Should College Athletes Get Paid?

        People have debated whether or not college athletes should be paid for a long time. There are good arguments for either side of this argument. In the end, it would be for the best that college athletes do get paid. Yes, they do get money already off their education, but why should they have a little spending cash? These athletes are not able to work because for most sports it is full time. These athletes are not able to make any extra money while playing these sports. They are still normal people. These athletes need to have money to buy food, clothes, and even just things that they want.

         The main argument against college athletes making money is that they are already getting "paid" (scholarships), so why should they get even more money? People say they would be paid too much money since they are already getting paid for their education. In certain places, government officials have already ruled that football players are employees of the university, not student athletes. In this case, they would be able to form a union and fight for certain working conditions. If this were the case, they could make the case to be paid for the time they put into the sport.
     
        Not all athletes that go to college are rich and can just be given money by their parents. They need a source of money, and they shouldn't have to worry about making a decision to either play their sport, or work. They put in a lot more time and effort more than someone does sitting in McDonalds flipping burgers. Now they should not make the amount of money anywhere close to NFL player do. For football and basketball, there is a ton of money that is produced from the events. They should at least be paid a percentage of what money their events are bringing to the college. If not, have some rate per game, or even an hourly pay at minimum wage. Give them something that allows them to have some extra money to spend on things they need and want.

        College athletes should not be worrying whether or not they have enough money to eat. Money doesn't just appear out of nowhere. Normal students and athletes alike should not have to rely on their parents for money. The only difference is most athletes are unable to work due to the amount of time their sport takes up. Basketball and football even  bring in money for the college, so the people who make the events happen (athletes) should get a percentage or share of the revenue.

They're in a league of their own alright

        There are a few reasons as to why women's sports rarely succeed as professional sports. The only two that have survived are basketball and softball. A big reason why softball survives is because not a lot of men play softball. One could say it is more of a "women's sport". Women's basketball will always be a mystery to me. It has nothing to do with gender, but these players aren't Lebron or Kobe. It's a matter of skill and talent that can not and has not been brought to the plate by the WNBA. People like to watch fun and exciting games which is why I will never watch women's basketball. I would have thought if anything, women's soccer would be there instead of basketball because soccer is a world sport. They could find a way to make an international league for women's soccer. Women's softball could be considered "more popular" because nobody watches men's softball if that's even a thing. Basketball is pretty popular, but I don't know one person that will sit down and watch women's basketball. Soccer is obviously the world's most popular sport. Under that lie football, hockey, basketball, and baseball. (Not in any order).

Trans what?

1. The MMA should treat Fallon Fox like genetics intended her to be treated... like a man. This dude grew up, wrestled, and joined the Navy. You can never truly switch genders therefore he should be treated as genetics intended.

2. Depending on the sport and the gender change, yes. HE WAS IN THE NAVY. Don't try and tell me this guy doesn't have an advantage over the women that he is facing. No matter what way you look at it, it's some dude that doesn't want to be a dude beating the bag out of women for money. Wow. Great life.

3. I would not compete against some confused and scientifically altered human. 

4. They should have their own league of scientifically altered human fighters.

What is a Sport?

        Uh oh... here we go again. One of these "what is a sport arguments", except its one sided and being written down. Now, let's try to keep this as simple as possible. Two common terms that will be stated are "indirect competitions" and "direct competitions". Anything can be a competition, but that doesn't make it a sport. If people were to competitively drunk drive, that would not be a sport, although racing is a sport. So there could be two parts to defining whether something is a sport. One could be the difference between being a direct or indirect competition and the other could be whether it is accepted as a sport by society.

        Lets start of with the direct competitions. Some examples of a direct competition are football, soccer, hockey, basketball, lacrosse, rugby, baseball and so on. All these have direct contact with opposing teams. The amount of people on the team does not matter. It does not have to be a contact sport either. Tennis involves no physical contact between the two players. The definition of a sport to me is : anything that is a direct competition between two teams, contact or not, requiring physical activity and having some way to win either by scoring points and or completing an objective.

