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Sports Salaries Essay, Research Paper

Most people in America feel that pro athlete’s salaries are too high. Current

sports salaries are reaching astronomical figures. Players are signing 50

million-dollar contracts and up just because they happen to be pretty good at

hitting a baseball. Just the other day Kevin Brown signed a contract worth over

100 million! Now pro sports are fun to watch and follow, but college games

entertain just as well and they aren’t receiving a legal penny. Down south,

people like college sports more than professional sports. Player’s don’t Ned to

be paid exorbitant amounts of money. The economics involved in sports today

hurts the fans, some teams, and the leagues themselves. The sports leagues can

actually be hurt by there own actions. The current NBA lockout is a prime

example of money ruining what looked to be a fine year. The owners are locking

out the players until they can settle on a bunch of points. The baseball strike

a few years back obviously hurt baseball, and this lockout might hurt basketball

also. John Donovan from CNN/SI summed it up perfectly, "You have greedy

owners and you have greedy players, all of them fighting over absurd amounts of

money. And, in the end, it’s the fans who get screwed" (Donovan 1). One

dispute between the two sides is the "Larry Bird Exception". This rule

basically allows teams to ignore the salary cap and re sign a veteran at any

price. Michael Jordan alone makes 6 million more than the team salary cap. The

owners want this modified because some teams are just too good. The players

don’t want to budge on this issue. Their side on this is that there is no middle

class because of the salary cap. This is a very good point. Salary caps are

important to keep teams close, but that leaves great players making millions

while the good players make too little. The owners are trying to get the most

money out of their team but in the mean time nobody is watching their team play

and the profit is zero. Money problems have and will continue to scar sports and

more importantly the fans. What should you tell a little kid who loves

basketball, when his favorite player is playing golf somewhere instead. High

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