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The starting of Spring Training activities in Florida and Arizona were over shadowed by the recent testimonies before a congressional committee by Major League Baseball superstar Roger Clemens and his former trainer Brian McNamee concerning the Mitchell Report findings of steroid use. We don’t always think of steroids as being addictive Jake Gardiner Maple Leafs Jersey , but addiction takes on many faces and professional athletes are lured by the potential upside of using an illegal substance.





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From the time they are small boys, professional baseball players are told how good they are, how great they are. They are set apart. Even high school players are all too often playing by a different set of rules, because they have that potential for greatness.





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The experience of professional athletes, who use steroids to gain an edge or recover from injury Tyler Bozak Maple Leafs Jersey , despite the health risks, is very similar to any addict who uses to feel better or remove the pain. I am reminded of the 12-Step process as I comb through the media coverage of the hearings. When it comes to drugs, has Major League Baseball gone through the steps as an organization? Has MLB “made a fearless and moral inventory” of itself? I doubt that MLB sees steroids in terms of addiction. They see it as a mark on the sport, a public relations problem. Would baseball even be able to go through the steps at all? Even when players admit they took steroids, in most cases they fall short of really sincere apologies, so how could they navigate through Steps 8 and 9 Frederik Andersen Maple Leafs Jersey , making a list of persons they harmed and be willing to make amends?





Steroid use in sports is another indication of our inclination, as a people, to abuse drugs and avoid the responsibility of our actions. There may be no legal or health ramifications, but our addictive nature sits there, waiting for another opportunity. We need to deal with our inclination towards drug abuse, long before we take drugs. While this latest chapter is about baseball players and a trainer William Nylander Maple Leafs Jersey , if you take a step back and see the broader picture, it’s about human nature. It’s about all of us.



WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) -- Rage and unrest have once again taken over in the past week in Ferguson, a previously little-known northern suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, in the wake of a grand jury decision not to indict a white police officer in the fatal shooting of a black teenager in August.


More than a dozen buildings along the West Florissant Avenue Connor Brown Maple Leafs Jersey , a few blocks from where Brown was shot, were set ablaze and police cars were vandalized on Monday night following the announcement of the grand jury's decision.


On South Florissant Road, a main commercial strip in Ferguson, shops were looted with smashed windows.


Local residents and business owners were nervous and uncertain about the future in the once peaceful town of about 21,000 people.


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"I'm so scared," he told Xinhua, noting that it was the first time he experienced such violence in over 30 years since he started business in Ferguson.


Like Yang, many business owners had shielded their shop windows, with some hanging signs that read "I love Ferguson" and "Stop the Violence," in the hope that their businesses would be spared in possible future violence.


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The crew had to ask for a ride in a church van delivering Thanksgiving turkeys to get out of the area.


African American residents said their rage stemmed from the nearly-all white Ferguson police force's poor community relations.


Auty Singleton, a black female protester holding up a sign that reads "Stop the Killing" in front of the Ferguson Police Department, complained to Xinhua that police officers in Ferguson "abuse" their power and use "unnecessary forces" to control protests.


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A Pew poll after the Brown shooting found that Americans are divided roughly along racial lines over the incident. Some 80 percent of blacks agreed that the shooting raises important questions about race, compared with only 37 percent of whites.


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