money is distracting, the art of making money through means other than your profession(where you use your real skills/talent), like for example; modeling in advertisements to keep endorsements/sponsors is outrageously distracting.

Sportsmen should a)concentrate on their game

b)'practice' :'hone their game' during work hours and not have to pose in advertisements through twenty seven strenuous takes after hours in makeup

c)have family time and time to socialize with close friends outside of attending hectic glitzy parties again for sponsors/endorsements/popularity which concentrate the players' attention on superficiality/drug-abuse/and-otherwise-self-deteriorating-activity.

Sportsmen are consistently pressured to competitively become, media sports stars by literally chiseling their 'image' rather than their game.

sportsmen choose to be stars and if they don't milk that cow other people will for them.

Someone who refuses to appear in advertisements loses PR with his/her fans. Makes less money than his/her peers and thus spirals into depressive demotivation.

Money motivates sportsmen to work hard at life and in turn the game.

Their hectic lifestyles: teach them to organize their dynamic schedules, pump up their adrenaline, increase their metabolism/focus/strength and in the end make them better sportsmen.

Lord Acton said "absolute power corrupts absolutely"

Our sports' heroes are omnipotent & arrogant P-offs who learn that money,power & fame can/does come to them easily and gives them leverage to do whatever they want. After all the sportsman/celeb/celebrity/superstar/Rock star with the most attitude has the most popularity.

Any attention is attention and that what makes sports' heroes money.

Money does not spoil them rotten, the fans do.

If fans cheer players' on for reckless behavior then players do have to do it to keep their following.

Players make a lot of money 'just' playing the game but fans and sponsors pressure them to 'sell themselves' going through long monotonous on-the-advertisers-set-/high-profile-party-hours.

Are all features of contemporary sports because players want to make as much dough as they can or win at any cost.

Players instead of being motivated by the joy/zest/love of the game are only concerned about their bank accounts,sexy girlfriends;their names/photographs in the tabloids et Cetera.

Wants are limitless , the sins of greed and gluttony permeate where it's easy/common/contagious to commit them.

The pressure maybe intensified but there's still a choice, in the end if a player chooses to break the rules it is her/his decision and attractive factors like sex and money are irrelevant.

Religions state that all of us, face temptations but we will not excused for going after them unless we repent(admit it was our weakness of character and ask for forgiveness).

sportsmen should be treated like grownups and once they aren't being excused/celebrated persistently , they will naturally be responsible.

But money certainly makes getting away with all that easier.

It's not money that drives players' onto the wrong side of the tracks, it is the lifestyle of an entertainer.

Most/all 'stars' are not stars to begin with, they're all selected/discovered and they mostly come from a lifestyle of poverty/drug-abuse/casual-sex/delinquency/at-least-verbal-abuse; if they didn't do it themselves people around them did.

If they come from a clean straight laced home they have to interact with others in their circles who have not; peer pressure means deterioration.

It isn't money but the need to fit in and be cool that drives sportsmen bonkers: image consciousness, peer pressure etc.

The concept of money is now so far woven into sport that it has become part of the sport itself. Where would the Olympics be without stories hitting the newspapers regarding some athletes being on steroids, pushed by their pushy parents? Yes sport has become more centred around great achievement for great profit rather than for achievement alone, but this makes sport more interesting, more entertaining, and that is what sport is supposed to be, a form of entertainment.

There are numerous examples of sportsmen trying to earn more money has hit the news headlines in a sensational way. What about the Italian match fixing saga? The discovery did not only lead to massive media attention, but also in brilliant teams with good players being relegated out of leagues. This changed the game in a way which entertained us all and made football a lot more interesting. Without the money motivation, there would not be such a frenzy over such shenanigans.

To ruin something’s ‘value’ there has to be some merit in it in the first place. But there is no merit in sport./ Just like there is no merit at acting. There is no value role to be played by these professions, the mere role is entertainment. Entertaining is not value in the spiritual sense. The most appealing actor can be entertaining just as the poorest sportsman could be entertaining. This is not value in the sense that this debate is trying to indicate. The debate is posed as if to say there is cultural merit to sport,. However, I would contend that there is nothing cultural about entertainment on its own.