Professional Athletes Deceitful Contracts

Sport Agents help collegiate athletes transition to amateur athletes. On behalf of the Professional Athletes’ Association, agents can only be considered certified if they are approved through them. The association must agree on each agent. As a part of guidelines to become a Sports Agent some things may include having a background check and agreeing to all the rules of the association. HR professionals are increasingly performing background screenings on job applicants and employees for information on criminal records, résumé falsehoods, drug use, and other data (HR Focus, 2007). Some professional leagues such as the NBA or NFL have certain rules when it comes to managing athletes’ funds. Special to the American Banker notes, “The agents, who often get power of attorney over their client's finances, take an estimated 3% to 5% of their players' salaries in financial management fees” (pg.1).

The NCAA used to make a college football video games by school's athletes, however, they evaded to pay royalties to athletes by not disclose the name of athletes. It is not fair for the football players that NCAA took away their money. The author believes that the solution is to negotiate with the NCAA, even if, NCAA not allowed players to unionize, players still should negotiate to get enough scholarships. And he said that students need to benefit from their names and portraits, and athletes should be allowed to sign agency agreements with advertising agencies to make money with their image. An Associate Professor of Law at the Zicklin School of Business－Marc Edelman agreed with LaBlue’s opinion. In the article “Should College Athletes Be Allowed to unionize?” reported by the wall street journal states that Edelman argues players are employees and should to certain their rights. He summed up the benefits that unions can bring to athletes, and through unionization the control rights of the college sports can back to hands of students. For example, athletes have been lacking of insurance and disability benefits in matches during long time, however, the union can help these athletes improve their health care insurance and pensions. Before the athlete is punished, union can protected them by holding a hearing. The author stated, “At some colleges, men's basketball players are required to miss upward 20% of their spring-semester class days for athletic purposes,” many student athletes are deprived of the right of choose their own life, the University will replace them to decide class, study plan and schedules. many student athletes are deprived of the right of choose their own life, the University will replace them to decide class, study plan and schedules. Union can give them the freedom to

At the beginning of the twentieth century and the outset of the professional sports industry the existence of underpaid players at the premier level of athletics was a legitimate problem. It was this problem that played a role in the fixing of the

Labor relations did not play a dominant role in professional sports until the early 1970’s. Prior to unions and collective bargaining, professional athletes were treated like “privileged peons.” Today sport is more career and business than avocation and pastime. Today professional players pursue their playing careers as businesses. And agents

Many fans throughout the U.S. blame the high priced contracts on the athletes, but they are not the source of the problem. In a sense, the athletes are just getting their piece of the pie. What the athletes make

An issue that has been a well-known topic of conversation recently is the subject of college athletes getting paid or not. This issue has been circulating amongst sports fans throughout the country. Everyone from the fans, players, parents, and media groups all have opinions on this matter. Over the past ten years college athletics has gained an enormous amount of popularity and income from American audiences. As a result of this, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has been debating about collegiate athletes getting paid for their participation and I am going to discuss the reasons for why people are for it and why people are against it. The real questions most people are wondering is: Is it ethically right to pay college

With the athletes having more success with fans has increased revenues for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). According to NCAA rules “you are not eligible for participation in a sport if you have ever: taken pay, or the promise of pay, for competing in that sport”. However, many athletes are targeted by the black markets, and end up taking money from under the table. Paying athletes would benefit the NCAA, student-athletes, and the athletes’ families.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association is one of the biggest sports organizations in the United States. One of the most divisive issues relating to the NCAA over the last several years has been the issue of athlete compensation. There are many sports—particularly football and basketball—that bring in incredible amounts of revenue to colleges across the country; therefore, whether or not athletes should be compensated for their role in college sports has become a topic of debate. While scholarship athletes are already compensated by their access to tutors, meals and a free education, the concept of the student-athlete has deteriorated over time and thus athletes should be able to make money by signing autographs or making public appearances while they are in school. In addition, the big four American professional sports do not give amateurs an opportunity to play aside from Major League Baseball, which funnels athletes to college sports and in turn ushers them into a place where they cannot profit from their athletic ability. The issue is clearly a complex and unethical one. It would be difficult for schools to pay athletes fairly as certain sports would appear entitled to more money based on profitability; however, players should undoubtedly be able to benefit from their athletic prowess by selling merchandise and profiting from their stature in general. The NCAA’s stance hindering players’ ability to sell autographs and other memorabilia is just as important to this

The NCAA institutions that an athlete belongs to plus parents and other honest influences should be cautious of any sports agent. They are not doing it for paternalism or for benevolence rather agents are doing it for the money. Even though many sports agents are attorneys, “attorney regulations are not enough to regulate the sports agent profession, and that even more strict sports-focused regulations are needed to restrict attorney and non-attorney agents from acting unethically” (Heitner, 2010).

