College Athletes: A Case Study

The Florida Gators currently sit atop the SEC football recruiting rankings for the 2018 cycle (per 247sports.com). Unlike previous classes, the offensive side of the ball dominates this commitment lists. Five of the six Top200 players committed in the class are offensive players, highlighted by Matt Corral, Jacob Copeland, and Jamarr Chase.

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The University of Texas at San Antonio, located in San Antonio, Texas, invites nominations and applications for the position of Director of Athletics.

In this metabolic study, eight men and eight women, whom were competitive, healthy cyclists were selected. This crossover study was conducted on four separate days, each time the participants were told to do light exercise the previous day and eat a typical prerace meal one to two hours prior to the experiment. At random each was given one of three carbohydrate supplements (sports

These athletes had a great idea, but first they had to earn the right to become a union. The players had to go through the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) The NLRB considered the question of whether football players on athletic scholarships at Northwestern University are employees under the National Labor Relations Act (Patterson). After 16 months of deliberation the NLRB dismissed the Northwestern players’ petition. It was dismissed because Northwestern football players were not employees under federal labor law and could not unionize because of it. (Mccann) Although Northwestern players did not succeed they still made great progress. Since they started the movement in 2013 and a lot of positive changes has come from this movement.

Furthering this argument, the NCAA has certain rules regarding insurance for athletes who play intercollegiate sports. Most colleges and universities now require that students, playing sports, must have their own insurance policy before joining a team. In many cases, students are often still covered under their parents’ policies; however, this is not always the case. To try and help these athletes, the Collegiate Athletes Coalition, an alliance that approaches problems and offers potential changes and resolves threats that could drastically alter college sports, had developed a plan in 2001/2002 that would provide coverage to student athletes for medical purposes. The NCAA seemed reluctant to hear and change these policies; however, since that

Throughout the world of sports, it is very common for athletes to get injured or bruised up. A lot of the injuries that athletes suffer from often require surgery and intense rehab. Many kids are stuck with paying the medical bill and have no insurance to cover it. The worst part about all of this is that most college coaches end up taking away the player's scholarship because of an injury. The NCAA has its own catastrophic injury insurance, which insures individual athletes up to $20 million. But the majority don’t qualify. This example just shows that most athletes don’t have enough money to get insurance which would help them with their injury. As a result for the players not having insurance, the coaches will end up taking away their scholarship.

For any athletic program during any sporting event, a brawl breaking out between the two opposing teams could be considered an undesirable situation. During a game between the Florida International University Golden Panthers and the Miami Hurricanes, that very thing happened and severe punishments were handed down by both programs to those involved. On October 14, 2016, a game between these two “cross town rivals” took place, and there was trash talk and penalties throughout the game. All of these penalties and trash talk led to a brawl that took place after a touchdown catch by running back James Bryant. According to Susan Miller Degnan, Barry Jackson, and Michelle Kaufman of the Miami Herald, “after Bryant ran inside the pylon for the score,

Choosing a new coach is one of the toughest jobs for a college athletic director, especially when hiring a coach for a program that is a consistent winner. He or she must try to hire a coach who they feel can continue the success that the program has had, while also being a good fit for the department and the school. It would do no good to hire a coach you know will win but will butt heads with administration as well as alienate the fans and will not have the respect of the players. The athletic director must sit down and set out the criteria that they want in a new coach and for a search committee that will help him or her to select a new coach. Having a search committee will allow the athletic director to have several different set of

It’s the only time of year when one shot can make or break a team’s season. It’s the only time of year when athletes can be magnified into stars or heros. Millions of eyes witness every heart-breaking upset and every game-saving buzzer beater. It’s March and it’s madness. The National College Athletics Association (NCAA) makes "$6 billion annually and $1 billion just off of the men’s basketball tournament” (USNEWS). In 2013, the Louisville Cardinals faced the Duke Blue Devils in the Mid-West Regional Championship. Louisville, the tournament’s one seed, looked to be moving on to the final four when a freak accident slowed everything. Late in the game, sophomore Kevin Ware of the Cardinals leaped to contest a 3 point shot. While everyone in

Free labor in exchange for sheep skin; generate millions while earning a degree. The topic of compensating collegiate athletes has long been the elephant in the room pertaining to division one athletes. Compensating collegiate athletes for their athletic contribution to their respective university has been an issue from the early 1800’s, when Harvard and Yale were competing in a regatta, and Harvard used a gentleman who did not attend the institution to compete to appease Elkins Railroad who sponsored the regatta. By the late 1800’s and early 1900’s football became a very popular sport that fans loved, but was very violent causing forty – five deaths amongst collegiate football players. This urged the President at that time Theodore Roosevelt

In an interview, former University of Connecticut (UConn) basketball star Shabazz Napier voiced his opinion on college athletes not getting paid to play. The interview was conducted just after UConn won a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) championship, in which Napier won the “most outstanding player” award. The interview conducted by Fox News was only one minute and thirty-five seconds long on TV, however in that short time frame, Napier skillfully used rhetoric to support his claims. An analysis through the lens of Aristotle’s three proofs, Ethos, Pathos and Logos demonstrates Napier’s aptitude to galvanize his audience to support his claims.

In a decision that is reverberating throughout the nation’s colleges, U.S. District Court Judge Kevin H. Sharp in Nashville dismissed the proposed class-action lawsuit that had been brought against several TV networks and college conferences by 10 former college athletes. The football and basketball players contended that the networks and the conferences had profited by using their names and images without their permission.

Beaten down, battered, and bruised is how I left the gym every day after practice. Waking up sore on following days made the aching seem never ending. The problem was simple, I was a short point guard who frankly didn't have the strength capable of contending against larger opponents. It wasn't until my head hung just as low as my self esteem that I chose to finally do something about it. Setting out on a mission to better myself I scheduled a four month plan fully dedicated to making not only making my skills better, but also my body.

Power activities are very vigorous and highly energy consuming, and the importance of proper nutrition cannot be overemphasized especially when professional athletics is concerned. It is, in fact, a strong determining factor as to the general performance of these power athletes. With the great innovations in the field of sports nutrition, a lot of interest has been put into controlling the quality and quantity of intakes by athletes performing a host of sporting activities to maintain maximum outputs. Studies have shown that athletes who follow proper nutrition practices experience enhanced training adaptations, while those who don’t follow the right nutrition guidelines may impede training adaptations.