McGwire also admitted of taking PED’s and steroids after years of lying about not taking any during his playing career. Recently Commissioner Selig and the MLB got a hold of the Biogenesis reports and found 12 players that was using PED’s and other ban substances that the MLB Drug Testing policy have listed. Rodriguez’s named popped up in the reports and Selig banned Rodriguez for 211 games for violating Basic Agreement and baseball Drug Program. A-Rod appealed but the ban was reduced to 162 games of the 2014 season and any potential post-season games the Yankees would play if they advance. In all, A-Rod’s career is so controversial due to his name being connected to the PED’s and
In fact, Fehr and the Players Union are also opposed to testing for illegal drugs as they feel that it violates the privacy of the athletes (Leshanski 2). If the union refuses to change its stance and become more receptive to drug testing it is possible that Congress will decide to institute drug testing legislation which undoubtedly would result in years of court battles. As it stands right now Major League Baseball is the only one of the major sports that does not have mandatory drug testing – they even do drug testing in the minor leagues! It is because the minor league players are not eligible for membership in the MLBPA at this point in their careers they cannot be “protected” or shielded by a union that doesn’t give a damn about its members’ health (Verducci 8). In addition to not having a mandatory drug testing policy, presently baseball is the only major sport that does not test for recreational drugs (Verducci 4).
3/5/09 Persuasive Dear Superintendent Let’s face it, All professional sports today have been tangled up with steroids at least once. But baseball is being affected the most. It seems that all the players are using steroids to get ahead. Steroids have even reached minor league players and even college students. So who’s to say high school students aren’t using it?
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
Shortly after, High Schools across the country followed that lead as well. The highest level of the sport, the MLB, never went down that path simply because they wanted raw and professional talent to be exhibited though the game to the country. Over the past few decades, it was evident that offensive statistics skyrocketed and defensive statistics plummeted. Once that became clear to the baseball community, they took action and put limitations on the bats, and further along eventually banned composite bats as well. Nowadays, the NCAA needs to abide by very strict limitations of what type of bats they can use.
Professional baseball players convicted of using performance-enhancing drugs should not be considered for induction into the Hall of Fame. I strangely agree that professional baseball players should be tested every now and then before they can be induction into the Hall of Fame. People that think I am wrong do not see that it is hurting the other players around them that are not using the performance-enhancing drugs. If playing unfair is the game than no one is winning. Players that are using are cheating themselves and teammates.
[4] The use of performance enhancing drugs has also been found in other levels of football, including play at college level, and even high school play. [5] The most recent figures from the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) football drug tests show that one percent of all NCAA football players failed drug tests taken at bowl games, and three percent have admitted to using steroids overall. [5] In the NCAA, players are subject to random testing with 48 hours notice, and are also randomly tested throughout the annual bowl games. [5] The NCAA will usually take approximately 20 percent of the players on a football team to test on a specific day. [5] Anabolic steroids and other performance enhancing drugs are also used throughout high school football.
Imagine what life would be like without America’s pastime. Itd be like no fireworks on the forth of July or life without your favorite hobby. That’s exactly what happened in 1994 when Major League Baseball’s (MLB) owners and players failed to reach an agreement on a dispute over a salary cap and revenue sharing which resulted in a player strike. The resulting work stoppage lasted for 232 days, August 12, 1994 until March 31, 1995, and more importantly resulted in the cancellation of the 1994 World Series, the first time in 90 years that Americans weren’t able to watch the World Series, Major League Baseball’s annual championship games. I have been around baseball for literally as long as I have been alive.
Lance had tested positive to using performance enhancing substances which banned him from cycling for life by the Union Cycliste Internationale and the USADA. “Hard work, sacrifice and focus will never show up in tests,” Lance fought this conflict with himself and everyone else for over 10 years with no result. He was pleaded guilty of using the enhancing drugs and he did win the Tour de France titles because of them. The large sum of evidence stacked up against Lance forced him to give up and not show resilience to conflict when faced. Armstrong had later stepped down as the head of his own foundation, ‘Livestrong Foundation’, which provided more evidence proving that Lance did not react in a surprising way towards conflict.
Marijuana in California’s Future With the passing of Proposition 215, Californians started using Marijuana legally for medicinal purposes in 1996. Others have used Marijuana for years for recreational purposes, purchasing marijuana on the black market. Californians have always viewed marijuana more favorably than other states, the citizens of the golden state failed to legalize Marijuana in 2010 with Proposition 19. Nearly two years later, the State of California is still in shambles. Schools are closing, seniors and the disabled have all seen their benefits slashed, public servants are being laid off and our prisons are over flowing.