Annotated Bibliography

 

Primary:

“Here’s The Insane Amount Of Time Student-Athletes Spend On Practice.” Business Insider, 27 Jan. 2015, www.businessinsider.com/college-student-athletes-spend-40-hours-a-week-practicing-2015-1?international=true&r=US&IR=T.

The article centers around a lawsuit filed by two former UNC student athletes. The lawsuit was filed due to the lack of educational opportunities that were given to them because of their athletic careers for the school. The students explain that they had no time to hit the books because they were too busy practicing for upwards of 40 hours per week for their sports. The article provides past survey results showing the mind boggling amount of time that these students spend practicing for their sports. Some of these athletes are spending 42 hours every week committed to their athletics, which leaves almost no time for them to catch up on their studies when you consider that the athletes also have to attend their classes and sleep.

 

Posted By: Michael Corinaldi, Contributor. “Being a Student-Athlete: A Full-Time Job – The McDaniel Free Press.” The McDaniel Free Press, 14 Nov. 2018, www.mcdanielfreepress.com/2018/11/14/being-a-student-athlete-a-full-time-job.

In the article the author provides a few reasons on why they believe that college athletics is a full time job, and why the athletes should be paid as if their sport is a job. This article comes from the perspective of a student that attends a DIII school, and they provide insight into why not just DI athletics should be looked at in the conversation, but all divisions of sports; “Division III institutions might not bring the attention that a Division I institution does, but the drive and work ethic of student-athletes is consistent.” This article provides valuable insight on what some college students who are not in the athletics program think about the debate. It also comes from the perspective of someone attending a DIII school, which normally are not associated heavily with sports. The interesting part is that the DIII athletes put in the same effort that the DI athletes put in, so the author believes that they should receive pay proportional to that of what DI athletes would make if they were allowed to make money.

 

Tori, Tori. “College Athletes Can Earn Money from Their Name, Image and Likeness, NCAA Rules.” CBS News, 6 July 2021, www.cbsnews.com/news/ncaa-rules-college-athletes-get-paid-name-image-likeness.

The CBS article reports on the official temporary rules that the NCAA has adopted for the time being. The article also gives insight into why exactly the NCAA has recently been forced to change their stance on paying their athletes. The official rules that the NCAA has in place is very important in understanding the situation as it stands today. Also Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s quote: “The NCAA couches its arguments for not paying student athletes in innocuous labels. But the labels cannot disguise the reality: The NCAA’s business model would be flatly illegal in almost any other industry in America,” is correlates very closely to the feelings that many hold towards the occupation.

 

“Should College Athletes Be Paid?” BestColleges.Com, 7 Sept. 2021, www.bestcolleges.com/blog/should-college-athletes-be-paid.

The author of this “Best Colleges” provides a list containing some of both the pros and the cons of paying college athletes for their athletics. They provide 6 pros and 6 cons each, explaining the rationale behind each as they go along. Throughout the article the author attempts to maintain a strictly reportative attitude, however there is a sense of bias that leaks through. The author is obviously in favor of college athletes receiving compensation, which is evident through their use of pathos in the article. Despite being somewhat biased in the article, the author acknowledges strong points for both sides of the argument. All of the points are important to at least reference when discussing the topic, and the author’s use of pathos does not hurt their argument.

 

Secondary:

“Pro Football Statistics and History.” Pro-Football-Reference.Com, 2021, www.pro-football-reference.com.

Pro Football Reference is a website that compiles and reports stats for every single NFL player who has played and is playing currently. The website has career statistical totals, seasonal statistic totals, and has the stats of a player in every game that they’ve played in. PFR can be used to help both supporters and those who are against college athletes being paid because it shows that stats of every player; meaning that it can be used to find certain players who thrived as a rookie/young player in the NFL, or it can also be used to find players who struggled immensely in their first few years after having high expectations.

 

“Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972.” US EPA, 30 Aug. 2021, www.epa.gov/ocr/title-ix-education-amendments-act-1972#:%7E:text=Title%20IX%20provides%3A,activity%20receiving%20Federal%20financial%20assistance.

Title IX is the law that prevents discrimination based upon sex when receiving financial aid from the government. The law exactly states: “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.” Referencing Title IX is required when examining the “Best Colleges” article because one of the points the author makes in their article is around this law.