        

        Then, we have an indirect competition. This is where neither teams come in contact and often take turns for their performances. Here we have dance, cheer-leading, restaurants on opposite sides of the street, and many other argument inspiring activities. This is where I come back to the point where a competition does not make something a sport. Although some people just need to believe that their hobby, activity, or competition is a sport for some reason, sometimes we must come back to reality and point out that just because it is something you like doing, it is not a sport. It doesn't matter how long you have been doing it. It doesn't matter how much physical exertion is required. If it is not a direct competition I will always not accept it as a sport. 

       
        The one thing that passes this law is golf. Why? It is not a direct competition. Golf is somehow the only one that passes these laws unless there is some other one that I am missing. It seems everyone has just accepted golf as a sport for some reason, returning to my point in the first paragraph. Society deemed it a sport, so it must be true. But how far can society go? Could I wake up one morning and all of a sudden football isn't a sport anymore because society said so?  I don't know. I don't want to know. And we will never know what actually defines a sport.

Ken Ross

I do not agree with the punishment because it was an invasion of privacy, he was set up, and in his own home. In what United States of America do you not have freedom of speech and of privacy in your own home?

NHL Playoffs

You saw it here first, the perfect NHL playoff picture. Now everyone knows it comes down to the mascots. Never mind who they are actually playing. So lets automatically eliminate the Blues, the Stars, the Wild, the Redwings, Flyers, and the Blue Jackets. Now, we move on to survival of the fittest. A fight between the Sharks, Blackhawks, Penguins, Bruins, and Ducks. Sorry, but the Ducks and Penguins are out. It was a valiant effort by the Hawks, but the Bruins weren't able to be stopped by the winged rats. The land V.S water battle will be decided by the elements. Now we have an Avalanche, and some Lightning. Well this one is easy. Avalanche is snow, snow is water, and water conducts electricity. Lightning beats Avalanche. Now we come back to decide the fight between the Bruins and the Sharks. Well, back to the whole water thing, it looks like the Shark is in for a shocking surprise...(punpunpun). All we have left are the Bruins, Lightning, Canadiens, Kings, and the Rangers. I don't know how the Canadiens are still in it... so they are out. Then we have the Kings... what are they the kings of? Losing? They are out. Okay so we have the Rangers. Now are they Army Rangers or park Rangers? Having to question their identity...out. It's down to the Bruins and Lightning I guess. Well Lightning isn't a living thing, and last time I checked you had to be alive to win the Stanley Cup. SO by a default the Bruins win. Don't question it.

The Bounty Hunters

So there's been a huge bust in the NFL regarding bounty hunters. That's right, and no I'm not talking about Boba Fett, Greedo, or Bossk. I'm talking about the New Orleans Saints. Not fictional characters created by the genius mind of George Lucas.  This is a real bounty system made up by an NFL team. The NFL had discovered that the New Orleans Saints weren't really Saints after all. They found out the Saints had held a secret slush fund that was dedicated to these bounty hunters. What were the bounties for? They were used for motivation for Saints players to make "big plays". The bounties were really conducted in the hopes that a defensive player would target the best opponent players, aiming to injure the opponent, making them incapable of playing. This is an absolutely unjust, unfair, and absolutely prosecutable way of playing the game. This should never happen in any sport. People almost forget the fact that IT IS A GAME. Why is there a need to eliminate a player's ability to play, and possibly their whole career just because you want to win a GAME. Pathetic.
The whole system was manufactured by defensive players including the defensive coordinator, Greg Williams. The head coach even knew it was going on! Sean Peyton knew about the bounty system and even gave his approval of it. Wow. Good thing most of the people involved (We still probably don't even know half) got suspended. Sean Peyton was gone for a year. Some players got suspended... for a little bit and then the suspensions were overturned. Oh, but dont worry! Gregg Williams was suspended indefinitely by the NFL for this fierce offense (more like defense)...punpunpun. Oh? Where is he now? Ah don't worry there's no way he's a coach anymore... Oh he is? Where? Oh he's on the Rams. What a surprise. They are desperate enough. Don't tell me he's the defensive coordinator again... Oh he is? Wow... Let's give Adolf Hitler another chance at being ruler while we are at it too. Maybe both of them will run things differently this time. I don't know if I'm the only one that thinks this is a lot more serious than people put it, but the NFL absolutely did not do enough to penalize or even prosecute the guilty party.