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Tag Archives: steroids
The Necessary Love Affair: Baseball & Steroids
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
Posted in Final Project
Tagged American Exceptionalism, ideal body, major league baseball, Mark McGwire, militarization, PEDs, steroids
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Culture-roids vs. Baseball
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
Posted in Research
Tagged America, Baseball, Cheating, Collusion, culture, Independence Day, Leadership, major league baseball, McGuire, MLBPA, Muder, Norms, Patriotism, PED, Performance Enhancing Drugs, Player's Association, Ringer, Solberg, steroids, Thornton, Values, Win
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The tainted game…are the steroid-types true?
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
Posted in Stereotypes
Tagged 60 Minutes, Alex Rodriguez, Anthony Bosch, Biogenesis, CNN, Jackie Robinson, Mike Piazza, P.E.D.s, steroids
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Welcome to the gym…here we see a bro in his natural habitat drinking protein next to a Schwarzenegger
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
Posted in Stereotypes
Tagged bodybuilding, liftlikeagirl, meatheads, schwarzenegger, stereotypes, steroids, weightlifting
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