Athlete’s Salaries Sports, one of the oldest activities humans participate in can be traced back thousands of years, but only recently has it emerged as a problem that effects everyone regardless of if they follow or even like them. Today the average worker in Canada earns about 45-thousand dollars per year. Compared to the salaries professional athletes make it is a miniscule amount. The average professional athlete makes at least 100-thousand dollars a year …showed first 75 words of 489 total…

…showed last 75 words of 489 total…hurting people? Children can not avoid these influences because they are throughout the media staring at them. In conclusion pro athletes make ridiculous sums of money that would be spent better elsewhere. Not only do athletes abuse their privileges, they look at them as if they are a right. What is the world coming to when athletes are paid huge amounts of money to have a negative effect on the community that depends on them?