One of the major problems in today's sports scene is the use of performance enhancing drugs. Professional athletes are always looking to get a leg up on the competition, but this is taking it too far. Even though certain performance enhancing drugs are banned, the drug tests are not frequent enough to enforce the rule. If you fail a drug test the penalty is a suspension of a few days and a fine of about $10,000. This punishment does not seem harsh enough even though the media will diminish this athletes pride and dignity. This issue is so serious that the President of the United States, Pres. Bush, insisted on the athletes to discontinue the use of illegal substances in all professional sports. President Bush also states in his State of the Union speech, "The use of performance-enhancing drugs like steroids in baseball, football, and other sports ... sends the wrong message: that there are shortcuts to accomplishment, and that performance is more important than character. â€" Athletes are also role models for adolescences like myself, but when an athlete confesses or is found using steroids or another substance it degrades them as a person and a professional athlete. I see this player and I think of what could have been because his career is destroyed. He will always be known as the player that used performance- enhancing drugs. Players are beginning to shatter records, especially home run records, constantly. You can't help but think if that player is using performance-enhancing drugs to break these historical records. The players are promoting cheating by using these drugs to obliterate these unadulterated records created by giants of the game. Henry Aaron, a legend of the game, hit 755 home runs throughout his career will be surpassed and overlooked by players like Barry Bonds who has received steroids from a California nutritional supplement lab, according to ESPN.com. When players use performance-enhancing...