Walker Davies Professor Puckett Research Techniques and Technology 27 March 2014 Annotated Bibliography Drew, Sharp.

NBA should increase age requirement. USA Today n.d.: Academic Search Premier. Web. 11 Mar. 2014. This is an article that proposes an idea about National Basketball Association eligibility. The author proposes that the NBA should make the age requirement 20 years of age instead of 19, like it currently is. The author proposed that high school basketball players can either go to college for two years or choose a two-year paid internship in either Europe or in the NBAs Developmental League. Increasing the age limit will help in player maturity and help the NCAA by making players stay for two years instead of the common one and done, when players leave after one year of college. I found this source to be very credible as I found it on EBSCOhost, which is a reliable database. I did sense some bias in the article. Some examples of the bias are They all know the rules, but they willingly ignore them, and Its a good plan, itll never happen. I find this article to be very helpful as it will give ideas about solutions to the age limit.

Carnevale, Dan. Judge Says Sophomore Must Be Allowed to Enter NFL Draft. Chronicle of Higher

This article is about a running back from Ohio State University, Maurice Clarett, who wanted to enter the NFL draft a year earlier than eligibility rules would allow. NFL eligibility rules state that a player must be three years removed from high school before entering the draft. Clarett played his freshman year at Ohio St. and sat out the next season after accepting improper benefits. Clarett wanted to go straight to the draft after sitting out a year and received a judge ruling on the case that allowed him to enter the draft despite eligibility rules. I thought that the article was credible as I found it on EBSCOhost, a database that I consider reliable. I didnt find any bias in the article because it states facts and quotes from the ruling. I find this article to be very helpful because it gives me some details on an athlete that left college early and didnt find as much success as many thought he would in the NFL.

Bae, Isamu. High School Athletes Should Go to College, Not the Pro Level. Silver Chips Online. (1 June 2004). 11 Mar. 2014. < http://silverchips.mbhs.edu/story/3626>. This article is about how high school athletes should go to college, not straight to the professional level. Football and basketball were the two sports talked about in the article. The authors says that in the NFL, a high school athletes body is not ready to physically withstand the punishment. For the NBA, the author says that there are limited roster spots for these athletes and their body isnt physically ready to play at that level. I found this article to be very biased, just from the title of the article, High School Athletes Should Go to College, Not the Pro Level. The author clearly states his opinion in the title of the article. However, I found the points that the author made to be very valid ideas. The article is a little bit out of date though, because this article was written before the NBA changed

the eligibility rules saying high school athletes must be one year removed from high school before entering the draft.

Carter, Fred. Pros and Cons of High Schoolers Going Pro. ESPN. (11 April). 11 March 2014. < http://assets.espn.go.com/nba/columns/carter_fred/1537641.html>. The article is a pro and con list on high school athletes going straight to the NBA without going to college. The author says that some of the pros for high school athletes to skip college are time, the second contract, and the money. Some of the cons of skipping college are maturity, bad elements, and work ethic. I think this article is very credible as it was posted on one of the most popular sport sites, ESPN, and was written by Fred Carter, an NBA analyst for ESPN. I thought that some of these points were his opinions but were strongly supported because Carter is around these things all the time. Carter has seen a lot of the high school athletes that skipped college and failed and the ones who found success.

Conway, Tyler. Jim Delany Suggests Athletes Should Have Opportunity to Skip College. Bleacher Report. (26 April 2013). 20 March 2014. <http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1787978-jim-delany-suggests-athletes-should-haveopportunity-to-skip-college>. This is an article about Jim Delany, Big Ten commissioner, saying that the NBA and NFL should adopt the Major League Baseballs eligibility rules. MLB allows players to either

sign a professional contract with a team that signs them straight out of high school, or reject the offer and attend college for at least three years. Delany feels that this could solve some of the problems that are talked about in football and basketball eligibility. I found this article to be credible coming from a very popular sports site, Bleacher Report. I also didnt find any bias in this article because it talks about Delanys beliefs and not his own. I liked how the article contained quotes from Delany.

