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    The decrease in participation and winning seasons in Belle Plaine High School sports have become more noticeable throughout the past three years. Students have discontinued or transferred to other schools to become more successful within their sport. The average number of student athletes during the 2012-2013 school year at Belle Plaine High School averaged twenty-seven participants; however, this number decreased to an average of seventeen participants for the current school year (Belle Plaine High

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    years, students have been playing sports and loving it, but as a result, some peers haven’t been doing well in their academics. Students are too busy playing sports, so they don’t have enough time to do their homework. Therefore, sports should be taken out of school because students will be more focused on their grades, the district won’t have to pay great deals of money, and that America will not lag behind other countries academically. Anyone who plays sports knows that occasionally students can’t

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    The goal of this paper is to be able to establish a causal link between the presences of sports in a postsecondary school affect the number of male students attending these schools. The reason we would want to answer this question is should we incorporate sports more in schools to increase male attendance and level out the gap between male and female enrollment. State Universities that are wanting to become established and increase their male enrollment, as well as their presence in the athletic

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    Thousands of students apply to college every year. Most likely one of the students’ first thoughts is what he is going choose to study. There are numerous majors to choose from, and each provide the student with multiple opportunities for jobs once he has completed college. One major that is becoming popular is exercise science. Exercise Science is the scientific study or analysis of physical activity/exercise. Due to the fact that there are a variety of different exercises/ ways to be physically

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    Sports and Students Sports have been around as long as there have been people to participate in them. The first recorded sporting event was the Olympic Games in 760 BC, which was only a foot race (“History” par. 5). However, it is believed that wrestling and boxing were the first sports (“History” par. 2). Sports are an important part of history, but what does that mean for student athletes. There are social, emotional, and physical effects on athletes who are also students. For third to eighth grade

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    Being athlete student and participating in sports affects the student in different ways Abdullah Alshammari ELS Cincinnati Instructor Molly Brody Abstract This paper examines how participating and taking part in sports can influence on students in either positive or negative way. Sports and education form an integral part of a student 's life. The importance of academics cannot be ignored in the life of a student athlete. It is therefore important that

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    College athletics are the backbones of most colleges in the United States. Sports on the college level hold the biggest influence over potential students and the campus’ overall performance. The purpose of this argument is to explain how influential college sports are to the actual college. This particular topic should be discussed and brought to light because not only does it provide a better understanding of college sports, but it also enlightens readers that programs in college are not all about

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    whether college athletes should receive some type of compensation for playing Division one sports. Many college teams pile up huge revenue from football games, basketball games, and many other different sports. Although the university piles up huge amounts of that money, not one penny goes towards any of the athletes. Even though they’re the reason why universities are getting rich from all the money the sports have obtained, the revenue that usually comes from game tickets, sponsorships, and booster

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    of simply playing, some athletes feel they should be paid for their skill. There is an arising controversy regarding athletes not being paid for the amount of commitment they put into their sport. While

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    In college divisions sports, athletes receive scholarships and academic grants. Instead of getting money athletes receive scholarships to help pay for their education. Many college athletes don’t receive scholarships and things of that nature but, they shouldn’t be payed to play sports, because students go to college to receive an education and most athletes receive scholarships that offer free tuition, free room and board, and they also receive other stipends to help toward books and other basic

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