Professional sports

Steroids in Professional Sports With everything going on in today's sporting industry athletes will do absolutely anything to get an edge over their competition. The crowds want to see the biggest hits, the craziest catches, the fastest runs ever seen before. The athletes are using crazy alternatives and loopholes around the WADAs drug testing policies, some of which can be very dangerous in the long run to their health. This article was written in order to show the masses of people a better and

for a very long time it was my dream to one day attend college and play for a university, a sport of my choice, where one day I would make it to the pros and I would play a sport, not only for fun, but as a career. This dream of mine is often shared by many young boys/girls or even young men/women alike, the dream of playing a game for a living. We soon find out that the quickest way to professional sports is through college, where you can get an education, hone your craft with top of the line coaches

many, but when athletic performance equates to the high salaries and lucrative endorsements reaped by today’s professional athletes, any additional help to gain an edge is certainly a powerful motivator. For the non-professional athlete, other less tangible forces; such as vanity, competitiveness, or praise may drive people to seek these enhancers. According to a poll in just one sport; one in ten former NFL players admitted to using steroids (Reinberg,

Professional sports are meant to provide for audiences a means of entertainment, but lately, they have been serving several other purposes. One distinctive purpose being existing as the central hub for sports betting. What individuals fail to realize is that sports betting comes along with its negative costs. These costs often cause many to end up in prison, have productivity problems, and have financial problems. Gambling is a severe problem in professional sports today. The first reason gambling

allowed in professional sports has been going on for years, decades even. Many believe that using steroids and other performance enhancers should automatically disqualify an athlete from ever being able to be a member of the Hall of Fame, in sports in general, not just in Major League Baseball. However, there is an argument to be made to make the use of performance enhancing drugs legal in all of professional sports.  Performance enhancing drugs should remain illegal in professional sports because they

Drug Use In Sports Ninety-eight percent of professional athletes say that they would take performance enhancing drugs if they didn’t have a chance of getting caught. Performance enhancing drugs, or PEDs, or steroids, have been around since 776 BC when the Greeks would use them to improve their performance in the Olympic Games. During World War II, the Germans, including Hitler, would take steroids to make themselves stronger and more aggressive. The Americans, British, and Japanese also began to

substances such as PEDs should be illegal in professional sports because using performance enhancing is not only extremely hazardous for human body but also against the laws of sport. In addition, athletes are punished if they apply prohibited drugs to their bodies. Moreover, they may lose their medals after the competition, if their samples are positive. For example, Ben Johnson, who is the Canadian sprinter, was the biggest drug cheater in the history (“Doping in Sport”, 2015). After the 1988 Olympic Games

loves the popular professional sports like baseball and football, so why should people not be able to see what lacrosse players can do? Young kids in the world can be encouraged like other kids in other sports to play. People in the world might have more athletes to look up to. Players who want to play lacrosse all of their life will have a chance at getting into the professional’s and they can see how good they have become. Clearly, lacrosse should become a professional sport. Young kids will

in the public eye. Sports leagues like the NFL, MLB, NHL, and NBA should impose stricter penalties to deal with egregious conduct of professional athletes. The inappropriate behavior from athletes reflects poorly on the leagues and teams. The leagues should have standard protocol that comprises the diverse forms of unacceptable actions that currently plague their leagues. It is problematic to suspend the athletes who dedicate their lives to competing professionally in a sport that requires sacrifices

After earning a sport management degree, a majority of college graduates want to go into the field of professional sports. The reasons for this are usually because students believe that jobs in professional sports are glamorous and pay extremely well. However, it is very difficult to get into with the high amount of college students trying to get into professional sports. The professional sport industry is responsible for creating sporting events in which athletes compete for compensation (Masteralexis