Persuasive Essay: Golf, Is It A Sport

In the book, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby there is a quite a bit of references to sports that includes golf, football, and baseball. The time period the book was written in was the 1920s where a lot of people had a lot of leisure time. The people who have already been rich and never worked for it or the people worked for it and has already achieved the American Dream play sports to satisfy their boredom. It is sad to say in sports there is cheating and corruption involved even though its meant for fair play and relaxation. For instance in The Great Gatsby, Jordan cheats during her golf tournament, and Meyer Wolfsheim fixes the world championship, both Jordan and Wolfsheim did it for themselves. “When we were on a house-party

Millions of Americans are watching March Madness. Advertisers make millions, and so do schools and the NCAA, but not the players. Just this weekend, President Barack Obama said it's time for the NCAA to rethink the way it protects and punishes athletes.

On average division one athletic programs lose an average of 11 million dollars every year.(NCAA.org) With the 460,000 college athletes(NCAA.org) to monetarily compensate for their time athletic programs.College athletes should not get paid. College athletes should focus on getting a degree, forming unions, and negotiate benefits.

Tom Farrey, author of Game On, argues in chapter 6 that the NCAA creates scholarships to benefit themselves more than it does the students who receive them. Notably, the students cannot receive four year education deals; more often, they can only receive partial scholarships that only last for half of their college life, and while there are full rides for some, the full rides only cover college costs and not many of the lively expenditures students face. These scholarships incentivize aspiring players as a way to pay for college, even though this option comes with flaws. The myth of athletic scholarships has spread like an epidemic and parents start their children younger to get these scholarships. I agree with Farrey because of the abuse

College football is apart of the American culture just as much as having a democracy. College football includes the cost of tuition to students who play for their school. This means that players have a place to live at the college and schooling. College football does provide as an afterschool activity for students that would like to play football. College football players should not be paid for playing football.

Should college athletes be paid, or should they just be happy with the scholarship they are given? In the article “Why College Athletes Should Be Paid”, the author Tyson Hartnett claims that college athletes deserve to be paid. In the article, he states, “A $25,000 scholarship may seem like a lot of money, but it really only covers the basics” (Hartnett par. 5). Hartnett feels that college athletes deserve a salary because they are “typically dead broke” (Hartnett par. 9), even though they bring lots of attention and money to their schools. Hartnett says that being a college athlete feels more like a full-time job that comes with lots of pressure and responsibility that other college kids don’t have put on them. Hartnett doesn’t feel that they

College athletes are some of the most intense players in all of amateur and professional sports. These college players are even sometimes better than some professional player in their prime time in college. These college players play their hearts out to make it professionally, so that they can eventually get paid for doing something they love. Although some of these athletes just use their talents to help pay for their schooling over the years. These athletes receive many awards over their college careers and can earn scholarships for college, but as far as playing they are not allowed to be paid at all. Although a lot of people agree that college athletes should be paid, there are many studies that show why these players should not be receiving

Most college athletes risk their lives for the sport they love, as well as for the reputation of their school. They do this in hopes of going to the next level whether it be being drafted in the NFL, NBA, or MLB. These student-athletes strive for a future life in sports and a shot in the big time all while keeping a steady academic record to be eligible to participate in sports. This ensures high scores for the athletes which in turn will bring a better reputation for the school and then bring in a profit.

Student-athletes are the main source of income for their respective colleges. They are also instrumental in the recruiting aspect of colleges. In order to maintain their good reputation and keep being attractive to incoming students, colleges depend on their athletes to be the “cream of the crop” at their level of competition. Then why are college students not being paid for the services they provide. Many will say that student-athletes are not to be paid as they are receiving a free education through scholarships. Therefore, they are already getting paid. On the other hand, many believe that colleges make enough money to give the students more than a “free” education. They believe the students should be paid,

The college field is always a very subjective field of discussion, garnering debates ranging from the tuition costs all the way to internal campus debates such as the restrictions placed on fraternities and sororities. One of the most prevalent issues being discussed is debate over the payment of NCAA athletes and whether or not it should be permitted for student athletes to be able to profit from the lucrative business that is college sports. Articles published by writers Marc Edelman, “The Case for Paying College Athletes”, Sean Gregory, “It’s time to pay College Athletes”, and Zach Dirlam, “There’s no Crying in College” make the verdict clear. After analyzing the texts and using background information, combining the two has made the distinction

Did you know that cheerleading is one of the most intense sports? Cheerleading was first thought of in 1898 when Thomas Peebles took an all male club who he named the princeton cheers to the University of Minnesota where fight songs and songs for football were becoming very popular. Then one day University of Minnesota was on a bad losing streak and a college student named Johnny Campbell created a group to help energize the crowd and team. They began to to shout stuff like “Rah! Ski-u-Mah! Hoo-Rah!” Which then led the team to a victory. In 1923 is when women were allowed to finally cheer. This is the decade where cheerleaders added acrobatics and tumbling to their routines which leads me to my argument of why I believe cheerleading should be considered a sport.

When a student gets accepted to their dream school to play their favorite sport, should their college give them their scholarship along with pay for playing on the team? College’s have received very vocal opinions on the topic of paying their student-athletes or to go about as usual business and not pay their students on the school 's teams. College coaches are training teams for sports that receive an immense amount of revenue for their school, their pay is at an all time high. What qualifies a student to receive their scholarship along with pay for being on the team? Using the following texts provided, the claim that this writing piece supports is that colleges are not obligated to pay their student-athletes.

A sport is any kind of activity in which an individual trains their body for either entertainment, or for competition. I definitely think that Ballet can be classified as a sport. Ballet involves viroguous training to create a dance routine that will eventually tell a story, or captivate audiences. The several hours that a ballerina dedicates to Ballet, is evident in the way a dancer walks, in addition to the lean muscles that occur due to these hours of training. This result is much like how a football or baseball player dedicates hours to the gym in order to gain both strength and speed. However, just because Ballet is a sport, it doesn 't mean that it can’t also be an art. Ballet is both sport and art, because while is requires hard training

Imagine walking 4 miles with a 100 pound bag full of metal sticks, balls, tees, towels and other equipment. Anyone would have a good cardio workout for the day. Golf I believe is one of the most misunderstood sports of all time. A lot of people tell me, “Golf is not a sport.” When they claim that I ask them, “Have you ever walked over 7,000 yards carrying a heavy bag on your back, and try to get the ball up in the air and into the hole?” The response I get most often is, “no.” How can someone claim that golf is not a sport and had never played it?

I believe that golf should not be a sport because you aren’t fully active. One, the courses take up to much space when they could’ve just left it for wildlife. In order to build the courses they have to put smoke bombs in the prairie dog’s “homes” to chase them out so they can start building. Two, golf is more of a lazy hobby because they use carts to drive them around, plus there is barely any movement besides swinging the club. In other sports such as soccer you move around nonstop and you are moving, running, kicking, focusing. Three, I just feel like people could just do golf in their backyard so we don’t need to use a lot of space for a “sport” people don’t even think is a sport. You usually don’t see people lining up to go buy tickets to a golf game then getting upset that it’s sold out. They put it on television but I have only known one person that watches it. People see these professionals that aren’t in shape.