By Charlie Johnson

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All Players United!

Players Want a

Voice!What’s Going On?

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Should College Athletes Be Paid?

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All Players United!

Players Want a Voice!

What’s Going On?

Picture this!

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Picture this. You’ve worked your whole life training and practicing to have a chance to play college sports. Now you’re here. You work more than 40 hours a week training and practicing so your school can make money. You make millions for your college and you get none of it. What if that was you? What would you think?

A surging question is should college athletes get a certain amount of the money that they make for there college and the NCAA, but keep there Scholarships?

Power Words: Surging- Something increasing.

: Scholarship- a sum of money or granted to a student, because of athletics, need, etc., to pursue his or her studies.

Go on the internet and say what you think. Everyone should have a voice.

Picture This!Players Want a Voice!

All Players United!

Players Want a Voice

What’s Going On? How To Learn More

A couple of players from Northwestern

University have voted to form a union where

they have a voice. As NPR’ S David

Schaper said on Morning Edition “ The

players argue they’re not just students who

play sports, but employees who work more

than 40 hours a week for there University,

training, practicing, and playing in games

that they can have career ending injures, but

meanwhile the school brings in millions of

dollars from the games. The scholarships

that many receive don’t fully reflect there

value to the school, the players argue.”

Power Words!University- an institution of higher education having authority to award bachelors' and higher degrees, usually having research facilities.

Union- the act of uniting two or more things.

Scholarship- a sum of money or granted to a student, because of athletics, need, etc., to pursue his or her studies.

Northwestern players wear America flag jerseys to show there support to the military, and to show we are all united!

All Players United!

All Players United! Players Want A Voice

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What’s Going On?

Three months before the Northwestern

players spoke out, players from

Grambling State University refused to

play a game because they were upset

with the conditions at the training

facilities. It also follows last seasons

silent expression that players should

be sharing more success in College

Football. Some players all over the

country wore “ APU” ( which stands for

all players united) wristbands to show

their support.

Power WordsSuccess- the attainment of wealth, position, honors, or the like.United- made into or caused to act as a single entry

These are the “All Players United” Players wore!

What’s Going On?

What’s Going On?

All Players UnitedPlayers Want A Voice!

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Here’s a statistic to show how under-

privileged these athletes are. The

combined 2011 salaries of just the

highest-paid college football coaches is

53.4 million dollars, but the combined

salaries of the 13,877 divison I college

football players is 0.

Here is a picture to show how under-privileged these kids are!

How To Learn More!

http://www.usnews.com/debate-club/should-ncaa-athletes-be-paid

http://cwatsondps.wordpress.com

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/01/29/268168725/northwestern-

football-players-want-to-unionize-is-that-ok

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