Essays Tagged: "College athletics"

Are things equal between the sexes in college sports

Are things equal between the sexes in college sports?'Monday night football won't be shown this week, instead women's field hockey will be ... men and women's collegiate sports is the number of participants. The ratio of men to women at most colleges is usually one to one, but sports participation is usually two to one favoring men (Tarkan ... cipation is not equal and therefore women are discriminated against.These examples of inequality in college sports shows that there is a problem and it has been a problem for some time. Women have les ...

(11 pages) 322 1 4.6 Feb/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

The Lure of Professional Leagues

hletes enter the pros earlyThe Lure of Professional LeaguesIn the past few years, a great number of college athletes have been leaving schoolearly to enter into the professional leagues. Some athletes ... ve been leaving schoolearly to enter into the professional leagues. Some athletes are even skipping college and goingpro straight out of high school. Many people ask what is causing these athletes to ...

(2 pages) 34 0 4.6 Jan/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Title IX--This essay is on Title IX and the 3 issues that have happened in Bakersfield, Calif. It includes statistics and quotes.

omics. In many medical and law schools they only allowed up to 15 women in their schools. Also most colleges and universities required that all women have higher test scores to be admitted into the co ... fore Title IX was passed, 18 % of the females and 26% of the males had only completed four years of college. As the U.S. Department of Education shows above, very few women and also men had completed ...

(6 pages) 101 1 5.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

Should college athletes get paid?

ports industry, many conflicts and decisions develop. One major issue over sports is whether to pay college athletes or not. Some people feel paying college athletes would be a great change, while oth ... re are reasonable arguments for both views on this matter.There are many sensible reasons as to why college athletes should be paid. These athletes are only seeing what everybody else is getting. Coll ...

(2 pages) 36 0 4.3 Sep/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Why Should College Athletes be Paid?

Should College Athletes Get Paid? Many collegiate athletes put as much if not more time into their sport as ... ing the athletes say that the scholarships that the athletes receive are payback enough.In the past college athletes were not allowed to have a job outside of college. Only now has the NCAA allowed at ... A allowed athletes to have part-time jobs during the school year. The problem with this is that the college athlete is in a way punished for being an athlete because he or she will not be able to gene ...

(4 pages) 23 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

MISSISSIPPI STATE BASKETBALL CONTROVERSY

gainst interracial collegiate athletics was broadcast in the fall of 1955 after Jones County Junior College accepted a bid to play in the Junior Rose Bowl against an integrated football team from Comp ... ogation of opposing teams whether these contest are held in Mississippi or beyond our boarders. The College Board voted 7 to 5 against considering any of Lipscomb's three options. In its refusal to pr ...

(1 pages) 6 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Fair Play For Women Athletes.

Do you think that women have fair play in athletics, particularly in college athletics? Why or why not? In 1972, Title 1X was passed giving women equal opportun ... ugh in sports and now they are dominating across the board. However, women athletes particularly in college are still behind men in almost every area of athletics. Currently, there is not one female s ... he same amount of attention as male counterparts. Women are not equally recognized as men in college sports or professional. Over the decades, men's sports always had an overwhelming effect on ...

(4 pages) 20 0 3.7 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

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(2 pages) 1 0 0.0 Nov/2014

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies > Writing