Australia's Cheating Scam Research Paper

Baseball has always been considered as American as apple pie. If that is true than cheating should be just as American. Ever since the creation of America’s favorite pastime, baseball, cheating has been a major part of the game. Each era of baseball has showed more complex ways of cheating the game. Although, cheating in baseball has been around since the introduction of the game, only few scandals have really made history. Some of the most famous scandals include the Black Sox Scandal, the gambling of Pete Rose, and the use of steroids by players to enhance their performance. Despite these corruptions the game has still managed to stay America’s most loved sport.

Manufacturing defects, In the moment of manufacturing it was bad assembled or the material used to build or make the ball had any defect or was broken. Only a few out of many products of the same type are flawed in this case.

Gambling has an adverse impact on the individual athlete's or coach's integrity. Reputation diminishes, and the athlete becomes better known for participation in gambling activities than for athletic feats and career accomplishments. Gambling scandals can ruin careers, and permanently mar the individual's ability to participate in the sport again. As Finley, Finley & Fountain (n.d.). point out, gambling also has the potential to ruin the integrity of the entire team, league, or whole sport. "Ensuring an honest and uncorrupted game has been one of the biggest challenges facing sport," (Finley, Finley & Fountain, n.d., p. 41). Baseball in particular has been plagued by gambling scandals. However, other professional sports have also revealed the prevalence of widespread corruption. Finley, Finley & Fountain (n.d.) also note that gambling on college sports has been a problem since the CCNY point-shaving scandal of the 1950s. Point shaving proved lucrative enough for high-profile black market gambling syndicates to flourish. Although most players, coaches, and teams are not corrupt, the few that are have sullied the image of all sports.

It was eventually destroyed. It was done so by boiling down the ball and serving in sauce. The ball itself was not in the sauce, but the steam from its destruction rose into the sauce. From a property perspective, the right of the owner to destroy what is “cultural” property has come to question (Strahilevitz, 2005). Did that person have the right to desecrate what was acknowledged as an object with historic significance? Ironically, the ball parallels Bartman’s struggle. He is no guiltier than the ball, yet throughout the years he has been boiled and destroyed, for the satisfaction of Cubs fans.

In the year 1919 a huge sports scandal shocked baseball. The Black Sox Scandal occurred in the 1919 World Series where the White Sox played against the Reds. This Scandal is the reason why professional sports banned gambling on your own team and players can’t bet on themselves.The Scandal was about two gamblers approaching the White Sox and telling the players who at the time were making a very low amount of money due to the great depression; who offered them White Sox players a total of 100,000 dollars to throw the World Series to the Reds because they were heavily favored. This would be a huge payout to gamblers. Before the first pitch was even thrown in the World Series the rumors circled around that the White Sox were bribed, and several months after the World Series was thrown in the favor of the Reds, eight players on the team were accused of throwing the World Series. Those eight players were banned from the major league for life.

cheating has always been around and in baseball Steroids are a Performance Enhancing Drug or PED for short that help with strength or players have also been known to use Human Growth Hormone or HGH, “Wonder if steroids helped Roger Clemens to lead the Houston Astros and New York Yankees to the World Series?” (Bilson) Ty Cobb sharpened spikes, and bet on baseball and he's still in the HOF, or how Mike Scott doctored baseballs with an emery board, or Alberte Belle, Sammy Sossa with Corked bats a corked bat is a bat that does not have the wood filling super balls can be put in there in place for it many different things can be used in place of that. Also how can anyone forget Barry Bonds with steroids how much did that help bonds break the All-Time home run record? How about Triss Speaker and the scandal of him fixing games , Gaylord Perry doctored baseball with various substances to throw off hitters. Other players other than Bonds have admitted to Steroid use Paul Molitor Class of 2004 and Wade Boggs Class of 2005 both admitted to steroid use, Boggs later admitted to being a sex addict on the Barbra Walters show. Mike Piazza alleged steroid scandal his back acne grew significantly and his substantial amount of hair growth on his back. Cheaters never win has been said through out the history of the world. I fully believe that is the honest

The Baseball World Series of 1919 involved the Chicago White Sox and the Cincinnati Reds (Linder, 2010). The Series was an exciting exchange that boiled down to the last game, which was taken by the victorious Cincinnati Reds (Linder, 2010). However, a year later, news broke that the game was rigged by the Chicago White Sox (Linder, 2010). They threw the game in order to receive a large payout, which was never given (Linder, 2010). The eight players involved disgraced the sport and the American public (Linder, 2010). In today’s world of sports, scandals continue to happen. A recent example is the doping scandal of the United States Postal Service Pro Cycling Team and, their captain, Lance Armstrong. While the US Postal Service team’s doping does not seem to be connected to the White Sox’s gambling problem, they share many similarities.

