Drugs and sports have gone hand-in-hand for as long as winning has mattered. ... This once again, completely defeats the purpose of sports. Money controls stock market, not sports. ... Dr.Voy, a Sports Psychologist, was told by athletes, "Unless you stop the drug abuse in sport, I have to do drugs. ... In order to protect the health of our athletes, and to keep sports and competition real, the ban on drug use must be continued. ...

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One of the biggest ways it does is in sports. ... All sports though, and especially in the Olympics are being tested. To fully understand the topic of sports drug testing you must first look at the overall picture of just drug testing and how the United States and its laws view it. ... Possibly the strictest area of sports drug testing is in the Olympics. ... To test for six drugs costs seven dollars. ...

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Anabolic steroids and other performance enhancing drugs (PED's) are the vitamin of choice for most professional athletes. ... Performance enhancing drugs were not always illegal in baseball. ... This was the first time that there was ever a punishment for using performance enhancing drugs. ... Additionally, steroid use should be legal since drug screening programs are flawed. ... When it comes to steroids in professional sports, we say "Why Not?...

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He states on his page" They let Steve Howe (banished 11 times for drugs) back in the game. They turn their eyes, quite conveniently, away from any number of wife-beaters, and drug addicts, every day. ... The size of this issue really shows how big sports are in America today. ... It also shows how we idolize sports athletes in America. ... Bottom line, sports in America is HUGE. ...

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What will sports fan be thinking when they see these huge guys slugging the ball out of the park at a rate that was unheard of 50 years ago. ... He too feels the pressure of the drugs. ... Baseball is one of the only sports that do not have banned drugs and random testing. ... Drug testing should be enforced to save the down fall of baseball. ... Drug use in professional baseball can only be bad news for the future. ...

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The term "sports hero" is somewhat of an oxymoron today. ... It's all about drug abuse, drunk driving, betting and recruiting scandals, and, most disturbingly, reports of rape and other sex-related crimes (Goodman 34). ... In the last two years, sports have become a tabloid's fantasy. ... This is just one of the many habits many sports figures engage in today. ... These are just two examples of everyday life in the sports world. ...

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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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In an article in Sports Illustrated columnist Tom Verducci inquired, "Is Baseball in an asterisk era?" ... If it is proven that some of the baseball players that have set records in the past few years have been using illegal performance enhancing drugs, it could cause chaos. ... Baseball is currently the only professional sport that lacks a drug testing and punishment policy, but after many questions, speculations, and recent confessions, who knows if it will change its guidelines? ... The government recently called for a change in the drug testing policy of baseball. ... While the BALCO s...

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Rose eventually admitted to betting on sports and was accused of betting on baseball (but not his own team). ... If ethics is preventing Pete Rose from being admitted into the Hall of Fame, then what happens to those players with criminal records, drug scandals, or illegitimate children with different women? ... Baseball does this because it wants to be tough on drugs, but compassionate to its addicted players. ... He engaged in forbidden, but legal, activity which reflects badly on the game--as the illegal drug users who have been welcomed back with open arms. If baseball is going to for...

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Why shouldn't they every other major sporting association has some sort of drug testing program? ... Though Major League Baseball finally got the much-needed drug testing policy there are still many skeptics. The testing policy that baseball implemented is said to be the laughingstock of the drug experts. ... He has players come up to him and ask for help to pass a drug test. ... Sammy Sosa had a chance to prove that his success was well deserved when Rick Reilly, a well renowned sports writer, asked him to go test on his own without waiting for the players union. ...

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Why shouldn't they every other major sporting association has some sort of drug testing program? ... Though Major League Baseball finally got the much-needed drug testing policy there are still many skeptics. The testing policy that baseball implemented is said to be the laughingstock of the drug experts. ... He has players come up to him and ask for help to pass a drug test. ... Sammy Sosa had a chance to prove that his success was well deserved when Rick Reilly, a well renowned sports writer, asked him to go test on his own without waiting for the players union. ...

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Athletes grace the sports pages and evening news with their accomplishments in the game and sometimes their charity off field. ... Ruth's love for baseball, generosity, and dramatic rise from humble beginnings endeared him to fans, and he is one of the greatest sports heroes of American culture. ...

