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...

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...

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Professional athletes get an unfair advantage by using steroids. Athletes should be banned from using steroids as a muscle enhancer. There are many effects on a person's well being by using steroids. Sports should be based on talent and skill without any type of medicine to enhance a player's game. ...

VIOLENCE IN SPORTS"...Steeler running back Rocky Bleier, whose war time experiences, not so oddly, offer some insights. To Bleier, there are interesting parallels between survival in war and survival in the NFL. 'The experiences with war injuries and football injuries are quite the same,' he said." ...

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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...

The problems faced by college athletics range from the athlete becoming "professionalized" to the weight placed on the "scoreboard" to the commercialism of college sports. Until the NCAA and individual colleges' athletic departments can formulate a plan to "de-professi...

As sports has grown into a multi-billion dollar industry, there has been an explosion in thenumber of lawyers who specialize in sports law. There has been an understandablysignificant increase in the number of persons desiring to represent professional athletes.This increase can be explained by the ...

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...