Richard Barry

Power Balance bracelets have been around for just over five years and ever since they came out they have been surrounded by controversy. The bracelets claim to increase your ability to balance along with prolonging your stamina. Both claims are completely false and are not supported by any actual science. Despite having no real affect on your athletic ability hundreds of thousands of athletes purchased and wore these bracelets in the hopes their abilities would be heightened. . A large

Goldwater’s efforts and held out hope for continuing conservative momentum, others saw his defeat not only as an individual defeat, but also as the derailing of the entire conservative movement. On the day after the election, the New York Times argued that “Barry Goldwater not only lost the presidential election… but the conservative cause as well.” This conclusion would be later discredited by continued conservative success in the mid-term elections of 1966 and the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980. “Paradoxically

“Biogenesis Owner and A-Rod Cousin among 9 Arrested in Steroids Scandal.” Fox News, Fox News Network, 5 Aug. 2014, www.foxnews.com/world/2014/08/05/biogenesis-owner-rod-cousin-among-arrested-in-steroid-scandal.html. Accessed 13 Jan. 2017. The article is about Alex Rodriguez PED scandal during 2013. Alex Rodriguez was accused of using performance enhancing drugs to better his game but he was caught and tried working over it as if it never happened. With this happening 9 people were arrested including

Baseball: MLB added random drug test in 2001, then on June 8, 2002 a meeting was held before the all-star game about the random drug test they was giving two teams. June 18, same year the MLB committee was involved in a strict drug testing policy and with the drug testing period many players was caught using some type of PED. This testing process consists of a collections of urine was giving to an organization called WADA. After these events even the training camps had drug testing before the real

Previously, I showed how Chris Davis propensity to strike out decreases his overall offensive production despite a decent walk rate. I made two questionable assumptions in that article. I assumed that players will hit the same proportion of pitches in the strike zone and that production per ball put into play would remain constant regardless of swing rate. These assumptions seem to be counterintuitive. Batters that swing less frequently should be expected to swing at only the best pitches and therefore

Drug Abuse in Professional Sports Drug abuse, and its consequences, is a problem in all sports, even among sports most decorated athletes. For instance, Alex Rodriguez was a professional baseball player who played with the New York Yankees. He was a three time all star with 696 homeruns under his belt. Towards the end of his career, MLB authorities found that he had been using performance enhancing drugs after failing a drug test. Rodriguez was issued a one-year ban and a ruined reputation. In

According to Ken Gurnick of MLB.com, Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig’s one-game suspension has been rescinded, after being appealed. While Puig is no longer being forced to miss a game, the Players’ Association and Major League Baseball have agreed that the outfielder will make a charitable donation instead. The suspension stems from an incident on June 13th, when the Dodgers and Indians clashed at Progressive Field. Following his own two-run home run in the second inning, Puig threw up both middle

You are at a baseball game with your favorite team playing against another team. You’ve bought your hot dog, pop, and other refreshments and sit in the bleachers. You have been waiting for this day for a while now, in hopes to get an autograph from your favorite player, but you’ve found out that they have been discounted from the game for using Performance Enhancing Drugs (PEDs) but… why? They can’t be that bad can they? For this topic, most people would say yes and that we should ban all PEDs because

In 1998, the movie Rain Man, starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise, hit movie theaters and became a major hit. On opening weekend, the movie earned $7 million and eventually earned over $354 million worldwide. The character played by Dustin Hoffman was an autistic savant. For many people, this was their first introduction to autism. The public awareness this movie gave to autism did much to dispel many incorrect ideas about those who are affected by autism. Autism disorder, a developmental disorder

It is hard to decide who truly deserves to be in the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame because it is hard to pick out those who used steroids and other performance enhancing drugs from those who did not. Many would like to say that athletes in all sports always keep it clean and play fair, but this is rare these days. Doping in sports has always been a problem. However, it seems that the number of athletes who dope has increased dramatically over the years, doping sacrifices many values and cheats