National Collegiate Athletic Association

Playing a college sport today is not just fun anymore. College sports are becoming a business and the athletes are the workers. The money some sports programs make from ticket sales, concessions, and media exposure is tremendous. Students playing sports are the ones people pay money to watch, so do the colleges not pay the athletes since they are the ones that bring in the money. They train year around to make themselves and their team better but what do they see for all of this hard work and dedication

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 even earlier, but it really came to the attention of many in the early 90’s, specifically 1995. Marcus Camby, a basketball player for the Toronto Raptors, admitted he took money and jewelry, from somebody who wanted

towards equality in the athletic realm is what is known as, Title IX. The basic ideas underlying Title IX are that “if an institution sponsors an athletics program, it must provide equal athletic opportunities for members of both sexes.” (Yoshida p.3) Simply put, Title IX attempts to achieve “equality” of funding for male and female athletes. The problem with this idea of complete “equality” is that no one agrees as to what

debate to whether college athletes should be paid to play a sport or not. The NCAA, formed by President Teddy Roosevelt in 1906, was initally put into place to take care of the safety element in college football. In 1950, colleges introduced the athletic scholarship. Using scholarships was seen as an act of pay-to-play

Pay for Play? Introduction Imagine you are a troubled kid that grew up in a gang-controlled neighborhood. You live day to day not knowing if today is you or your family‘s last day. Now imagine someone telling you that they can give your family money to help them get out of the hood and into a safe place. You have a scholarship to a major university and if you work hard you will become pro and make millions of dollars a year. But you can’t bear to see your family suffer any longer so you take

Student Athletes Should Not Be Paid In the world of college athletics there are endless topics discussed daily and most pertain to money. An issue that falls under this category includes the heated debate involving whether or not student athletes should receive money. Many people say student athletes should receive compensation according to their specific needs because they spend so much time earning their scholarship and have no time to work. On the other hand, the stronger argument is student

NCAA Division 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 championships in about 20 sports per year. The NCAA has gone through some structural changes throughout the years. When the organization first started it had every team and conference on equal levels. It took a while

Both Ryan, a freshman who is smart and tries to stay positive, and Riley, another freshman who always does stuff before he thinks, were walking home from Pacifica high school when they heard Sawyer calling their names. He was also a freshman at pacifica, but always thinks logically and like the other two he was on the cross-country team. "I heard something when I walked by the abandoned school," he said nervously. When they went to look at what was going on they both heard and could see nothing

rate has been the same since 1990. “In 1990 the estimated annual cost of sports injury in Australia was approximately $1 billion,” (Everest, 1) This estimate goes even higher for the nation. “ Nevertheless, accepting the victorian estimate of the national cost of sports injuries at $2 billion. These injuries are taking away so much money that could be used on better

Each year the NCAA makes about eleven billion dollars in revenue for college sports. How much of that money do the athletes get? They get absolutely nothing for making the NCAA money. Which is crazy since they are ones who generate the money and television ratings. College athletes should be compensated for their efforts due to the understanding that their work brings notoriety to the college the athlete is attending, and brings revenue to the college as well; therefore athletes deserve part of