Whether athletes, especially those at the professional level, know it or not they are role models to numerous young adults. The use of these drugs in professional sports has led young athletes in high school and college to look for such an edge. The danger of using such drugs is far greater for younger athletes, because their bodies are not fully developed yet. A zero tolerance policy at all levels of athletics would also make student athletes much more wary of taking performance enhancing drugs, resulting in more healthy young adults. It would also make professional athletes more cautious in taking such drugs setting a good example for the athletes that look up to
Ethics in sports is just as important as ethics in any other situation. To use steroids or any other performance enhancing drugs is just unethical and not fair to the game. Many records have been broken, but as fans how can we be sure that these records have been broken fairly? Frank Deford suggest “Maybe we’re more programmed to accept cheating in sports In this country since we grew up bitterly tolerating such utter corruption and hypocrisy in college athletes we love” (Source E) This may in fact be the sad reality. So in conclusion if Major League sports want to protect themselves for the future they must act now and enforce stricter drug testing policies.
Sylvia Etim Instructor Tim Nelson English 1013 (012) 2 April 2015 The Pressure of the Public Sometimes people are oppressed into doing what they know that is wrong. The essay “We, the Public, Place the Best Athletes on Pedestals” by William Moller talks about how most athletes and students use performance enhancing drugs in order to achieve their goals. In his essay, Moller defends the athletes by arguing that the major reason they use the steroids is because of the pressure being put on them from the public and the desire to live up to their expectations. Moller uses an essential strategy at the beginning of his essay by using his personal experience to make readers to understand his view of point. He also
Steroids in Sports For years the problem of drug abuse, particularly the use of anabolic steroids, was hidden and/or denied at most levels of the sports world. To speak of it was taboo. At the lower levels of sports there was a ‘code-of-silence’ that teammates used to protect themselves. Now, however, the media has publicized its use making the problem too widespread, detailing the results, and projecting the dangers. The purpose of this paper will be to discuss the use of anabolic steroids in sports; their success in building muscular power while also destroying the body and the mind, and its use in sports.
Underlying Issues: The Universities and colleges should push the issue more about binge drinking than what they are doing now to keep college students from drinking underage. Parents need to complain to the schools more often to maybe have better chances at making binge drinking illegal to all school all over the world. If school rules are not followed then I would suggest students’ get expelled from school if that is possible so they can learn from their mistakes. Article 3:
Muscle Mass Epidemic: Doping In Sports Every year high school, college, and professional athletes try to get just a little bigger, a little stronger, and to increase the amount of weights they lift by, just a few pounds. To achieve these goals athletes often turn to performance enhancing drugs to aid them in achieving their goals. Performance enhancing drugs are a quick, but dangerous way to increase muscle mass, and they can carry many risks including some life threatening side effects. However, some people think that are young athletes, as well as our professional ones should be permitted to use these drugs. The use of performance enhancing drugs in sports should not be allowed.
Doing steroids is basically cheating. You are getting an unfair not to mention fake, advantage over other students or teams. To be honest that would never sit well with me. Especially if Joe Slugger here got a scholarship over Tim Catcher. That just isn’t right and should never happen.
One of the reasons there has become a large problem among our youth is the way that the media covers the steroid use of the star athletes and in a way our youth idolize these players. It’s amazing how far steroids have evolved throughout time thinking it was good for the body and how it has changed through the law. Now it is bad for sports names and the players. Some of the good things it does, for example, in the medical field by helping treat cancer and many other illnesses. People are also given steroids for asthma, poison oak, bronchitis, etc.
I believe this ancient remedy holds a lot of value and is not given the attention it deserves just like many other mind manifesting and cosmic substances. Our society needs to reevaluate the way we view our ‘most harmful’ drug class because it is absolutely warped and fallacious.” On a less consequential note, Professor Paul Babbitt believes that, “Unless a student has an illness that can be treated with medical marijuana, the passage of Proposition 5 is unlikely to have any effect on the SAU student body.” With these opinions and facts in mind, it is not necessarily important which way each person votes, but it is, however, ideal that students will be accurately informed before
At the college level if the player is ejected in the second half of the game, the suspension will carry over to the first half of the next game, but in high school games, the rule is not applied. Coaches around the nation are very much behind the new rule. Jared Sanderson said, “Really, the number-one thing when you’re going to hit somebody you’ve got to keep your eyes up, and we talk to the kids all the time about that” (Watson 2). Sanderson is saying coaches goals are to educate their players that if they have their head down going in for a hit, bad things like head or neck injuries. Many players have been forced to retire early or in rare cases have been hurt permeantly.