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c-This video was posted back in December 30-2016.
r-This video shows how pro athletes are overpaid By comparing facts.
a-The person who made the video was All Def(youtube channel).
a-This article does support my topic because it talks about how much pro athletes are overpaid.
p-The purpose of this video is to show that pro athletes are overpaid.

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Are Professional Athletes Overpaid? | All Def

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This show pro athletes are overpaid by putting them with money to show how much money they make.

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This show that pro athletes are overpaid by putting them in front of a lot of money because they make to much money.

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This shows that they are overpaid by putting pro athletes in front of money of alot of money because they make alot of money.

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c- This article was posted back in September 9 2008.
r- This article show how athletes are paid enough  for what they do.
a- The publisher of this article is Dan Stein.
a- This article does not support my topic because it says that they are not overpaid.
p- The purpose of this article is to show how athletes are not overpaid and they are paid enough.

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How many times have you heard a fan, friend, or a talking head complain about the excessive salaries being paid to professional athletes?

Complaints about how no player is worth $25,000,000 a season or how a team with a payroll in excess of $100 million constantly permeate throughout sports talk radio and bar room discussions alike.

But I am here to say 90% of professional athletes are being paid exactly what they deserve. The professional sports industry is a multi-billion dollar a year industry.

Between ticket sales, television and radio deals, advertising, and merchandise sales, professional sports is one of the most profitable businesses in the world.

Team and league run websites have only added to the revenue streams of professional sports. According to an article from cbcsports.ca (the equivalent of cbssports.com here in the states), Canadian pro sports leagues reported $2.2 billion dollars in team revenue.

That number is much higher here in the states.

Pro sports teams, with the exception of the publicly owned Green Bay Packers, are not required to open their books to the public. But if Canadian teams are generating $2.2 billion you can be sure that American pro teams are producing 10-15 times that amount with our larger amount of pro teams, bigger arenas/stadiums, more television time, and larger overall population of sports fans.

The players who help to fill those stadiums, attract fans to their tvs, radios, computers, and sell their jerseys and team apparel deserve their cut of this $25-35 billion dollar pie.

According to USA Today, the median salaries of players in the NFL is $677,647 a year.

Now that sounds like a lot of money to most Americans, including myself. But when you look at the context within which the athletes who earn that salary, you will realize that they are paid accordingly.

Athletes put in well over 40 hours a week of practice, study, workouts, and game time. They also put their careers on the line each and every time they go to work.

How many of us can say something like that?

When was the last time you stepped into your office not knowing if you'd be able to physically come back again tomorrow and file another TPS Report?

NBA teams have only 14-16 players under contract throughout a given season. These 14-16 are the key COGS (Cost of Goods Sold) that make the NBA money machine tick.

In 2006-2007, the average salary for a player from the Milwaukee Bucks was $2,537,880 dollars. Although the revenue of the Milwaukee Bucks that same season is not publicly available, it is widely believed that most NBA teams bring in between 200 and $300 million annually.

I am not arguing that most Americans are underpaid or that an athletes job is so much harder than the majority of American's daily grinds. I am simply suggesting that when you breakdown the numbers and look at the bigger picture of just how big of cash cows professional sports have become, it is only fair that the few select athletes who are good enough to make it in those leagues are properly compensated.

Athletes earn just what they deserve financially.

Exceptions include Carl Pavano, Mo Vaughn, Stephon Marbury, Keith Van Horn, Mike Hampton, and Allan Houston.

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How many times have you heard a fan, friend, or a talking head complain about the excessive salaries being paid to professional athletes? Complaints about how no player is worth $25,000,000 ...

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c- This article was posed back in march 8 2017.
r- This article show how athletes are overpaid by comparing they to more important jobs.
a- The publisher of this article is parker reed/kelsey O'connor.
a- This article supports my topic because it show how athletes are overpaid by comparing them to more important jobs.
p- The purpose of this info is to show how athletes are overpaid.

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According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, an Army General with over 20 years of service makes approximately $192,864 a year. The 2014 median compensation for a General Surgeon was just under $395,456 a year. The men and women who run straight into fires, risking their lives to save others make only $46,870 per year. So why are professional athletes being paid millions or even billions of dollars each year?

Sure, athletes are physically pushed to their limits day in and day out. Their performance directly affects the worth of the teams for which they play. These teams are huge organizations worth billions of dollars, but are they worth more than a human life?

We are paying athletes ridiculous amounts of money to physically perform on national television for public entertainment. Meanwhile, soldiers, firefighters and policemen perform physically to save the lives of others on a daily basis. Shouldn't these lives be worth more than entertainment?

Cristiano Ronaldo makes $56 million a year, Kobe Bryant made $250 million a year and Barack Obama made $400,000 a year during his presidency, according to Forbes Magazine. Assuming these salaries reflect the amount of work required for the position, playing soccer or football must be more challenging than running an entire country.

Let's take a moment to think about what would happen if all sports teams simply disappeared from our country. While our country might mourn the entertainment loss, all would survive and find alternative methods to entertain themselves. Let's imagine what would happen if all doctors disappeared from our country. Hundreds of thousands of people would die. There would be nobody to save car crash victims or even to cure the common cold.

