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    start using them because it might change their mind considering what it will do to their bodies in the future. Although people think they should, others don’t think so. ”You guys have no clue what you're talking about! Clearly Barry Bonds and Alex Rodriguez are getting paid bank for a reason! Cause they CHEAT! Who's the millionaire? You or A-Rod? Exactly because they got to the top by using the right resources and not being a pussy and actually being clean.” These players don’t use them now but…

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    handcrafted a new bat for Browning from a single piece of wood. Browning got three hits with it the next day and the “Louisville Slugger” was born. Since that time, baseball legends like Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig to modern-day greats like Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter have all swung Louisville Sluggers. Sixty percent of all Major League Baseball players’ bat of choice is a Louisville Slugger. It is the official bat of Major League Baseball. Over the last 120 years, the game of…

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    I learned a lot about his life in an arts field and what I would expect in college. My education was also meaningful because those teachers would talk about more than just class material to me. “Conversations became content full. Transparent” (Rodriguez 335). Talking to them became less about deadlines and homework, but more about personal development and full conversations. For example, my A.P. Art teacher one day after class asked me how I was, which really shocked me. I was stunned because…

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    n today’s game of baseball, overpaying for free agents is inevitable. If you want to sign your guy, you are going to make sure nobody outbids you in the process. Nowadays, it seems like every free agent is getting overpaid. Seven years and $161 million for Chris Davis? Eight years at $184 million for Jason Heyward? Seven years for $153 million for Jacoby Ellsbury? Sure, the Yankees overpaid Aroldis Chapman signing him to a five year deal worth $86 million, a deal that shattered the previous…

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    baseball. The author cites players in the past such as Roger Marris, Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, and Sandy Koufax. This list has continued to grow exponentially throughout the existence of baseball. Today’s players are Barry Bonds, Jose Canseco, Alex Rodriguez, Manny Ramirez, Mark McGwire, and others that we don’t know about that have flown under the radar for using some type of steroid or performance enhancement (Chafets 253-54). These examples provide the validity needed to expose that…

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    Chris Benoit, Eddie Guerrero, Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez, Lance Armstrong, Marion Jones, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mark McGwire, Lyle Alzado, and many more has been affected by a problem facing athletes today.Steroids is an issue terrorizing professionals and influencing young competitors to gain an advantage to their competition due to the results of professionals in the big league.Steroids is an issue spreading silently across the nation as it ignore the problems that are causing the life of…

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    Performance Enhancing Drugs It is no secret that many professional athletes take performance enhancing drugs (PEDs). It has been the very center of many major scandals, involving big name athletes, such as Lance Armstrong, Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez and many more. The issue has also been a controversial topic at the Olympics. As sports become increasingly competitive, more and more people are willing to do whatever it takes to “stay in the competition”. We find this to be a prevalent topic in…

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    Pro athletes, entertainers we root for them, we love them. They get to live a great life with all the money they earn but do they deserve that money, yes their talented but they don't save lives like doctors do or even go on dangerous missions to save people like firefighters and cops do but they get all this money and spend it pointless and worthless things. Who needs gold teeth or anything of the like ? The fact that we can do more for the people who need the money with the money instead of…

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    Area Laboratory Co-operative (BALCO) had been giving out illegal performance enhancing drugs to athletes across the world (Staudohar, 5). Famous professional baseball players that have confessed or been caught taking PEDs include: Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez, Ryan Braun, and Sammy Sosa. Everybody knows that steroids are a form of cheating, and some say…

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    The Livestrong Foundation is an organization that was founded in 1997 by American cyclist Lance Armstrong and since that time has generated $580 million worth of funds, according to their website “livestrong.org”, to provide free services to help those affected by cancer. This includes people diagnosed with cancer, their families, friends, loved ones and the health care professionals who work with them. The Livestrong Foundation is an organization that is committed to helping people with any…

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