For this blog we are supposed to talk about what makes our argument timely. My argument is that sport officials need to be cracking down more on steroid use. I feel that steroid use is pretty wide spread. Lots of different athletes in different sports seem to be using them. Sports are such a big part of American culture and society today. There are numerous stations devoted to just sports 24 hours a day seven days a week. In the past few years, steroids have become a major topic in the sport world. With numerous athletes coming forward and confessing to using them and speculation over many others, this is a timely issue. With all the advances in medical technology, steroids are getting harder and harder to detect. This is not good news for the sports world. It’s easy to see why athletes turn to steroids to help. Take the NFL combine for example, which tests an athlete’s strength, agility and their skill, being a good quarterback or receiver isn’t enough. The players are expected to be strong, fast and agile too. All of these factors play into when a player gets drafted and by which team. Steroids could help to improve all of these factors. Steroids will continue to be a major issue in sports until something more is done to prevent their use. Until then athletes will continue to get bigger and the integrity of the game will continue to go down.
I think its pathetic that many different athletes depend on steroids to play a game well. In reality they are cheating themselves and the point of the sport.
ReplyDeletei think that every athlete should have to do a drug test a least once a month all year round to keep everyone on the same level
ReplyDeleteYeah I agree. If they had to take tests more often, it would be much harder for them to get away with using steroids.
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