How Does Sports Affect The Sports World?

Competitive sports have been apart of american culture for as long as time has existed. Nowadays, there are forty million kids who play competitive sports. These sports have a critical affect on children. They help shape children, and help determine who they are in adulthood. With forty million children playing competitive sports, people need to know whether these sports affect children for better or for worse. Well, competitive sports do have multiple beneficial effects on children. Such as it keeps children healthy physically and mentally. This is important because keeping a healthy mind and body will allow kids to do their very best. Competitive sports also reduce drug and cigarette use in children, which is significant because drugs

And if they think that they deserve all that money because of injuries, for this reason, maybe they shouldn’t play at all if they think they are that injury prone. Athletes aren’t even acquired because of skill level, it’s all about popularity or how much money they make. They don’t even work for an entire year and still get paid millions just for entertaining people. Why use all that money on something we don’t need when we can focus most of it on more important things like teachers or policeman or firefighters. Something that really matters. In conclusion, athletes should not be paid more than they are worth.

“On the television today the media overwhelms the United States with advertising of athletic competition. Every March, one cannot help but hear the results of the annual postseason college basketball tournament entitled “March Madness.” However, it was football that led to the increased popularity of college athletics. “March madness brings in as many as 50 million fans. Many of whom will watch the game on television, thanks to a lucrative contract that pays the college sports governing body about $700 million for broadcast rights in one year alone.” The NCAA recently signed a $10.8 billion TV contract. “Most head coaches pull in seven-figure salaries and NCAA executives get paid more than that. According to reports, more than a dozen NCAA employees collectively earn more than $6 million in salary a year. Emmert would not disclose his annual salary to “Frontline,” but he walked away from $900,000 a year as president at the University of Washington. His predecessor at the NCAA earned as much as $1.7 million a year.” The NCAA is now a business of signing billion-dollar contracts and paying everyone except the stars of the show. If the NCAA can find the money to pay coaches, executives, and chairmen seven-figure salaries annually then it should be easy to find money to play the players. They put their bodies on the line, and are often afflicted with career-ending injuries that hand them a one-way ticket out of sports forever.

As the years have gone by and college sports attract larger crowds and generate more money, the question arises of whether or not star college athletes should be paid. The NCAA currently prohibits college athletes from receiving payment of any kind from the schools, boosters or endorsements. This is a hot topic in society because many consider the athletes to be “working” for the money only the school is receiving. However, some argue that there is a need for amateurism. In college sports, athletes work hard, but they should not get paid because the college part of the sports is what makes the money, not the athletes.

Professional sports were beginning to be organized in the 1850s. At this point, their salaries, although they were still higher than the average person’s, were not too outrageous. In the 1880s and 90s, baseball players in particular were making on average about $1,750 annually. Even though this was three times the salary of an industrial worker of the time, they were not happy with this amount of money and felt they should be earning more (Baseball n.d.). In the 1970s, the worlds of professional sports took a drastic turn. According to an article by J.L. Carnagie, “Two words described sports in the 1970s: big business. Owners and athletes in major professional team sports knew there was money to be made in their games, and they went

College athletics has become a very prominent phenomenon in American society within the last few decades. A new American dream of becoming wealthy through sports at both the collegiate and professional level is rapidly growing. Today’s young minds strive to join the ranks of the worlds greatest and college athletics is the beginning of that dream. At the collegiate level athletes sacrifice a great amount in order to be eligible to play the next big game. Today, a college athlete is not permitted to be given any money or marketed in a way that profits the school or the athlete. A growing controversy pivots on whether college athletes deserve to make money for all their hard work. Every year, the NCAA and universities earn millions of dollars from athletes that every average Joe loves to watch. For instance, the University of Southern California (USC) probably made a few million from their stars Matt Leinart and Reggie Bush. Should these athletes be given some of the earnings since the money was made because of them? After considering the viewpoints of those who argue that college athletes should not be paid, this essay argues that athletes at the collegiate level should be compensated. College athletes should be paid because of the amount of money that the schools receive, the amount of money that the National Collegiate Athletic Association receives, and the sacrifices that college athletes make in order to maintain

In the world of the jocks, one of the big things a person is judged by how good they are at a sport. Why is this important? This is important because humans want to win, to feel successful within themselves, and the longing to be better than others. A lot of parents push their kid to be in sports because it keeps them in a healthy fit condition as well as learning how to cope with other people. People play sports for many different reasons which can change or be influenced over time. There are so many life lessons that can be learned through sports that it's no wonder so many people do them.

