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winner Tim Lincecum wants to come back to baseball, and the Cincinnati Reds should pay attention. Lincecum did not pitch at all in 2017 and had a 9.16 ERA in 38.1 innings in 2016. A series of injuries sidelined this former ace into what many considered his retirement. He descended into cryptid like status (https://nypost.com/2017/09/26/no-one-seems-to-know-where-tim-lincecum-disappeared-to/) after he was granted free agency at the end of the 2016 season. But now he is back, and he wants to pitch

Close your eyes for a moment. Picture you are a little kid on a baseball field playing the sport you love. Now picture twenty years beyond that point: you are in the major leagues and you are the best. It is a tight race to achieve the Most Valuable Player award and you lose by just a few votes. Come to find out the person you lost to is taking an illegal banned substance connected with HGH. You had the award you had been working for and dreaming of receiving stolen away from you. Steroids and HGH

the NBA Rookie of the Year Award. Jordan played 13 seasons in the NBA for the Chicago Bulls as well as two seasons with the Washington Wizards. With three All-Star MVPs, Jordan became one of the most decorated players in the NBA. He led the Chicago Bulls to six NBA championships and earned the NBA's regular season Most Valuable Player Award five times. Michael Jordan retired early after three NBA championships and turned to major league baseball. Many people wondered how he would come back to basketball

Haynes Mrs. Szabo ENG – 102 5 December, 2012 Hall of Famer? Major League Baseball (MLB) has always been one of the worst offenders of players engaging in questionable behavior. With the MLB featuring as a key example in the steroid debate, how can the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) electors decide which players are eligible to be inducted into the Hall of Fame? Located in Cooperstown, New York, the National Baseball Hall of Fame is in anticipation for new members. An election is

Although men and women’s basketball are closer to being equal than softball and baseball, the leagues are still separate. America has a women’s league and a men’s league and never the two shall meet. A woman is not allowed in the NBA since she has the WNBA. The separation is strong, obvious, and seemingly permanent. Like basketball, they created softball to play indoors during the winter. The game earned the name softball and due to its easier properties was often “regarded as baseball’s stepchild”

“The New Eight Men out.” NY Daily News, NYDailyNews.com, 14 Feb. 2009, www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/news-examines-hall-fame-chances-mlb-new-men-article-1.389225. Accessed 17 Jan. 2017. The article was a list of big time players who had been accused of using Performance Enhancing Drugs at some point in their career. Some of the players

National Football League in the U.S. and how this organization is structured. I will also discuss typical market structures and type of

the world soccer, or futbol, is the national sport. In America though, it is overshadowed by American football, baseball, basketball and hockey. As the sport gains momentum in the US we wonder if it will ever become as big as those four. This is uncertain because Americans usually hop on the band wagon for events like the World Cup and then fall off once MLS and Premier League seasons begin. Studies point to European contempt and the American identity as important factors in the failure of soccer

the relationship between team salary and performance. If an NBA team spends more money on player salaries, this does not guarantee a better team performance. In 2013, an article on basesandbaskets.com compared NBA team salaries to their regular season wins totals. This study found that it was about split,

Sheila Sim Mrs. Virginia Link-Pease English 122 02 October 2010 Steroid Use in Sports Should Be Banned Day by day professional athletes are being praised for their ability and accomplishments in their respective sports. The professional athletes that are succeeding the most are generally using performance enhancing drugs, other known as anabolic steroids (Mayo Clinic). Anabolic steroids are drugs which imitate the effect of the male sex hormone, Testosterone. The cells producing protein increase