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Annotated Bibliography: Why are athletes earning more money than academicians?

Amanda Phillips

Columbia Southern University

Annotated Bibliography: Why are athletes earning more money than academicians?

Dolton, J. (2011). Intellectual athletes: an oxymoron? Retrieved from http://www.redbrick.me/comment/intellectual-athletes-an-oxymoron/

This article was written by James Dolton, a writer at Redbrick, a student newspaper at the University of Birmingham. The information from this source is dependable and can be trusted for Dolton is known for his unbiased articles based on proven facts and extensive research. In this article, Dolton discussed why it is impossible to be both an intellectual and an athlete at the same time. He explained, it detail what he meant by oxymoron. This article enabled me to understand why intellectuals and people, in general, belittle athletes so much and the reasons why they are so angry they have a much higher salary.

Forbes. (2014). The World's Highest-Paid Athletes. Retrieved from http://www.forbes.com/athletes/list/#tab:overal

The information contained in this article ranked the world’s highest-paid athletes from different sports practices of 2014. It contained the overall ranking as well as the ranking per different categories including the highest paid women athletes, the oldest as well as the youngest. The information was posted on Forbes official website Forbes.com. The information on this website is considered to be as reliable as the contained in the magazine’s print edition. As I was looking for information that will examine the earnings of athletes, I believe that this source was my best options. I used this source to confirm my speculations about the identity of the highest paid athletes in the world as of last year.

Simmons, R. (2007). Overpaid athletes? Comparing American and European football. Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society.

This article was written by Robert Simmons a professor of sports economics of at Lancaster University. He gave information that was reliable and trustworthy because of his extensive knowledge and experience in economics in the sports industry. In the information in this article compared the different salary ranges between athletes who play American football and those who play European football. This article will improve the quality of my work for it helped me understand the extent to which athletes are overpaid not only in America but other international countries as well. It also helped me understand just what those athletes do, the nature of their performance that makes then deserving of the huge amount of money they are paid.

Walden, M. (2008). Why athletes earn a lot (and teachers don't). Retrieved from http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/business/article9010313.html

This article provided readers with the facts surrounding the reasons why athletes earn more than people in other professions. In this case teaching as a profession was used as an example. The article was written by Michael Walden a writer with over ten years of experience as an athlete reporter and was posted on The Charlotte Observer, which is a trusted newspaper in North Carolina. This article provided me with logical and proven reasons why people who play different sports earn more than workers in another profession. He related the law of demand and supply to how salaries of workers are determined to promote better understanding.

Young, P. (2014). Bridging the Gap. Brown Political Review.

This article was written by Phoebe Young; a teacher at the University of Carolina, San Diego as well as a writer of cultural and environmental history of the modernized United State. The information in this source is valuable and useful for if was written by an intellectual and published by Brown Political Review, which is a reliable and trusted journal. This article discussed the reason there is a huge difference between salaries of athletes and other workers and well as the salary gap that is present within the industry itself involving female athletes. This article provided me with tips on how to bridge the salary gap that exists between athletes and people belonging to other employment sectors.