Investigating Student Athletes Article Claim

1. Octavia Maughn-Wison
Professor Harold Blanco
FYS
Investigating Student Athlete Article Claims
Sept. 17, 2014
The top tier school’s for both football and men’s basketball are bringing in billions of dollars due to their
athletes. Players of such sports are aware of the money they are bringing in as a team rightful to the fact
that tickets are being sold and video games are being made in their likeliness. Many student athletes are
able to attend school based on scholarship a accredited to them. It’s not guaranteed that the
scholarship will cover the student athletes’ entire tuition and if such student athlete injures something
and affects his ability to play such player will lose the scholarship. Universities are making money while
the players get short ended.
Michael Dobie is a member of the Newsday editorial board. There was additional In Depth information
about Michael Dobie on vocus.com, but the information was unreliable. The vocus.com source was
unable to provide information of the publisher. On the site the publisher could not be found. (Fred
Groser. Print.)
This source is not credible. I was unable to find sufficient data on the author Michael Dobie. The only
plausible details found on him was that Michael worked for Newsday. This Newsday report is bias. This
article sides with the NCAA not supplying athletes with what they deserve.
It does not simply voice the current situation within the NCAA and their student athletes.
Jeffrey Kessler a sports labor lawyer filed an antitrust lawsuit against the NCAA on behalf of current and
former college football and basketball players. He claims the NCAA is putting limits on their
compensation in an unlawful manner. Division 1 basketball and the top tier college football school bring
in billions of dollars in revenue that the players help to bring in. There are many people against this
lawsuit, but even those opposed of paying college athletes agree that the players should have access to
the money made from using their names, images, and likeness. “There are really only two groups of
people who can’t make money off of their own celebrity,” says Kent State Mohany. “That’ s prisoners
and student athletes, and when you're grouped with prisoners, you have to question if that's a far rule,
especially if you haven’t done anything wrong.”
Reed Karaim the author of Paying College Athletes is a freelance writer. He is a credible source
because of his experience with The Washington Post, U.S. News and World report, as well as the
Smithsonian. He also has written for American Scholar and USA Weekend and many other publications.
These major publications only add to his credibility because it proves he knows what he’s talking about.

2. Karaim also attended North Dakota State University in Fargo. Reed Karaim was granted the Robin
Goldstein award for being an outstanding regional reporter.
The next article I will critic is the Duke Law Journal called Unionizing NCAA Division I Athletics: A Viable
Solution? This law journal argues not allowing college athletes to unionize.
I do not find this source credible. Though it was written in the Duke Law Journal, an extremely credible
source, the author Rohith A. Parasuraman lacked in plausible information. In order for an article to be
credible there need to be sources to back them. Unfortunately, there were no sources to be found.
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In this article Letting College Athletes Unionize is Not the Answer to the Problem in Sports, the author
discusses why he thinks it a bad idea for the unionization of student athletes. The author suggest that it
is a disturbing idea to think that the players are being used. The athletes are not the only ones taking
risk when the play; the Universities are as well. The average athlete will not make it professionally, but
in college will most likely receive a full ride. These universities put out a lot for their student athletes.
The athletes receive special tutoring designed to fit their practice and school schedule and scholarships
to lower the cost of fees. Large stadiums to house roaring fans and scholarships is what the University
puts out, only to receive losing games most of the time. The author agrees that better health care for
the student athletes would be beneficial, but he strongly disagrees with the idea of the athletes being
exploited.
This is a credible source. The goal of this article was to inform the reader.
Works Cited
 Dobie, Michael. "Athletes Aren't Blind to the Billions They Earn for the
NCAA. Change Is Coming..." Newsday 30 Mar. 2014, All Editions ed., Opinion
sec.: A36. Print.
 Karaim, Reed. "Paying College Athletes." CQ Researcher 11 July 2014: 577-600. Web. 16 Sept.
2014.
 Parasuraman, Rohith A. "Unionizing Ncaa Division I Athletics: A Viable Solution?." Duke Law
Journal 57.3 (2007): 727-753. Academic Search Premier. Web. 16 Sept. 2014.

3.  “Editorial Opinion: Northwestern Scholarship Football Players Win Bid to Unionize.” World News
Digest. Infobase Learning, 2014. Web. 17 Sept. 2014.
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