Comments on: Easy ‘A’ for College Athletes?

By: alice

alice — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:48:09 +0000

i think college athletes should get paid. i love athletes and they work really hard. i admire their hard work and good grades. how can they keep up? beats me

By: Josh Terry

Josh Terry — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 05:05:18 +0000

wow, maybe you should do some research before you start mouthing off against intercollegiate athletics. almost every academy or university outside of america has a soccer team associated with them. even the great university, oxford has a highly decorated rowing team. the modern form of athletics, or “play”, comes from an ancient drive for competitiveness. and as for the defenition of the word sport, straight from dictionary.com, sport – 1. an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature. and as an athlete for the school that i attend, i helped my fellow athletes score a higher cumulative g.p.a. than the general student body.

By: :)

:) — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:56:35 +0000

I’m surprised to find a probably straight A student writing that college sports are bad. Athletes do get EDUCATION, and they have to work hard to keep participating on the team. We connect sports and education because we are America, and we can. Athletes bring up ratings for schools so other young adults want to come to that school. So get over it.