Over the past years, There have been so many cases about collegiate athletes being suspended or losing their eligibility to play. When student athletes lose their eligibility they`re forced to stop playing the sport they love the most, even worse they also lose their scholarship. Athletes are getting in trouble for receiving money or some type of gift from boosters. By accepting these type of payment, The athletes violate the NCAA rules. (“Accepting these gifts makes both the athlete and the college look bad. Florida State is investigating Jameis Winston’s connection to James Spence Authentication, the company that was linked to suspended Georgia running back Todd Gurley. It’s reportedly certified 500-plus autographs from Gurley and more than 2,000 from Winston, and we’re all waiting for the proof that they got paid to do so.”) These are few of many athletes that violated the NCAA rules. So the question is should collegiate athletes be paid? In this paper I will show different views on reasons why athletes should be paid and why athletes should receive compensation. I will also show the effects on what paying collegiate athletes can cause.

Whether it be baseball, football, soccer, or basketball, sports are appreciated not only in America, but all over the world. One of these sports that is particularly popular in America is Football. The immense crowds of people who sit at a stadium or on the couch to watch a game never fail to recognize every single play on the field; however, many fans pay little to no attention to one of the most important components of the game, the player-association relationship. When signing a contract with an NFL team an NFL player is effectively dedicating his life to his new organization. His duty is to play for his team in order to make the organization money, and money they make. In the NFL last year “each team received $226.4 million” (Brady 1).

Consequently, a fierce competition for client representation has arisen due to the overcrowded nature of the sports industry with sports agents. This competition has sparked many agents to do whatever necessary to reach an agreement with athletes. In

     The second factor was the development of competing leagues. “Competing leagues such as the American Football League, the American Baseball Association, the World Hockey Association, and the United States Football League offered an alternative to athletes (Masteralexis, 246).” These leagues offered higher salaries to induce players to move from their original teams. When players left a team to for more money, it also increased the salaries of players who stayed on the team. Agents played a crucial role in determining what was best for athletes, and which league they should choose.

The passages present a discussion about arguments concerning whether or not professional athletes are overpaid. This is an important debate since professional sports represents a multi-billion-dollar-per-year industry. The two positions argue whether or not professional athletes should be paid the large yearly salaries they are paid. Both viewpoints have valid claims warranting consideration. For example, evidence suggests that people with far more important jobs are paid much less than professional athletes; in contrast, opposing evidence suggests that since professional athletes generally have short careers and must train very hard to build and maintain their skills, the higher salary is justified. While both sides of the issue have valid points, the viewpoint that professional athletes are not overpaid is the best-supported position, the position supported by the preponderance of the evidence cited in the passages. The strongest and best reasons supporting this position are that professional athletes must endure grueling and intensive training, they generally have short careers that often end in injury, and the amount that they are thought to be paid is often inflated. Accordingly, these reasons and opposing viewpoints will be discussed next.

While the realm of professional sports is comprised primarily of adults playing a child's game under the strict oversight of governing bodies, which again are the home of a wholly adult population, the fact remains that most sporting organisations around the world enter into contractual agreements with minors in some facet or another. Often these arrangements are tenuous at best because of the long standing legal precedent which holds that minors, typically those persons under the age of 18, lack the capacity to enter into any legally binding contract and can void the terms of pact at any time until the age of legal majority is attained. Nonetheless, worldwide sporting organisations governing all variety of sports, including tennis (the Association of Tennis Professionals), baseball (Major League Baseball and Nippon Professional Baseball), and basketball (Chinese Basketball Association), continue to sign the most promising prospects available ever earlier in their lives. In 2000 international football powerhouse F.C. Barcelona, under the auspices of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), famously signed Argentinean sensation Lionel Messi to a contract when the youth was only 13 years of age. The astounding success enjoyed by both Messi and F.C. Barcelona since his childhood contract demonstrates that sporting organizations with the wherewithal to enter into contracts with minors can do so effectively, provided both parties act in good faith.