Mandatory Drug Tests for Athletes In 1986‚ Len Bias‚ a star basketball player at the University of the Maryland tried cocaine. Shortly after‚ Len Bias died from cardiac arrhythmia as a result of cocaine overdose (Peck 36) . Not only do drugs ruin the health of athletes‚ but the use of performance enhancing drugs also ruins the integrity of the sporting world. Therefore‚ there should be mandatory drug tests for all athletes. Performance enhancing drugs were first used in the 8th Century B.C. by
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Whether it be a Professional Athlete or a high school track runner‚ drugs are common within their members. The term drugs loosely correlates with three meanings: those that enhance performance (amphetamines‚ ephedrine‚ and cocaine)‚ beta-blockers used to slow heart rate and reduce tremor‚ and the ones used in bodybuilding (human growth hormones‚ anabolic-steroids‚ and diuretics). The use of drugs in athletics reaches far beyond the professional leagues‚ many high school athletes get into the use of the
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selling merchandise. Should NCAA pay their athletes? No‚ because they already get free things from their sponsors‚ they get paid by their education‚ last but not least it will trouble other non-generating revenue clubs. The first reason why athletes should not get paid is because they already get free things from their sponsors to their fans. “The NCAA athletes get paid with psychology classes‚ track suits‚ knee braces‚ and ice baths.” This proves that the athletes get free stuff some of it that they don’t
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National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) requires student athletes to maintain a 2.5 grade point average in at least nine academic credits to be eligible to compete in their respective sport (NCAA‚ 2011). A study conducted in 2004 found academic performance to be the leading cause of stress amongst university students (DeBerard‚ Spielmans‚ & Julka‚ 2004). According to Anderson and Williams’ (1988) stress injury model‚ athletes experience more physical injuries during periods of high stress
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athletics‚ it does not come to a surprise that so many student–athletes are giving in to drugs. Many schools that are faced with drug use are turning to mandatory drug tests for student-athletes; however mandatory drug tests are a violation of the Fourth Amendment‚ the Fifth Amendment and drug testing reverses the legal principle of innocent until proven guilty. In order to protect the rights of the American people‚ drug testing student-athletes without suspicion and without sufficient evidence should
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of “To an Athlete Dying Young” In his poem “To an Athlete Dying Young”‚ A.E. Housman makes a quite different approach on death. People have different perspectives on death‚ but more often than not‚ it is viewed as an undesirable event that people wish to avoid. The speaker in the poem‚ however‚ praises a young and famous athlete for dying before he became old and forgotten. This can be interpreted two very different ways. One can assume Housman believes that the only way for athletes to capture
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Readers‚ 2005. This book does a fenominal job in explaining life before Title IX‚ and what women had to go through in order to participate in their sport. It provides quotes from important women athletes such as Maria Pepe. After providing multiple stories women shared of their struggles as a female athlete the book talks about Title Ix‚ and what it provided for women. Also‚ the book talks about the threats to Title IX and then how women finally stood up for themselves. Finally‚ it ends with a timeline
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Women in American Sports: Why a Female Athlete Cannot be Just an Athlete Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 was passed into legislation with the original intent to help women in the workforce of higher education with equal pay and to suppress gender discrimination. Because of the social history of the time in which there were more instances of success for female athletes as well as several low state court cases for athletically talented girls in junior high‚ Title IX had been reformulated
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Though paying for other sports is a big setback to paying college football & basketball athletes another problem is posed when people bring up the beloved term "student-athletes." The kids that are heavily recruited are usually in bad situations and this is their way to get out of that but being a "student-athlete" or "amateur" bars them from any sort of economic advancement. Roughly twenty percent of the athletes graduate with degrees before their football careers are over‚ and all they are left with
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College sports has become a huge factor in sports. The problem is we don’t pay college athletes like we should. If you were to play college lacrosse you would make no money. Most college lacrosse games you bring more people then you would in a professional game. College lacrosse players should be paid because they bring a lot of sponsors and people pay to watch lacrosse games but where does all that money go? Most of the money just goes to the school. Why wouldn’t they pay the players
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