Stephen Krupin was highlighted in Sports Illustrated as the Unluckiest Fan in America. “Not once in Krupin's 19 visits did the Nats deliver a victory. A number-crunching cousin of Krupin's calculated that the odds of his 0--19 season were 1 in 131,204, not all that different from the chances of getting hit by an asteroid, which, come to think of it, might be less painful than watching your team lose every time you show up.” Krupin’s response? "That's the
Clyde Anderson Anderson 1 Professor Valdes ENG 103 May 8th, 2014 Steroids in Major League Baseball In the world of professional sports, many athletes use performance enhancing drugs (PED) to become better players. Athletes use performance enhancing drugs to either get better, heal from injuries, become huge people or just because it’s the “IN” thing that everyone else is using. Steroids have been in sports for the better part of four decades but each league or sports have their implications on PED’s. For instance, The MLB has a random drug testing policy and is able to give suspensions to anyone who is caught having a positive testing of any illegal drugs. Many players have taken PED’s but one name that sticks out to this subject
Jose Canseco who dominated the league for 13 seasons winning four silver sluggers, an MVP, and a Rookie of the year award not to mention being in 6 all-star games and hitting a grand total of 462 homeruns was one of the first baseball players to go public with his usage. Mr. Canseco publicly admitted to his usage of steroids in 2005, when he admitted to using steroids he also named numerous players that he knew used steroids or that he gave steroids to himself. Mark McGuire was one of those players that Canseco said used steroids, Mr. McGuire later did admit to the fact that he used steroids after he retired from the game with a career total 583 homeruns. Barry Bonds who for now is baseballs all-time homerun leader with 762 homeruns was busted for using steroids on multiple occasions so many times that you could ask just about anybody that follows baseball if they believed Barry Bonds used steroids and they would agree. Some more recent players, players that many kids used to look up to as role models, that have been busted for steroid usage include Roger Clemens, Manny Ramirez, and Alex Rodrigues.
Shannon Leigh Wynne Dr. Randy Fair Advanced Placement Language and Composition 17 November 2010 For many years, baseball has been called “America’s Favorite Pastime”, but recently it has been gaining a bad reputation due to the use of anabolic steroids and Human Growth Hormone by the players. Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez, Roger Clemens, Mark McGwire, and Jason Giambi are just a few players who have been caught using or have confessed to using performance-enhancement drugs. Despite the fact that players known to have used these drugs, they still hold records, are in the Hall of Fame, can still get into it, or are still playing (Rhoden). Baseball is not the only sport where steroids and HGH would be effective and useful though. The American
Tiger Woods had a drinking and cheating problem that made people lose their faith in him. Tiger woods accomplished many task in his life. Tiger Woods won the player championship award in 2001 and he was a 10 time fed ex player. In 1999 Tiger Woods almost tripled David Duvalls all time record, which gave him 6,616,585 dollars in the season. Being Tiger Woods has many benefits like popularity and money, but people also know a lot of stuff about him that isn’t really there business.
The officials at the NBA club expected him to be a future star even before his first official match as a national player. He made it to the news when he was eighteen and was detected for the use of cocaine after his first game. After a few years the star again became a scandal for the news when he confessed to an audience of millions that he had again failed to come clear
Yet the possibility remained that it was his death that would leave the strongest mark on pop culture; his murder sparked considerable debate about the end of the "Gangster" era and the futility of the "Thug Life’’(The Gale Group, Inc. Contemporary Black Biography 2006). In the words of the greatest rapper that was ever born and touched many people-“ U Ever share your soul with a stranger only to realize he was a long lost friend? Ever talk 2 a man like U with a woman and share what you can’t with other men?” Written exuxlusively 4 Angela from Tupac Shakur. (Ardis, Angela, Inside A Thug’s Heart, New York City,
The BCS does not get the best two teams , it does not give a fair chance for all division one teams, and we get a controversial national champion. College football needs to have a playoff. They would not have Clincher After Utah went was the only undefended team in college football. Utah’s attorney general Mark Shurtleff is investigating the Bowl Championship Series for a possible violation of federal antitrust laws because Utah was left out of the championship in 2008 and in 2004.There are over 300,000 web sites about BCS reform. Bcsreform.org is leading the with spokesman Anthony Davis a two time college football national champion and congressman Gary Miller is trying to pass legislation to get playoffs in college football.
Mr. Popular Sean P. French COMM 215 August 19, 2011 Vikki Horton Mr. Popular Analyse of how American football became the most popular sport in the United States. With lying to grand juries and steroids football quickly took the top spot from baseball. Yes, there are steroids in American football, but American’s like for their gladiators to be violent. Since baseball is stuck in the past, never looking to the future. Always holding on to the past is the main reason why baseball was passed up by football in popularity.
Sara Gannon Professor Levy English 101 - WB 18 April 2014 History of America’s baseball team, the New York Yankees The New York Yankees are hands down the most successful baseball team to date. They are a great team by the factoring in winning 27 World Series games, and having undoubtedly the best players to ever play in the league and wear their famous pinstripe uniforms. From handling different ownerships through-out the years, and being the headline of the newspaper, they sure can manage everything that is thrown at them. The team has even had over 40 of their own players be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame (“Yankees Hall of Famers”). The baseball team that everybody all knows and loves today was first brought to life in