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television about Major League Baseball. This talk show has two featured anchors with multiple associate reporters. The anchors and reporters predict how Major League Baseball players and teams will perform in the future as well as how they are performing in current situations. Intentional Talk hosts give their opinions on Major League Baseball situations; however, they also give their opinions on lives of current and past players. Even though the hosts do not solely report on baseball, the…

The Steroid Era in Major League Baseball lasted from the 1990’s to 2004. It was a time where players from all around the league took performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) to improve themselves. It came to an end in October, 2003. According to “Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Baseball” by California State University Professor Paul D. Staudohar, when the San Francisco Chronicle posted that the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (BALCO) had been giving out illegal performance enhancing drugs to athletes…

Sundays used to be for spending time with family and often to go to church. American values and quality time family have now been replaced with sports. Football players are thought of as “warriors,” basketball stars are considered “godlike” and baseball jocks are talked of as “superman.” The dark side of this love affair with sports has now begun to manifest itself in ways the public can no long ignore. New claims of domestic violence involving NFL player Ray Rice and child abuse involving…

Growing up, my brothers and I were always held to a higher standard than the average kid our age. My mom raised us to be hardworking and strong leaders with opinions of our own. We worked for what we wanted, and never let anyone get in our way. So being success-oriented my whole life has left me to wonder: What is success? And why do so many people have different views on it? Views on success vary depending on how one was raised, what ones morals are, and what goals people set for themselves in…

this could be a negative side effect. Along with weight gain that may or may not beneficial for the person, depending on the athlete, short-term side effects in adults include muscle cramping and digestive discomfort (Mangus & Miller, 2005). Since baseball is not a sport of pure endurance and trying to be strong and athletic is truly a large benefit, creatine would be a great source to turn to, since it is a legal PED, with science showing that there is not a long-term risk to the athlete 's…

Picture a world where the U.S. had only 45 states, where women could not vote, where the television and the radio did not exist. It is hard to imagine such a place, but it did exist. It existed 108 years ago when the Chicago Cubs last won the World Series (Cooper). Since then fans have looked near and far for an explanation as to why their beloved team could not win the World Championship. The most common and widely accepted cause for the Cubs’ failure is the Curse of the Billy Goat.…

I remember before the trip we all got matching t-shirts. On the shirt, it had the map on it. I remember looking at the map and the track was only six inches long, and thinking this won’t be hard it’s not that long of a track; but boy was I wrong. I’ve never really been camping or even hiking before this. Everyone thought I was crazy for doing this trip but I wanted to do it. I wanted the adventure and the story that would come out of this. I never imagined how much this would change me.…

The amount of drug use in sports, especially baseball is unimaginable. “Estimates of steroid use have varied wildly. Jose Canseco estimated that 85% of major leaguers were also using steroids”(“Steroids-BR…”). Professional athletes must be drug tested multiple times throughout their season because the drugs that they are using could have poor physical and mental effects on their body, these drugs give an unfair advantage to those who are using the performance enhancing drugs and if these players…

players are caught when a drug test is administered. Professional sports leagues have introduced a random drug test so athletes that do drugs cannot prepare for the test. Performance-enhancing drugs are banned in sports and if a player is caught using these drugs they might be banned or kicked out of the league. Drug use in professional sports is illegal, but the consequences are not strict enough. The professional leagues have implemented random drug testing. This has helped lower the rate of…

Valuable Player Award in baseball. His courage and moral objection to segregation were precursors to the impact Robinson would have in major league baseball. During Jackie's time, baseball was segregated, so the African-Americans and whites played separate leagues. In 1944, Jackie began playing baseball professionally. Robinson began playing in the Negro Leagues, but he was soon chosen by Branch Rickey, president of Brooklyn Dodgers, to help integrate major league baseball. Robinson started off…