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I'd rather see the guy hit the ball a mile or throw it 105 miles an hour.' " (Saraceno, Sports NP). ... According to a Sports Illustrated report, "major league players made 467 trips to the DL last season, staying there an average of 59 days -- 20 percent longer than in 1997. ... (Saraceno, Sports NP) Many of the amateur players, minor league players, take steroids to get by. ... Dan Patrick, columnist and sports show host said "Through 1994, a player hit 50 or more home runs in a season just 18 times. ... In 2002, MLB owners and players came to a colle...

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``Instituting mandatory, random drug testing is the only way to signal that our nation's pastime is serious about banning steroids,'' said the letter to commissioner Bud Selig (Congress Focuses on Baseball Steroids). ... During the summer of 2002 the topic of steroids was covered almost on every sports channel (Schmaltz). ... But here's the scariest part: When steroids or other drugs are added to the mix, people will begin to question their ability" (Gwynn). ...

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Why would anyone want to use a drug that could do things like that to you? ... The interview Caminiti gave with Sports Illustrated sparked a controversy that is still with us to this day. ... The newest proposal suggested by the owners would call for more extensive drug testing where players have to submit to a steroid drug test three times a year, and one drug test per year for recreational drugs. ... A recent poll by USA Today that polled 750 players, 79% would accept independent testing for steroids and other illegal performance enhancing drugs (USA Today 1). ... Is it moral to allow th...

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All these homeruns were hit without the use of performance enhancing drugs, also known as steroids. ... Over the past few years, performance enhancing drugs have become a huge issue in Major League Baseball. ... Most players do know the risks and rewards of taking these drugs. ... If the use of performance enhancing drugs continues on in their lives, the athlete runs the risk of even worse problems. ... The steroid that Clemens has been accused of using is a drug called HGH, which is also known as Human Growth Hormone. ...

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One of his accomplishments was entering the major leagues and is one of the most remarkable and inspiring accomplishments in sports history. ... Mack, Robinson's older brother, used sports to become popular not drugs or gangs (8). ... There, Robinson became the first Bruin athlete to earn varsity letters in four sports (25). ...

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Bart Giamatti's severe punishment of Pete Rose is a very controversial topic in the world of sports. ... They were all involved in illegal gambling, drug dealing (cocaine and steroids), and income tax evasion. ... In March of 1988 Janszen was being investigated in connection with an FBI search into drug dealing and income tax evasion. ... Peters was convicted of drug dealing and tax evasion. ... Pete Rose was associated with gamblers and drug dealers; money obsession is associated with this territory of people. ...

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The group of individuals were mostly men on the outside fringe of the sports world. Most of the men that derived this information were formerly convicted of felonies like illegal gambling, drug dealing (cocaine and steroids) and income tax evasion. ...

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At a young age his parents encouraged him to install goals in sports and in the classroom. ... The program is made to try and get high school students to turn away from drugs and alcohol. Students must stay away from drugs and alcohol, achieve academically, improve the community, and serve as a role model for younger students (DeCamp, 2013, p.1). ...

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The road to becoming a Major League Baseball player is probably the hardest journey of any of the major sports in America. ... To this date, no significant evidence has been presented other than the ever-fluctuating testimonies of two men who have been convicted of tax-evasion and drug-dealing. ... They remained friends throughout most of his career until, in 1988, one of the men was investigated by the FBI for tax-evasion and drug-dealing. ...

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Banishment Pete Rose was known to have gambled extensively on sports throughout the 1980's. ... He has been spotted in Las Vegas casinos hanging around the sports book, the place one would go to place legal bets on sporting events (Berkow D7). ... If character standards were applied to everybody currently enshrined in the Hall of Fame, "numerous drunks, womanizers, racists, convicted tax evaders and drug users now immortalized with plaques in the Hall would be thrown out" (D7). ...

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I would also like you to consider this, think about a student who passes a final exam under the influence of illegal drugs. ... Pete Rose did the most awful thing a ballplayer could do by not only wagering on games in the NBA, the NFL, and college sports, but also baseball games. ... The powers that run the baseball organization seem to turn their eyes, quite conveniently, away from any number of wife-beaters such as Wil Cordero, and drug addicts like Darryl Strawberry everyday. ...

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