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Jack Berger
Adam Padgett
English 102-125
February 29, 2016
Annotated Bibliography
Inquiry: Should college athletes get paid?
Purposed thesis: If this empire of college sports that has been created continues, college student
athletes should be monetarily compensated.

Sack, Allen. "Go All Amateur, or Give Them Pro Benefits." The Christian Science Monitor. 7
Mar. 2008. Web. 8 Feb. 2016. <http://www.newhaven.edu/20719.pdf>.
The central claim for this source if that Division I college athletes that receive
scholarships to play at schools should be allowed to receive monetary compensation. With the
natural changes in the world and the world of college sports, its normal for changes to be needed.
And it wouldnt be the first time the NCAA made changes. In the 1960s the NCAA caved
under pressure to subsidize athletes, and voted to allow athletic scholarships. So making more
changes along the lines of paying college athletes should not get shot down right away. This
source came from google scholar which means that just any random person could have written
this. This person has good credentials and was written within the last ten years which still makes
it applicable. The source talks mostly about supporting the athletes and their rights to make
money for their hard work.

Brill, John. "Should College Athletes Be Paid?" The Shirley Povich Center for Sports Journalism

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RSS. 2013. Web. 16 Feb. 2016.
The central claims for this source focused on the fact that the NCAA and schools benefit
from the player promoted video games and other memorabilia. In a sense these organizations are
taking advantage of these young but skilled people. It also talks about the sheer amount of
money that the NCAA makes on television deals. For example, The three weeks of the NCAA
Basketball Tournament, known as March Madness, generate over $770 million in TV rights
deals alone. This source came from google scholar as well, and Brill writes for a sports
journalism center meaning the organization focuses and studies only sports. The timing that this
text was written is within the last three years so it is still applicable. This text focused more on
the topic of video games and memorabilia instead of tickets and T.V. deals. But its still very
relevant to whether or not college athletes should be paid.
Goplerud, Peter. "Redirecting..." HeinOnline. Web. 8 Feb. 2016.
<http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/stexlr38>.
The main claim for this source was to make a unique but truthful and relatable analogy.
And here it is, Imagine a large group of employees in a company working long hours, some of
them far from home, going to school full-time, and helping bring in millions of dollars to their
employer. Does this sound like a sweatshop making Reeboks, or Kathy Lee Gifford clothing?
Actually, this describes the typical athlete in a revenue producing sport at a National Collegiate
Athletic Association member institution. Again, this text came from google scholar which gives
it an added amount of reliability. And this text was unique because it was mostly one big
analogy. But it relates well to my topic so it can help in my essay.
http://www.jstor.org.pallas2.tcl.sc.edu/stable/43194698?
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ld&searchText=be&searchText=paid&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery

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The central claim for this source is talking about the what the outcomes of college
athletes getting paid would look like. The author doesnt seem to have an opinion on the topic
but he plays out what everything would look like if this change occurred. For example, he makes
reasonable estimations as to how much money the average player would receive and accounts for
playing time and fame. The author is a reliable one because I found his article in the schools
online data base and it was written very recently during the winter of 2015. There is a very good
amount of useful and unbiased information in this article that will definitely be applicable to my
research paper.

http://www.jstor.org.pallas2.tcl.sc.edu/stable/40040605?
Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=College&searchText=athletes&searchText=shou
ld&searchText=be&searchText=paid&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery
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The central claim for this source is saying that the National Labor Relations Board
should not allow college athletes to unionize, but instead should let Congress decide whether
college athletes are employees under the NLRA, and if so, how should they be relegated. This
source also comes from the university data base meaning it was peer reviewed and should be
trusted. This text wasnt written as recently as the last but it is still not more than ten years old so
it still applies to the topic. This has helpful information for my research paper because it speaks
about unions which if college athletes could unionize, would help their case of getting paid.
http://www.jstor.org.pallas2.tcl.sc.edu/stable/2678998?
Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=College&searchText=athletes&searchText=shou
ld&searchText=be&searchText=paid&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery

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The central claim for this source is acknowledging the fact that it is important for our
youth to continue to seek education. And that the best way to do that in this day and age is to pay
the athletes that put on the show and deserve it. This article I found on the university data base
however it was written a good while ago. But because there hasnt been too much progress made
on this topic I believe that this article can still be helpful when I write my research paper.

Perhaps you should change your format a little bit, and put your sources in alphabetical order, as
a whole your topic and information seems to be relevant and interesting, there is just a few minor
corrections that can be made to improve this paper a lot. There are a few grammatical errors
which can be fixed rather quickly, just reread it and do a few changes.