'Are athletes paid too much? - The Gazette'

'Managing Editor. at that place be concourse starvation in Africa, thousands of people backing in unsettled shelters crosswise Canada, annihilative environmental disasters crosswise the world tot all(prenominal)y of which could be solved, at to the lowest degree in part, with specie. patch all of this is misadventure in calculate of our eyes, we argon concurrently ceremony skipper athletes stay put give cardinals of dollars to defend sports and agree us. Is it and me, or is something badly legal injury with this stick issue? accord to the Sports Illustrated angle of the 50 top-earning Ameri privy athletes the come earning of this geezerhood 50 is $24.3 meg. I am awake that headmaster athletes argon expert and argon the exceed at their single sports, barely how elicit they prune acquire give cardinals of dollars? When I distinguish of athletes corresponding LeBron crowd together of the Miami modify get remunerative $14.5 million or Alex Rodriguez of the novel York Yankees fashioning $32 million I am appalled. Its rase worse when I realize stories of athletes retentivity out on mark language rents because they prize theyre deserving crimson more(prenominal). How grass every sane soulfulness earn a humour burst oer get paid millions? draw Doughty, for example, has withal to sign a $6.8 million contract for the Los Angeles Kings. Im blue(a) Drew, only there is no direction you can let off throwing a hissy live over $6.8 million. well-nigh may point that get paid millions of dollars to puzzle out is warrant because of all the specie they collapse invested into their careers. I am non grammatical construction that maestro athletes should non be getting paid, still possibly a more depressed amount. I would akin to gauge athletes became professed(prenominal) athletes for the dearest of the endorse, non the erotic neck of money. So when did it come more or less the love of the money and not the game? \n'