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    Tiger Woods stats on the PGA Tour are truly unbeatable. He has won 79 events on the PGA Tour, has won 14 major championships, and set the most consecutive number of cuts made at 143, according to PGATour.com. Additionally, he has set records in all areas of the game: best record of winning a tournament after a 54-hole lead, 54-4, best percentage of wins, 25.2%, only player to win 3 consecutive US Amateur Championships, only player to win all 4 major championships in a row, lowest PGA Tour average

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    Do you think that athletes are overpaid? Well there is a debate on why do atheists get paid then most firefighters and cops. And multiplet of different jobs. Also tho it talk about why they need that money and how they spend it on other stuff. Have you ever wondered if do athletes get over paid. Well there some people very angry that some athletes get paid then some cops and firefighters. Even tho most of the athletes donated about 3,000 dollars to charity per months. And they well paid for some

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    revenue also affects the players economically. The demand of professional athlete’s talents are very high because of the amount of money they make, and the supply of this talent is extremely low and rare, causing for extreme inflation of contracts. Athletic talents are worth millions of dollars, and there are very few people who can provide this

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    Student athletes should also get paid because they work very hard to get where they are and to play a sport that they love. There is also a possibility that the player could get hurt or severely injured in a game and their career could be done. They might also need the money for their health care if they go I think college athletes should get paid because if they something dangerous to the hospital. Players’ lives could be at risk. severely injured. They should also pay then because if their jerseys

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    Athletes Get Paid

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    disrespected their whole career, even though College athletic is considered a money maker of a business, the athletes don’t even get paid, some say it is because paying them will reduce the amount of competitiveness, some say they aren’t employees so they shouldn’t get paid. Even the full scholarships they are getting has flaws. Overall the colleges are just too greedy. College athletics is a huge business, but the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) is a non profit organization. Which means

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    Multiple individuals would agree that there are a lot of cons to video games being a sport, but there are also a good amount of pros. First, there is a substantial amount of people that have watched the eSport world championship. Second, eSports is operated similar to other sports. Third, though chess and checkers are sports, why aren’t video games? To start, millions of people have been watching the eSport competition. Twenty seven million people watched the League of Legends championship (in

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    Junior and seniors in high school are held to higher standards because they are the older ones of the school, and with that comes more knowledge, responsibility, and leadership. Upperclassmen should be treated more like adults in the classroom or outside of school because it teaches them the qualities of becoming an adult, and helps better prepare them for adulthood once they graduate. The responsibilities and basic knowledge needed to use the high school weight room safely and efficiently are

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    Fake, disrespectful, weak, bitch, actor, cheaters are all words to describe a player who flops in the NBA. Flops are ruining the game of basketball as the refs get confused really easily and don't want to stand up to the big, strong, scary-looking NBA players. Flopping is a way for players to get what they want whenever they want it. Also don't get me started on how unorganized, all about money frauders the NBA organization as a whole is today. All they care about is revenue and to protect the players

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    For example, the average salary for a Major League Baseball (MLB) player is more than $4 million per year. In the National Basketball Association (NBA), the lowest salary a player can be paid is more than $500,000.” Some people don’t think anyone should get paid so much just to play a game. They say it’s unfair that people who perform more valuable services, like teachers and

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    One thing is clear from the readings: college football played a huge role in the expansion of college athletics. While rowing was technically the first intercollegiate sport, we learn in Rader’s article that football began to supplant rowing in the late 1880’s. Football grew popular because it encompassed masculinity, and Harvard was the first college to form a team, with other New England schools following soon after. Rader made it clear that college students used the first football games as initiation

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