The Pros and Cons of Steroids for Athletes Minhaj Ghayur Writing 102 Dr. Turner May 11, 2010 Abstract Steroids have become a hot topic in the media and sports these days. A lot of athletes are being caught using steroids and jeopardizing their careers. The media and other health related organizations are trying to provide people with a better knowledge of steroids and the risks of taking steroids. Almost everybody knows the benefits of taking steroids, but does not know the overall process that goes with taking steroids and living the life afterwards. This research studies the pros and cons of using steroids.
In the 1996-1997 season, NBA’s Michael Jordan was paid $33,450,000 for the year, or just over $1.06 per second, an outrageous amount of money for a player to play the game he loves to play. He was paid $178,000 a day whether he played or not. There is no doubt that professional athletes are talented, but when Kevin Garnett, who is not even a college graduate, makes over 16 million dollars a year, that becomes a problem. While that may seem outrageous, deliberations over pro athletes salaries are nothing new. 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?
Teacher’s job is based on a government contract where as a waiter you don’t have any contract. Teacher’s jobs are considered a profession whereas waiter’s jobs are not. If you think about professional job such as Business owners, Doctors, Authors, Dentists, etc. they all do not get tips but low- profile jobs such as a hotel maid, bartender, hair dresser, taxi driver, and table busser you get tipped. Tipping waiters in America or in any other countries remains more of a custom then a mandate.
Generally stating, sports is unfair and it always has been. Cheating in sports was started ever since sports began. Taking out athletes in the Hall of Fame strictly for cheating would be unjust. There are plenty of other cheaters in the Hall of Fame that go unpunished for what they have done, simply because sports in unwilling to punish them. The Hall of Fame is place to hold major records not minor ones, kicking out
The War on Drugs is causing more harm than good in our country. American citizens are putting their hard-earned tax money into this war every time they get a paycheck. We our supporting jails and prison, many, full of harmless drug addicts. We also spend tons on money on high tech machinery to find illegal drugs. We could actually save, and even make money if all drugs were legal.
The teams and the organization’s are not the only one’s affected by this. Merchandisers are also affected by the loss of interest in the fans, thus causing diminished sales of merchandise and apparel. The lost interest in fans plays a major role to sponsors of Major League Baseball due to the rapid decline of viewers during televised games. According to Will Van Wazer’s article, “National Pastime No More,” The MLB in the 1970’s and 80’s were the leaders in professional sports with national sponsors. In today’s game they now are second behind the NFL.
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
It has been not only a hobby for me; but a way of life. Steroids is a highly discussed and controversial issue that is often associated with body building; and I wanted to do an in-depth analysis to decide if the benefit would outweigh the risk- especially in regards to my own body. Anabolic steroids can be defined as synthetic hormones which boost the body’s ability to produce muscle as well as prevent muscle breakdown. Athletes therefore use them hoping to enhance their abilities. Research has shown that these steroids can harm kids who are developing.
But it also has many dangerous side effects. Anabolic steroids are made in many shapes, which can be consumed orally, injected or rubbed into the skin. Another article which involves “A Statement on steroids, but what does it say?” with the New York Times talks about how steroids mess up an athletes chance of being inducted into the hall of fame. Roger Clemens and Barry bonds were blocked at least for now in the hall of fame because of the steroids era. The public is so concerned with athletes because they have kids looking up to these guys.
If you run a business where your budget is $100,000, and you're paying someone $110,000, then you're overpaying them because you simply cannot afford it. However, if your budget is $100,000 and you pay someone $100,000, and then because of their success or drawing power your budget increases, you're no longer overpaying them as you can now afford it. That is quite often the case in professional sports; a team is in a seemingly unproductive market, signs a superstar athlete at a high price, and then they make money because of the financial pull of that athlete. Take the Minnesota Timberwolves for example; they had a poor market for basketball until they had Kevin Garnett for 10 years in the area of $15 million per year. During that time, the team made money, now they traded him away and the attendance drastically dropped, and the team is unsuccessful.