Should Professional Athletes Be Athletes?

College can be perceived in two different ways: for most, the word inflicts fear into high school students around the nation; on the other hand, there are individuals that simply want to get away from home to party and live on their own. There is no sympathy for these students and it is just a waste of his or her parent’s hard-earned money and trust. College is essential for a secure future and this has let colleges raise the tuition to astronomical heights. Inflation, causing the cost of living to increase, combined with rising tuition has created major financial problems within families across America. Colleges are damaging the future of America and the government should do more to regulate the larceny conducted by the major schools.

MSU is home to many popular and original clubs and organizations that students of MSU can join to pass time or even join because he or she finds the club or organization interesting. There are more than 300 clubs and organizations ran by students of MSU. and these leaders are in charge of running any special activities during or after school and these events range from simple speeches to huge concerts used to raise money and awareness for certain causes. These clubs can range from simple get togethers to collegiate competitions between other and rival colleges. The club or organizations can be for sports, games, classes the students is taking, or even just friends wanting to get together to talk about what is going on in their lives. One of these clubs is the Archery club. The archery club is a club that accepts any bow enthusiasts whether they are just getting into bows or have been shooting bows for years. They accept students that are interested in all kinds of bows whether it’s a long bow, curved bow, compound bow, crossbow, etc. The archery club at MSU is a competitive club that competes collegiately in shooting events with other archery clubs from other colleges but one does not have to compete in any competitions to be able to join this club. In a shorter sentence the MSU Archery Club is for bow enthusiasts that seek to show off their skills in competitions against other bow enthusiasts. Another club found on MSU’s campus is Club Baseball. Club Baseball is a club

Yet, many people object the physical exertion aspect with golf, that it does not require any. These objectors who say golf should not be included in that defined group are ignorant to athletics and its regulations. My definition of a sport is a competition that involves athletes who play to win within a certain structure of rules and regulations. Anyone can be an athlete; they do not have to be good to play a sport, as long as they try with some effort. A sport requires certain qualities of an individual too that it can not be without.

If someone plays a college sport he or she is part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Meaning that athlete is a student-athlete and an amateur competitor. To remain eligible to compete, all athletes in the NCAA are not allowed to tryout, practice, or compete with a professional team or any professional players. Also cannot have a contract with a professional team. In addition, cannot receive any benefits from an agent or a potential agent. This means no contact with a sports agent. The most important rule that has to be followed, and the one that is under the most scrutiny is a student athlete cannot receive a salary for participating in athletics. (“Amateurism”, 2013)

Boom! Boom! Boom! The sounds of bullets shatter the ears of every soldier on the battlefield. Soldiers are put through rigorous training just to come home and get paid $4,445-5,690 a month, while Nikola Pekovic, a professional NBA player, is injured for the rest of the season and is making 4.9 million dollars to do nothing. Professional athletes make too much money because they don’t donate enough, their skill are not worth what they make, and sports don’t contribute enough value to society.

Should professional athletes use their status to protest the events taking place today? People have argued that professional athletes should not make a public stand, and mix politics and sports. Professional athletes should use their status to protest current events.

Anytime people think of famous athletes, they think of them as role models to follow and superstars with a lot of money. What exactly do all of these athletes do with so much money? Do athletes get paid too much, according to this statement “The top 10 earners rake in a combined $496.9 million, and they sure do know how to treat themselves” (Melia). Professional athletes are making too much money in a society that wages are traditionally on the value of someone’s work. Some might argue that athletes get paid just right for the amount of effort and sacrifice they take every day in order to give the world the entertainment they want.

In the past years, the sports world had gradually changed, new rules have been put in place

What makes golf the phenomenal sport it is today? Is it the game itself? Some say golf started in fifteenth century Scotland by men hitting a pebble with a wooden stick. Currently, graphite drivers routinely send the ball soaring 300 yards. Perhaps it was the golfers who made the game great. Arnold Palmer brought golf to the masses in the 1950’s and Jack Nicklaus has set records that have yet to be broken. However, today sports commentators, pro golfers, and weekend duffers, generally agree the game of golf has been changed forever with the arrival of Tiger Woods.

Do you really think that athletes deserve to make more money than the nurses of this country!? Did you know that athlete’s salaries are up to $56 million a year? Yet Barack Obama-the president of the U.S- only makes $400,000! Do you realize what this means? It says something terrible about our society. We prefer entertainment over safety. Many athletes are paid millions of dollars. Some people think these athletes don’t deserve their money, but others do. This has been a problem that has been on and off. Never really solved. Did athletes deserve their money? Yes or no? Most likely it will never be cleared!

I am teased relentlessly because I do something that I love; golf. “Golf,” Arnold Palmer said, “is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated. It satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect.” Being a golfer, I hear, “golf’s not a sport” or “It’s not that hard”. People express this opinion because they haven’t played it. They don’t realize that it actually takes a phenomenal amount of practice including lessons, physical strength, flexibility, and an incredible mental control to play this sport. In addition, one has to master the use of fourteen pieces of equipment, no two playing fields are the same and each hole needs to be completed in a ten to fifteen minute period to maintain pace of play. Although a golfer does not have to be the size of Dwayne Johnson, the sport is physically demanding, it is extremely difficult and probably one of the hardest sports to master.

There are elite athlete that are paid millions of dollars to perform their craft at a national level. These players have millions of people watching their every move, on television, the internet, and at their stadiums. Each player is an individual with his or her own thoughts. Even if there are 12 players like in basketball, or 53 like in football every player thinks, and acts on their own, and do as they please. Professional athletes must have some sort of influence outside of their respected sport. In this day in age where one minute someone can say something that contradicts with someone else ideals, and then the next they are ridiculed by social media or talked about for a week on sports media outlets the next. These athletes are becoming more relevant to the average person, because of the exposure that social media has given them. Even if the average joe does not watch any kind or sports they can still recognize top athlete’s names, or faces. Professional athletes know this, and some are true to their titles, and are simple professional, and keep out of the spotlight as much as possible, and just of their job. However, there are some that want the attention off the field for their own gain, whether it is for new endorsement deals for a bigger social media following. Then there are players that take the spotlight they are given to talk about huge issue in society and talk about their beliefs and views, which in turn can be looked at as a good role models.

The authors overall concluded that the ‘perfect’ gold swing does not exist due to the variability in constraints and the way in which each individual interprets, uses and lets them affect their performance. The authors mentioned and gave examples of external and internal constraints that all affect and individual’s performance and golf swing. They spoke about performer, environmental, task constraints and how they

Who do you think earns more money, a soldier going out into war fighting for this country’s freedom or a professional soccer player? If you thought it was the soldier, well you’re wrong. Many professional athletes and entertainers earn large sums of money, even more than doctors or soldiers and things like that. To me, I honestly don’t think that is right because these professional athletes and entertainers don’t risk their life or help others in any way, there are more important jobs out there, and most of these people honestly don’t really care about the money at all.

As an athlete myself, I am always looking for an edge over the competition. With the advantages made for Athletes in nutrition, there are many options to get that “edge”. Protein supplements, creatine, androstenedione, anabolic steroids; many athletes, including myself, turn to one or more of these products for that little extra to beat the competition. If an athlete is using these products, is it really the athlete performing, or is it the supplement? Through this paper, I will research the effects (positive and negative) of using these products, as well as determining whether or not each product should be allowed in organized competition.