Watching college athletes play sports is one of America and Canada's favorite pastimes. People love the thrill of hard competition and the fact that these athletes will always give 100% effort. College athletics has always been at the heart of this. It has always been something more pure than p...

Corruption in Collegiate Athletics Collegiate athletics in the United States, in particular N.C.A.A. (National Collegiate Athletic Association) Division I basketball and football, have become one of the most prominent forms of sports entertainment today. Like their professional counterparts, the ec...

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...

A Brief Overview of Title IX and how it effects both Men and Women Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 is the "Federal law which prohibits sex discrimination against the students and employees of any educational agency that receives Federal financial assistance"(Mathews I-1)...

Over the past couple of years there have been numerous arguments over whether college athletes should be paid or not. Division I athletes have been pouring their hearts out day after day, week after week, for their universities. With television contracts and shoe deals alone, the athletes are really...

COLLEGE ATHLETES SHOULD BE PAID The purpose of this paper will be to show you why college athletes should be paid. Participation in college sports should be considered a profession and athletes compensated for their work. Paying college athletes is not about being fair, but it is a start. Th...

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...

Student Athletes Deserve More than Scholarships: A Look into the Finances of Major College Sports Programs Student-athletes at major Division I-A colleges and universities do more than attend classes, practices, and compete against other teams. They generate revenue. Intercollegiate sports hav...

NCAA Division I, II, and III Membership Criteria The NCAA is an organization that was established in 1906 to administer intercollegiate athletics. It enforces the rules for various sports and the eligibility criteria for athletes. The NCAA supervises athletic contests for about 80 national...

In the beginning of the 1970s, there was an enormously growing frustration among the female athletes in the United States. A majority of both public schools and universities did not offer any type of competitive athletic programs for females. Most didn't even go as far as having intramural at...

Many people are aware that athletes have special privileges. People have either heard about it, have seen it on TV or in movies, or have even experienced it first hand. If for some reason, student-athletes do not or cannot meet certain academic requirements, the coaches will aid them to neglect ...

Lacrosse is one of the oldest team sports in north America. It's origin dates back to the 1400's. A t first it was called "baggataway", hundreds and sometimes thousands of people played at the same time, the game lasted 2-3 days, and the goals were miles apart, today there are o...

The NCAA recently proposed to increase (again) the standards of the eligibility requirements of its student athletes hoping to play collegiate sports at the Division I and II levels (InsideHigherEd.com, "Bar Raised for Athletic Eligibility"). The increase in standards, the first since 200...

College athletes should be paid a small salary because of the large amounts of revenue they bring to their schools. The media is filled with stories of the NCAA and how star athletes sometimes receive money and gifts from colleges. Since the NCAA prohibits athletes from having a job during the schoo...

Payment of Student Athletes: Legal and Practical Obstacles College Athletics is no longer just a sport, it's a big business. The National Collegiate Athletics Association has an operating budget of 270 million dollars, and the member schools generate 3 billion in revenues. That is a huge a...

Games Colleges Play Parents that have children who are involved in intercollegiate athletics should be concerned about their child's education. College athletics have taken a toll on their athletes and it is being seen in the classroom first. In 1991 the Knights Commission Report calle...

Should Student Athletes be paid? Yes student athletes should be paid. According to USA Today, the NCAA averages more than half a billion dollars a year in revenue, from TV rights to its men's basketball tournament. This amount doesn't include payout from the college football bowl games, w...

Should college athletes be paid? 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 ongoi...

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 e...