Hello everyone and thank you for checking out Sports Lore! For those of you who are new to the site, the premise behind our column is that we hope to offer a means for viewers to post their opinions, questions & concerns on various sports related, or even non-sports related, situations and relationship dilemmas. Tell us how issues relate to your personal life and relationships. We encourage you to ask our opinions, send us questions, ideas and comments. Use this as an open forum to vent, learn, understand, laugh and maybe even change your viewpoint!

Last week we asked you:
Is it time for steroid use to finally be addressed?

Sports were so much easier when the only performance-enhancer we had to worry about were Vitamins.

Almost every day brings another steroid report. First, Jose Canseco said that 85 percent of major leaguers use steroids. Then Ken Caminiti told Sports Illustrated that he used steroids during his 1996 MVP season. Chad Curtis told SI that 40 to 50 percent of major leaguers use them as well.

The question is whether anyone really cares enough to do anything. Fans say they hate steroid use, but they also really enjoy watching home runs sail into the upper deck. After all, Mark McGwire used the performance-enhancer androstenedione four years ago when he broke Roger Maris' single-season home run record. Do the players care? Do the owners care? If a substance is illegal in the United States, should it be illegal in the major leagues?

Here is what you told us:

Steroids are illegal and should not be tolerated by any professional sports organization. All player should perform using their God-given talents. That way, awards can be given and records can be set by players from an equal platform.
-Donna, Mt. Ephraim, New Jersey

In my day the only performance enhancer out there was beer. It was legal, and tasted pretty good. Sports players of today are foolish to use legal or illegal steroids to improve their game. They are just setting themselves up for a fall. Worse yet they may be setting up the sports I love for a fall. Wake up and smell the roses. You want to perform better I suggest practice. We are talking about homeruns and goals, not life and death. At least that is the way I see it from my barstool.
-Suds, New Jersey

I think there should be a ban on all performance enhancers in professional sports. What kind of example are these professional athlete's setting for the kids if you need to be on steroids to make it in sports.
-Mike, New Jersey

In the Bullpen for next week:
Should Miss North Carolina, Rebekah Revels, be banned from the Miss America pageant due to topless photos?

The controversy began in July when pageant officials received an anonymous e-mail -- later determined to have been sent by Revels' ex-boyfriend Tosh Welch -- that told them about the topless photos.

Revels said Welch surprised her by snapping two photographs as she changed clothes. She has since broken up with Welch and recently sued him.

In a hearing on a lawsuit that Revels filed against the state competition, a state pageant official testified that Revels was told she would have to resign or be fired because she violated morals requirements in her contract. What is your view?

E-mail your comments to Angela & Michelle. Also, send us your ideas, comments and questions for future topics. We look forward to hearing from you!