Sports Persuasive Speech

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When you walk into a football game what do you see? A huge stadium, wild fans, and the players. What do you think the players do outside of sports? What about doping? The US Olympic committee banned 192 drug enhancements. Drug enhancements make the athlete faster, stronger, and have more stamina. After they so called, “win”, they go home and what do you think happens? Risk of cardiovascular disease, liver disease, and high blood pressure. My cousin used them for a while and he had a heart attack. He almost died, so although drug enhancements can make an athlete faster, in sports they should be illegal. This is because it causes health problems and ruins the game for others. Personally, I think these drug enhancements should be banned. So, consider this; the player takes the drugs, hits a couple home runs and does good. Then he goes home and his voice changes, he gets stretch marks, he has yellow eyes, acne, high cholesterol, the risk of cancer, and the list goes on even longer! So you win and then have a chance of getting cancer and die. The warrant for drug enhancements is no, not for the other …show more content…

According to a 2015 article by Mars' Hill, Trinity Western University, Canada, ¨On August 7, 2007, at 8:51 PM in San Francisco, Barry Bonds of the Giants was at the plate. It was the bottom of the fifth with a 3-2 count. Mike Bacsik of the Washington Nationals delivered one more pitch when Bonds absolutely crushed the ball 435-feet to center-right for a home run. This famous--or infamous--home run was Bonds' 756th, breaking Hank Aaron's record of most Major League home runs by any player who has ever lived.¨ This part of the information is from, Cheating Is Cheating: A Look at Steroid Use in Pro Sports. This was a cause of his alleged use of steroids. He cheated and this record was taken off the hall of fame. This is how drugs ruin

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