An experience that has special meaning to me is being cut from the seventh grade basketball team. ... Over the summer, I had worked on my overall game, developed a much better jump shot, and lifted harder in the weight room. Therefore, I bulked up and developed a more consistent game. ... Coach M. was my sixth and seventh grade physical education teacher and my Junior Varsity basketball coach at Westerville South High School. ... I want to share the knowledge that he has taught me about life to students of the future, both in the classroom and on the basketball court....

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When 6-foot-9-inch basketball star Kevin Ross played for Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, he didn't even know the score (Charen 420). Literally he wasn't able to interpret the score of the game, all he knew was whether his team was winning or losing. ... "Georgetown University basketball coach John Thompson walked off the court Saturday night in protest of the NCAA proposal 42 barring colleges from granting athletic scholarships to freshman who fail to achieve a minimum 2.0 GPA in high school" (Lederman 417). ...

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For example, she talks about how in college basketball there is not a short orientation where the rules of the game are learned all at once but instead the players are taught repeatedly about the rules of the game and as student athletes. She believes that the same way basketball coaches teach their players about the rules of the game, teachers should teach their students about what plagiarism really is. ...

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To substantiate this point follow the path of the Arkansas men's basketball team. ... In 1997 the team won the collegiate sports highest award, the Division One Basketball Tournament Championship. ... Only one of those players was drafted and he was later released before he played a single professional game. ...

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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. ... The competitive nature of the sport now leeks off the field and may be more competitive than the actual game. ... College basketball in itself, is a multi billion-dollar industry that makes money for everyone involved except for the players. ... The price for advertising on television during the championship bowl game for college football is se...

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The movie, "Coach Carter," is based on the true story of Coach Ken Carter and the Richmond High School basketball team. ... He these kids should be looking forward to much better times than high school basketball, the schools should make it possible for these kids to be so much more than just high school basketball players. ... Think about this even having a major motion picture done on basketball on this school basketball lost funding in this area (Babour). ... Slam-ball is a basketball type game where people uses trampolines to send themselves through the air. ... He not only wanted these ki...

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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. ... Arndt statement is true; if athletes got paid due to their ranking in the game then it would definitely be unfair to the average teams and even the students that don't even play a sport. ... Student athletes should just do it for the love of the game, because that's what it is, a game. ...

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Their skills as athletes contribute to the overall marketability of a college, and pull in millions of dollars in game revenue every season. ... The NCAA has an insurance plan that will help the cost of some injuries, but generally they only cover the cost if the injury happened during a game. ... The way the NCAA is structured, there must be equality for all of the sports regardless of how popular the sport is or the gender of the athletes even though the only sports that truly generate the most revenue for the NCAA are football and men's basketball (McCormick, 2006). ...

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College athletes should not be paid because playing the game is a privilege, not a right. ... Athletes receive more than the average student such as, game meals, expensive quality clothing, and special attention tutoring. ... They also put so much time into things other than practice such as game film and other athletic functions. "The college athlete in tier one, division one sports, in sports such as football and basketball have spend 40 hours per week on their sport, more than a full time job" (Edelman). ... In one circumstance, a Kentucky basketball player Aaron Harrison shot an...

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Education, A Catalyst for Success "It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we...

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A popular reform movement with the moniker "cultural literacy" has been proposed (and widely published) by E.D.Hirsch, Jr. and collegues. Its approach maintains that for one to be well educated, one must own certain information or facts about our world, i.e., be "culturally literate". His premises (...

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