The players' union donated $200,000 to anti-drug, educational and research charities as well to help stop the use of performance enhancing drugs. The league decided not to discipline players implicated by George Mitchell's investigation due to the provisions provided by the players' union. The league also agreed to keep all players' names private until discipline was given and tell players if they were being accused and if there was evidence against them before a full investigation. The new Carbon Isotope Mass Spectrometry test could detect steroids that had been used up to two weeks before hand instead of only 24 hours earlier. The League also wanted players to take both a blood and urine test.

Baseball has always been known as “America’s Favorite Pastime”. Over the past decade, the game America knows and loves has been exposed as a game full of cheaters. Major League Baseball(MLB) has had over one hundred players test positive for performance-enhancing substances over the past fifteen years. Performance-enhancing substances increase a player’s ability to produce better stats to help his salary. The past fifteen years of baseball have contained dirty play by some of the best players to ever play the sport. Kids all over America look at these athletes as role models. The money hungry players proceed to send a terrible message to fans of the game by taking drugs to succeed. After commissioner Bud Selig cracked down

Let’s say you’re about to start a football game and while passing the opposing football team earlier you happened to hear their game plan so, now would you take advantage of knowing their game plan or just pretend you didn’t hear anything? If you would take advantage of that knowledge then why wouldn’t you take performance enhancing drugs too they are both cheating. So when it really boils down to it we are a society of cheaters. As a nation, we worship one thing even more than God and country. We revere winners and turn a blind eye to those who are winning. Our society is so focused on results that we are training our children to become results machines and that we should use any means necessary to achieve the highest results even if those results are created by cheating. No matter the sport there is someone cheating and no sport is truly innocent. The problem with baseball now is that it has given up on hiding the fact that cheating is happening and has started to become an accepted factor in the beloved

This in turn can form a negative effect on youth. The younger population all around the world look up to these athletes as role models and admire their 'natural talent". If you and I think that by breaking the rules it will be okay and there will be no consequences this can create a negative stigma in sport that you, I and everyone love. This attitude can then be taken further then just their sporting teams, whether it is in their personal and/or professional lives. Without a doubt prohibiting steroids would not only allow everyone to have an equal shot at the prize but also to set an honourable example to Australia's young and aspiring

Imagine the year is 1998, and baseball player Mark McGwire is stronger and more aggressive than ever. The fans are in shock because the crowd is familiar with baseball games being on the dull side, but this baseball game has the fans at the edge of the seat. Now imagine every Oakland Athletics game having this powerful energy, home run after home run, fast running, and the loud crowd cheering for the home team. The score is tied and the baseball game is in the last inning. The crowd begins to scream and sweat nervously, with only a few seconds left. The players are running all over the court as fast as ever before, and the sound of the ball being hit against the bat is so loud the crowd can hear the sound from the nosebleeds. McGwire swings and hits a homerun and the Oakland Athletics win. But come to find out Mark McGwire, who hit the winning homerun had Performance-Enhancing Drugs in his system. The other team is infuriated when knowing the truth behind all of the fast balls and home runs which were hit, and knowing the team was cheated and had a chance to win. The Oakland Athletics were ashamed to hear the news from the fellow team mate. Unfortunately due to the professional athlete’s well performance, McGwire influenced other baseball players to begin using the drug.

Chasing the ball down the field to soon hear a loud crack followed by silence.

In conclusion, the scandal was one that affect the country because baseball was the sport that united people and to see the sport be tarnished for the sake of money was one thing that they could not accept. The public and the sport officials became aware that there needs to be changes that will allow the sport to remain pure and that completion is not manipulate by others that should have no say in the matter. A governing body was established demonstrating that there is no tolerance for gamblers to fix games, but also to show the public that it is not something they the official will tolerate and that there will be consequences for action that go against the rules. The commissioner was someone that was out to restore the name of baseball by

The Australian Cricket Team have been bombarded with hate and disgust after the underarm ball at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) yesterday the 1st of February. It was the captain Greg Chappells idea to get his brother Trevor Chapell to bowl add an adjective along the pitch to secure the win against New Zealand who needed 6 off the last ball to tie in the Benson and Hedges World Cup series.