Professional sports

Steroids have always been a negative influence in sports,but what if they didn’t have to be? Studies have shown that spectators enjoy watching athletes play at a higher level. Professional athletes should be allowed to use performance enhancing drugs because spectators are paying to see an athlete perform at their very best, the most entertaining and the most competitive. As a viewer you are paying to see an athlete perform at their respected sport, meaning they should be able to perform at…

For fun and diversion, sports has been my number one outlet. The game of football has been a passion of mine for as long as I can recall, and it shows how hard work can pay off. The countless hours in the film room, relentless practices, and preparing day and night to get the win is what makes football such a great time. I just recently finished my second semi-professional football season in Indiana, as a running back and cornerback. Although I am unsure whether I will play again, I feel that it…

2012 the Lance Armstrong doping scandal, and many more in every sport imaginable. These events are horrible for fans, as their beloved sport become ruined by the greed and evil nature of just a select few. It spoils the image of a league or organization and makes all the parties involved look bad. In all these cases, the suspects are eventually caught by the professional athletes and businessmen who have often been involved with the sport for years. Organizations like the NFL and NBA are so huge…

Technology is changing everything around us, including sports. With modern technology now, people can tackle it into our professional sports to make the games equitable. Instant replay is the most significant magnificence in our sports these days. It allows the officials and fans to look at the recent play and decide if the call was accurate. Not only that, but they can reduce that an incorrect call was made and the expansion is imposing. First, it allows the officials and fans to look at the…

The Wow World of Sports and Steroids. We cheer every touchdown, every homerun, and we cheer our loudest for our favorite athlete at every sports event, but there is a very dark side to their performance. Even though performance enhancing drugs allows our athletes to perform at their highest level, all kinds of performance-enhancing drugs should be banned in professional sports because it is giving our kids a reason to start using drugs. Plus performance enhancing drugs are harmful and…

“One of the most exciting sports stories in recent years was the attempt to break Roger Maris’ single-season home run record. On September 8, 1998, Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals made history by hitting his sixty-second home run,” writes William Dudley. He also notes, “However, many people believe that McGwire’s achievement was tarnished by a revelation some weeks earlier that he had been using androstenedione, a compound that temporarily boosts levels of the male sex hormone…

probability of an athlete even making it to the professional level is slim to none. According to the NCAA there is a 0.03% chance of a high school athlete going to the pros. There is a 1.2% chance of a college athlete going pro (NCAA 1). Around the U.S. over 30 million children compete in youth sports. This shows how unlikely it is to make it into the elite community of professional sports (Weisenberger 1). The probabilities vary between different sports, but they are all very low. There is a…

2016 Title IX and Women’s Sports According to Chanan Tigay 's article "Women and Sport," 41 percent of high school athletes across the nation are females. The number of women playing sports has increased by 10 times since 1972 for multiple reasons. But the main reason is Title IX. This educational amendment enforces gender equality in any educational program, sports, student housing and federal assistance. Title IX has greatly improved the equality of women 's sports and brought vast amounts of…

The ideal characteristics of a ‘perfect man’ constructed in sports advertising are weighted to support certain discourses of how men should be, or how they should aspire to be. In the NIKE Football television advert, we see how gender roles are played out within the context of a sports field. The way the characters are positioned within this space provides an example of the social rules related to the performance of gender that manage this space. Masculine power, both physical and social, is…

“The use of steroids should be tamed and deemed illegal. They should be removed from all professional sports with major punishments if rules are violated” (Wivel). So why do athletes use steroids? Many athletes use steroids, or PEDs (Performance Enhancing Drugs), to boost their performance on the field, but do they not worry about the repercussions later in life? Steroids cause great distress to your body, and may even cause premature death. They increase your chances of having a heart attack…