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    Performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) are known to be used widely throughout sports, and they have aided many famous players in their success. An example of this is at the time of the “steroid era” (1980s-2000s) in baseball, when well-known players like Mark McGwire, Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, and many others used PEDs to hit a crazy amount of home runs that broke records (“The Steroid Era”). Some players feel as if they need to use PEDs in order to earn a spot on the team because of how much an advantage

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    Sports players should be paid more than soldiers.Many random people can join the military but not everyone can be a professional sports player.Many soldiers can survive their injuries but sometimes sports players are hurt really worse than soldiers.Sometimes a soldier makes more and gets free stuff than a sports player in many different ways. Many people can join the military.The people in the military have easier jobs than a professional sports player.Finding a person who has skill on a certain

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    Injuries In Sports Essay

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    While professional sports have their benefits as multi-million dollar industry, professional athletes are under a considerable amount of stress, not only to their bodies but also their minds. As an elite and professional athlete, one of the most crucial and devastating things that can happen is sustaining serious injuries both on and off season, which are unfortunately and frequently an unavoidable aspect to sports. For professional athletes, playing the sport becomes their life. In the competitive

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    Rebuttal Article “Why it’s time to legalize steroids in professional sports” written by Chris Smith of Forbes Magazine argues that to level the playing field of professional sports it would be beneficial to legalize the use of performance enhancing drugs. Mr. Smith’s ideals that professional sports would be a fairer, more entertaining version of itself if performance enhancing drugs were legal, is an incredibly irresponsible and impudent declaration. Mr. Smith states “The primary reason why performance

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    Robinson from the Washington post once stated “Most fans watch sports…to see people unlike themselves perform extraordinary physical feats. The superhuman quality of professional athletes is precisely what Americans admire about them” (CITE) Drug testing was created to stop the use of performance enhancements as artificial stimulants for physical and mental enhancements. (CITE) Drugs which are used by athletes in all types of sports have many advantages and disadvantages. Therefore, laws were created

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    Steroids in Sports Essay

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    Professional sports are very special in the United States. One reason for this is the spirit of competition. However, steroid use taints this competition. If steroids were to be completely eliminated from sports, the competition would be much more special because athletes would compete with their hearts and will, without an extra boost. Also, since not everybody can be a professional athlete, the elimination of steroid use, in my opinion, would make the fans appreciate the game more and make them

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    A professional world known soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo is the highest paid athlete with earnings to be over 88 million dollars. Compared to the highest paid female soccer player earning roughly 2.8 million dollars. This is one of many massive wage gaps in the sporting. People debate the wage gaps of sports for males and females should be less as they have the same skills. People also believe that males sport competitors for some sports are getting paid way too much, “Their wages should be halved

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    Professional sports in America are all about winning championships, representing a city, and overpriced beer. Professional sports are glues that keep communities together and give us a sense of pride from where we’re from. Sports are magical and filled with underdog stories, the live action games never stop being entertaining. However, when you look beyond hype of the game, you can see that professional teams and athletes are being used to promote America.   Propaganda is a way of promoting an idea

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    movies focus on an examination of American values as seen through the lens of a professional sport, both on and off the field. Any Given Sunday and North Dallas Forty do indeed have many striking similarities. Furthermore, it seems that both movies try to give a detailed depiction on the corporate mentality of modern day professional football; while at the same time, still working to deliver a traditional, likeable sports flick. Though there is a large time gap between the two films, they have similar

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    decades, which has impacted the growth of professional athletes, all around the world. This paper will further shed emphasis on these issues and also how race and social class influence who becomes a professional athlete. How race and social class influence who becomes a professional athlete “Sports psychology offers a contribution to the search for reasons of abandon by combining development, the overall skills of the young men with the acquisition of those sports. The interest in seeking motivation

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