The steroids controversy among professional athletes has prompted a congressional inquiry into the drug’s pervasiveness in sports.

Surely, performance enhancing drugs are merely carrying along the principles of desperate competitiveness that sports embody today.

The good naturedness and true spirit of sports has been replaced with animosity, greed, and self-glorification at the expense of the other player. If steroids is what a player needs to humiliate the other player and to ensure receiving their paycheck at the end of the week, all the better in the sports world’s lack of social graces.

Whenever sporting activities become a ruthless business, they become stripped of their liberating aspects of play. The playing of games is a reflection of the larger scale of life, and with drugs, material desires, and lack of values representative of society at large it is no wonder that sports have succumbed in kind.