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Should collegiate athletes receive payment for competing in college athletics?
Results so far:
| Yes | 44% | 470 votes | Total: 1077 votes | |
| No | 56% | 607 votes |
Yes
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Created on: February 03, 2008 Last Updated: October 31, 2008
I want to state clearly that my decision is based solely on the present situation, the way college athletics
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Created on: July 27, 2007 Last Updated: October 31, 2008
Collegiate athletes play a sport that they love and like many professional athletes they work hard for
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by Jim McGrath
Created on: April 13, 2011 Last Updated: April 14, 2011
As the college basketball season wound down to a close earlier this month, millions of fans watched
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by Tommy Haas
Created on: February 10, 2011 Last Updated: February 11, 2011
College student athletes should receive compensation beyond tuition for a variety of reasons, but most
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Created on: July 26, 2007 Last Updated: September 27, 2010
Amateur Athletics is dead. It was pronounced dead on arrival about the time that the Olympic Games were
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by Bill Whitney
Created on: February 05, 2008 Last Updated: October 31, 2008
Depending on what college you go to, and how good an athlete you are, you probably are getting paid.
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Created on: March 20, 2010 Last Updated: March 23, 2010
Most young boys dream of playing in a major sports league, may it be football or baseball. As they’re
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Created on: July 27, 2007 Last Updated: October 31, 2008
We are the most obese nation in the World, so how do we fight the problem? Well the logical solution
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by J.R. Anthony
Created on: July 27, 2007 Last Updated: October 31, 2008
To those who write "no" - why not?
When you're a college athlete at a big school, you help earn that
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Created on: July 27, 2007 Last Updated: February 21, 2010
Should College players be paid to Play?
I have honestly done a 180 on this topic. I used to think that
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by Greg Slack
Created on: February 05, 2008 Last Updated: October 31, 2008
Who is harmed by collegiate athletes getting paid? Who stands to gain the most from it? These questions
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by Thos Robert
Created on: July 26, 2007 Last Updated: October 31, 2008
It is the height of hypocrisy that college athletes are not allowed to receive monetary compensation
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Created on: July 25, 2007 Last Updated: October 31, 2008
Should you be paid for going to work every day? Athletes in premier sports (football, basketball, baseball)
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No
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by Erin Carr
Created on: April 16, 2008 Last Updated: October 31, 2008
"There are 380,000 NCAA student athletes, and most of us will go pro in something other than sports."
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by Scotty Mack
Created on: March 02, 2008 Last Updated: October 31, 2008
According to the NCAA, less than 3% of college athletes will go on to play professional sports. The
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Created on: July 23, 2007 Last Updated: October 31, 2008
It is a question that has surfaced around college athletics for over twenty years: should college athletes
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by Eric Ward
Created on: September 16, 2008 Last Updated: October 31, 2008
They Already Get Paid to Play
An argument heard repeatedly in sports circles is whether college athletes,
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Created on: July 26, 2007 Last Updated: October 31, 2008
KEEPING THEIR EYES ON THE BALL
Arguably, in the big money aura of elite, big university athletic programs
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by Joseph Malek
Created on: July 26, 2007 Last Updated: October 31, 2008
Every person who plays college sports should receive a free education. You see, because of those players'
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by Ted Sherman
Created on: July 26, 2007 Last Updated: October 31, 2008
Hell, no! Isn't it enough that they get free tuition, lodging, meals, luxury trips, lucrative on-campus
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by Dennis Hazen
Created on: February 06, 2008 Last Updated: October 31, 2008
I do not believe there should be any payment for college athletics, as they are amateurs at this stage
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by C. Spencer
Created on: July 27, 2007 Last Updated: October 31, 2008
The best argument in favor of providing compensation to collegiate athletes rests on the claim that
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by Zach Bigalke
Created on: October 20, 2007 Last Updated: October 31, 2008
Should collegiate athletes receive payment for competing in college athletics? These student-athletes
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by Adamanthenes
Created on: July 26, 2007 Last Updated: October 31, 2008
The first and foremost reason a person should go to college is for an education. At the college I attend,
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by Matthew Shaw
Created on: August 15, 2007 Last Updated: October 31, 2008
If you've ever watched a professional basketball player speak at a press conference (or if, God help
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Created on: March 22, 2008 Last Updated: October 31, 2008
With so much focus placed on collegiate athletes, it is no wonder many of them are demanding some sort
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Created on: July 26, 2007 Last Updated: October 31, 2008
Collegiate means "unworldly" or "inexperience" and athletes means "participant" or "team member". So
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Created on: September 28, 2007 Last Updated: October 31, 2008
No way! No way! No way!
There are several major fundamental reasons why collegiate athletes should not
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Created on: October 15, 2007 Last Updated: October 31, 2008
Collegiate athletes should not receive payment when they compete in college athletics. If they did receive
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by White-Night
Created on: December 14, 2007 Last Updated: October 31, 2008
It is a known fact that collegiate sports have been obsessed over, and loved all over the United States
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