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Student Athletes Football Players
1,104 wordsIts a joke that the NCAA doesnt pay student athletes. One of the greatest thrills of college football are the weekend trips to all those sacred stadiums that havent changed since Pop Warner roamed the sideline. But they have. The stadiums now look like the coliseum in Rome. The game is much more sci-fi now, that to a fan listening to an audible sounds like an alien language. Thou most of all, the players have changed and along with them the entire concept of an amateur athlete. Nobody's an amate...
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Colleges And Universities Millions Of Dollars
1,084 wordsStudent 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 have developed into a highly specialized, multi-million dollar entertainment industry that rides on the shoulders of student-athletes. This industry has in turn resulted in substantial rewards for big time ath...
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Point In Time Knight
1,654 wordsBarry Bobby Knight Bobby Knight Barry Woodward Bobby Knight, longtime Indiana men? s head basketball coach, was recently fired. This firing sparked a controversy among basketball fans throughout the nation; did he deserve to be fired? I believe that Bobby Knight deserved to be fired. Although coach Knight is one of the best coaches in the nation and has earned the respect of countless numbers of fans including myself, I do not believe that a coach should be able to act the way he acted and get a...
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Assistant Coach Head Coach
1,530 wordsThough Barry Switzer s career may have not always been glamorous, it was always successful. Switzer grew up in Arkansas, but will always be connected with Oklahoma. He is one of the best coaches to ever coach college football, and reached a hundred wins faster than any other coach. Barry had a different style of coaching on and off the field. He has a College National Championship and a Super Bowl ring, which can t be said by many coaches. Due to his great success, he is still hailed by Sooner f...
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Womens Basketball Million Dollars
715 wordsThroughout generations, humans have played organized games and sports. For that same amount of time, it has been instilled that men are faster, stronger, and just plain better at athletics. We also have come to realize that the slower, weaker, and not as good women make up for physical strength with mental prowess, to succeed on the playing fields and courts of the world. However, this concept has not caught up with athletic directors, coaches, and trustees boards across the country. Womens athl...
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National Championship Regular Season
598 wordsDo you know what time it is? Its March Madness, the NCAA Mens Basketball Tournament. The time of the year when you see commercials on CBS announcing the Road to the Final Four, the pinnacle of the college basketball year. Each year 64 teams vie for a spot in the Final Four. Teams from the East, Midwest, Southwest, and West all compete for one spot from each division. The teams that play for one of these spots can be classified into four different groups. The Number 1 through 4 seeds, the Cindere...
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