Johnson 1 Tim Johnson Professor Thomas English 101 October 9, 2014 Why pro athletes choose to use performance-enhancing drugs? Most people see pro athletes as superheroes. They have amazing athletic abilities that everyone enjoys watching and want to be around. Pro athletes are living out their dreams of getting paid millions of dollars to play a sport they have played since they were kids. Pro athletes are also viewed as winners because they perform at such a higher level than the average athlete.
When baseball’s Babe Ruth was reportedly asked about earning a larger salary than the United States President Herbert Hoover during the Great Depression in the 1930’s Ruth defended his salary in response, “Why not? I had a better year than (Herbert Hoover) did.” Ruth earned $785,900 for 14 years in the MLB which hardly compares to New York Yankees’ Alex Rodriguez who will make $33,000,000 in one year, not including endorsements. Even the best Olympic athletes don’t make as much as these American sports athletes, such as Usain Bolt, who won gold in every event he participated in, yet makes substantially less than any of the American Athletes. Also, another problem caused by these
Over the past decade the Ultimate Fighting Championship has grown to become one of the most popular programs on television It is slowly pushing the boxing world to extinction. Mixed Martial Arts is the most demanding sport out there. Its fighters are stronger, faster, healthier, and are in better shape than athletes from any other sports. There is so much to learn with this sport causing for a much larger attraction. MMA is the art of pugilism.
The players can have their life and baseball career uprooted by the use of steroids. Many of the greats in history have taken steroids when they didn’t even need to. Two of these players that come to mind are Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa, arguably two of the best hitters of all time. Both of them broke hitting records in their playing
He played multiple sports when he was young, and eventually realized that he excelled at sprinting even without lower legs and decided that he would focus on the sport. People started to take notice of this legless sprinter, and as Pistorius rose up the ranks, many wondered whether his metal racing leg replacements, or “blades,” were truly a benign replacement for legs, or an advantage that was helping this inspiring athlete to outclass his competition. On one side of this ethical dilemma, the blades were considered an advantage for Oscar because there is no truly objective way to know whether they were helping him to win his races. The blades do not fatigue as human legs would during the course of a grueling and intense 100 or 200 meter sprint. Until he was evaluated scientifically, there was no way to compare the blades to how a human leg would perform in terms of pushing force and the interaction that the blades would have with the ground compared to the combination of a sprinters shoe, foot, and leg
Rugby is a perfect sport to build nationalism. It is played worldwide and in the movie Invictus they were playing for the most elusive title of World Cup champions. Competing against other nations brings the whole country together even when they are going through hard times domestically. An example of this is the Olympics, no mater how someone feels about their country at the time of the Olympics they still want their country to be the best. Also the country that wins the most medals is always thought of as a world power even though they are only playing sports.
But the best of them I would say is the college level or National College Athletics Association (NCAA) league; it's the meat and potatoes of it all. College football is where it started, not high school or the NFL. Even so, some folks may ask, is college football really necessary? Is the physical and possible mental damage really worth it just for some fun? The possible injuries that a College player could be induced with are astronomical every time he steps on the field.
However, this has threatened the true meaning of the game. It has given rise to scandals involving players and media portraying being a good athlete will get you by with anything. While some people take the position that commercialization corrupts sports I believe there are probably more positives than negatives regarding commercialization in sports, but the negatives that are present are still worth talking about. Ultimately the biggest downfall of commercialization in sports is the craziness of all the advertising that goes on through sports. For example, the Super bowl, companies pay millions of dollars to get their perfected thirty-second commercial on the screen of the millions watching and the next day the majority conversations are not even about the game but about which commercial was the best some people even admitting the commercials are the only reason they
Steroids in Professional Sports Anabolic-Androgenic steroids are a synthetic steroid hormone that resembles testosterone in promoting the growth of muscle, which increases strength to help in an athlete’s sport. Attempts to increase testosterone go all the way back to the original Olympic Games. Steroids did not receive a great amount of attention until the 20th century. Since then, steroids have been prevalent in most all sports. Anabolic-Androgenic steroids have been found being used in the Olympics, FIFA, National Football League, National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball and some types of wrestling.
Compare and Contrast of Football and Basketball Name ENG121 Instructor October 31, 2011 When I was in High School I participated in many activities including sports. I played two of the most popular sports in America when I was in High School, football and basketball. Now I am at the age it is easier for me to watch these sports on TV than to participate in them. I like watching both sports with the same vigor, but they do have their differences. I will contrast the physicality, the equipment, the season, and the space, required to play professional sports of American football and basketball.