...Why steroid users should be allowed into the baseball Hall of Fame? The argument is simple and it’s about time for Cooperstown to open the doors to those who have admitted to or have been accused of using performance enhancing drugs or steroids. Ending the witch hunt: Baseball voters are trying to determine whether or not to vote on players these days based on crimes that players may have or not have committed years ago. Some baseball voters have stated that they would vote for players in the steroid era but they would not however vote for anyone found guilty. It’s hard to know who did cheat and who didn’t cheat in the so called steroid era but if one were to gain entry into the sacred hall then the door will open up for others based on their merits. Saving the Hall of Fame: Baseball has always been called America’s game and the Hall of Fame for baseball enthusiast has always been a destination. In 2013 the Hall of Fame only inducted 1 person in and he had not played in over 130 years. The induction ceremony takes place in the summers and it was always a place to go and honor your favorite players and learn about ones prior to them. As a new generation of fans grow up and the players form the late 90’s and early 2000’s are not in the hall fans will likely not make the trip to the place where legends are remembered. The Hall of Fame is a place to honor the greatest that have ever played the game. It is based on what a player does on the field. People agree that the...
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...his fellow artists; he inspired them to leave their jobs from Marvel Comics to start their own company. He was also competent in his ability to lead other artists to leave Marvel Comics and to accomplish their goals of starting a new company. 2. How have global competition and technology advances changed business conditions and leadership challenges? Many business meeting was performed behind closed doors which prevent the everyday citizen from knowing what is going on in the world. Now with things like Facebook, twitter, and MySpace have changed business conditions and leadership challenges since whatever you do now is judged in the court of public opinion. Public Opinion can destroy a person. Would Barry Bonds, Mark McGuire, Sammy Sosa or Roger Clemens be in the Baseball Hall of Fame if not the public belief that they all used drugs during the baseball...
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...Sosa batted .260 with 8 home runs and 25 RBIs in his first season with the Cubs. Although not spectacular numbers, it showed that Sosa improved as a hitter. In 1993, Sosa batted .261 with 33 home runs with 93 RBIs. He also showed his speed by stealing 38 bases. He became the Cubs' first 30-30 player in their history. Sosa continued to hit for power and speed in 1994 but he also improved his batting average. He ended up batting .300 with 25 home runs, 70 RBIs, and 22 stolen bases. Sosa was named to his first All-Star team in 1995. In 144 games, he batted .268 with 36 home runs and 119 RBIs. Sosa continued his success with the Cubs in 1996 as he batted .273 with 40 home runs and 100 RBIs. However, the next year, Sosa struggled. Despite hitting 36 home runs with 119 RBIs, Sosa batted just .251. He struggled to get on base(.300 on-base percentage) and led the league in strikeouts with 174. After years as a respected power/speed threat with a rocket arm in right field, he emerged during the 1998 season as one of baseball's greatest. It was in this season that both Sosa and Mark McGwire were involved in the "home run record chase", when both players' prowess for hitting home runs drew national attention as they attempted to pass Roger Maris' single season home run mark of 61 home runs that had stood since 1961. For the early months of the year, Sosa trailed McGwire significantly, being as many as 16 homers behind at one point in May. But as the chase progressed, Sosa would rally...
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...Chris Haire Ms. Heady Developing Writing, 3rd hr. 12 December 2012 Steroids are the death of sports Steroids are the worst thing when it comes to competition because during this can cause a serious problem as far as your health goes and your reputation if caught. (ballislife.com). In these cases thing always change because athletes do this in every sport then when caught never know what to say or how to apologize for their actions. Sports should be something that is fun and not something were you cheating your competition by medicine instead of hard work in the gym. In sports when athletes go down the wrong route there careers are affected when caught and sometimes universities are punished for their actions if the university knew about the drugs all along. Drugs in sports are nothing to play with. Your family and fans will be hurt by your decision if you were a really big Icon. You can’t do the crime and be afraid of the consequences (Barry Bonds). (www.espn go.com) in competition if you have to cheat to when then who is the real winner? The truth will come out eventually and your pride will be hurt more than ever because your caught red handed and the local and if good enough nationwide news will make an example out of you. If a professional athlete you will be stripped of championship rings and more because In the league eyes they weren’t earned, they were cheated (www.sportsfax.com). All sports have there best players and people that have did wrong things just because...
