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    My Writing Career Essay

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    and well-known athletes have been known to publish books in the past, most of them being children’s books. Mia Hamm, Kerry Wood, Shaun Alexander, Cal Ripken Jr., Carmelo Anthony, Chris Paul, George Foreman, Amar’e Stoudemire, Alex Morgan, Tiki Barber, R.A. Dickey, Alex Rodriguez, Dennis Rodman, Terrell Owens, and Metta World Peace are just some of the famous athletes that have published books. Most of the time these books are about these athletes’ stories and tell about how they got to the…

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    Performance enhancing drugs in sports present a very real problem. Recently, sports media covered the story of the University of Florida quarterback, Will Grier. He was suspended an entire calendar year from NCAA football for testing positive for performance enhancing drugs (Aschoff 1). Performance enhancing drugs are often a subject that is surrounded by questions that no one ever answers outside of the leagues in which these substances are banned (i.e. NCAA, NFL, NHL, MLB, NBA, etc). This…

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    political anabolic steroids. This drug has many good uses but it can also be used in bad ways by bad people but not all are bad some have just lost there way like the baseball star Alex Rodriguez. He was not the only one to be found with drugs in his system in fact over 104 people where found but only Mr Rodriguez confessed which helped him lose jail time. So now that you now one of the famous sports stars that have fallen thanks to this medical drug, it is time to talk Bout the good.…

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    Steroids and Performing-Enhancing Drugs Performance-enhancing drugs are used in sports to give the player an advantage over the other players. There have been many professional athletes that have been caught using performance-enhancing drugs. Many players are caught when a drug test is administered. Professional sports leagues have introduced a random drug test so athletes that do drugs cannot prepare for the test. Performance-enhancing drugs are banned in sports and if a player is caught using…

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    everything and Alex his friend is in. Couple hours later Jake calls Alex and Alex tells him “Hey I’m in a sticky situation ha-ha….Uh I got pulled over and they found something “mysterious” so they just brought me into the office ,I’m fine if you need anything just let me know I have access to their computers”. Jake says it’s ok and ask if he can get on one of the computers and look at the city’s cameras to see if he can find the kid. Alex doesn’t find anything, then Jake gives Alex the…

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    Have you ever witnessed your favorite player be escorted off the field, or thrown out of the game for a type of substance abuse? Did you ever feel ashamed or dispirited? Take Alex Rodriguez for example, or Lance Armstrong. Alex Rodriguez was found abusing an illegal substance after using steroids for three seasons of Major League Baseball, and Lance Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles. Both say they were just experimenting when things got out of hand. Furthermore, these are…

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    Baseball Narrative Essay

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    season, I wasn’t sure how much playing time I would get. It turned out that I would only play in the field when my brother, Alex, pitched. Luckily for me, that was usually every game in the 6th or the 7th…

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    season. There was also another case in 2013 when 13 major league baseball players got suspended from baseball from using performance enhancing drugs during the season. Some of the well known baseball players that have been caught are Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez, Sammy Sosa, Mark Maguire, and Jose Conseco. If the commissioners of professional sports don’t do something about…

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    44% of teens say that it is very or fairly easy for them to obtain steroids even though they don’t have a doctor’s prescription for them. There are many different ways people use/ abuse steroids, but not enough people are educated on this topic and don’t know any of the effects they have on the body. Young amature athletes are getting hurt from the lack of knowledge of steroids. Many factors go into why a teenager starts using steroids, and that’s from lack of education. Anabolic Steroids is…

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    Among those players he mentioned Messi, Suarez, Rodriguez, Chicharito, and not to forget Team USA. In the stadium, restaurant, pubs, and different public place you can see thousands of funs screaming, cheering their players. You can fill the drummer of delight music in the background, prominent white light…

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