Student Athletes Deserve More than Scholarships (COMPENSATION OF STUDENT-ATHLETES) Student Athletes Deserve More than Scholarships. A Look into the Finances of Major College Sports Programs Student-athletes at major colleges and universities do more than attend classes, practices, and com...

The Need for Reform in Collegiate Sports The current institutional structure of intercollegiate athletics is attempting to maximize educational quality and athletic excellence simultaneously. Each of which will inevitably impinge on one another. Universities claim that their athletes are a...

In the United States, sports teams and athletes are revered as some of the most influential and idolized people in the country. Some fifty years ago, the biggest celebrities around were Albert Einstein, Clark Gable, and Frank Lloyd Wright. These aforementioned people were all from backgrounds outsid...

As college athletics grows and continues to bring large financial gain to universities and corporate sponsors, the debate over paying college athletes continues to grow. But while the debate between supporters and opponents increases across the country, the college athletics' governing body has not ...

Dan Gable is recognized many as the greatest amateur wrestler in U.S. history. He is known by many to be a good coach, wrestler, and friend. He was regarded as the nation's most successful wrestling coach. Gable is a brilliant wrestler (Garlits 34 and Lippy 161). Dan Gable was b...

BLACKS IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING: PAST AND PRESENT It is a truism to say that today's world is dominated by science and technology. Business and industry, marketing and sales, medicine, communications, education, leisure-almost every aspect of our culture is influenced by the work of contempor...

Imagine working for a huge cooperation and bringing in millions of dollars for them but not receiving a penny for your work. This in many ways is what college athletes go through. This unfair rule the NCAA puts on the athletes that "work" for them and their school have led me to believe they shoul...

Recognized by many, Dan Gable is considered to be the greatest wrestler in U.S. history. He is known by many to be a good coach, wrestler, and friend. He was also known as the nation's most successful wrestling coach. Gable led Iowa to 21 titles in 21 years; they won the Big Ten every year since he ...