The world of professional sports has concocted a completely different image than the one it used to have. Consider some recent headlining stories in sports that have outlined scandal:
Cyclist and seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong became a national icon when he continued to win races after battling testicular cancer. However, Armstrong's "LIVESTRONG" campaign came to a halt as alleged doping rumors began to surface.
Littered with criticism of unfair practices, Jimmie Johnson's racing career is raising eyebrows as well. Despite losing his crew chief for making an illegal modification to his car, Johnson insists he won the 2006 Daytona 500 fair and square.
So the question becomes: Is a record with an asterisk next to it still a record?
In a world where being the winner is often all that matters, players' "competitive edges" are shifting from hard work to illegal creams and non-regulation drugs.
League rules need to be updated, clarified and enforced with no exceptions. This would eliminate players' so-called confusion of what is legal and what is not. Players should also be held responsible for drugs given to them by trainers. Ingesting any kind of unknown drug isn't just unsafe, it's stupid.