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...Claudia Sampedro Wiki, Bio, Kids, Career, Age, Boyfriend, Plastic Surgery Claudia Sampedro Short Bio Claudia Sampedro is a performing artist and excitement demonstrates the identity of Cuban nationality. She was conceived on 27th October 1989 in Havana, Cuba. Her folks are of various starting point. Claudia's mom is of Moroccan drop while her father is Spanish. Sampedro moved to Miami from Havana with her family when she was only a six year old. According to the data accessible on her bio, Claudia Sampedro began demonstrating career at 16 years old. After the finish of her secondary school training, she went to an instructive establishment for cosmetology examines however since she had effectively had an effect in the field of displaying and mold industry, she later dropped her examinations and joined the demonstrating field as a full-time show. According to her own bio, Claudia Sampedro came to spotlight after her appearance in the E! Reality arrangement named WAGS Miami. Claudia Sampedro Career, Net worth, and Salary Claudia Sampedro is successful in the career path she has chosen for herself. She has been able to gain fame and name from her praiseworthy work and has been an inspiration to many. Though her total net worth and annual salary details are not available due to lack of proper calculations, we can assume her worth to be in millions of dollars. Claudia Sampedro Personal Life A large number of her fans might want to think about her sentimental issues, boyfriends...
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...Matt Banary Barry Bonds Steroid Use The article that I chose to write about goes in to Barry Bonds and his usage of steroids in the MLB. Barry Bonds started taking steroids in 1998 and continued on doing so throughout his baseball career. Bonds started to get stronger and hot more and more home runs while he was on the use of steroids. He eventually beat Mark McGwire’s single season home run record (70) and hit 73 home runs. This spectacular accomplishment what short lived because Barry Bonds was caught with taking to types of performance enhancing drugs, Cream and Clear and Trenbolone. To make things worse he lied in front of a federal court saying he did not take steroids and that in fact he did take them. During the year we talked about a topic like this in chapter 6. That performance enhancing drugs has had a long history in the professional sports and that much substance abuse constitutes a form of deviant over-conformity. Deviant over-conformity consists of subnormal ideas, traits, and actions that indicate an uncritical acceptance of norms and a failure to recognize any limits to following norms (ch.6 pg. 159). Barry Bonds taking performance enhancing drugs is a good example of this because he was unable to accept the norms and limits for taking performance enhancing drugs. He did not care that it was illegal as long as he was one of the best and he continued to play in the game he loved. Ironically I believe that steroids were a good reason why he...
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...Tainted Idols In today’s society the use of drugs to enhance one’s performance is becoming a common trend in professional sports. These drugs help athletes to compete at a higher level. Not only do these professional athletes break many records and win trophies, they are making more money than ones who choose not to use performance enhancing drugs. Since salaries have increased in professional sports, so has the use of these drugs. While performance enhancing drugs were apparent in the past, they have become increasingly evident in the modern era, tainting the integrity of professional sports. The use of performance enhancing drugs has been around for many years. In World War II these drugs were given to German soldiers to increase their strength and aggressiveness (Edwards, 2006). However, these drugs became evident in the 1960 Olympic Games after a Dutch cyclist died. In 1963, a ban was placed on a list of prohibited drugs by the International Olympic Committee to prevent performance enhancing drugs from being used in sports. This list of prohibited drugs has grown substantially since (King, 2009). Even though there is growing evidence of serious health risk that come along with the use of performance enhancing drugs, they are still being produced and used at a rapid rate. Others would argue that use of performance enhancing drugs dates back thousands of years. There are stories of athletes ingesting ground horse hooves and sheep testicles for ancient Olympic Games to gain...
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...Christopher C Lang Professor Adam Penna ENG101 Freshman Composition 13 April 2014 Ninth Inning Treason Flashing back to the incomplete collage of photographic memories I have resting in my mind, one that has always remained a part of my history that I’ll pass down to my children someday, is my first professional baseball game. I’m a bleeding heart New York Yankee fan, but didn’t really know how tight my loyalties would become at the age of 8. I was at a New York Mets game with my father, and they took on the Pittsburgh Pirates at the late Shea Stadium in Queens, NY. I even caught my first foul ball there, ate my first ballpark hotdog, and caught my first glimpse of the purity of a game that I played around my block, and on the field with my little league team and friends. It was a game that seemed immortal, a game that every young kid looks for a role model, and wishes he could have such an opportunity to become a star athlete. It’s a dream that we could be handsomely compensated for a game that has an essence of goodness and passion, innocence and integrity. I wasn’t much at this time, just a kid, and a kid that would eventually be proven wrong beyond his wildest dreams. Fast forwarding to present day, being a baseball fan today has a different feeling of ambiguity surrounded with unpredictable circumstances. For every player that seems to exemplify the portrait of a role model to children who worship them, there’s always another who doesn’t receive a glance when they...
