Sports Salaries

... a sense of hope, when fans see their favorite player score a touchdown or hit a homerun it gives them the faith that they can do well in their own endeavors ("Athlete Salaries"). If sports do this much for the people of our nation, then shouldn"t the players be paid accordingly? Athletes are not stupid, well at least their agents aren"t. If they can earn ... indeed be making more money. The amount of revenue that a superstar brings in to his club far exceeds the amount of money he's getting paid. "...because athletes make sports franchises popular and profitable, athletes" salaries shou...

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... with valid responses from 731 of the television stations (52.7 percent). Television News Salaries Job Average Median Minimum Maximum Sports Anchor $49,700 $35,000 $14,000 $535,000 Sports Reporter $34,500 $24,000 $14,000 $223,000 Median Television News Salaries 1995 to 2000 Job 2000 1995 Percent Sports Anchor $35,000 $32,500 +7.7% Sports Reporter $24,000 $21,000 +14.3% Median TV News ... Salaries by Market Size Job 1-25 26-50 51-100 101-149 150+ Sports Anchor $128,000 $60,000 $43,000 $28,000 $25,500 Sports Reporter $70,000 $30,000 $25,000 $20 ... , and NBC affiliates generally paid more,...

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... hope that everyone will feel different towards this topic when I"m through arguing my position. First, many people just assume that athletes don't deserve their salaries, because of the astronomical amounts. Often times, people compare athletes to doctors. They believe the doctors of the world should be paid more than athletes ... don't watch the games, buy the merchandise, and attend the games, then they won't be contributing to the overcompensation. Many people suggest lowering athletic salaries. That's fine and dandy, but the surplus of money now goes to the owner. I don't know about...

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... can jump to conclusions perhaps they should first collect all the facts in which take account. When salaries first began to rise in American sports, the initial surge was paid largely from television rights money, which was a new and growing source of revenue. But salaries have risen so high and so rapidly that the TV money has been spent. Ticket prices have ... fans from buying tickets. The gap between the average salaries for teachers and professional athletes in the last two decades has grown considerably. Yet, incredible as it may sound to the average person, this is a positive sign....

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... a provincial lottery that should debut next month. Bettman has lobbied for Canadian teams to partake in a share of betting revenues from Sports Select since the teams help generate that money. There is talk around the league that the NHL has every right to pursue legal ... - disparities between revenues and expenses, disparities between clubs. We want to have competitive balance among all of our teams." Dennis Howard, professor of sports marketing at the University of Oregon, isn't convinced a salary cap is the lone answer. "If the NHL, in its present form, is ... an economically viabl...

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... athletes are only bringing in a small portion of what the industry is making itself. Athletics today is bigger than ever, and more people are attending sports events than ever before. Sports have the truly unique ability to bring people of all races, genders and social classes together to form one common bond: the well-being of the ... sense of hope, as watching the athletes heroic actions tend to give young children faith that they can succeed in their own endeavors. Aside from all the good that sports brings, however, a growing majority of fans are becoming more and more resentful with...

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... distinct in their seeming immunity to economic fluctuations; for example, the Depression and recessionary periods in the past century did not slow them (Miller 1999). Throughout the past century sports in the United States became increasingly commercial and manifested formalized business functions, goals, and relationships (McAllister 1998; Miller 1998). Although gate revenues were the original form of revenue ... . The athlete, faced with a relatively short career that is dependent on youth and injury-free ability, wants to receive the highest possible compensation during his or her peek...

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WASHINGTON, June 20 (UPI) -- I saw a survey in USA Today this week about NFL salaries. I should not have been alarmed by what I read, but I was -- slightly. It said the highest-paid player in the National Football League last year was defensive ... too long. We just had the lowest ratings ever for an NBA championship series. That was on top of declining numbers for the NHL, and the always low numbers for sports like soccer, lacrosse, and horse racing, which did get lucky this year because there was a chance for a Triple Crown winner. And, unfortunately, I haven't even mentioned the ... lack...

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"If you are planning on taking your family to a ball game, be sure to come with your favorite team's t-shirt, your camera and binoculars, and a fat wallet. That's right, be prepared to fork over the cash, because it will cost you upwards of over $250. Athlete salaries have drastically increased over the past couple decades. As these wages continue to mushroom to unprecedented heights, the cost of attending sporting events elevates to new plateaus of its own. In addition to increased ticket prices, which hurt the ability of many fans to go to games, exploding salaries have resulted in greed of ...

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