I was watching "Frontline" last night, and noticed something.

[Archae]

The show concentrated on how High School football players were getting injured.

Two things that were not mentioned, that should have been.

1. Lawless actions by the "Big Men On Campus" like rape, and the school coverups.

2. High School athletes doping themselves with steroids and such.

[Lint Head]

1. Also, the bullying of freshmen players that lead to injury. I have had personal experiences.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

2. maybe they didn't have 5 hours for the show. For Meltdown, they could have done something

on how the average American sucks at saving money instead of focusing on the financial hocus pocus of Wall Street and the prostitutes in Congress ever eager to help bail them out.

Why would Frontline dilute it's show's theme on high school sports injuries by talking about adjacent but unrelated topics?

[bhikkhu]

3. 1 and 2 go together

as steroids have an effect described by one as: "You get either really emotional or really horny. You can get "roid rage" where you get really aggressive for no reason." http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/health/newsid_8093000/8093102.stm

Add in the well-known instability of the teenage years, and a bit of alcohol, and you have a pretty dismal picture. I wouldn't blame it on sports so much, but steroids are bad stuff, particularly during the years when one's character is being formed.

On edit, I don't know how many people are aware of the legal supplements that work similarly to the illegal? Anyone of any age can go down to Rite Aid or GNC and buy stuff like this: http://www.bodybuilding.com/store/goalanabolic.htm

[woolldog]

4. Maybe because 1 & 2 are extremely uncommon....

negligible you might say.

[bhikkhu]

5. Sexual assault against girls of high school age is about 17%

though this probably doesn't account for unreported incidents. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/09/indiana-sexual-assault-17_n_1412507.html . That's a study for Indiana, but it conditions are probably similar nationwide.

Steroid use is 5-12% of all males in high school, by this article: http://www.pamf.org/teen/risk/drugs/steroids/

I don't think "extremely uncommon" fits.