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 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...

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...

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...

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...

Does god play a role in Professional Athletics? Does God play a role in Professional Athletics? Christianity plays a very important role in society today. Seeing all the different ways that Christianity affects the way we live our lives, I noticed that professional sports is greatly influenced by Ch...