Money In Sports
Money in Sport
Is money in sport a good thing or is it a means of corruption in sport? It has been a highly contested debate over the last few decades in sport. I believe that since the start of free agency in the early seventies that players play solely for the money and that is leading to the destruction of many sports. I will give you many reasons why money is bad for sports in today's society starting with the beginning of baseball up to today's sporting world. In this paper I will also evaluate the significance of the role money plays in the NCAA, with an explanation of the exploitation of college athletes and the salaries of the coaches in college sports.
How much praise should we really give athletes? In a country that claims education is its highest priority we sure do spent a lot of money on our athletes. An average professional sports athlete's salary is a little more than three times the average teacher's salary. Posing the question, where are our priorities? Don't get me wrong I am a huge sports fan it's just that I believe we pay athletes way too much to entertain us. Educators are the ones that make our country the way it is, but their salaries don't give them the respect that they probably deserve. Granted there are more teachers than athletes, but is the role of a professional athlete so much more difficult that they should be paid three times what an average educator makes?
The reason for these outrageous salaries can be blamed on the free market in which they operate on, meaning that they can get paid as much as the highest bidder can pay for them at that particular time. Sport needs to be protected from itself so that no one team can dominate all the other teams with an endless amount of money. What is the point of having a league where the teams at the bottom can never reach the top unless they try financially compete with the bigger clubs, only to rack up huge debts that they can't pay leaving them bankrupt? As...
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