caused by, say, steroids. uh-huh. john: it goes from acne and testicle shrinkage to diabetes, diarrhea, kidney damage, death. i don t disagree with what you re saying. that s already happened. nothing gets m made better or safer by saying this is completely illegal so the only people it will be available to are people who are risk takers who do it in the shadow of darkness. john: if it were legal, there would be sports that would say none of this, some would say yes, you can do it. we d have guidelines, we d have choices, it would be out in the open and it would be safer. there are already cases of that. for instance, body building which is one of the sports that really kind of main lined steroid use at the beginning. there s a natural circuit and an enhanced circuit, and you know, that way audiences can choose and athletes can choose. generally speaking, the missourir choices people have, the better we all are. john: thank you, nick gillespie, of reason magazine.
the one thing i m certain of, in new jersey where they ve just passed a law to legalize this, has no idea what it s doing and doesn t care because all it s interested in is making a buck. john: if there s more betting, there s mortemations to say throw this game. even so, if you re legalizing it, everything is in the light and you re less likely to have that happen. where you actually get more problems is in college sports where they don t pay the players. the push to have these restrictions > c john: which we ll talk about later tonight. whether it s sports betting or on line gambling, it s all about protecting another domestic industry. the nfl, the nba, the national hockey league, the ncaa, they ve all joined a lawsuit against new jersey. gambling threatens the integrity of sports. fundamentally at odds with the principle that the outcomeor of the contest must be perceived by the public a s determined solely on the basis of honest athletic competition. they have th
john: i think lance armstrong is a despicable slug not because he injected drugs like tess toft roan or did blood doping to improve his performance. i don t care if an adult does things like that. i hate lance armstrong because he cheated and then threatened people, threatened to sue them if they told the truth. he s a liar and a bully, but the drugs themselves, so what? i don t even know why they re illegal or the government s business, but as usual, my opinion is minority opinion. should the government investigate steroids in sports? i think so, yeah. of course. everyone should be drug tested. and it s harmful. for the future of our nation, the government has to take a stand to show that there is no cheating in anything. john: for the future of our nation,o government must take a stand. nick gillespie pee from reaso fv disagrees. why? if an athlete dopes his blood, he s cheating.
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that keeps them from going outside the university to get paid. if i m a star on the basketball team and i can go to the local car dealership and say buy bob s cars and bob will pay me money to do that, why can t i go downo that? would should i be forced to live in poverty because there s a stack of rules this high protecting the ncaa s revenue extreme. when you need that many rules to protect someone s money, chances are you re doing something you shouldn t be doing. john: thankge you. up next, some athletes improve their performance by taking steroids. ofs course, our government says that s a job for congress. is it? everyone in baseball is responsible. the owners, the commissioner, the union, and the players. we want steroids and other dangerous drugs out of sports, period. sports. period. alright, let s go. sports. shimmy, shimmy chocolate. shimmy, shimmy chocolate. we, we chocolate cross over.