In 1996, Major League Baseball star, Ken Caminiti, emerged as the standout third baseman for the San Diego Padres. In a single season of one hundred forty six games, Caminiti put up career high numbers of one hundred seventy eight hits, forty homeruns and one hundred thirty runs batted in. In addition to these unbelievable numbers, he was named the Most Valuable Player of the National League. Six years later, after he had retired, Caminiti told Sports Illustrated that he had been using anabolic steroids throughout his career. When asked to recall those years, Caminiti explained "[he] saw no real problem with steroid use considering many of the players [he] knew used them as well" (Sports Illustrated 5/30/02).
             How would you feel if you worked tirelessly to earn something while half of the people around you were cheating and achieving higher than you? In the new age of sports there is a growing problem in an illegal form of body enhancement: anabolic steroids. Athletes abuse these bodybuilding substances in order to gain the edge on others that they are competing against. The first major problem affiliated with steroids is the unfair aspect it brings to the game. Everyone who uses steroids is cheating the sport and all the athletes who have played it. Another concern is the dangerous side effects involved with them and the risk the athletes are putting themselves at. Lastly is the problem of these substances being illegal and players sneaking by the law in order to get the edge in the sport. Today's athletes are willing to do whatever it takes to get recognized whether it be cheating, endangering their health, or breaking the law.
             Steroid abuse is a major problem that needs to be closely focused on in the wide world of sports. Too many athletes are putting their health at risk in order to improve the level of their play. Steroids have been known to have sid
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