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is over, but the fact of the matter is steroid use is still very common in today’s professional sports. In Forbes magazine, Josh Smith states that performance enhancing drugs and treatments have become the biggest scourge of professional sports leagues(Smith). Each year multiple people are banned from their respective sports for use of performance enhancing drugs or PEDs. PEDs includes anabolic steroids, androstenedione, human growth hormones, erythropoietin, diuretics, and stimulants.…

sports. Professional athletes should not use performance enhancing drugs because of all the hard work they have put in to make it to the pros. According to Cheating is Cheating: A look at Steroid use in Pro Sports, “Some say that it's best for the league as it adds to the entertainment of the sport. Who doesn't want…

within one game of winning the 2016 World Series, left his mark on Major League Baseball when he led the Boston Red Sox to the championship in 2004, in his first season as manager. The Red Sox broke an 86-year drought and the curse of Babe Ruth, with an improbable comeback in the American League Championship Series. The team rallied from a 3-0 deficit in the best-of-seven series with their hated rival, the New York Yankees. Baseball purist are people that love everything about the game but are…

In sports there are many kinds of events going on. It may be something exciting or bad that has happened in the world of sports that everyone tends to look into. With the Super Bowl, NBA playoffs, and other sporting events coming in soon we will be seeing a whole lot of changes or adjustments that the fans may or may not be too happy about. Either there team is losing or winning. Well a big topic that has come up is the firing of Cavs Head Coach David Blatt. Just about two days ago we received…

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Steroids: In or Out of the Hall of Fame? Nowadays, usage of steroids in professional sports has become more common and causes more and more controversy. Zev Chafets, in his article, “Let Steroids into the Hall of Fame” goes against the modern baseball regulations and states that the players who use steroids should also be included in the group of most successful athletes in the USA. Chafets uses convincing arguments with solid examples to support his claim. His opinions on the idea that athletes…

Ever heard of the movie A League of Their Own? I personally have never seen or heard of the movie until I had to watch it for class. The movie A League of Their Own is a film that tells us about the recounted account of the real-life All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). The movie talks about how the girls were view as entertainments, then eventually as athletes. The movie also talks about why the AAGPBL is not around anymore. I find it degrading to women that the “girls…

When Bill Robinson was only 7 years old his grandmother raised him after the death of his parents. At age 5 years old Robinson began tap dancing for a living. He would soon drop out of school to pursue a career in the Art of Dance. In 1886, he joined the Mayme Remington’s troupe in Washington, D.C, and toured with them. In 1891, at the age of 12 years old Robinson joined a traveling company in the South before the War. in 1905 he worked with George Cooper as a vaudeville team, which…

move to the back of the bus when ordered to by the driver”. After the war, in 1946, manager and president Branch Rickey of the Brooklyn Dodgers signed Jackie Robinson to the team and assigned him to play on the Dodgers top minor league team in Canada. He led the minor league team to the pennant and the championship (bio.com). It was during this time that Jackie Robinson proved he was a brave man and a good Christian. The Dodger President, Mr. Rickey, was a Christian and he wanted make sure…

shame and everyone looks down at them after that. Steroids has been a problem since sports ever since athletes first heard about it effects. Every league from the NFL to the NBA is so competitive these days that it is astounding. Any player that’s starts or is on the bench really have some talent in the sport that there in. Playing in any professional league in the US for any sport basically means you could be a starter at any time. It isn’t easy either making a team because it takes years or…