Steroid Use for College & Pro Athletes College and Professional Sports have been a major entertainment for people all over the globe. Baseball, football, hockey, basketball, golf, and soccer are a few examples of the greatest sports of this decade. These sports and more have the greatest athletes in the world involved and they get the opportunity to showcase their skills and talents each year. They only get the chance to do these things if they can pass a drug test that involves not taking steroids. Many years ago athletes were not forced to take any type of drug test thus causing many players to take steroids. Steroids made many athletes dramatically better causing more and more players to use them so they could keep up with the rest. …show more content…
Alex Rodriguez, Lance Armstrong, Marion Jones, and Ben Johnson are just a few of the many athletes who took a type of steroids during their record-breaking moments. Since steroid use is illegal to all athletes today, players talents and strength must be natural. This is in many ways a great law. Keeping everyone on the same playing field is very important considering these sports are these players income. In college sports the ruling on all of this varies. Yes of course steroids are still banned to these young athletes but how strict the universities take it varies dramatically. Most lower level NCAA programs like Division 3 and Division 2 tend to not test near as often or some seasons even at all. This comes to be a thing because frankly at this level no body cares. Now the skill level is obviously dramatically different from a non-testing Division 2 program and a testing Division 1 program so ultimately it does not matter. But still many times weather it is a the Division 1, 2, or 3 level you will find a strict testing team versus a not so strict testing team. Now there are rules to all this and a university can’t just not test their players if they don’t feel it is necessary. But the problem is the rules vary so widely that there are loopholes and other ways for coaches and players to get by these rules. This is much more challenging for a popular Division 1 school compared to a not so known Division 2 or Division 3 school. This is the case for
With steroids being available to all athletes, it is then abused by college athletes causing it to jeopardize their career. College athletes see in the news that a certain Major-League Baseball player has used steroids which then
Steroids are used for sports, or any sort of body building. Athletes use steroids because they believe it gives them a more competitive edge on other athletes. They do not fear the consequences of what could happen to their body. Athletes only think of the upside to what they are getting. Some examples of athletes that have used steroids are Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez, and Lance Armstrong, to name a few. Many people speculated Barry Bonds taking PED’s, but when he was tested ,there was nothing found. Then the idea of undetectable steroids came up. “When told that he has never failed a steroid test, as others have failed, they argue that some steroids are undetectable.”( Coleman,18). Steroids may have lifted Barry’s career, but there will always be a dent in his
Anabolic steroid use is illegal and banned by professional sports organizations and medical associations. In spite of this, some athletes continue to take steroids because they think it gives them a competitive advantage. As seen in the high-profile cases, if an athlete is caught using steroids, his or her career can be destroyed. And there are serious health consequences.
After doing research on the use of steroids and their effects I have came to the conclusion that steroids is only bad thing if it is abused. Just like any other drug. A lot of people don't know what to do with the good things in life. While all the negative effects of steroids are told to us we are ignoring how steroids can actually help us. Especially in Athletes. Many people believe that athletes that “juice” are cheating. In reality they are not cheating because they are doing just what they think will help them improve and make them the best at what they love to do. There is always room for im-provement and creating all those negative side effects such as irritable and dangerous behavior is right and okay for athletes to
The athletes taking steroids need to be castigated. Maybe they should even be ostracized from the sport they are competing in. Steroids need to be made an anathema in our world. They harm an athletes body, give them a huge upper hand over other athletes in there sport, and lead younger athletes to believe it is okay that they take steroids as well. I am a firm believer that all these reasons show that steroids should not be legal. Steroids need to be banned before it is to late and there is another heartbreaking story about a kid much like Taylor Hooton who made the mistake and fell into pressure. It could happen to anyone; We need to quit dithering before it is to late and ban steroids for
However the spotlight that steroids find themselves in are in professional sports, mainly Major League Baseball. Steroids have been an on-going issue with Major League Baseball. The MLB has been tainted in one way or another since the game began. However, now the game has been tainted with drugs that are giving some players an advantage over others. These players are also taking risks with drugs because they are constantly trying to attain a drug that does not get detected when they get drug tests. The MLB should outsource their drug testing policies to an independent organization like the World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) to ensure that there are no conflicts of interest between players and the MLB. In 1994-95, the MLB suffered a strike that resulted in the cancellation of the post season. Afterwards, fans were deterred from the sport. So in 1998,
Athletes using performance enhancing drugs has been a problem since the late 1990’s. For the athletes the use of steroids are cheap, easy to access, and effective; that is until now. Collegiate Student Athletes should be drug tested every season for illegal substances before they are allowed to play. There are many reasons why these athletes should be tested, such as the negative effect steroids have on their bodies, the drugs are illegal to use, and if caught using these drugs the athletes careers could be over.
