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
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.
A torn elbow ligament once was a pitcher's sentence to the broadcast booth or the monthly autograph show at the local Holiday Inn. Tommy John surgery, technically an ulnar collateral ligament replacement procedure, has saved the careers of hundreds of Major League players. It may one day make the Hall of Fame case for its inventor, surgeon Frank Jobe. Thirty years after Jobe invented this surgery, baseball players are still using it. The elbow is a hinge joint, moving in only one dimension which is flexing or extending.
Mizuno Athletic Footwear of 1986 Mizuno Footwear has a rich history, two brothers in Japan who began the company in 1906 first named the company Mizuno Brothers Ltd. Its first sales of order made athletic wear began in 1907. This is very appealing to children, teens and young adults who play competitive sports. By featuring two professional athletes, this ad captures the attention of those who want to become a pro athlete. Yes, this ad motivates me to purchase a pair of Mizuno baseball cleats. You got the two fastest athletes in baseball on the cover of this ad and they are wearing a pair of Mizuno’s baseball cleats which are very attractive and come in team colors.
Because of the high profile of sports personalities a generation is being molded by their behaviors both positively and negatively. Marriage and divorce in the sports industry – winning or losing? The life of a professional athlete is a dream for many little boys and now girls out there who think of how to spend the millions they will make, the type of expensive car they drive, how big their house will be and of course the perfect mate of their dreams who worships the ground they will walk upon . The typical athlete enters the professional ranks at 20-years-old, and the above items are purchased to full fill those initial material desires, that only leave the matter of the heart to attend to like a hitch in a jump shot. Finding themselves rich, young and desirable– all certainly attributes that lends itself to tugging on a mate’s heartstrings, it’s only natural that wedding bells are the next progression just as that rookie contract is
San Francisco Giants outfielder Barry Bonds finished the 2001 MLB season with 73 home runs, shattering Mark McGuire’s record (Porterfield, 6). Barry Bonds had a rare combination of speed and power, making him to be considered one of the best players in baseball at the time. In 2001, Bonds had developed a more masculine physique, which he attributed to hours of hard work spent in the gym (Porterfield, 7). After that season, Bonds started to get accused of using steroids, but Bonds denied that he was using any type of performance-enhancing drug (Porterfield, 8). Since this scandal, there have been many changes to the drug testing policies in the MLB.
Professional Athletes as Role Models In recent years, professional athletes have been held up as role models to young children more so than in the past, due to the instant availability of information. With the advent of cell phones, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc., any professional sports figure who is already in the spotlight due to their outstanding athletic ability, suddenly becomes singled out for any mistake no matter how big or small. Professional athletes have always had separate lives on and off the field; it’s just that in the past, their private lives were more private. In the past, many professional athletes had bad reputations off the field for being drinkers, gamblers, or for cheating on their wives. It just wasn’t as talked about then as it is now because very few people actually witnessed the bad behavior.
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
For example, “jocks”, I believe they get treated differently in high school than from in college. I’m high school they are the all-star athletes who play football, baseball, soccer, etc. Many students’ who are not considered to be jocks will talk about them and how they perceive themselves to be better than everyone else. Also many people think that “jocks” are hot, muscular, tan guys who devote their self to their sport. People believe the quarterback is dating the captain of the cheerleading squad and they are rich, stuck up, students and many students’ want to be them because of their looks and social status.
Many teens use steroids in sports to improve so they can go to college with a scholarship and then play professionally. In 2006 there was 2.7% of boys used steroids and there were 0.07% of girls using steroids. Steroids have many side effects the most common one is the inhibition of natural hormones. This means that the body needs to stay in homeostasis in order to function correctly, so the body tells the testicles to