In class on February 24 and March 1st we focused on Sport and Politics. The main question was should politics be involved in sports. MLB Home run record holder Barry Bonds has recently plead not guilty for a fourth time for perjury charges. Bonds is set to go on trail for lying to a Federal Grand Jury about his steroid use. Bonds steroid use came into light in the 2003 BALCO steroids case. Bonds competed many years after that case and retired from the MLB at the end of his 21st year in 2007. Bonds case was just one of many that lead to the Mitchell Report released in 2007 by Senator George J. Mitchell after he conducted a 21-month investigation on performance enhancing drug use in baseball. Many current and former players had the same issues of admitting to using steroid just as Bond has. Some have confessed after initially denying it but have eventually admitted it. Coakley says that Politics safeguards the public order on sports and also promotes the prestige and power of a community or nation. using steroids is illegal in all major U.S. sports and is a sign of cheating and destroys the image of sports all across the world. While it seems as if politics are beginning to abuse to its power in sports, it is also the same thing that keep sport together. The article below highlights Bonds recent case of pleading not guilty to perjury.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=6171845
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