...Baseball is a sport that is viewed all across America and embedded in classic American culture. Professional baseball athletes entertain large audiences with their outstanding skills and achievements in the sport along with leaving an impacting influence on young athletes. However, sometimes their influence can be negative. Some baseball players use other means to achieve their goals, performance enhancers that are known as steroids. Steroids give players competitive advantage over those who do not use them. Steroids are synthetic versions of male testosterone, a male hormone taking this hormone produces rapid muscle growth and recovery from workouts. (Filomena and Ascione 2009) Steroids can aid athletes tremendously by increasing their strength...
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...Christopher Bell the main focus was steroid use amongst Americans and their medical, emotional, and physical effects. Christopher Bell is an American man who was raised in a Christian family home in New York State with his parents and two brothers. Like every American boy he and his brothers looked up to American heroes like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Hulk Hogan, and Sylvester Stallone. As they grew up they wanted to be just like their heroes, they wanted to be big and strong and compete competitively like their heroes. The brothers grew up lifting weights, wrestling and playing football like most average American teens boys. The documentary goes to explain that later on in the Bell brother’s lives they all continued to keep getting bigger even when they lost the motivation from their heroes who have been uncovered to using steroids on national news. Christopher Bell was the most hurt out of his brothers to find out this news and did not know what to do. Had everything he had looked up to as a child been a lie? Everything that he believed from his heroes when he was younger had all been a lie because of their use of steroids. His heroes where not the people that he thought they really were when he was growing up. Unlike Christopher, his brothers did not have as big of a problem with their heroes using steroids and even started using steroids themselves. When finding out that his brothers and heroes are using steroids Christopher began to question steroid use not only amongst athletes but...
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...Steroids are seen as the easy way out of hard work that one has to put in to be successful as well as being linked to some health problems. Do not be fooled from steroids it still is a drug. Like for Smelly one of the Bell brothers struggles from getting off the drug as he knows he won’t be able to stay away from it very long as he tells Chris. This shows just how much power this drug has on him that even Smelly knows he won’t able to say away from the drug. Then in competition where it is said that everyone uses anabolic steroids to enhance performance not all are punished for the use. For instance, in the 1988 Olympics when it was brought to attention that winner Ben Johnson used a banned substance and was striped of his gold medal. Although, who is now got the gold medal Carl Lewis was too taking a banned substance but why was it not brought forth to the media?...
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...The culture of America has become overran by sports more and more over the years. Out of all of the sports, baseball is depicted to be the main event for America. Over the past decade, America's favorite sport has come under review over their players use of steroids and many other performance enhancing drugs. A lot of individuals seemed to be aware of the shocking epidemic that is sweeping all of the sports. A person with a knowledge of the sport world would know of the effects of doping within the sports. Almost weekly there is a headline case on the news referring to another sport doping scandal. A few competitors take a type of steroids, these are called anabolic-Androstenedione gen steroids or simply anabolic steroids. These steroids are used for many different reasons but mainly to expand their bulk and quality of muscle. The fundamental anabolic steroid hormone delivered by your body is testosterone. The promotion in muscle building normal than the average athlete is looked down upon by many different organizations and national sport leagues. The purpose...
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...Jeremiah Johnson 11/2/2011 Alan Bone ENGL 1020 2B The Steroid Era in Baseball Major league baseball was founded in 1869 and has gone through several different eras in its history. There was the Dead Ball Era, which started in 1869 and ended when Babe Ruth became a ball player in 1919 and now the Steroid Era, which ran from 1992 thru 2006 (Vassalo). The Steroid Era has forever scarred the game and something needs to be done to restore it to its glory days. The MLBPA should agree to impose stricter sanctions on steroid users because the current penalties are too lenient, steroids have altered the game and stiffer penalties would deter players from using. The MLBPA should agree to impose stricter sanctions on steroids users because the current penalties are too lenient. From 2002-2004 baseball did not suspend players for a first-time steroid offense. They instead would offer the player counseling. Only after a player was caught again, was he suspended. When Senator Joseph Biden was told “the current testing policy does not suspend first time offenders-instead they get counseling,” he said, “it’s a joke, it’s a real joke” (Purchia). How could anyone expect anything to get done with a policy that lenient? The following year the MLBPA decided to try and make the steroid policy a little bit stricter. The MLBPA should agree to impose stricter sanctions on steroids users because the current penalties are too lenient. At the beginning of the 2005 season, baseball changed...
