I Love Sports More than Money – Honest!

The use of performance enhancing drugs by athletes is not news.  The Associated Press thinks otherwise.  I know this because they keep providing stories revealing the latest users.  They are not telling us something most people don’t already know.  The really sad fact is that large numbers of people are still attending sports events.  They support and even honor people who are known drug users.  In Los Angeles, Manny Ramirez is idolized as like a rock star despite the repeated revelations about his drug use.    

Public support for athletics knows no bounds.  Next to the main front section of every newspaper the sports section is the largest part.  In school system, both public and private, literature and art might be eliminated due to budget issues but never sports. 

The privately owned sports teams are in this business for the money.  It’s the money the teams earn and the players on those teams.  Thinking they are playing for the glory and exultation is naive.

OK, you will say sports are healthy.  Are they healthy if the players are taking drugs?

Here is a list of Last year’s Earnings of sports successes as listed by Forbes magazine.  I hope not all of them are on drugs.