[Vision2020] Sport Ethics Question

[Tom Hansen]

Tim Rigsby stated:

"What is the difference between someone who uses steroids for sport
enhancement and the athlete that gets reconstructive surgery on their
shoulder/hip/knee etc that has the potential to improve their performance
and level of play?"

Well, Tim . . .

One (use of anabolic steroids) is illegal and causes things to happen
prematurely.  Things like . . . uh . . . er . . . death.  For example:  Lyle
Alzado to name one of many.

The other (reconstructive surgery), although expensive (but then, what is
"expensive" to a major league baseball player?), tend to increase the
chances of the patient's prolonged and profitable future.

Thanks for bringing it up, Tim

Tom and Rodna Hansen
Whose only drugs in their future consist of Viagra and the Passion Patch


We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are
dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors....but they all
exist very nicely in the same box. 

-----Original Message-----
From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of Timothy Rigsby
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 8:29 AM
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] Sport Ethics Question

UI President Dr. Tim White posed a very interesting question to me last
night 
concerning Baseball and Steroid use.  Since the people who post and view
this list- 
serve are diverse and even highly intelligent I figured I would pass the
question on
to start a whole new round of debate.  So here it goes:

What is the difference between someone who uses steroids for sport
enhancement and 
the athlete that gets reconstructive surgery on their shoulder/hip/knee etc
that 
has the potential to improve their performance and level of play?

Go Mariners!!!

Tim

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