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...Professional athlets have a magor impact on teenagers acrose the United states of America . Their actions speak louder than words in many cases. In ameican society professional atheltes are looked on as role models because sports are deeply rooted in American culture. Many young adults look at these players with admiration. The atletes are constantly watched by the media, it is this what gives them a god or bad image which can be abosbed by the youth of America. Young americans are being convinced byd by atheltes that they must take steriods to become an elite athlete , also teen use of steriods is more abut personal image than them trying to resemble a star athelte who is a role model. To become an elite athltete American youth think...
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...Major League Baseball & Steroids (From 1988 Until ????) By: Joseph Fripp Being an advocate fan of Pro Football and watching Pro Baseball only during their playoffs. Mainly because their season is so long and drawn out. I found it to be rather interesting that one of the four Pro Sport Leagues in America had a very real and serious problem with some of the players in the League using steroids or performance enhancements. I also find it hard to believe that the League commissioner and team owners didn’t know that the league had a drug problem. Now say what you want but the commissioner of Pro Baseball had to have had an idea that something bad was going on within the league by the early 1990’s. Rumors had begun to leak out of many pro players using some 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...
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...Records like Roger Maris’s single season home run record, which was not only broken, but shattered three times by Sammy Sosa in 1998 with 66 home runs, then Mark McGwire in the same season with 70, then once again in 2001 with Barry Bonds smacking 72 of them. What’s especially interesting is that before the 2001 season, Bonds who “used so many steroids that other hitters looking to beef up could just lick him” (Mirsky), never hit more than 46 home runs in a single season. That raises a lot of questions, because power like that doesn’t all of a sudden happen. Barry Bonds also broke Hank Aaron’s record of most home runs in a career by hitting 762 career home runs. It wasn’t just home run rates going up. There are only four players in MLB history who are a part of the 40-40 Club (players who hit 40 home runs and stole 40 bases in a single season) and three of those men have been convicted for using steroids, while the fourth man was rumored to have been using steroids when he joined the club. With all the data given, there is no doubt that steroids are the reason behind the explosion of power and speed during the late 1980’s to the early 2000’s and had a “profound impact on the...
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...Does Steroids Provide An Unfair Advantage In Baseball or Does It Even The Playing Field? Baseball has been an American pastime for centuries and will be for centuries to come. Adults have been taking their children to baseball games since the Major Leagues first came about in the late 1800s. From the Philadelphia Phillies' great Astrodome to their current Citizens Bank Park or the Atlanta Braves' Fulton County Stadium to their more modern Turner Field baseball has been loved in America. Although the game is as old as it is, baseball has not changed even though the players continue to get better and better. Many fans first take is the use of steroids in baseball. But did steroids really help Barry Bonds become home run king? Because Hank Aaron had the record generations before and he reportedly never injected steroids. Every year it seems like a new player gets brought into the league that is going to be faster, stronger, and an overall better player; except the ones that have the records broken that is. Although steroids are supposed to make athletes bigger, faster, and stronger,; are steroids really making athlete's statistics better or simply bridging the gap between decent athletes and great ones? There are many aspects in hitting a baseball that coaches teach athletes at a young age. Seeing the ball well, swinging with your hips and not just your arms, being disciplined and not swinging at a ball out of the strike zone, these are all examples of what it takes to be a good...
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...Negative Effects of Steroids The intent of this essay is to show that steroids have many negative effects and that steroids, and other natural supplements, should be closely studied by the FDA. This essay will also support the claim that the professional sports industry needs to eliminate steroid use and set a good example for younger athletes. Over one million American seek short cuts to larger muscles and greater endurance with anabolic steroids and other performance enhancing drugs. Steroids are drugs that act like chemical in the body. Most steroids are transformed into testosterone when they enter the body. Testosterone is a male growth hormone. While user may gain short-term results, they are seriously shortchanging their health (Kalawalski 13-15). Some of the ill effects of the drugs are damage to the kidneys and liver. A person can also alter the balance of the natural hormones. This can cause detrimental affects to the body. The effects of you natural hormones being out of balance can last several years after being off the drugs. Some male user form breasts due to the use of steroids. Because of the increase in testosterone, steroids can cause serious acne problems. When used by teens is can cause stunted growth. Other side effects include genital changes, water retention, yellow eyes, coronary artery disease, ligament injuries, high blood pressure, changes in cholesterol levels, sterility and liver disease. The list goes on and on...
