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Blog 5

Banning athletes who use/abuse Performance enhancing drugs(record removal)

Any athlete who uses performance enhancing drugs should be banned from the sport. Performance enhancing drugs have been the most talked about topic in Baseball in the last decade. The drug has ruined the competitiveness of the sport as time went about. Usage of performance enhancing drugs have ruined the game for fans, competitors and the alumni of sports. The use of performance enhancing drugs has been a major problem in sports and has caused a lot of controversy. Athletes who fail drug tests should be banned. Anabolic steroids are drugs in which its primary use was to help treat conditions, such as hormone deficiency, diseases in which muscle loss occurred, delayed puberty, and some forms of cancer. Anabolic steroids increase testosterone in the body, which influences many features of the human body. Steroids were taken by athletes to enhance their performance and to improve their appearance. Any athlete who tests positive shouldn’t be allowed to continue. It is not fair to past and current record holders that their records are broken by an athlete with an unfair advantage.

As far as the map goes, Im thinking about having a skinny teenager in a poor environment (no picture yet). Then having them meet a coach and start playing baseball(baseball bat and ball). As they begin to get older into highschool they start to gain interests from local schools(no picture yet). The teen then wants to become better and have an advantage over his teammates to stand out more.(eyes pointing to a cloud with a flexed arm ) He gets introduced to performance enhancers by an alumni who currently is playing professional ball (Cloud with scholarship and broken records and money) The teen who now is getting older heads to a college with a high rate of players drafted for professional ball and begins to stand out(no picture yet). He ends up wanting to go pro after his second year of college and once the drug test comes he fails (no drugs symbol, pills, positive sign) He gets banned from playing ball and his college and HS records are removed (paper shredded, trashcan).

Im open to any other ideas if they're any out there!

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Blog 4

Choices..

Attending school here isnt as bad as people say. You are given a wide variety of clubs to join, sports teams to be apart of, frats, sororities, you name it. Just make sure you are happy with your decision of what you plan to do. It may sound good when you think about it, but you want to be sure that you are going to be loyal to your decision.

Originally being recruited to play football here,  I felt as if that was what I wanted to go into. I've played football every year since the 5th grade. I cant say it was something that I saw myself playing past HS but once I gained some interests from local schools I thought otherwise.

I loved the game of basketball. I love watching it, playing it, studying it and also training for it. I began playing organized basketball in the 7th grade, I always played every since then, every year. I made the starting line up every year up until my varsity years, being that I was the youngest on the team and had to go through the same routine as the other underclassmen.

I can say, football was the sport I ended up being better at, I only actually played one varsity season and was able to pick up the interests of several d3 schools (cortland, St. John Fisher, Utica, Buffalo State) and two JUCO schools, (Milford Academy, ECC). 

I ended up choosing to come to Buffalo State for a few reasons. It wasnt to close to home (Living in rochester, St. John Fisher is right in the middle of the town) and it wasnt too far, class sizes were pretty big, and the coaches made me feel comfortable. 

My freshmen season here at buffalo state, I ended up pulling a hamstring... I never ended up playing a game on the varsity team or JV team here. The coaches here also said once I practiced after the first game, I ended up using a year of eligibility. I felt like I couldnt win at all at that point. 

I wanted to give basketball a try here. I never have spoke to he coach before, I didnt have a highlight tape made for basketball at all, it was just all in such short notice. I dont just want to tryout for the team, to the coach Im already going to seem like your average guy, but maybe since I was originally recruited for football, that can make up for something? Something is just telling me not to do it. I never had to try out for any team before. Im not currently playing a sport, I feel so naked. Not used to the feeling at all! As of now I could choose to find a job, join a sports team, or just try to get my GPA as high as possible for the next two semesters... Choices.