Persuasive Essay On Money For Sports

It is unbelievable how much sports players get payed to run around for about 3 hours throwing balls and exercising. To start the players that get paid the most are NBA (National Basketball Association) get $5.15 million per year. Next the players that get paid the most are in the MLB. Each year they get an average of $3.2 million. After MLB, NHL players get paid the third most. They average 2.4 million per year. Last but not least the NFL players get paid the 4th most in the whole world. The minimum salary

Many people argue that competitive sports raise numerous amounts of pressure on the youth making them distracted from things such as their education and because it can cause severe injuries, but some people argue that youth should play competitive sports because it teaches major life lessons that can help with many different aspects of their future such as college, getting a job, and many more. Playing competitive sports also improves your physical strength, another physical aspect of playing competitive sports is decreasing your chance of being obese or having disease. If you don't prefer to play competitive sports there are alternative options such as biking or walking to school. In an HT Health article “Sports Seen As Key Weapon in Fighting Teen Obesity” it says that in a study with 1,700 kids, ten percent walked or biked to school 3 ½ days a week,, in the study they found that biking or walking to school lowered the risk of being obese by 33%. I argue that kids should play competitive sports because of the important life skills taught through these sports and the physical benefit of playing sports. In this paper I will explain how communication, time management, and lowering the risk of being obese; supports my claim, “Kids should play competitive sports”

Professional sports has become one of the most popular industries in the world today. The media spends billions of dollars on advertisements and teams spend millions of dollars on professional athletes all for one reason, the fans. The fans ticket sales and merchandise purchases are what keeps all the sport teams around and prevents professional athletes from losing their jobs. There are three types of fans in the sports world, average fans, fanatics, and fair-weather fans.

(Attention Getter) What if I told you that for decades, students have worked over 40 hours a week and received absolutely no pay. College athletes are expected to balance the immense workload of school work and represent their school well in athletics.

Gambling, a hobby to some and an addiction to others is the main focus of Christie V. NCAA. The case, brought forth by New Jersey, argues for sports betting to be allowed in order to save the otherwise decaying casino industry New Jersey is famous for.Now what exactly could be prohibiting such an act?

The NCAA is one of the most profitable organizations in the world due to their monopoly on major college sports. Across the country there are over one thousand colleges and universities in the NCAA separated into 3 divisions, with a total of 89 different sporting events, and a staggering four hundred thousand student athletes in the organization. The NCAA makes money in primarily one way and that’s ad revenue for the commercials played during an event. In the Men’s NCAA Basketball tournament a 30 second add cost over seven hundred thousand dollars to run. The NCAA is a big business with millions of fans, so it is surprising that so few want to hold them accountable for the damages that they cause in their “amateur athletes”. The only difference

Why College Athletes Should Be Paid “Common decency demands that NCAA athletes be paid.” These are words from the great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Obviously if someone who is well past their college days still thinks college athletes need to be paid, this subject is the real deal. Whether college athletes should be paid or not is one of the most, if not the most, controversial topics in college sports over the last few decades. Especially amongst the athletes of Men’s football and basketball.

What Is More Important? ”Money is flooding into these athletic departments and the athletes benefit in many ways, but do athletes deserve to be paid for what they do?” (Walch). It is hard to make a living out of football in college because the athletes devotes their time and body to the sport, but aren’t getting money which is needed to make a living. The college athletes are the ones who bring in the money, but they don’t get any of it (Meshefejian).

If someone puts in 40+ hours of weekly practice time and receives no money for the hard work they have done, are they being cheated? The amount of work that college athletes dedicate to their athletic programs is equivalent to working a full time job, the difference is that the athletes are being left without a paycheck. Student-athletes who are on full athletic scholarships are still left with approximately $3000 in out of pocket expenses (NCPA). How are they supposed to pay for these funds when their time is completely consumed by the sport? The NCAA runs a monopoly, taking advantage of student-athletes to produce millions of dollars; robbing them under the disguise of amateurism (NCPA).

¨I need more money¨, as my brother yelled as I was walking into his dorm room to visit him. He looked aggravated and tired while he was surrounded by papers on his bed that looked like bills. The next five hours were spent trying to make a plan for the next three years to pay for him to go to college. In the United States, college athletes should be paid for playing because they should get a reward they are putting their lives life in danger, and itś a way to pay for college.

What would make a college athlete eligible to receive payment for playing any sport? Would they have to play a sport that brings in plenty of revenue to the school? There may be several reasons why some people think athletes should be paid for their hard work and dedication, but I personally think most athletes are already being compensated for their performances. Why pay them extra? There should be no distinction when it comes to the different types of sports. All sports are likely to bring in revenue to their schools. But I choose to elaborate on other important reasons such as, the benefits of athletic scholarships, athletes attending college for an education, the unfairness of football teams being paid for their performances but no other sports are being paid as well, and how being paid for their performance can decrease the chances of athletes attending class often.

Michael Vick, quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles, was convicted of operating a massive dog fighting ring and was sentenced to 23 months in jail in 2007.

Life isn’t fair, but we all know that. Instead of the athletes sharing in the revenue they create, it’s just the fat cats who benefit. The NCAA has multiple billions of dollars in revenue every year. but the athletes don't see a pretty penny of that. Lots of people believe that college athletes should not be compensated monetarily. by the means of money. They think that a scholarship is enough compensation for the athlete’s work. However, But what people do not know is that not all athletes get scholarships, and not all scholarships include things like food and clothes. So college athletes should be paid extra money for three reasons: the players put in lots of work, the NCAA makes billions of dollars every year, and the NCAA acts as an employer.

“That’s the ball game”, the announcers scream as the Villanova Wildcats win the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship. The players just won the biggest game in college basketball and all the players get is too wake up the next morning at 8 am and go to class. In the world of collegiate sports, the debate of paying student athletes is only increasing now that the revenue earned by colleges is increasing into the high millions. Student-athletes are employees to their athletic programs but they’re not receiving paychecks for their hours of service or overtime. It begs the question, “Are student-athletes being adequately compensated for the time and effort they put in to their programs? The answer is simply, “No”. College student athletes work hard

There is a big difference between players receiving some type of benefit or aid and getting a paycheck. The line must be drawn somewhere. I do think that student athletes should be compensated with scholarships, housing, meal plans, and other various incentives. However, I do not think that they should be paid, on a salary, or given a pay check. My arguments for supporting this are that many universities cannot afford to pay athletes, the already receive numerous other benefits, it is very difficult if not impossible to be “fair” in paying, and that it would ruin the integrity of college athletics and its players.