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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Steroids In Baseball Steroids are illegal drugs that unnaturally boost strength and muscle mass; their consequences are detrimental to a player's health and to the sport's popularity. Ethics and steroids are two very important issues dealing with the well-being of all sports, but especially baseball. ... "According to an article in Sports Illustrated, approximately 40-50% of the players in Major League Baseball are using steroids" (Kurtzberg). Unlike other professional sports, baseball does not test for steroids because "drug testing is something to be negotiated through bargaining ...

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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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Children should look up to sports figures despite their crimes. ... So, why must media show the world that Emmit Smith stole something or got caught doing drugs? It is the sports player prerogative what they wish to do. ... Most television viewers are children; mainly cartoon and sports. ...

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Over 90 percent of Americans watch sports, that means that 90 percent of them look up to and respect athletes. ... Nevertheless, what happens when a player is dropped from the team for rape, drug convictions, or something as simple as a traffic violation? ... According to an article written by the University of Miami, "most sports do not have very harsh punishments for violating steroid laws; the NFL does not even use blood tests to monitor steroid use" (Sinko). This means that athletes will be using the drugs without having any repercussions. ... As a society, we need to stop maki...

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Anshel, entitled Qualitative Validation of a Model For Coping With Acute Stress In Sports. ... In one study done by Patton (1990), he took the responses of college athletes about drug behavior among teammates, and why these student athletes would take them (competitive, control weight, overcome boredom) and used these statements to compare to original interview transcripts. ... They believed that coping in sports consists of a group of thoughts, emotions and actions that can be described by the stressed person. ... The research seemed strong for the most part, but some sports have different 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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You could see gang members and drug dealers roaming around everywhere you turn. ... I only played on weekends and baseball isn't as physically demanding as other sports so I don't think it did much to help my weight issues. ...

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