Professional athletes are highly overpaid. Compensation should be based on job importance, not entertainment. If vital, life-saving professions are not rewarded for the stress of their jobs, there may come a day when those jobs are much harder to fill. Pay the individuals who make a difference in the world.

-Kelsey O'Connor, Staff Writer
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"Athletes are paid millions of dollars to play a game" is a common argument people make for criticizing the annual salary of professional athletes. However, it is completely justified.

Lebron James of the National Basketball Association (NBA) takes home 30.96 million dollars a season. Tom Brady of the National Football League (NFL) nets a clean 27 million every year and Clayton Kershaw of Major League Baseball (MLB) accumulates 34.57 million each season, according to forbes.com.

This may seem like a drastic misuse of funds for an athlete who works less than ½ of the year, but behind the scenes a different picture is painted.

The Cleveland Cavaliers, the team that James leads, are worth a cool 1.1 billion dollars. The New England Patriots, the organization Brady heads, is worth an outstanding 2.6 billion dollars. And the Los Angeles Dodgers, the team that ace pitcher Kershaw throws for, is worth 2 billion dollars, according to cnbc.com.

The athletes who make up the rosters for these professional sporting franchises are directly responsible for how much the team is worth and how much everyone else in the organization draws in. If they do poorly, the team attracts less fans and less revenue. If they do well, that yields bigger television contracts, more merchandise sales and an organization that is ultimately worth more.

The average athlete in these organizations makes about 10-15 percent of what the top athletes I described earlier do, according to the Huffington Post. So it only makes sense that the top athletes make so much. It is structured like a run-of-the-mill business. The top performers earn drastically more than the individuals on the bottom of the totem pole.

Sports franchises are some of the wealthiest in the world. They take in revenue from a multitude of different platforms and are trendsetters in pop culture. Athletes aren't overpaid, they are just chess pieces in one of the highest-grossing industries in the world.

-Parker Reed, Sports Editor

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Yes: According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, an Army General with over 20 years of service makes approximately $192,864 a year. The 2014 median compensation for a General Surgeon was just under $395,456 a year. The men and women who run straight into fires, risking their lives to save others make only $46,870 per...

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c-  This article was posted back in October 1 2021.
r-This article show how much money pro athletes make and how they are overpaid .
a- The publisher of this article is Andrew Dawson.
a-This article support my topic because it shows how much money pro athletes make.
p-The purpose of this info is to show that pro athletes are overpaid.

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Andrew Dawson, Sports Editor |

If you are someone who believes professional athletes are overpaid, then this is the article for you. While athletes do possess a unique skill set that many of us don't have, there is no question they are being overpaid to play sports that we all grew up playing as children. You don't agree? Then let's look at some of the biggest contracts in sports around the world.

The average annual salary for MLB players in 2021 is 4.17 million dollars. According to ESPN, contract salaries have been down 4.8 percent since the 2019 season though we continue to see record-breaking contracts every single season. The biggest contract in the MLB is held by Mookie Betts, right fielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Dodgers signed Betts after his MVP season back in 2020, awarding him with a 12-year deal worth 365 million dollars. Betts is on track to make 27 million dollars every season for the next 12 years. Another big contract in the MLB is held by Mike Trout, center fielder for the Los Angeles Angels. Trout is considered one of the best baseball players in the history of the MLB, signing a 10-year deal worth 360 million dollars back in 2019. Since his contract extension, Trout has missed 27 percent of Angels games due to injuries, including missing more than half of the shortened 2020 season.

The NFL continues to increase with popularity every year and has become the most watched sport in the United States of America. The increase in revenue has allowed teams to pay their best players an insane amount of money. A great example is the Kansas City Chiefs signing their star quarterback Patrick Mahomes to a 10-year deal worth 503 million dollars. While Mahomes is quickly becoming one of the best quarterbacks in NFL history, the Chiefs currently are in last place of their division with a 1-2 record. Should a football player be making half a billion dollars to have a losing record? Especially when his only job is to throw a football 30 times a game?

So, let's put this into perspective. Some of the highest paid athletes are making more than 30 million dollars a year to play a sport, but healthcare workers who are trying to save lives during the COVID-19 pandemic are only making 56 thousand dollars. Not only does the level of importance between these two jobs not compare, neither do their wages.

As a former athlete, I understand the amount of time, effort, and dedication these players put forth not only during their season but in the off-season as well. While playing their sport at the highest level, they are entertaining millions of people across the world. However, they shouldn't be getting a quarter of a billion-dollar contract for playing a sport that doesn't even span the entire year. I believe these organizations must create a cap on individual contracts before it's too late. If this increase in professional athletes' salaries continues, we will see a billion-dollar contract in our lifetime, while healthcare workers are risking their own lives to save others. Not only are these contracts disproportional, but they're also not fair.

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Andrew Dawson, Sports Editor | If you are someone who believes professional athletes are overpaid, then this is the article for you. While athletes do possess a unique skill set that many of us don...