College sports

attend a college or university to further their education I applause them. This is something that not everyone can do or wants to do. Extending one’s education takes hard work and determination to say the least. But an education should be treasured, and at what price would you pay to defer one’s schooling for a chance to play college sports? While doing various sports activities is great and a chance of lifetime. Nonetheless, having that opportunity to improve one’s life through sports activities

College Athletics. College sports are huge to a college’s students. It gives them pride and a reason why they want to be at that college. Nothing will start a debate like talking about your Alma mater’s athletics. Who’s got the best football team? What about the basketball? How about who gets the best recruits? Athletics at the collegiate level went from clubs playing at each other to a billion dollar business. That is just one example of change in college sports. College athletics have changed over

“Big time college sports... selects athletes mainly for their athletics, not academics, interests, and abilities” this shows that in reality colleges view athletes more as “athletes-students” than “student-athletes” (Eckard 211). This only goes to show why the graduation rate for college athletes is so low. However higher education make their graduation rate seem more favorable so that they can continue to get and recruit more skilled amateur players to generate millions of dollars for their facilities

captivated by sports. It did not matter which one, they all held my attention. Naturally, I choose to participate in one every season beginning when I was four, I played baseball, wrestling and soccer. I participated in these sports through middle school loving every second of them. Once in middle school, even more sports opportunities were opened. The ones that I grew to love involved running, which added track and cross country to my list. During these middle school years, I was a five sport athlete

The first time that I had any type of knowledge about the possibility of college sports being banned was just a few weeks ago inside of my English 101 class. I cannot express how surprise I was when I found this out. Not in a million years I ever would of thought a activity that most athletes live by every day can just go away in a snap of a finger. How could somebody even turn professional if they have not been in the college phase yet? Questions just arise in my head when I hear about this topic

Big-time sports in college has become one of the most impactful experience for the college’s fans and students. In the past two decades the boom of college sports such as football, men’s and women’s basketball, baseball, softball and volleyball have grown exponentially. Some the reason why this has happened is the scholarship sanctions the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) put into effect a few years ago; what the sanctions established were that the “big” schools such as the University

Some of college football’s leaders thought that more college football on television would create fan indifference in the mid-‘80s. The opposite actually occurred; whereas fans continue to attend the games in mass numbers, even a greater amount continue to watch games throughout the week, quite frequently Mid-American Conference games, and the weekend, with some Eastern Time zone fans watching till Sunday morning to see the west coast games. In 1984, The Associated Press estimated that the new landscape

I feel that college and professional sports share some of the same categories, college is just on a smaller scale than professional. Some of the expenses that both college and professional sports have in common are; travel, salaries, athletic scholarships (college), and facilities just to mention a few. The coaches’ salaries, especially football and basketball head coaches, has become one of the biggest issues in the last few years. These salaries create the largest expense acquired by most athletics

sports. It made women sports strictly intramural games, or sports that are played within the college and between its students’. The National Association of Secondary School Principals, as well as many educators, fully supported the resolution and so they put pressure on high school sports association to end their tournaments. Educators wanted women to only play sports at their own college, between one another. Most educators saw women playing intercollegiate sports as unladylike and sometimes unsafe

Woman's Sports       Saturdays in the fall bring together millions of people to celebrate college football, a ritual that bonds the community in stadiums and in living rooms across America. This American sport takes a heavy financial toll in colleges everywhere. Just one in four colleges across America make money on their football team (mostly large division I schools). College teams spend millions of dollars stockpiling athletes and struggle to keep pace with rivals. With college football