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Donald Trump Ruins Everything Marialuisa Rincon Donald Trump’s business failures are well documented. As you would expect from a world famous businessman with his fingers in so many pies, some endeavours were bound to fail. However, thanks to his famously big mouth and infinitely bigger ego, Trump ruins everything. Here we explore my five personal favorites: 1. Trump ruined his very own “university.” This is a power trip if ever I’ve seen one. In 2005, Trump founded Trump University—a…

The NCAA, coaches, players and fans are debating whether or not D1 College football players should be paid for playing their sport. Division 1 football is the highest level of play for intercollegiate athletics authorized by the NCAA. The NCAA stands for the National Collegiate Athletic Association and governs hundreds of colleges and thousands of athletes. There has been an ongoing discussion by media, fans and people across America whether student athletes should be getting paid or not.…

their academics instead of these student-athletes fulfilling their academic requirements on their own. Regardless of what sport you play there are ways around going to class and getting good marks, so that you can focus more of your time towards the athletic side of your student athlete life. The University of North Carolina Chapel-Hill has been under investigation for certain scandals dating back to the early '90s. The biggest scandal from UNC has to do with student-athletes taking questionable…

I think it’s not cool to use PEDs in sports. Even though it has been shown that taking these drugs improves performance. I remember an old Gatorade commercial where it talks about how Gatorade originated with the Florida Gator football team. Toward the end the narrator says” those boys drank that stuff and they became a second-half team.” Gatorade helps with endurance but it’s not a drug. It replaces fluids and electrolytes during physical activity. It’s legal. It doesn’t make you bigger,…

“Did you know that Americans spend more than $600 billion a year on legal gambling, making it by far the favored national pastime?” (Doyne, Shannon. "Should Sports Betting Be Legal Everywhere?"http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/. New York Times, 3 Feb. 2014) Over 118 million people have actually bet or placed money on actual sporting events, according to ESPN. Some people have dedicated their lives to fantasy leagues, betting various amounts of money at a time ranging from a couple of quarters,…

Schools spend an excessive amount of money on sports, and it really needs to stop. High school dropout rates are higher than ever, and it seems that no one even cares. The school system cares more about sports than the students’ well-being. Schools should cut spending on sports and use that money to educate the future of America. America is the only nation that puts its focus on sports instead of education. Because of this, students who play sports view school as a waste of time. They no longer…

Amateurism or Capitalism: A Practical Approach to Paying College Athletes I. Introduction: On April 7, 2014, the University of Connecticut (UCONN) men’s basketball team was poised to reach their goal of a national championship. The AT&T Stadium was packed with 79,000 fans who paid an average of about $500 to watch the Final Four games. CBS cameras were setting up on the sidelines; the network paid approximately about $800,000,000 a year for the media rights to show the NCAA Tournament on its…

professional’s. It is a really good benefit because it gives them a good sense of independence to build wealth, a family, and many more luxuries in life. It also gives the athletes the power to study or do anything in preparation for when their professional athletic career is finished. The first reason why it is okay for college athletes to leave early and enter the professionals because it gives a good sense of independence to build wealth, a family, and the…

Almost all students want to go to college. Fortunately, in United States there are many ways to pay that expensive cost. In this country it is very easy to get some money or help to pay. Scholarships, working and saving money are some options that students have to go to college and get a higher level of education. To begin, scholarships are very easy to get. Students must apply for as many possible scholarships as they can. With scholarships students can go to college without paying back. It…

The following are the details: Yukio Kumazawa: Yukio is a fan of marathon. He told me that he runs as a way to stay healthy and lose weight. He also enjoys the camaraderie of the running community and the thrill of road racing, and regaining the athletic glory experienced during an earlier stage of his life. He already has his pictures when he ran New York Marathon seven Years ago. However, he is willing to pay $40 more for his…