The world of sports is a competitive place. In the professional realm‚ success brings fame and fortune‚ and athletes train relentlessly to get to the top. It takes a lot of hard work (and a liberal amount of talent) to rise in the ranks‚ and unfortunately some athletes choose to cut corners to succeed. We’ve all heard of a famous athlete or two busted for cheating‚ whether that be Lance Armstrong or Alex Rodriguez for using steroids‚ or Tom Brady for deflating footballs to gain an advantage. Although
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Performance Enhancing Drugs. Although professional athletes are supposed to be role models‚ they are not taking responsibility for their actions when taking P.E.D’s. Big-time athletes‚ like Barry Bonds‚ Mark McGuire‚ and Sammy Sosa‚ have all opened the doors to a whole new way sports will be played. So what are some of the most prominent people in society today telling all of America? They’re telling them two different stories that could mean life or death; two stories that could mean a promising
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started using steroids helping them hit homers. "Chicks dig the longball‚" a baseball commercial with the Braves pitchers in the batting cage practicing hitting used to say. The chase for Maris’ home-run record captivated America and put the strike of 1994 in the past. In 2005 there now have been Congressional hearings on the issue of steroids in baseball and in the other major sports. The influence of commercialization not only helped lead the players into taking the steroids it also has influenced
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History of Steroids Anabolic steroids can be tracked back to as early as 1930’s‚ before the term steroid was even used. In the 1930’s‚ a team of scientists was able to create a synthetic form of testosterone (a male hormone) to help treat men who were unable to produce enough of the hormone for normal growth‚ development‚ and sexual functioning. Later‚ during World War II it was found that this artificial form of testosterone could be used to help malnourished soldiers gain weight and improve
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Legalization of Steroids Anabolic steroids are a synthetically produced deviation from the naturally occurring male hormone testosterone. “Anabolic” refers to the drugs’ dramatic muscle building tendencies while “steroid” refers to the family of drugs themselves. Discreetly affecting its users in an adverse manner‚ anabolic steroids continue to grow in popularity. Users notice impressive gains in both strength and size while overlooking the numerous negative side effects that accompany steroid use
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Chapter fourteen was mainly about sports announcing. This chapter was placed in the book to help the production crew know what the talent will be doing. The talent must know their role and know what the director and producer are expecting of them. The play-by-play can call a sporting event with the action and the color commentator made the commentating better by adding important facts. Research is something the talent is responsible for so that they are familiar with the event. Sportscaster figure
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Professional baseball player‚ Ryan Braun Noun‚ said‚ “I am not perfect. I realize now that I have made some mistake. I am willing to accept the consequences of those actions‚” after he was caught using Performance Enhancing Drugs (PEDs). Unfortunately‚ there are many professional athletes who also use these types of drugs in their game. Using these drugs is unfair and unethical. They also cause many negative short-term and long-term effects. I strongly believe that performance-enhancing drugs
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the years of sports. Steroids are a big epidemic in the world today with all male sports and even female sports. Many athletes don’t really go into depth about the use of steroids and how they really affect not only people’s bodies but mostly the way they think and act. People like to look at using steroids as a way to find a quicker way to be 100% in their activity. Steroid use is a growing problem in america for young athletes from high school‚ college‚ and even professional sports for big muscle’s
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Steroid users should be banned from sports activities Are athletes really athletic if they are on steroids? Athletes who use steroids should be banned from all sports activities. Steroid use is not fair‚ it affects your health‚ and doesn’t set good examples. Using steroids is not fair to other players who put in work. The National Football League itself created its own steroid policy because steroid use threatens “the fairness and integrity of athletic competition”
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John Arias Professor Meritz Composition 1 12/12/12 Is ‘Doping’ in Sports Really ‘Doping‘? Doping has widely become known as the use of banned substances and practices by sports personnel particularly athletes in an attempt to improve sporting performances. No sensible fan of sport today denies the prevalence of drugs in virtually every major sport‚ yet none would argue they can ever be eliminated completely. Money alone would seem to guarantee that much. High profile athletes today are competing
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