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...form of steroids. Jose Consaco was the first player (to my knowledge) to come out and admit to his use of the drug by way of writing a book. He even went so far as to name, names of certain players he knew was using the drug. Once the story broke many was quick to discredit the book and what Mr. Consaco stated about the using of steroids in Pro Baseball. The non-believers quickly stated that he didn’t have any real facts, no evidence to show or support anyone using the drug and just his statements to say otherwise. So far nearly over a decade numerous pro players continued using the drug. Gaining an unfair advantage over other pro players and making the playing field unleveled. Players like Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire, Rodger Clemens and Sammy Sosa are some of the high profile players to be suspected of steroids use. My being from Northern California found myself rooting for the San Francisco Giants, one of two bay area teams. During that era the San Francisco Giants had a player named Barry Bonds. Who in the Bay area could do no wrong! Filling the stadium with fans who wanted to see nothing more than...
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...Solution to Chapter 2 Internet Project Data on the Internet Note: In exercises 1 and 2 the data for the year 2000 is used. Exercise 1 Using the daily mean temperatures, compute the range and standard deviation in temperature for San Francisco in January 2000. Answer The mean daily temperatures for each of the days in January 2000 as compiled by the Weather Underground are 50.8 48.5 47.8 55.9 52.1 47.8 47.7 50.5 51.3 52.4 54.1 49.6 50.5 52.6 53.9 56.4 50.5 52.8 55.5 55.3 52.4 53.6 54.6 56.2 54.4 51.5 50.5 50.3 51.1 54.9 52.6 . For this data n = 31 ∑ x = 1618.1 ∑ x 2 = 84653.61 so the mean and standard deviation are x= 1618.1 = 52.20 31 and s= 31(84653.61) − (1618.1) 2 = 2.54 . 31(30) Exercise 2 The National Football League uses a long list of criteria to determine if a city is a candidate to host the Super Bowl. One such requirement is that the city either must have a domed (i.e. heated) football stadium or that the average temperature in January for the city must be 50o F or higher. San Francisco does not have a domed stadium. Based on the January 2000 data, would San Francisco satisfy this Super Bowl eligibility criterion? Answer Yes, since the average from Exercise 1 is 52.20. Exercise 3 Which graph below best represents the performance of Microsoft stock during the first four months of 2000? Answer Graph B shows the history of Microsoft stock prices over the indicated period. Note the data is graphed in the form it is provided on the Yahoo! finance site so that January...
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...Todd McFarlane had a drive that no one could take from him. He was task-oriented because of his ability to assemble a group of people to leave Marvel and build with during the peak of their careers. He was an opportunist such as when purchased the three million dollar ball and combined it with hits from McGwire and Sammy Sosa to create the ‘McFarlane Collection’. He inspired others such as the 6 men he took with him to start his own company. Even though he received 300 rejection letters, he didn’t give up. He was determined and focused because even after he didn’t succeed as a major league ball player, he was still determined and focused on coming out on top. He was a very big risk taker, and was definitely rewarded for it. Many businesses would conduct business “behind the scenes” or in private, keeping the people from knowing about what was going on in reality. Because social media has developed and advanced into Twitter and Facebook, nothing is a secret anymore. Even more so, a lot of leaders must become more technologically savvy in order to keep their businesses going. This in turn calls for competition and being ahead in the game. Everything that is put out on the table is judged by others; and a lot of times, people’s opinions can sometimes ruin someone. Todd McFarlane was a very smart man. I loved how his determination, bravery, and drive got him where he wanted to be. Entrepreneurs and risk takers are very well rewarded in the end. This in a way reminds me of myself...
