Gaelic Athletic Association

thrilled when a college coach calls you and offers you a scholarship at a top athletic program. Another thing: you cannot afford to attend the college without the scholarship. Now imagine you play one year of college football, and you get a season-ending injury; your college scholarship could now be in jeopardy. This scenario plays out every year over thousands of campuses. Most colleges grant one-year guaranteed athletic scholarships and few universities guarantee 4 years. Revoking scholarships takes

to succeed, should college student-athletes be paid? College athletics is a multi-billion-dollar industry that continues to grow each year. College sports are not just games; they are a form of entertainment. Fans of college athletics follow, watch, and cheer on their favorite college team. They spend money on tickets, merchandise, and travel to see top athletes perform. Expectations are high for the top athletes of college athletics to produce wins. Scouts seek the top prospects of a sport in hopes

The National Collegiate Athletic Association, also known as the NCAA, was founded in 1906 for the purpose of protecting young athletes from the dangers of the games that they partake in. There are also many reports that also say that the main reason that the NCAA was founded was due to the fact that football was starting to die out because of how physical and demanding the sport is. The president at the time was Theodore Roosevelt, who was a huge fan of the game, took action to protect the sport

“Wow, you’re going to college for free and playing baseball? How do you do it? Please tell me how you have it so good!” The participation of college students in college sports has been highly encouraged and is a potential benefit which could mark history not only in your personal history, but in the history for all the fans to admire you. Participating in college sports is worth the time, effort, and dedication put into it due to its various beneficial advantages it has over its limited disadvantages

Playing a college sport today is not just fun anymore. College sports are becoming a business and the athletes are the workers. The money some sports programs make from ticket sales, concessions, and media exposure is tremendous. Students playing sports are the ones people pay money to watch, so do the colleges not pay the athletes since they are the ones that bring in the money. They train year around to make themselves and their team better but what do they see for all of this hard work and dedication

the draw to the games. They are the reason people watch and cheer on their teams. The amount of money given as a “full” scholarship is a marginal benefit only a drop in the bucket when compared to the market value of a player’s talent and skills. Athletic scholarships, as will be explained later, is indeed financial assistance but still leaves the student athlete living below, or at best slightly above, the poverty line. The NCAA and the respective universities has a duty to be concerned with the

Over the years, the debate on whether or not to pay collegiate athletes, specifically Division 1, has increased greatly. With athletes bringing in millions of dollars to their respective schools, many believe it’s time to make a change. The debate has been ongoing since the 70’s, maybe even earlier, but it really came to the attention of many in the early 90’s, specifically 1995. Marcus Camby, a basketball player for the Toronto Raptors, admitted he took money and jewelry, from somebody who wanted

sports participation and it’s so call quota for achieving equality. The most notable action that has taken place as women continue to strive towards equality in the athletic realm is what is known as, Title IX. The basic ideas underlying Title IX are that “if an institution sponsors an athletics program, it must provide equal athletic opportunities for members of both sexes.” (Yoshida p.3) Simply put, Title IX attempts to achieve “equality” of funding for male and female athletes. The problem with

college basketball take from this person” (Watts 1)? I will not argue with Watts that Bobby Knight practices poor behavior from time to time. The choking of a player and assaulting of individuals has no place in society, never the less college athletics. Watts feels that a permanent timeout and firing is the answer to end the negative image portrayed by coach Knight. He feels Knight needs to be removed from his coaching duties and denied the excuses that have been given to him for countless years:

debate to whether college athletes should be paid to play a sport or not. The NCAA, formed by President Teddy Roosevelt in 1906, was initally put into place to take care of the safety element in college football. In 1950, colleges introduced the athletic scholarship. Using scholarships was seen as an act of pay-to-play