Over the last two decades the growth of youth sports has reflected the popularity of professional sports in our society. ... The outstanding popularity of the sports industry has profoundly affected youth sports organizations. ... Sports introduce children to healthy competition. ... Many at risk youth are surrounded by or engage in criminal activity, drugs, alcohol, and gangs that do not allow for time or energy to be placed into physical activity. ... He feels that children often stay in school or do not use drugs as a result of their positive perception of a particular athlete. ...

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It could be steroids, ripped fuel, or andro, which are all types of performance enhancing drugs, some which are legal and illegal in sports. ... This drug is legal in baseball but is illegal in football. ... The most recent drug that has everyone talking about among college athletes is a drug called Creatine. This is a illegal drug in NCAA certified college sports. It is legal however in professional sports. ...

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Athletes and Performance-Enhancing Drugs Drug use among athletes has become a common action. ... Not all of these drugs are illegal. ... All professional sports leagues in the United States have banned steroids and some similar drugs. ... "Some athletes have given up sports entirely or even committed suicide once they stopped using steroids" (Tuttle 4). ... Drugs are not new to sports. ...

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Players were seen as grown adults with an intricate skill and knowledge of their sports. ... CA Sports Inc "the company that owns the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers "and Hackbart v. ... CA Sports Inc and Hackbart v. ... The very purpose of many sports is to engage in conduct that makes harm to co-participants nearly inevitable. ... Most administrators that run professional sports would say no. ...

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These fantasies lead to the idolizing of a person's favorite sports figures. ... Michel Irving use to be a good role model until prying into his personal life showed his love for prostitutes and drugs. ... Several other high-profile athletes have been accused of wife beating, drug use and lesser offenses. ... Sports are for mere entertainment, not as a place to get morals from. ... Professional sports are played as a method of keeping people entertained. ...

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Today sports rule the modern media. ... Anabolic steroids work by connecting to the cells of the person taking the drug. ... Other drugs work in the same way. ... When kids saw Mark McGwire break the home run record by hitting an amazing 70 home runs in one season, the trend of using performance enhancing drugs really began in high school sports. ... First off they are tainting the sports that they are involved in. ...

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The team's roster consisted of thirteen players whom were all attending the university on fully paid sports scholarship. In 1997 the team won the collegiate sports highest award, the Division One Basketball Tournament Championship. ... Many have turned to drugs and crime and one player even attempted suicide. ... (The majority of schools have established an academic average of 2.00 as suitable for participation in sports programs.) ... Learning institutions, which have sports programs, will be required to report directly to the commission on a quarterly basis. ...

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Steroid is a drug, and like other drugs, people take them to escape reality, and they enjoy what the drug does for them. Steroid users like what the drug has done for their size and strength, and it has taken them away from their original, smaller body. ... Steroids have taken sports to new levels. ... And with the growing number of youngsters willing to do anything to win and get to the next level it almost becomes necessary for an athlete to use a performance-enhancing drug just to compete. ...

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Imagine being swarmed by the media after stepping out of your thirty two thousand dollar car, leaving practice to go to a photo shoot for the cover of Sports Illustrated. ... In some cases, young athletes seethe high paying professional ranks as an avenue for escape from an impoverished lifestyle; a lifestyle of substandard housing, high crime rates and drugs. ... Playing games on television, movies, shows and every boy's dream, a spot on sports center. ... As Brian Shaw said of a nineteen year old Kobe Bryant in Sports Illustrated magazine, "nobody was going to listen to him when he w...

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