Dipping or packing a lip is one of the most recognizable things a person can do. The sound of someone packing a can is loud and if there is a bottle with something in it you are unsure of, mostly likely it is dip spit. Walking through campus visitors and fellow students will see classmates dipping while walking around or even in class. Throughout buildings on campus there are signs above water fountains asking students not to put dip spit down the drain since it will clog the drain. While Ole Miss is a smoke free campus, it isn't a tobacco free campus. Meaning that students who smoke will get a citation if caught not ones who dip. “It is hard to enforce the ban, we rely on UPD but they can not catch everyone smoking,” said Erin Murphy Cromeans the assistant director for Health Promotion. The …show more content…
Some players think that it has the ability to help them gain peak performance. “Dipping helps calm may nerves either before or during the game,” said Daniel Kloysuntia an Ole Miss Baseball pitcher. In 2002 the NCAA took a zero tolerance policy on smokeless tobacco in an effort to ban it from all collegiate competitions. In Minor League Baseball dip is completely banned, there are harsh fines and penalties for coaches, players and staff members found dipping, but this is not strictly enforced. While Major League Baseball faces an uphill battle to ban it thanks to the players union, cities have stepped up. ( Halpin, Ty. "National Collegiate Athletic Association." NCAA News Archive. NCAA, 26 May 2003. Web. 25 April 2016.) “Baseball is a nerve wrecking game, if I don't pitch well I might not pitch again for a while and dipping helps me focus and get my mind right,” said
Baseball?s reputation has been painted with a red asterisk. The non-medical use of steroids has been banned according to the Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 1990. Many baseball athletes have been caught or presumed illegal users of HGH or Steroids since the act passed in 1990. All these athletes have one thing in common, they want to have an edge or advantage on the game. Some athletes even admit to administering the drug to other athletes and themselves. Jose Conseco testified to personally injecting the steroids into Mark McGuire (Cote).
Gambling has been part of baseball ever since it was invented, but sometimes, unfortunately, it is done by active players or managers, not just the fans. Way back in the year of 1919 there was a huge scandal regarding the White Sox. The White Sox were facing the Reds in the World Series that season. Eight players from the White Sox organization bet money that they would lose the World Series. Throughout the series they would mess up on purpose to cause their own team to lose. More recently, Pete Rose was banned from baseball in 1989 for gambling. Although, he claims that he only bet on his team to win.
The current discipline is not enough to quell the steroid problem in the MLB; especially since the MLB’s policy is different compared to other pro sports without PED problems. The National Hockey League (NHL), instituted their performance enhancing drug policy in 2005, the last major pro sport to do so. Yet, the NHL took a strong stance right away. The first positive leads to a 20 game suspension, or about ¼ the season. The next positive results in a 60 game suspension, or about ¾ of a season, and similar to the MLB, a third positive leads to a lifetime ban (NHL). The distinguishing factor between the two policies is that in the NHL if you test positive, you automatically are enrolled into their League Substance Abuse/Behavioral Health Program for evaluation, education and possible treatment (NHL). The NHL created this program to help avoid second time offenders. By educating the athletes on the effects of drugs, and treating addiction when necessary, the players are graced with an expansive support network and receive substantial help. The National Basketball Association (NBA), has a similar support network and substance abuse program for those caught using PEDs. Any player that enters the program must accept anything ordered by the medical director. If the NBA player does not comply with the program requirements it can lead to dismissal from the NBA, even if it was the player’s first positive test (NBA). By forcing the players to be educated about the health effects, they come to understand that consequences outweigh the advantages. The MLB needs to introduce a PED prevention program, which rookies are required to attend, and where players would learn about the adverse effects of drug use. Maybe then, the amount of positive tests could diminish to the levels seen in the NHL and NBA. Since the NHL’s policy was established in 2005 only 3 players have been caught using PEDs
The first thing that you have to do in your wind up is to step back with your right foot behind the rubber. Second you have to swing you right foot up and balance on your left foot. Finally you have to push your left foot off of the mound while balancing and throw the ball towards the plate. After you throw the ball you have to be in a fielder’s position in case the ball is thrown hit back at you.
Baseball is a part of the past, present and future. Unfortunately for two unlucky teams, the future is as bleak as the cold January mornings in State College. Ever since the “Strike of 1993,” baseball has been financially hurting. What fan wants to go and watch a bunch of greedy, overpaid, crybaby million dollar athletes after they decided not to play as a demonstration of their demands for even more money? However, baseball was soon on the proverbial road to recovery as the...
