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  • Essay / The Worst Thing About College Sports - 1899

    PeonageBehind every master receiving praise for a successful meal, there is a hard-working servant. I remember times after Thanksgiving dinner sitting with my great-grandmother, her telling me stories from her past. Stories of his master sitting at a table full of his guests, smiling and receiving all the accolades. The impeccable dinner and table setting for this evening were made by her. She was talking about the look on his face as if all the attention he was getting was unwarranted. Margarita, the housekeeper, my great-grandmother, worked there since 8 a.m. and didn't leave until late in the evening, until everyone had eaten, and especially until he received the estimate for the pie which he sliced ​​and shared. with everyone except her, the creator. The NCAA shares success and revenue with college presidents and athletic directors while college athletes, the generators, do not see the fruits of their labor. The NCAA is enforcing a form of modern slavery. The process of selecting an athlete is a result of the productivity of his abilities, just as the slave trade depended on the virtues and mass production he could bring to the plantations. Athletes are chosen to work for the college based on their skills, strength and agility. Players are examined and monitored on a field while demonstrating their dexterity and then go to the highest bidder. Kind of like how slaves were taken to auctions and lined up in front of buyers who examined them to see how muscular, strong, healthy, and dexterous they were. Tom Lemming is the top national recruiting analyst for ESPN. For the NCAA, it researches, ranks and evaluates high school football players such as Greg Jones of Beaufort, South Carolina...... middle of paper ......sports_nut%2F2012%2F05%2Fncaa_scholarship_rules_it_s_morally_indefensible_that_athletic_scholarships_can_be_yanked_after_one_year_for_any_reason_.html >.Lozano, Pépé. “The world of people”. Hypocrisy and Exploitation in College Sports » Peoplesworld. People's World, September 22, 2011. Web. April 23, 2014. "O'Bannon v. National Collegiate Athletic Ass'nEyeglasses - Previously Seen in the Last 30." WestlawNext. Np, February 2, 2012. Web. April 23, 2014. “Tom Lemming’s Top 100.” ESPN. ESPN Internet Ventures, February 21, 2000. Web. April 18. 2014. .