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“The question became do you take drugs to try to win or do you content yourself with losing forever by staying away from them?” (Charlie Francis, Reputations: The Ben Johnson Story) In Sports, each athlete has one similar goal; to be the best. This is where the introduction of performance enhancers become an issue as it’s an easy shortcut to certain success, which makes them even more of a temptation. Doping is a drug intake of banned substance to improve their results. Would you take the risky…

The notorious seven time tour de France winner Lance Armstrong who doped throughout his seven wins in cycling’s most notable and prestigious event admitted that if he could start his cycling career over again he would still dope (reference 1). Possibly the biggest case of doping in not only the sport of cycling but world sport he had repeatedly said during his career that he did not take performance enhancing drugs but one of his most famous quotes that makes him look foolish now is “I have…

Crack! The sound of the baseball hitting the bat and the sound of fans cheering the Red Sox on Sunday Night Baseball are wonderful sounds at a ball game. The smell of Popcorn and Cracker Jacks fills the air of Fenway Park. This is all great at any baseball game, but it’s most enjoyed when you're with a person you love. This all happened when I went on a trip to Boston, Massachusetts with my dad for his birthday. This experience started in Spotsylvania,Virginia where we were giving my dad…

The writer of the paper I peer edited was Wilson Lee. The topic he was arguing over was bodybuilding and steroid use. He states that today people use steroids in bodybuilding today and it is ruining the sport, causing death, and giving the builders bad temptations He was against the use of steroids as it harms the human body and removes the competition of bodybuilding. He states that steroids have landed the bodybuilding profession into infamy due to steroids and drugs. The thesis statement is…

Christopher Hayes used examples such as baseball steroids, Hunter College, Enron, Countrywide, and so many more, to not only exemplify what they are doing/did do wrong, but how our entire country is becoming a criminogenic environment and that there may be no way to save it before we hit rock bottom. A specific example that Hayes talks about is when he discusses Major League Baseball (MLB) and steroids. Ever since I was a little girl, baseball was a big part of my family, so I could talk and…

“A minute of pain is worth a lifetime of glory,” - Louis Zamperini. Wise words to live by for a man. Louis was a United States Olympic distance runner and a United States prisoner of war survivor of World War II. Louis was born on January 26,1917 in Olean, New York. Louis had trouble with the law before his big track career. Once Louis cleaned up his act, he ran track for Torrance High School in California. In 1934, Zamperini set the national high school mile record with a time of 4:21.2, his…

made many Americans fear the worst for our nation. In the middle of all the hate, crime, and death were 16 major league baseball teams fighting for a championship, not caring what was going on in the rest of the country. While America seemed to be falling apart, baseball was on the rise, and having what most people would say its own golden age. The 1960’s was a time of prosperity for baseball. At the beginning of the decade…

playstyle. At the age of 15 Jackson received a bat from Charlie Ferguson to bring to minor league. Charlie Ferguson “used the northern side of a hickory tree to make the bat. It ended up measuring 36 inches and weighing 48 ounces. Darkened to black with tobacco juice”(Linder 2). Unlike most baseball players Jackson used the same bat throughout his entire baseball career from the minor league to the major leagues.…

is made up for real, sports leagues have started to take the punishments more serious for the sake of their brand. “Commissioners of these leagues are imposing harsher and more frequent…

Charles Drew Essay Charles Richard Drew was born on June 3rd, 1904 in Washington, D.C. a African American physician who found way to process and store blood plasma in “blood banks”. He controlled blood plasma programs for the United States and Great Britain in WWII, but he resigned after the ruling that blood of the African Americans would eventually be segregated Dr.Drew Died April 1st, 1950. Dr.Drew found some unusual discoveries when in storage and processing of blood for transfusions. He…