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jackiel1219
09-28-2006, 06:05 PM
Can anyone give me any ideas on a current sports controversy I can write a 5 page research paper on? I need to write one for my Sport & Society class and i have no idea on what to write it on.

TheTruth
09-28-2006, 06:07 PM
Steroids in sports.

TheTruth
09-28-2006, 06:08 PM
Records being broken by people suspected of being on steroids.

BeerIsGood!
09-28-2006, 06:12 PM
Just take a glance into the world of Professional Cycling and you shouldn't be short of topics anymore.

BeerIsGood!
09-28-2006, 06:12 PM
Or Google "Barry Bonds"

jackiel1219
09-28-2006, 06:15 PM
I think i'll write it on doping in cycling.

ShoogarBear
09-28-2006, 06:18 PM
When Is Not Attempting Suicide Attempting Suicide (or Vice Versa) and What Is the Role of the Media

jackiel1219
09-28-2006, 06:21 PM
When Is Not Attempting Suicide Attempting Suicide (or Vice Versa) and What Is the Role of the Media

When you're not trying to be an attention whore?

PakiDan
09-28-2006, 06:30 PM
The ethical and social implications of legalizing midget tossing.

AlamoSpursFan
09-28-2006, 06:37 PM
You could do one on the javelin thrower in Brazil who caught his wife in bed with the hammer thrower...

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060925/capt.94605a30a119437eae54d106aaa3330b.brazil_athel tics_accident_xvc101.jpg

:lmao

Spurminator
09-28-2006, 06:40 PM
Is four tenths of a second sufficient time to catch a basketball, turn and shoot?

ShoogarBear
09-28-2006, 06:58 PM
Can You Bitch About The Officiating Costing You A Championship When You Wouldn't Have Gotten To The Finals In The First Place Without The Officiating?

JoePublic
09-28-2006, 07:02 PM
The effect Sport Agents have had on the high salaries of professional athletes.

Summers
09-29-2006, 06:27 AM
You could do one on the javelin thrower in Brazil who caught his wife in bed with the hammer thrower...

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060925/capt.94605a30a119437eae54d106aaa3330b.brazil_athel tics_accident_xvc101.jpg

:lmao

Holy crap!

Summers
09-29-2006, 06:27 AM
Is four tenths of a second sufficient time to catch a basketball, turn and shoot?

:lol I believe we've established that it is.

Phenomanul
09-29-2006, 08:25 AM
:lol I believe we've established that it is.

Not all of us bought off on that physics defying feat..... which is why it remains a controversy.

johnsmith
09-29-2006, 08:31 AM
Is four tenths of a second sufficient time to catch a basketball, turn and shoot?


Yes, when you are relying on humans to start and stop the clock..........Jesus, are you guys still pissed about that one?

Phenomanul
09-29-2006, 08:39 AM
Can You Bitch About The Officiating Costing You A Championship When You Wouldn't Have Gotten To The Finals In The First Place Without The Officiating?


This one gets my vote....

spurs_fan_in_exile
09-29-2006, 10:12 AM
Lunatic parents pushing their kids into sports and acting like hooligans on the side lines.

CuckingFunt
09-29-2006, 10:13 AM
As a Kings fan, two words: Game six.

George W Bush
09-29-2006, 10:36 AM
Where's Waldo?....and those damn WMD's?!

PakiDan
09-29-2006, 01:55 PM
Where's Waldo?....and those damn WMD's?!

GW is the man!

tlongII
09-29-2006, 03:15 PM
The Seahawks got robbed!

boutons_
09-29-2006, 03:22 PM
Tony and Eva are breaking up

sandman
09-29-2006, 03:37 PM
The moral elasticity of social accountability in relation to the abhorent behavior and subsequent self-justification of nationalistic football (soccer) fans.