Essays on Athletes

In this day and age, the ideal goal for most people is to find something they love to do and work hard every day to get better at their craft and get rewarded for this hard work. College athletes can kill two birds with one...

On October 29th, the National Collegiate Athletic Association top governing board passed a law allowing college athletes to earn endorsements and sponsorships. The law states that student-athletes are to be treated like non-athletes attending their universities, and they should have a “clear distinction between college...

In 1995, the UCLA Bruins men’s basketball team won the national championship. The team was led by Toby Bailey, who had graduated from Loyola a mere ten months prior, and by Ed O’Bannon, who was named Most Outstanding Player in the Final Four. Today, O’Bannon...

Athletes most of the time incline to getting into sports for the easy and fun way to earn money, but colleges paying young athletes would eliminate the line between amateur and professional sports. According to the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) the reason why student...

When people hear the term “NCAA,” which means National Collegiate Athletic Association, they often think of basketball or football. While there are a variety of sports under the NCAA, these seem to be the most popular. The NCAA offers sports at three levels, Division I,...

College athletics have increased tremendously popular among Americans in the course of recent decades. This has come about into expanded livelihoods for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the schools taking part inside the affiliation. This has filled the open thought of whether school...

The debate on whether college athletes should be paid or not has been a controversy since the late 1900’s. A point of disagreement has been whether or not college athletes should be paid for all the work, effort and time that they put into their...

For many athletes in high school, the goal is to have the chance to play a sport in college. However, questions they may ask them themselves are, “Is it worth it? or “Am I going to be able to focus on my schoolwork while maintaining...

There is a great misrepresentation of the tremendous impact on collegiate level sports and their athletes have on the overall success of a university. This is especially true in SUNY University settings, in which considerable funding is poured into collegiate level athletic programs, to produce...

This report will examine how undocumented athletes: professional, collegiate and high school age navigate over barriers amidst their incomplete immigration status. The purpose of this report is to enumerate the problems undocumented athletes face in America due to visa issues. Undocumented can be defined as...