...

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... two ways: one being opportunity, and the other as indentured servitude. College sports like football 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, and Notre Dame football need top recruits to maintain or raise the standar...

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... some of the best universities in the world, sometimes for free, get access to world class facilities, and have the chance to play the game that they love. Some people make the argument that once college athletes start to be paid, they would become quasi professional athletes. The second ... could get a part time job like a normal college student would to help pay for these extra college expenses. Within that same study, "Duke basketball players were valued at $1,025,656 while [the players were] living just $732 above the poverty line and a scholarship shortfall of $1,995" (& ... benchwa...

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... football can be tossed around in an open yard without the need of a basketball goal between friends or also enjoyed gathered around a television on your buddy's couch. Football lends itself to bonding through the game experience as a fan as well. College football is an integral part of large ... today's society with players being treated with nearly godlike status, with that same atmosphere extending to professional football as well. Fans go to game early and "tailgate" which is essentially a big cookout, also including cocktail parties before games as another means to bring groups of ...

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... seasons that vary in length depending upon the sport. Football players pound each other for about five months each year while playing one game per week. Basketball and baseball players play a much longer season then do football. Baseball players play one hundred and sixty-two games that lasts more ... than five months long throughout the country. Nevertheless, the professional basketball season lasts about the same amount of time as does baseball except they play eighty-two games throughout the country. As for tennis players, golfers ... free agency. This completely opened the floodgate...

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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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... key driving forces that have enabled me to obtain some of my lifelong dreams. When I was a young girl, I never missed a homecoming football game. I was always fascinated by the halftime ceremony; which involved the crowning of the homecoming queen. This was the moment I eagerly anticipated every year ... my boyfriend was in the midst of transferring from Southwest Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri to Central State University in Edmond, Oklahoma to play basketball. Now, what were we going to do? I immediately told him that having an abortion was out of the question. I deci...

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... fun and others believe that football is too barbaric or that basketball isn't tough enough. Then there are people that wake up at five in the morning and come back at five in the evening with their dinner. There are also some ... welcome in the future. I will obey the rules of safe gun handling and will courteously but firmly insist that others who hunt with me do the same. I will obey all game laws and regulations, and will insist that my companions do likewise. I will do my best to acquire those marksmanship and hunting skills, which insure clean, sportsmanlike kills. I will support ...

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... Unfortunately, many retail stores have recently started to allow only people eighteen years of age and older to purchase paintballs. A lot of players in the game are younger than that. This new limit makes it difficult for them to play at all. The worst part is this restriction is not even rational ... think the sport is a risky one and young teens should not be playing it. In my experience, injuries in other sports such as football or basketball are much more likely. No one would imagine putting limits on the sale of footballs and basketballs. It's the same idea as limiting paintballs a...

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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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... experience the best part of being in high school. Little did any of us know what was ahead of us, or that something as trivial as a Powderpuff Football game could change our lives forever. It was a beautiful Sunday morning in May when I woke up. I gathered all of my ingredients, including the ones my father ... green, but all I could see were bright yellow bodies. The forest was full of kids. Everyone from my grade was there: The president, the star basketball player, the honor roll kids, the punks all of the stereotypes. It didn't really matter, because the only people we wanted to see...

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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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... the substantial salaries professional athletes do (estimates show as high as ninety percent of student athletes never participate professionally). To substantiate this point follow the path of the Arkansas men's basketball team. During the 1994 through 1997 seasons not a single player completed their graduation requirements, and thusly, none of them received a college degree. The team's roster consisted of thirteen players whom ... were all attending the university on fully paid sports scholarship. In 1997 the team won the collegiate sports highest award, the Division One Basketball Tou...

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... about it. I still had the dance team to deal with and spending all day Saturday teaching lessons would leave me out of most dance competitions and performing at Saturday afternoon basketball games. That May however I was thrown a curve ball. My school was in financial problems and had to get rid of activities. Dance team was the first to go. I decided to ... students. I never knew how hard teaching little kids was! And I must admit, getting up at 5:30 every Saturday morning to drive to the studio after a late night at a football or basketball game or hanging out with my friends, wasn't ...

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... they are doing is good enough, or even worthwhile. In the four years I swam on my high school team our principal never came to a meet, but he never missed a football game. This sports writer seemed to feel the same way, and his commentary indicated he knew nothing about swimming as a competitive sport. I wanted to respond to his indictment of my chosen ... a swimmer. Run a mile in the Nikes of a miler. Dance a mile in the toe shoes of a ballerina. Play a mile in the shoes of a football or basketball player. Be at a game, live through the experience. Swelter at a pool, freeze at a footba...

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... people. At this grade I began to play more sports, and I disliked playing with kids not as good as me. Team sports like football, baseball, and basketball became more competitive and serious natured. Selecting who was on your team was never easy, but it was something that had to be done. A tendency began to ... school. In Middle school, teenagers started noticing the other sex quite a bit more. It was not uncommon to see a group of girls at a football game. They began to enjoy the sport and showed more and more support for the team as the season went on. Athletes became very popular in ...

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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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... always hot and clammy, especially after practicing for hours. The sport, cheerleading. Cheerleading is not as easy as it looks. There's much more to cheerleading than cheering for football or basketball players while they sweat and shoot baskets or make touchdowns. Cheerleaders sweat too, I can remember the first year I started cheering. That year, I think all the girls on my team had ... it, at times I felt like I couldn't take it anymore. Every day I woke up sore, I felt like I couldn't walk but I sucked it up. The first month we were just working on game cheers. They were easy cheers...

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... steroids are used. HGH is a popular drug because it is undetectable in urine, therefore athletes tend to use this drug because there will be no trace of the drug after a game or race. Performance enhancing drugs can have a very serious impact on the public. If the public reaches the point where they find that sports revolve around just drugs and less ... owners and managers (Worsnop). There are performance enhancing drugs in almost every sport. Football has reported the highest use with ten percent; track and field follows with four percent, and basketball, two percent (Goldwire). Cycli...

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