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Babe Ruth Score Points
523 wordsA meritocracy is an environment in which individuals are rewarded for their ability to produce. An example of a meritocracy is the sports world at large. In the sports world, athletes are chosen based on their raw talent and ability to score points and win games. Nothing else is taken into account before each player signs a multi million dollar contract. Things like, being a college drop out, having a criminal record and being a poor role model is overlooked if the athletes can score points for ...
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Nfl Players Sports World
1,149 wordsIn today's sports world Athletes are valuable commodities. Athlete salaries are routinely measured in terms of millions of dollars. Major league baseball teams and NFL football teams spend billions of dollars for medical care, training facilities, experts and physicians all to keep the team's athletes performing at their very best. Though teams spend incredible amounts of money on signing players and keeping players, some professional sports franchises still play in stadiums with Astroturf or so...
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Elite Of The Sports World Elite Of The Sports Steroids
270 wordsWhen Anabolic steroids were first developed they were thought by doctors to be the miracle drug with the ability to build new body tissue made them superb medication for patients. The 1 st widespread application came at the end of world war ll, when they used them to help rebuild broken bodies of people who survey the concentration camps. Then doctors let news out and despite all of the fighting indications that had been said, a number of athletes turned to the anabolic strong (or the easy short...
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Performance Enhancing Drugs In Sports
1,460 wordsIntroduction Performance enhancing drugs in sports has become a controversial topic in todays professional sports world, as pros and cons are discussed in the media and among professional organizations. Todays athletes continue to push the boundaries of excellence in performance and physical fitness. Helping these athletes are more refined training methods and technologies. Never have athletes had more training aids at their disposal. The down side is that never before have athletes had more opp...
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The Baseball Sport Was Born In American Soil
491 wordsThe baseball sport was born in American soil in the 1800 s as a new activity for sporting fraternities and a new way for communities to develop a more defined identity. The details of its birth belong to myth, but its development into the "national pastime" tells an elaborate story about American cultural history and values from the perspective of a sport that grew and developed in a parallel fashion to the rest of the nation. By the 1860 s, the sport, unrivaled in popularity, was being describe...
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Central Nervous System Enhancing Drugs
1,582 wordsDrugs in Football: Making an Appropriate Decision Breaking the rules in football, because of drug use, is causing physical and mental damage to athletes and those who associate with them. It is also setting a bad example for the youth of America. There is just too many available drugs for football players today. For football players, drugs are easy to obtain. Too easy to obtain. Bill Gilbert, a Sports Illustrated writer, said, they do not have to stand around in waiting rooms, at pharmacy counte...
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