Salary discrimination in professional sports has become a primary area of research within sports economics especially as the American sports leagues have become more internationalized—hockey is no exception. Over the past decade, the National Hockey League (NHL) has internationalized by more heavily recruiting international players. In fact, in 2010, sportsnet.com reported that the International Ice Hockey Federation accused the NHL of “over-fishing foreign talent.” Although the majority of the research regarding salary discrimination in professional sports over the past several decades has been focused on the NFL, NBA and MLB, the few studies concerning the NHL suggest that there is a possibility of discrimination against French Canadians,…
Anabolic Steroids in professional sports has become a big issue in the last decade around the world. People who use steroids could have multiple side effects ranging from minor, severe or even fatal. In addition, using steroids without having a prescription for them is illegal and considered unsafe. The simple reason why performance enhancing drugs are unconstitutional in professional sports is because they give users an unfair advantage over the rest of the athletes. Believe me, I could juice…
Professional sports to middle school athletics you will find Thousands of reports of concussions. Sports are only small part of it. Many reports also come from bicycle accidents, car accidents, and falls. The increase of concussion reports have raised 15% annually, tons of research is being done to help prevent this injury from happening but the brain is a very hard thing to protect when it comes to hard contact. “CTE or Chronic traumatic encephalopathy is a very rare condition was…
Article Review 1 For the first article review of the semester I read Chris Smith’s “Why lt's Time To Legalize Steroids In Professional Sports”. Within this article Smith insists that using performance enhancing drugs, steroids, and doping should be made legal by sports leagues because many athletes have and are currently taking them so by making the use of these treatments lawful it will level out the playing field among athletes. Smith also says that “Not only would the playing field suddenly…
We often find ourselves watching professional sports on the television. Such as the Super Bowl for the NFL, or the World Series for MLB, but what if we removed those sports. I say that we completely abolish all professional sports in America. I’m sick and tired of all the entrails that they leave behind. Riots are started because of them. Fights break out and people get hurt. People are kicked out of stadiums for good. And for some reason people think that they need to streak across the field…
Steroids have brought more attention to professional sports, making athletes bigger and better leading those sports to be more exiting, bringing in more fans to sporting venues, while increasing revenue with ticket and jersey sales. What do the people want? Spectators want sports to be more competitive and exiting. So why are their unlawful limitations on players getting their body's into tip top shape however they can? There are unfair rules set down by the professional leagues, limiting…
The use of performance enhancing drugs in sports is continually growing due to the constant pressure to succeed in a competitive competition. Ben Johnson was the first athlete to be stripped of his gold medal because he tested positive for anabolic steroids. Athletes are tempted to use performance enhancing drugs even with the consequences of getting caught. Performance enhancing drugs do have negative effects on the body but if used under supervision it can significantly help the athlete.…
Professional sports are sports in which athletes receive a disbursement for their performance ("Definition of Professional Sports in English” 1). Professional sports originated in the United States during the mid-nineteenth century. According to the article “Beginning of Organized Sports in America,” this distinctive league was “formed on capitalistic ideas” and soon developed into a nationwide phenomenon. Sports play a substantial role in cultures across the globe. In America, the success of…
Numerous people who enter a sports complex are there for a couple of different reason. These reasons can include such aspects of the fan experience as the nostalgic feel of the stadium, for the enjoyment of the competition, or even take their children to their first ball game. One of the lower concerns of the fans that come to these games are the face-to-face interaction that they have with individuals who are serving them their food. In order to be able to watch the entire game, these…
I think it’s not cool to use PEDs in sports. Even though it has been shown that taking these drugs improves performance. I remember an old Gatorade commercial where it talks about how Gatorade originated with the Florida Gator football team. Toward the end the narrator says” those boys drank that stuff and they became a second-half team.” Gatorade helps with endurance but it’s not a drug. It replaces fluids and electrolytes during physical activity. It’s legal. It doesn’t make you bigger,…