To understand why it is that athletes are deserving of their pay, one must first realize the odds that these millionaires battled against. According to the NCAA, there around 550,000 high school male basketball players in a given year. Of them, only 3 or so percent will even make it to continue playing at any collegiate level. From there, the odds only worsen. Only twelve out of every one-thousand collegiate players move on to ever make a single penny from playing the game they love. This roughly means that only three out of every ten-thousand high school basketball players will ever receive any sort of monetary sustainability for their efforts. Even further, the majority of those select few only get to play in minor leagues overseas that don’t exactly pay very generously. Note, also, that this doesn’t mean they’re in the pros for more than a year or two. Those men making millions you see on television aren’t just the best. They’re the very best of the best of the best.

In the past, only a fraction of money was invested in the sports. Even in the 50's and 60's, most athletes still had to get jobs to help pay the bills, but they still loved the game weather as a basketball, baseball, football player etc. The good old days where the games were fun to watch. Nowadays, most of athletes are overpaid and they also need to help the media and sponsorship to make money.

Every year millions are handed out to players that don’t play on the field and you might not even know they play the sport, for them money is nothing they need to worry about while homeless and low income and getting weaker. Our economy has fallen very much in the past 20 years and we have not made a full recovery. We need to distribute the money that Sport Professionals get over paid with in many different helping the people ways. On average a NBA player makes well over five million dollars a year while on average a person with a minimum wage job will receive only 20 to 40 thousand a year making this only less than 1 percent pay compared to pros. On average a Pro Football Team uses about 30 players for a team yet have 50 on their roster every year. Good time and money are wasted while America the country with most paid athletes has the highest homeless rate than most countries around the world. Many athletes get paid well over a million dollars a year. Do these players really need that amount of money?

One of the major causes of athletes being overpaid is that most athletes came from nothing to being paid millions of dollars a year. In today’s day and age, it is so much easier to go pro than it was years ago, although it is still difficult to become a professional athlete. There are all sorts of ways to become a professional athlete in the world today. Most of these million dollar paid athletes

Have you ever wondered if athletes are actually overpaid? Do they need all the money they get? The answer is of course they need the money they get. I would imagine you would think why well it’s because athletes always are working hard for entertainment and for people. They dedicate all of their lives for a sport. They could get horrifically injured. But worst of all they don’t work that long in the sports they do and sometimes would never be able to work ever again at most sometimes 14 years.

Today 's professional athletes make ridiculous salaries and are only increasing year after year. Every year we hear how a professional athlete just signed a contract worth a record amount. Then about the same time next year we hear about another athlete is signing a new contract worth even more than the previous high. Professional athletes are making too much money in a society that salaries and wages are typically based on the value of ones work.

Competitive sport initially was an activity shared by people as a way of taking their minds off the woes and miseries of life whether it be by spectating or being directly involved with the game. Competitive sport should be used as a way to socialise with friends through an activity which all enjoy. Looking at sport today we wonder how it got to this point of failure. Competitive sport in the 21st century is riddled with cheating, corruption and exploiting the lapses in the system. Money laundering, illegal gambling, pseudo identities, the list goes on and on. I addition to all these filthy traits, sport has been sufficiently supplying serious lifelong suffering injuries to people ranging from early childhood to old age. Sport has become a blemish that is deeply set within our society’s culture.

After less than 30 minutes of play the under-20 Chinese national football team vacated the pitch in protest, signaling an early end to the first in a series of 16 friendly matches. The unfurling of four Tibetan flags, and accompanying free Tibet chant, were provocations manager Sun Jihai could not ignore. Had he done so, the incident would have merited little more than a paragraph on an otherwise ordinary fourth division game. Instead, the demonstration, as well as future game plans, became the topic of debate on talk shows in Germany, Asia, and with football fans worldwide. How we got to this point is an intriguing story.