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    Never Giving Up

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    those off days you will be successful. Never giving up ties into sports all the time. Say that you’re on a football team. Your coaches will push you to the edge and you have to suck it up, learn and repeat. Practice is supposed to be hard. But if you just quit and never go back, then it’s going to be even worse. Just keep pushing through and don’t quit. Last year, my football team wasn’t the best, and one game we had to play the best. Benedict

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    Players’ Rights to Their Likeness and its usage in video games Collegiate athletics has experienced rapid financial gain over the last twenty years. With that known, student-athletes have demanded a larger piece of the pie due to the fact that without the athletes no one would be making any of this money. At the point this suit was filed in 2009 the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) had refused to adopt policies that would allow for players to be compensated. Student athlete likeness

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    Student Athletes and Academics

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    Academic Motivation of Student Athletes For decades there has been a debate on student athletes and their drive to succeed in the classroom. From the very beginning of organized college level athletics, the goal to want to succeed in athletics has forced students to put academics to the back burner. In spite of the goal to want to succeed over a hundred years of attempts to check limits of intercollegiate athletic programs on colleges' academic standards still seems to struggle to this day. This

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    more popular than football because it is watched and played all around the world. He has the experience that can back up his statement because he has moved all around the world and through soccer he has made friends. He aslo states the facts of how long each sport runs for and how long the players usually play. Soccer is a 90 minute game where they have a maximum of 15 break in between halves, but they usually play the whole game with some players being subbed out. Whereas, football can have up to 53

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    away within seconds? Just picture this; a basketball player playing for Louisville is projected to be drafted to the NBA at season’s end. It’s their team; Louisville vs Duke in the Final Four and Louisville must win this or go home. Next round is the NCAA championship game. In the entering minutes of the game, the player goes and contests a shot and comes down from the jump to see a bone protruding from his leg. At this moment it is very clear that basketball is over. Well this happened to Louisville’s

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    This law provides “a comprehensive charter of economic liberty aimed at preserving free and unfettered competition as the rule of trade (Northern Pacific Railway Company vs. United States, 1958; Reiter vs. Sonotone Corporation, 1979). It relies on a fundamental belief in supply and demand (Baum Research & Development Company vs. Hillerich & Bradsby, 1998). There are two main ways by which a plaintiff could challenge the NCAA’s no-pay rules under Section 1 of the Sherman Act. First, the plaintiff

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    College athletics are great for many reasons. Not only does is it give young men and women the opportunity to play the sport they love, it markets colleges and universities very well. Some athlete’s ways of getting out of struggles back home is through their sport, and for most sports, before they step on a professional field, they have to play in college first. Although college athletics have many great aspects about it, there also negative features that highlight college athletics. In recent years

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    Was Bo Jackson A Hero

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    Bo Jackson is an epic hero who has taught us so much about being hero. We have heard so many legends of Bo Jackson how he dunked a stick in a basketball hoop or how he leaped over a 40ff ditch. Bo played two sports baseball and football, people have always said he needed to choose but he couldn't make that decision, he went on and played baseball and football professionally. Bo was always the kid who got bullied, he grew up in Bessemer Alabama his mother raised ten kids on her own, they were known

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    Discrimination in Women Sports Women have always been the minority in today’s world whether that’s in the work force or even in sports. Title IX a act that was made by the United States Congress in 1972 that said that no one should be denied to play, receive financial aid, or discrimination to any education program or activity that pertains to only one sex. (Senne 1) This act was a step towards more female participation and less discrimination, but those stereotypes most of society believes in still

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    In the ESPN’s 30 for 30 documentary, I Hate Christian Laettner, the director explores why the talented, tall, amazing Duke player is arguably the most hated college basketball player to ever play. The documentary explores the 5 points of Laettner hate: privilege, white, bully, greatness, and looks. The 5 points help shape how people perceive Christian Laettner in the past and in the present. I believe that Laettner did have a certain privilege that many people disliked. I think that it is interesting

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