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...Involvement with drugs and athletes is a big step towards future activities. It can cause hazardous predicaments by taking illegal drugs, not following the laws that’s required for an athlete to compete. The drugs that are used by athletes are to be used for considerable reasoning. Instead, it gets used for the wrong reasons. Cheating your way towards a great success, will soon catch up and turn out into a tragedy due to eagerness. Athletes must find a way to abstain from this type of virus. Any and everyone can do this, but it takes time to do so with the certain capabilities that will help. It might appear that drugs are being abused by athletes, but as to them, it is taken as a concise product. By athletes enhancing drugs, risks are being taken. In results, athletes rely on drugs by keep them in the best shape of their lives as well as performing at their best level Testing Drugs on Athletes "Drugs have changed the way athletes perform. It has spread throughout the world in many different ways and is an effect towards the young, as well as the elderly" (Adler, 2009, p.44). Athletes are first tested by giving a urine sample. Athletes must first go through this progress in order for them to proceed. A drug test is an ANALYSIS of specifics through hair, blood, urine, sweat, or saliva. It’s to determine whether or not a person is on drugs. Drug testing is assembled all throughout the world. Discovering drugs on athletes can be critical at times. Any athlete can...
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...Drug use in sports dates back to the ancient Greeks during the very first Olympics. There is evidence that Greek athletes would gorge themselves on meat, which was not a normal dietary staple of the Greeks, and experiment with herbal medications in an effort to enhance their performances. The ancient Greek athletes also drank wine potions, used hallucinogens and ate animal hearts or testicles in search of energy. Gladiators would ingest hallucinogens and stimulants such as strychnine to stave off fatigue and injury and to improve the intensity of their fights. As well as the Olympians using substances themselves, chariot racers also feed their horses substances such as hydromel (an alcoholic beverage made from honey) to make them run faster. Although drug use in athletics dates back as far as athletics itself , should we turn a blind eye to drug use today? Performance enhancing drugs in sports has become a controversial issue in today's professional sports world. Today's athletes continue to push the boundaries of excellence in performance and physical fitness. Helping these athletes are more refined training methods and technologies. Never have athletes had more training aids at their disposal. Although training methods and techonlogies have improved vastly in sports today there is a downside to all of these new innovations. Never before have athletes had more opportunities to cheat mainly through the use of performance enhancing drugs. There are many drugs athletes...
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...they are so involved in extracurricular activities” (Shutler). Since the Supreme Court had ruled in favor, schools are legally allowed to make the testing mandatory. Another concern was that students would feel that they were being accused and feeling that they were guilty until proven innocent. As long as the testing is done by random selection, there would be no targeting students and they would all be aware of the situation before any testing was initiated. To address the issues of fear of being guilty until proven innocent, no consequences would be able to be carried out until after the test results came back confirming the usage of illegal substances. The testing is not to accuse students of using, but to prevent and catch those that do use. The safety of the students is what is in mind when considering the...
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...PEDS standing for Performance Enhancing drugs, most commonly referred to as steroids. The question is though how do these PED’s effect baseball? Why do people feel the need to take steroids in baseball? I’ll tell you why it helps you in everything you do on the diamond, from running to throwing and to hitting it helps you achieve things you never saw possible as a normal person. It help you out to a point that it is just unfair and not fit for baseball. Steroids have changed baseball as we know it and not in a good way. They have made the Major League of Baseball or also known as the MLB look a question such as, Are PED users able to make it into the Hall of Fame? What is the appropriate consequence for these players getting caught? And is...
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...#1 Out of all the readings I’ve read thus far in Accounting Ethics, the one that struck me the most was the piece on the Cheating Culture, titled ‘Whatever It Takes’. It paints a picture of how the wealth gap has increasingly divided the classes in America. The excerpt was inspired partly by an English scholar named James Bryce, who traveled to America in the late 1800’s, and it paints the picture of an America that is vastly different than the America of today. Essentially, the authors premise is that the American laissez-faire capitalist system along with a “winner take all” mentality produces a culture where Americans are trying to ‘cheat’ – or take advantage of – each other for financial and societal gain. According to the author, this behavior is often observed by the upper class “screwing over” the lower class – however, it can occur between members of the same economic class. You can apply this concept to sports as well. For instance, many baseball players use steroids to become stronger and thus perform better. If you elected not to take steroids, you would do it at the expense of not being as good as another player, and could lose the potential to make as much money as the player who chooses to cheat with steroids. The average American seems to have a self-serving inclination to compare themselves to others, along with a desire to be relatively more successful financially and socially than the individuals that encompass their social circles. These are the attitudes...
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