Tag Archives: steroids

The Necessary Love Affair: Baseball & Steroids

Posted on March 21, 2014 by

Major League Baseball is a business, and like all businesses, the main goal is to earn profit, and not always ethically.  For the case of the MLB, steroids is obviously unethical; it is a form of cheating that a majority … Continue reading →

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Culture-roids vs. Baseball

Posted on February 28, 2014 by

Throughout my research on baseball I found it very difficult to narrow down a specific research question.  Baseball has plenty of outlets to question, whether the topic pertains to racism, male masculinity, or steroid use.  All topics could pose rather … Continue reading →

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The tainted game…are the steroid-types true?

Posted on January 17, 2014 by

America’s past time, a game with so many memorable moments, whether it was future Hall of Famers coming home from WWII to play ball again, or women taking the reigns and starting their own baseball league while the men were … Continue reading →

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Welcome to the gym…here we see a bro in his natural habitat drinking protein next to a Schwarzenegger

Posted on January 16, 2014 by

One common stereotype of weightlifters is the “bro.” A bro is a young white male, between the ages of about eighteen to twenty-eight, middle to upper socioeconomic class, heterosexual, and big in size and stature. Bros can be seen strutting … Continue reading →

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