Athletes often wish to pursue their dreams of winning a medal for their country or being a part of a professional team. This is when many athletes often turn to performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs). Marion Jones had won 3 gold and 2 bronze medals at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. Life was good until federal investigators approached Jones in 2007 as to whether she knew Victor Conte (a known distributor of PEDs to professional athletes). She denied the allegations and said she “didn’t know nuthin”.
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Maintaining a Certain Grade Point Average as a College Athlete Should Be an Absolute Requirement Statistics show that only 2-3% of all college athletes will actually go pro. These students need to have other options when they are finished with college. Many college student athletes are poorly prepared for life when they graduate‚ and most are unprepared for anything but a professional sports career. Maintaining a certain grade point average as an athlete on a college sports team is imperative to the success
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for female and male student-athletes. Female student-athletes benefit from a strong support system that enables them to be both students and athletes. While they intensely pursue athletics‚ they also find time to study for their classes and to become involved in their local communities. Many graduate from college with memories of great athletic experiences and with substantive degrees with which to build a future outside of athletics. By contrast‚ many male student-athletes encounter a weak or
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The System for college athletes isnt perfect‚ and needs to be worked on‚ a big problem we cannot seem to agree is how to compensate the student-athletes who drive the NCAA. I would like to start off with a question. Are college athletes being compensated enough for the effort they put forth today? Every Day they wake up early and represent their university whether they are putting in work in class or on the field. Each student-student athlete generates tons of money for their university and they
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Should College Athletes be Paid? Maybe it was the annual spectacle of March Madness and the fact that UCONN came out of nowhere as an underdog to win their 3rd national NCAA men’s basketball title. Maybe it was the excitement of watching the UCONN football team playing in its first ever BCS Bowl against Oklahoma last year. Whatever he reason‚ the media and sports critics always ignite a fresh debate over the merits of paying college athletes for their services to the schools. Over the past few
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Should performance enhancing drugs be legal in sports? There is a lot made of sports people taking performance enhancing drugs during training or competition. But many people are still split on the subject of drugs in sport. is it fair ‚ is it in the spirit of the sport‚ there arguments for both sides in the sports world‚ in my following research I will put forward an un-biased view on both sides of the coin‚ using many sources of past research ‚ books ‚ and trusted internet sites. I will be
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“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going” (Sills 1). In cross-country and track‚ this is the case because all athletes must exert maximum effort to achieve personal goals. Opponents of running disapprove of the sport‚ as it is simply a form of harsh punishment and does not assist the athletes. A high school coach forces his team to complete 20 hill sprints‚ 20 up-downs‚ two laps around the field‚ and the coach threatens he can kick one out of athletics if he or she does not finish the drills
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Should Drugs Be Legalized? Possible Alternatives Organized crime is a big business today. Some main products associated with organized crime are guns‚ drugs and prostitution. What effects do these commodities have on today’s society? Today drugs are a big business in the underworld. There is a lot of crime associated with the drug world‚ so many people who want drugs legalized say that the government could control the sales and ultimately bring down the crime rate and also make lots of money
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2013 Should College Athletes Be Paid? It has been a debate for quite some time as to whether college athletes should be paid for their work on the field. They are some of the hardest working individuals that obtain intense practices and demanding college courses‚ and many believe that they should be rewarded for their hard work. But the ongoing debate is whether it is right to pay these players as if they were employees. Many major colleges provide the best services for their athletes by providing
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The University of Central Florida managed to take in just 11.25 pounds of medication during its seventh-annual Drug Take Back Day on Wednesday. That’s a fair share less than the 75-pound average per outing since it began. But that number may be due in part to UCF’s two medication drop-off boxes that were installed on campus. In cooperation with the Drug Enforcement Agency‚ the UCF Police Department partnered with UCF Health services to get unused and expired over-the-counter and prescription medicines
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