Domestic Violence in Athletics In modern athletics, some of the most popular sports are the most aggressive in nature. The competitions that people most enjoy watching, such as football and boxing, have long been sports that dominate television and other media. However, this aggression can be dangerous. It is my opinion that the aggression these athletes train to achieve is the very aggression that athletes negatively present off of the playing field. As athletes train to become more aggressive, they begin to achieve that goal, and many athletes are having a hard time controlling that aggression off of the field of play. Domestic violence in athletics is becoming a more troublesome issue every day. A new incident of …show more content…
This would help athletes who are otherwise struggling to keep themselves acting respectfully. While this may be an expensive solution to the problem, it should not be a major financial burden to professional football organizations that bring in millions of dollars in profits each year. Where it would be the largest financial burden is at the collegiate level. However, considering the astonishingly high rate of crime amongst student-athletes presented earlier, this would be a necessary step to ensure the safety of all students at the college. The next step to stopping crime among athletes is cutting their incentives. Even though the professional sports organizations want you to believe they are focused on playing a game, you have to realize they are a business capable of making many millions of dollars a year. As any other business of this size, they need positive publicity to effectively turn more and more profit. Teams pay good players tens of millions of dollars every year, so fining an athlete two weeks’ pay, like the NFL did to Ray Rice, will not make a substantial difference. Instead …show more content…
Likewise for college athletes, scholarships should be revoked for committing crimes. This is almost more important because these athletes are often representing state universities, so these athletes are not only representatives of their team and their school, but also the state in which the university resides. Revoking athletic scholarships for athletes committing crimes is a popular approach. According to an ESPN SportsZone Poll, 84% of pole participants said they would support a school’s decision to revoke an athletic scholarship for committing a crime. Many critics of this approach will say it is unethical to do this much financial harm to a person, but I think this really is the only way to ensure that athletes behave on and off the field. However, in the current world of athletics where every athlete has a manager to protect their interests, it is not likely that athletes would agree to terms that would reduce their pay and playing time if they refuse to comply with league policies. This will be the biggest problem when trying to enact these solutions. In addition, people pay to see their favorite players, so
Student athletes should not be paid more than any other student at State University, because it implies that the focus of this university is that an extracurricular activity as a means of profit. Intercollegiate athletics is becoming the central focus of colleges and universities, the strife and the substantial sum of money are the most important factors of most university administration’s interest. Student athletes should be just as their title states, students. The normal college student is struggling to make ends meet just for attending college, so why should student athletes be exempt from that? College athletes should indeed have their scholarships cover what their talents not only athletically but also academically depict. Unfortunately, the disapproval resides when students who are making leaps academically are not being offered monetary congratulations in comparison to student athletes. If the hefty amount of revenue that colleges as a conglomerate are making is the main argument for why athletes should be paid, then what is to stop the National Clearinghouse from devising unjust standards? Eventually if these payments are to continue, coaches, organizations, and the NCAA Clearinghouse will begin to feel that “c...
... money to live. They are most likely not capable of getting a part time job, especially during season because of their hectic schedule. They do not always have the financial support of family while they are away. College athletes are also at risk multiple injuries that could lead to them being let go from the team. It would be great if they were allowed to keep their scholarships as long as they kept their grades up. They also should be able to make at least a percentage off of their own names. Businesses make products using their names, jersey numbers, faces and can make thousands of dollars and none of it will go to the athlete. That is not right and it is really just another form of slavery. College athletes are controlled by these organizations and their contracts that tell them what they can and cannot do; yet, they are not paying them anything.
student-athletes can be taken in so many directions, because there are so many different opinions.