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...Cheating. It’s a word that can trigger reactions of an unlimited variety. A roll of the eyes, a shake of the head, or a hand raised in class are all common. Less forgiving, are the reactions of professional sporting associations, olympic committees, or even the Federal Government. Fines, suspensions, and even banishment from ones chosen craft are becoming more and more common. Students plagiarize, songwriters steal copyrighted work, and politicians all over the world are rigging elections. But why cheat? Is cheating ever justified? I personally believe that cheating is never justified, because at the end of the day the biggest victim of cheating is the cheater himself. The conscience is a very powerful thing. Even if the cheater is never caught, he will still live the rest of his life knowing he has been anything but genuine to those around him. For the purpose of this essay I will focus on cheating in professional sports, as these incidents tend to be the most well known and widely reported. There’s a saying in sports, “if you’re not cheating, you’re not trying.” We’ve all heard the stories - performance enhancing drugs, point shaving, deflated footballs, the pumping-in of additional crowd noise - all have become commonplace in the world of professional sports. But what is the incentive to cheat in sports? Winning, of course. Winning brings fans through the door. Winning puts money in the owner’s pockets, which in turn puts money in the athlete’s pockets. Sure, the records...
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...most important news element): 1. WHO: President Clinton will visit Cuba next week at the request of Caricom nations. 2. WHAT: Lightning struck the upper deck at Wrigley Field last night while the Cubs were playing in San Francisco. 3. WHEN: Midnight tonight is the deadline for tax returns, but the local post office is ready to accommodate procrastinators. 4. WHERE: The Emerson and Towanda intersection is officially the most dangerous crossing in Bloomington, according to the Illinois Bureau of Transportation. 5. WHY: Because she could correctly spell "ostentatious," Lisa Wheeler will go to the state Spelling Bee finals. 6. HOW: By hitting his 50th home run last night for the fourth year, Chicago Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa etched his name in the baseball record books alongside Babe Ruth and Mark McGwire. Common Types of News and News-Feature Leads (more ways to "lead" the reader into the story) 1. Straight Summary Lead: Twenty-eight passengers and a crew of four were killed last night when a single-engine plane crashed four miles south of Bloomington. 2. Picture or Dramatic Lead: Mourners lined up for miles yesterday in the pouring rain to take one last look and lay flowers near the coffin of Mother Teresa, who lived among Calcutta's sick and needy for 35 years. 3. Background Lead: After two weeks of picketing, United Auto Workers put down their signs yesterday following an agreement which would give members a 10 percent raise. 4. Quotation...
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...Ethical issues regarding the use of Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sports In the history of 20th century sports, specifically in the post World War 2 era, there has been an ever increasing use of performance enhancing drugs in all avenues of sport. Sports have become money making machine for both athletes and big business and the “win at all costs” attitude which has permeated itself into all aspects of professional and college level athletics. Winners make money, losers don’t. The temptation of fame, notoriety and million dollar contracts in all venues of sport is a lure for many athletes. Elite professional athletes are worshiped in today’s society. This paper will elaborate on the use of performance enhancing drugs in the sporting world and the associated sports ethical issues. It is a majority belief in all sporting circles that the “true” spirit of sportsmanship does not allow any aspect of performance enhancing drugs. There are several arguments both in favor and against the use of performance enhancing drugs which will be presented and discussed in this paper. While addressing this ethical issue, we need to define the term ethics. Ethics can be defined as the socially accepted norms and values. These norms and values are varied from society to society and are based on culture and tradition. Ethics also could be defined as the unsaid, un-written and understood laws that prevail in a society. Ethics also cover what is right and what is wrong in society and teaches...
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...Performance Enhancement Drugs in Sports, the Ethical Choice In May 28, 2002, former Major League Baseball player Ken Caminiti admits to Sports Illustrated in the article “Caminiti Comes Clean” that he used steroids during his 1996 National League MVP (most valuable player) season with the San Diego Padres and he estimated that half of the players in the big leagues were also using steroids. He later died of a heart attack at age 40 where it was ruled by the New York Medical Examiner that drugs are a factor in his death. In October 5, 2007, track star Marion Jones admits to use steroids during the 2000 Olympic Games where she won three Gold Medals and two Bronze Medals. She was later sentenced to six months in prison for lying to the court and stripped off of all of her medals. Throughout history, there have been many stories of athletes using performance enhancing drugs, but none more than in the last 20 years. As technology advances in science as well as the media, more drugs has been engineer to enhance performance as well as the test to detect such drugs, as the results get to the hands of the media, the entire world would be at noticed in a manner of minutes. The fact is that performance enhancing drugs have existed since the time of the ancient Greek during the original Olympic Games from 776 BC – 393 BC. The question is why should we care? If most athletes are using it, is it a plain level field? And why is the government involved? Should the government be involved? ...
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