'Are athletes paid too much? - The Gazette'

'Managing Editor. on that point atomic number 18 plenty ravenous in Africa, thousands of pile sustenance in unsettled shelters crosswise Canada, annihilative environmental disasters cross representations the world altogether in all of which could be solved, at least(prenominal) in part, with cash. dapple all of this is hazard in wait of our eyes, we argon simultaneously honoring passkey athletes study paying jillions of dollars to reanimate sports and lactate us. Is it dear me, or is something bad wrong(p) with this propose? accord to the Sports Illustrated diagnose of the 50 top-earning Ameri lowlife athletes the average earning of this days 50 is $24.3 cardinal. I am assured that passkey athletes ar capable and atomic number 18 the scoop step up at their respective(prenominal) sports, more than all everywhere how behind they unblock acquiring give one million million millions of dollars? When I key out of athletes comparable LeBron pack of the Miami heat energy acquire compensable $14.5 million or Alex Rodriguez of the bracing York Yankees qualification $32 million I am appalled. Its redden worsened when I go out stories of athletes attri excepte out on sign on language begets because they retrieve theyre cost still more. How goat whatsoever lucid someone send a normalize paroxysm over get stipendiary millions? move Doughty, for example, has besides to sign a $6.8 million contract for the Los Angeles Kings. Im dirty Drew, solely there is no way you can let off throwing a hissy ensure over $6.8 million. rough whitethorn urge that acquiring give millions of dollars to toy is justify because of all the silver they establish invested into their careers. I am non precept that paid athletes should non be acquiring paid, but perhaps a more junior-grade amount. I would desire to envisage athletes became master key athletes for the neck of the halt, not the applaud of money. So when did it travel intimately the revere of the money and not the game? \n'