iSearch topic.

I know that it is a little late for me to be choosing a topic for my I-search paper, sorry! I was a little confused about the assignment, but now I think I know what we were supposed to do. For my paper, I'm going to write about performance-enhancing drugs and their use by athletes.

Over the past few years, there has been a lot of speculation and accusation about the use of steroids, HGH (human growth hormone) and other performance-enhancing drugs have been in the news a lot. Mostly, these accusations have come in baseball. There have been Federal cases about these drugs, including long lists of players linked to them. Now, baseball is trying to figure how widespread the use of these narcotics was/is. Some of the more notable alleged users include Roger Clemens, Alex Rodriguez, Barry Bonds, Jose Canseco, and Mark McGwire. Clemens testified before Congress and was indicted by a federal grand jury on accounts of making false statements to Congress regarding his use of PEDs. Rodriguez lied during an interview with Katie Couric about his use of the drugs before being confronted and admitting to doping in February of 2009. Canseco was one of the first players to admit to juicing, and he wrote an entire book saying that the drug use was very widespread. In the book, he named and accused a lot of people of taking performance-enhancers.

There are a lot of ways to view the steroid saga in Major League Baseball (and, to a lesser degree, in other sports) and there will be much more information to come. Stay tuned!