Abstract: The Stadium construction boom continues, and taxpayers are being forced to pay for new high tech stadiums they don’t want. These new stadiums create only part-time jobs. Stadiums bring money in exclusively for professional leagues and not the communities. The teams are turning public money into private profit. Professional leagues are becoming extremely wealthy at the taxpayers expense. The publicly-funded stadium obsession must be put to a stop before athletes and coaches become even greedier. New stadiums being built hurt public schools, and send a message to children that leisure activities are more important than basic education. Public money needs to be used to for more important services that would benefit the local economy. Stadiums do not help the economy or save struggling towns. There are no net benefits from single purpose stadiums, and therefore the stadium obsessions must be put to a stop.
Baseball used to be a simple game, associated with the smell of hot dogs, the sweet dew of the night air as fans rose for the seventh inning stretch, and the beautiful spectacle of the field with its freshly cut grass and newly chalked base lines. Now it seems like each game is won by at least five runs, the stadiums are half empty, and the pride of a baseball radio announcer, once an honorable career, has dwindled along with the game. Additionally, since 1976 players’ salaries have increased 168% a year, numbers too high to be blamed on inflation (Breton 4). These current conditions reflect the growing corruption of baseball.
As per the American Heart Association in 2013, an expected 23 percent of grown-up men and 18 percent of grown-up ladies in the United States are smokers. What’s even more troubling is the prevalence of juvenile smoking in our society. juvenile smoking is a very real danger among U.S. youngsters and high schoolers. About 25 percent of U.S. secondary school understudies are smokers, and an extra 8 percent use smokeless tobacco items, for example, snuff and plunge. But what is most disheartening, is that 30 percent of all juvenile smokers will become addicted and suffer health related complications due to prolonged smoking. Numerous components play into a kid's choice to attempt tobacco. A craving to seem "cooler", more advanced, or to
Powell, Douglas S. "Is Big League Baseball Good Municipal Business?." American City & County 114.6 (1999): 78. Academic Search Complete. Web. 13 Nov. 2013.
In early May 2002, a ban that the management of Major League Baseballs’ Seattle Mariners imposed requiring non-admittance of any fan wearing a tee shirt saying, “Yankees Suck” was finally lifted. Telling the Seattle Mariner fans that the word “suck” was offensive and had no place in a family atmosphere, was out of line to many. The backlash from the fans was overwhelming to the point that Mariners management had no choice but to lift the ban. The ban caused three major backlashes: It angered season ticket holders, it told the fans that the first amendment could be twisted at the ballpark, and it tried to strip fans of team spirit and pride. Mariner management ignored the minor uprising as long as possible until the ban reached near boiling point levels. Things have since settled down in Seattle, but hopefully Mariner management will not try a stunt like the ban anytime soon.
I encountered a “bump in the road” at a young age. I began playing softball at age six when Kylie, my elementary school friend, came to show and tell with her first place T-ball trophy. At the time, I had only played soccer, but the thought of swinging a bat as hard as I could and having people in the stands cheer for me, inspired me to ask my mother to register me for the local recreational league. Before I knew it, I was lacing up last year’s soccer cleats and stepping up to bat in my first coach-pitch softball game. My father, being the coach, stood on the mound and lobbed in the fattest meatball every hitter dreams of. With the ding of my second-hand garage sale bat, the ball sailed over the shortstop. Some may have called it beginner's luck, but I called it a sign.
Inhalant use refers to breathing in the vapors a substance gives off. The sole purpose is to get high. Surprisingly, these inhalants are legal. Things like markers and even cooking spray can be found in any local grocery store. It’s uses like huffing that cause these items to be misused. Inhalant use is not something that only a few people pick up on either. By the time a person reaches 8th grade, one in five will have used inhalants. Statistics show that young, white males have the highest usage rates. Hispanic and American Indian populations are close behind.
There needs to be a policy to ban cigarettes, it kills the smoker, in addition, could kill the person exposed to the smoke from cigarettes. “The cigarette is also a defective product, meaning not just dangerous but unreasonably dangerous, killing half its long-term users” (Proctor), cigarettes are not healthy in any way making it a defective product, it mainly kills the smoker rather than helping them. It was produced to be inhalable smoke harming anyone who smokes them making it a defect because in the past the tobacco was too harsh to be inhaled. The policy would help cigarette smokers, especially since they don’t even like the habit of smoking cigarettes, knowing it harms them.
“Youth and Tobacco Use.” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. N.p., 14 Feb. 2014. Web. 24 Feb. 2014. .
The 1919 Black Sox scandal filled America’s sport with shame and embarrassment. For the first time baseball’s dark side was brought to light- their sparkling reputation dashed. Swirling in controversy, major league baseball declined to recognize what was happening around them, an event that marked change in not only baseball, but the culture of a nation. “What took place in 1919 growing post war cynicism, race riots, and accelerating industrialization signaled the death knell of the small town ideals.” Joe Jackson, Earl Weaver and the Black Sox were in the heart of it all.