... wondered why we were put in the category as being not educated so I felt it's time to research it. The "Dumb-Jock" stereotype originated in the 1930'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 ... play in the game. A classmate painted a portrait of this incident and called it "The Football Player." But during the 1930's athletes weren't perceived as uneducated, it wasn't until the late 1980's that statistics could back up the theory that athletes ...

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... the way athletic scholarships do (par. 5). Despite their obvious advantages, college athletic programs have problems. First, not all athletes "or all programs "are valued equally. On many campuses money, equipment, and facilities have traditionally been allotted to football and basketball at the expense of less visible sports such as swimming, tennis, and field hockey. Men's ... college athletic programs are under considerable pressure to institute reforms. The problems associated with athletic scholarships are numerous and complex, but they have less to do with the scholarships themsel...

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... to get that job. The same things goes for being an athlete. If someone wants to play professional football, they have to be smart enough to be in college and play college football first. I am aware that many people have gotten jobs and contracts to play football or to be models while being, basically, dumb. Eventhough that does happen, the thing to think about is ... ...

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... aspirations in professional sports? The author discusses how black men play their hearts out, put all focuses and energy into a sport, like football or basketball and then in the end they have no career and very few skills. Earl Hutchinson touches on how despite the extremely slim ... career. Earl believes colleges that make millions of dollars of their athletes have a responsibility to the athletes to make sure they at least graduate from college and have a better chance of a career when pro. Sports fail them. Earl also believes that parents have a strong role and they should ... stati...

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... be paid for three main reasons: for the amount of time put into sports, the improper use and distribution of money, and the motivation to finish college. A huge part of being an NCAA student-athlete is going to school and getting decent grades. Achieving good grades takes a majority of a normal students ... they would need to pay for personal expenses or any extra college needs. Finally, paying college athletes will motivate the student to finish school and get a degree. For the majority of football, basketball, and baseball players, the only reason they go to college and play is because...

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... , and its excepted that as a member of American society you will live by these laws. In West Canaan, Texas, there is another society, which has its own set of laws. Football is a way of life." This excerpt taken from the beginning of Varsity Blues, which premiered in 1998, shows the way of life for high school ... football players. In this movie, Jon Moxon played by James Van Der Beek assumes the role of star quarterback after the starting quarterback suffers a career ending knee injury. This movie showed ... athletes can sometimes become higher than the law. In society today, high sch...

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... setting age limitations requiring further time spent in the amateur ranks. One sport that doesn't even allow kids to come out of high school and play is football. The NFL requires an extensive stay in college football. The NBA has also created a program to help young up and coming players called the NBADL. It's sort of like the minor leagues in major league ... ...

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... agree upon. In order to become a sports agent there are several routes one can take in order to become an agent and begin representing clients. One path is to get a college degree in Business or sports management or even both. Some agents don't have any degree and are perfectly fine with where they are at because of the client that they ... will be widely recognized because more and more athletes are going to the professional ranks. Especially today when the NCAA has implemented a 1 year minimum eligibility for college in basketball and also 3 years to play for college football. With th...

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... recent popular performance enhancer, came about when Mark Mcguire was found using it the year he hit 70 homeruns. This drug is legal in baseball but is illegal in football. When young college athletes see a professional athlete like Mark Mcguire use a drug like this, it makes them want to go out and use it. In many cases these kids don't know the ... long term side-effects of these drugs. The most recent drug that has everyone talking about among college athletes is a drug called Creatine. This is a illegal drug in NCAA certified college sports. It is legal however in professional sport...

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... mostly in colleges and universities. Today, athletic training has grown to 22,700 certified and student members" worldwide. For a student to become certified they must first get a four year college education with a bachelor's degree. After that they have to volunteer at a clinic or hospital and gain hands on experience, some students work for their perspective universities. Then they must ... health, and instructional methods. Once one becomes certified, there are a wide variety of job fields to go into. One could work in a private or public high school or work for a college or univers...

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... them. All to help the athletes receive their full sum of money. Although the big money in sports has turned everybody a little crazy, as for instance, with the flood of college freshman and sophomores and even high school players declaring themselves for the NBA draft eater to cash in right now. This year, 42 non-seniors declared, even though only 58 ... seem to think athletes are paid exactly what they deserve and we"re paying them exactly what we want them to earn. If an athlete doesn't sign a contract, and if football players earn $30,000 a year like the rest of the American workers,...

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