Arguments that steroids should be banned from competition make valid points on health risks and how it gives unfair advantage. These athletes however are not gaining an unfair advantage. Steroids, like stated before, give an athlete increased muscle mass and boosts stamina during activity. It still takes a tremendous amount of skill to hit a ninety nine mile per hour fastball, catch a thirty yard pass while getting hit by a defender, or dunking a ball overtop of an opponent. Steroids do not boost skill and athleticism, it boosts fatigue rate and muscle mass.
The problem with today’s society is that steroids are everywhere and companies are finding ways around the steroid label by producing drugs that contain the same ingredients but are labeled differently. Professional athletes are also becoming big icons for people and many athletes are using steroids to enhance their performance. Athletes are supposed to be role models and by getting involved in these kinds of things people see it as an ok thing to do. Steroids are common everywhere, baseball and football players are constantly finding ways to take these drugs. Pro wrestling
The competition amongst professional and young athletes is all over the world and has been around for a very long time now. The desire of being a competitor is something that it is within everyone. In sports, everyone wants to be better than the next man. The competition in sports makes some people willing to do anything to be the best. Many athletes have taken the traits of being a competitor way too far and wants to raise their chance of winning and being the best. A large number of athletes use performance-enhancing drugs, such as steroids, to become the best they can be. Steroids should not be accepted in sports.
Steroids have been around the athletic programs for years and the most testing has come out to spot this type of cheating in order to make playing sports fair. Society has become very lazy over the years and building up hard work has been taking for granted and a lot of people these days spend more time trying to cheat than making the effort to stay steady at the gym and achieve perfection correctly. Effects on steroids come with the good and bad just like everything that is added to the body. When athlete’s get caught use these types of drugs there are some very heavy penalties that can cause an athlete the entire season and if a player misses a season in any sports that experience lost as well as a career tainted by a cheating scandal. “David Howman, the director general of the World Anti-Doping Agency, and Travis Tygart, the CEO of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, said they were confident of U.S. government cooperation, based on past experience, including the BALCO doping case (Patrick).” The BALCO scandal was one of the biggest bust in sports that brought down huge athletes names like Barry Bond, Alex Rodriguez, Roger Clemens and Adrian Beltre. These athletes are and were the best in the sport at their prime, which raised question did the steroids play a major part in their success. A lot of these athletes played the Major Baseball League and it has led this twentieth century of that sports to be called the steroid era. Steroids can make a person get extremely big or build
Professional sports are a competition between the greatest athletes in the world. And when I go to a game, that’s exactly what I expect to see. Sports are entertainment. There is no room for purity and respecting the limits that athletes had in the past. Modern athletes should utilize all the resources that they have available to them. This includes steroids, which enhance an athlete’s performance. After all, performance is what really matters.
Most people would sell their first born child for 300 million dollars so it's obvious that at those stakes athletes will use anabolics to be the best. What are some of the advantages of steroid use? Steroids can increase size, strength, speed, cardiovascular ability, and even help maintain or lose weight with the proper steroids. Some of the side effects of anabolic steroids range from the little things like balding which is genetically predetermined all the way up to liver damage if orals are taken instead of injectables. They can be extremely dangerous or your best friend if used properly. So let's ask the question why are steroids illegal? Most would say because they're dangerous and will kill you, but that couldn't be farther than the truth in 1990 when steroids were illegalized the FDA and the DEA both stated that steroids should not be legalized because there was no harmful side effects when taken properly with a doctor's supervision, but congress passed to illegalize it anyways on the precedence of one thing and only one thing. They stated steroids were cheating and gave an
process. My health teacher was not the greatest of teachers, but I found it easy because she taught us with visuals, which made it easier to
Doping-administer drugs to a racehorse, greyhound, or athlete in order to inhibit or enhance sporting performance.Charles Edwards Brown invented the first ever dose of steroids.Charles Edward used chemicals,and his own sperm.Scientists still question why and how he did it,Edward Charles at the time he was 70 and he said “it made me feel 50 years younger”.