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DOES THE NBA FORCE PLAYERS TO CHOOSE $$$ OVER EDUCATION? By DJ Lopes
Even in cases of college athletes, many don’t care much for their education, rather looking forward to their future in sports. According to the official NCAA website, the absolute minimum GPA required to stay on the team is 1.8 (on a 4.0 scale). In the case of number one pick in the 2016 NBA draft, Ben Simmons, he outright stopped attending classes as the NCAA season started. He showed no real love to anybody at his college, LSU, and claimed to keep no friends at the college. In fact, the only reason he attended LSU was because his godfather was an assistant coach, who now no longer works for LSU, with Simmons in the NBA.
Get Knocked Down, Get Back Up BY Cole Ferguson
Looking back on it, everything happens for a reason. In my case, my failure making the basketball team made me that much more hungry to succeed. It taught me to never give up and to always turn the negative things in life into positives. I pushed myself to a new level, one where anything is possible, and my potential feels limitless. Making the freshman team wasn’t such a bad thing after all. After taking a shot to my pride and being a bit jealous of my twin brother, I learned that I am strong enough to keep going when the going gets tougher.
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Playing Unified Sports Has Made Me a Better Person BY ERIC GONCALVES
I will always be a Unified Oaker. “Choose to include” is a motto I will always live for the rest of my life as I will always choose to include others no matter if they have a disability or not, everyone should always be included to do anything and everything. Nobody should ever be left out in anything; it isn’t the right thing to do at all. It doesn’t matter who they are.