When Salaries Get to High to See When people think of high salaries they turn to the world of professional sports, because that is where athletes are paid outrageous amounts to do the things they love. Although some would argue that the athletes deserve these wages, I fell that not all professi...

Overpaid Athletes Being a professional athlete comes with many perks that go far beyond the sport itself. Players in the fields of basketball, baseball, hockey, and many more, have been known to make a lot of money. Some probably make more in one year than many of us will ever make in our entire ...

Athletes vs. Doctors Who are the real heroes? Professional athletes have a profound role in society. They are seen as modern day heroes. These superstars are idolized and enjoyed by many aspiring young athletes. The sole purpose of a professional athlete in society is for entertainment. The...

One of the biggest problems I have with our society today is in sports. Don't get me wrong, I love sports. I love to watch the competition and seeing these men doing seemingly superhuman feats. The problem I have with sports is the over-commercialization and over-hyping of athletes by their a...

Regardless of age, sex, ethnicity, or personal interest, everyone at one point in their life had somebody that they looked up to, or modeled their life around. It could have been a parent, teacher, priest, or perhaps someone famous. Many young kids today look up to celebrities, which include actor...

One of the major problems in today's sports scene is the use of performance enhancing drugs. Professional athletes are always looking to get a leg up on the competition, but this is taking it too far. Even though certain performance enhancing drugs are banned, the drug tests are not frequent enoug...

Meritocracy The Downfall of Sports A meritocracy is an environment in which individuals are rewarded for their ability to produce. An example of a meritocracy is the sports world at large. In the sports world, athletes are chosen based on their raw talent and ability to score poin...

Going down a lonely highway, he's the only one on the road. He sees a sign that says "Get Ready," and it makes him scratch his head. As he keeps wondering what the sign means, he can feel his body getting hot. He's getting frustrated at nothing at all. He comes up to anot...

There is only one thing that entertains me when the fall season comes around. Any gridiron enthusiast knows exactly what I am referring too. I love everything about professional football. From the great end zone catches to the bone crunching hits. When I sit down for the twelve o'c...

If you followed the Summer Olympics in Athens Greece, you heard about Ukraine's bronze-medal-winning rower Olena Olefirenko testing positive for stimulants after finishing third in the women's quadruple sculls event. Olefirenko and the Ukraine team were stripped of the bronze medal. You also he...

Professional Sports Due to the greediness of sports figures, professional athletes are not punished in the same manner as other professionals are. It is like they are in a completely different group that uses an entirely different set of morals. Te...

In today's world, the public watch professional sports such as baseball, basketball, football and hockey, as a form of escape from the rigors of everyday life, stress from work, and everyday household environment. Children idolize Allen Iverson, among other athletes, for his prowess in his res...

Professional athletes bring about an aura of disgust to many American citizens. The "greedy", "overpaid" "criminals" that we call athletes sicken many upper class individuals. Whenever a professional athlete signs a multi-million dollar deal, America always hears ab...

Article # 1 13. Legal Issue The points highlighted in the article show what sports have to change to allow closer ties between amateur and professional sports. I highlighted the most important parts of each section. Including the impact of professional sport, how to address the problem? develo...

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You know that feeling when you walk on to the field for the first game of the season, you know the stadium is packed but you can't hear anything. Your heart is beating fast, because you know this game is going to be intense, and everyone is watching you. This is when everyone really sees w...

Cory Maxson from August Wilson's " Fences" and Kiswana from "Kiswana Brown" face a similar conflict; both of the characters have problems relating to their parents. However not all conflicts are inevitable some problems are brought on themselves.Cory Maxson lives in Pittsburgh in the late 1950's wi...

Matt KelleyRhetoricSpeech #2 Professional Athletes are OverpaidEvery young child who has ever been involved in athletics has dreamed of being a professional in that sport. Why do you think that everyone wants to be a pro athlete. Sure it is because they get to...

No matter who you are, where you grew up, or what you look like, there was a time in your life or there will be a time in your life where you feel the demand of excellence from society. Could you imagine being a professional athlete? They not only feel the pressure that they bestow upon themselves, ...

Today's professional athletes make astronomical salaries and their only going one direction. Up. Every year we hear we hear about how a professional athlete just signed a contract worth a record (insert ridiculous amount here) million dollars. Then about the same time the very next year we hear abou...

Sport and MoneyEverywhere you look you see sport intertwined into everyday life, be it on the television, in your back yard, in schools, universities or in social networks. Nobody can escape the influence of sport, either as a spectator or a participant - it's everywhere. But who is to blame for thi...