Eligibility Rules. NFL Regional Combines. Web. 20 March 2014. <https://www.nflregionalcombines.com/Docs/Eligibility%20rules.pdf>. This is a PDF file that was released by National Football League on their regional combine site stating the rules of eligibility to participate in the combine and enter the draft. The file gives the rulings for college eligibility, the five-year rule, non-football collegians, and more. It also gives other eligibility rules for another sport, completion of college games, and early graduation. This file is extremely credible because it was published from the National Football League. It has no bias in it since this are rules that are currently used for eligibility. This would be extremely helpful for understanding the eligibility rules for the National Football League. Favale, Dan. Report: Adam Silver Wants to Increase NBA Age Limit to 20. Bleacher Report. (6 February 2014). 20 March 2014. <http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1951381-reportadam-silver-wants-to-increase-nba-age-limit-to-20>.

This article is about the new NBA Commissioner, Adam Silver, making it one of his first priorities to increase the NBA age limit to 20 years of age. The article talks about how the current eligibility rule makes it hard for recruiting in college because some players are only there for one year. It also talks a little bit about the difficulties of getting the age limit changed. I think this is an extremely helpful article. It comes from a credible source, Bleacher Report. It would be helpful knowing what the commissioner of the NBA, Adam Silver, feels about the current rules, and looking at what the rules may change too. I didnt notice any bias in the article because it gives a lot of quotes from Silver and others who are concerned with the current rules.

Clary, Jason. College Vs. Pros: Should Athletes Leave School Early? Bleacher Report. (13 December 2009). 20 March 2014. <http://bleacherreport.com/articles/307746-college-vspros-should-athletes-be-allowed-to-leave-school-early>. This article by Jason Clary talks about the pros and cons of athletes going to college and not going to college. Clary says that skipping college allows for athletes to earn a living faster, prevent risk of injury, and allows for studies after their career. On the other hand, Clary says that going to college allows for players to secure futures of the athlete, teaches maturity, and enhances knowledge. The articles comes from a credible source in Bleacher Report. I sense bias in this article because these are the beliefs of the author. However, the author does provide some facts behind each point. The author did a good job explaining each point that he made which would be very helpful in deciding what athletes should do: go to college or go straight to the pros.

Tilus, Grant. Athletes with College Degrees: 18 Examples of Sports Stars That Went Back to School. Rasmussen College. (21 October 2013). 20 March 2014. <http://www.rasmussen.edu/student-life/blogs/main/athletes-with-college-degrees/>. This article is about eighteen well known professional athletes that left college before earning their degrees and went back to finish it later in their careers. The NFL athletes that are talked about in the article are Ben Roethlisberger, Brandon Jacobs, Emmitt Smith, Leon Lett, and Troy Polamalu. The NBA players that are mentioned are Antawn Jamison, Damon Stoudamire, Jeff Green, and Michael Jordan. The baseball players mentioned in the article are Bo Jackson, Curtis Granderson, and J.J. Putz. I would consider this article to be credible as it was published on Rasmussen College. I did not see any bias from the author in the article as it stated facts about each athletes story with graduating. This article is very helpful because it shows athletes who were successful in their careers, but still went back to get their college degree.

Kyle, Chris. Pro Athletes Get Schooled. Yahoo Education. 20 March 2014. <http://education.yahoo.net/articles/athletes_get_schooled.htm>. This is an article that talks about the types of degrees that a professional could use to better their careers. One degree that Kyle says would be useful is accounting because it would teach you how to manage your money. Another degree discussed was health care because athletes need to know how to take care of their bodies. The other degrees mentioned were MBA, paralegal studies, and engineering and computer sciences.

This article shows no bias because it states facts, such as average salaries for career paths, and states some athletes that went back to receive their degrees. It was published through Yahoo so the source should be considered credible. The article could be used to show degrees that athletes could receive to better their careers and have something to fall back on if sports doesnt work out.