First by saying that only a few sports tend to bring in money. Often, it is the big sports like football
Some universities actually profit off of their sports teams (i.e. Ohio State football, Kentucky basketball), meaning that the athletes of these teams are indirectly providing means of revenue to their schools. Some believe that the least the schools can do in return for the athlete’s hard work is to provided them with a monthly stipend with a set amount of money—especially when the athletes are allowing a flow of profit to come into the
true(. Seeing in how much money universities make college players should receive some sort of payment
There have been many studies geared towards sports, and sports violence or deviance. Many theorists contemplate what causes athletes to be violent. Within sports there are various types of violence such as player on player, coach and fan violence. When professional athletes act violently on or off the field it leaves an impression on the viewers in our world of entertainment. There are many forms of deviance in sports. Professional sports are valued greatly in our entertainment industry. When professionals act violently, those watching will mimic those same violent acts. Without a doubt, teenagers and children are watching professional sports. Yong adults will model what they see professionals do on television and this modeling behavior is known as the social learning theory. “According to Aronson, Wilson and Akert (1999), social learning theory holds that individuals learn social behavior by first observing others then go on to model or imitate what they have seen.” One experiment was conducted by Albert Bandura in the early 1960’s. Bandura had children watch adults hit, kick, and yell at a plastic air-filled doll known as Bobo. After the adults were done modeling these aggressive behaviors, the children then had the opportunity to be in the room with the Bobo doll. These children imitated the aggressive models and treated the doll in an abusive manner. Children who were in the control group condition, who did not see the aggressive adult did not use aggressive means to control the doll. Based on this social learning theory professionals should try their best to suppress their anger and not act violently on and off the court because they are modeling inappropriate behaviors for our future generation.
Unfortunately, some athletes in the eagerness to reach this goal, end up passing the limit of what is considered ethical. The big problem is that some athletes, due to the lack of orientation, end up being punished and labeled as unethical without even knowing what is happening. As for example accepting to take certain supplements given by their trainer to enhance their performance.
Millions of devoted fans eagerly watch their favorite sports players and teams year round. Some people watch professional sports, while others prefer college. College basketball and football are passionately described topics on television and radio. College and professional sports are analogous in every way; the only difference between them is the lack of payment to student athletes. The National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) receives millions of dollars in revenue from college men's basketball and football, and college coaches of top schools are paid the same amount as professional coaches. Fans of both college and professional athletes can proudly show their commitment by purchasing jerseys or other merchandise. Student athletes should be paid because, even though they are considered amateurs, they need money for their social life, and their own institutions already exploit them, making enough money to pay athletes fairly.
First off, athletes are paid for partying and game playing. Not only are they paid for the games they are at, they are even paid for the games unattended too. Sure, these athletes overwork themselves for a couple weeks, but when off the job they live the high life. Athletes party, drink, and get into all the trouble they can. What makes this worse, athletes think they can just pay off any victim or police man in their way. In their young adult heads, they won’t be thinking about any future, just the present.
The rise of steroid use in today’s sports is changing the amount of athletes and role models getting punished for using them and ruining the view on the right way to play sports. According to Heather Wright of Bleacher Report, “Steroids have often been at the fall of some of the most promising names in sport.” Sportsmanship has also submitted to gamesmanship over the years- using ploys to gain an advantage.
Sports are one of the most profitable industries in the world. Everyone wants to get their hands on a piece of the action. Those individuals and industries that spend hundreds of millions of dollars on these sports teams are hoping to make a profit, but it may be an indirect profit. It could be a profit for the sports club, or it could be a promotion for another organization (i.e. Rupert Murdoch, FOX). The economics involved with sports have drastically changed over the last ten years.
Sport becomes an important part in our lives, either by practicing or watching it. Sport can be classified to many kinds; such as extreme sport which leads to increase the adrenaline level and face the fear like snowboarding, skydiving, scuba diving, and mountain biking etc. The other kind of sport is more compete and excite, it can be practiced individually or in team for example ball games, Olympic sports, and athletic sports. In fact, the reason behind sports is teaching people how to control their anger and accept whatever results they obtain lose or win. Moreover, sports consider to be a healthy way to safe our bodies from certain diseases. However, what if the sport goes far away from its nice picture, like becomes more violent. Certainly, that is already exists in many violence sports where these kinds of sports lose their fundamental objectives and can be fatal or cause serious injuries.
There are many theories to why there is so much violence in sports today and one of them is because the athletes today are able to get away with more when they are young. An example would be if a high profile high school athlete who had a scholarship to a big time school were to get in trouble maybe it would be hidden a lot more. Where as if another non-athlete had done the same thing there would be more of a price to pay. So from an early age these athletes learn that they are more important then other students or people. When they get to the college or pro level and someone tells them what to do they don't know how to handle it in the correct manor. Many professional athletes have been looked upon as a problem before they become pro because of certain violence problems they have had in the past. And in many cases it has hurt player in where they are drafted and the money that they make.
...he day, professional sport players are adults before anything. The lessons of right and wrong are already learned. It should not take all the wrong doing of guilt for a person to do the right thing. Guilt is not a good way to live life for simple decisions of not taking enhancement drugs and destroys the character of an athlete.