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 Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal that Rocked Professional Sports $15.00 Game of Shadows, by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams, tells a factual story of of how Victor Conte, the founder of BALCO, rose from being a self-proclaimed nutritionist to being the steroid supplier of choice to a large number of world-class athletes across a multitude of sports. Along with Conte himself and the cast of characters involved with BALCO, either as users, suppliers, or competitors, the story focuses on baseball player Barry Bonds. Mr Fainaru-Wada and Mr Williams detail how Barry Bonds was apparently jealous of the attention Mark McGuire (probably a steroid user) received when hitting a record-breaking 70 home runs during the 1998 season. Mr Bonds, per the book, successfully turned to steroids to become the greatest hitter of his generation, and perhaps even of all time, at an age when virtually all baseball players are in severe decline. The irony here is that even if Barry Bonds had prematurely retired instead of beginning to use steroids, his performance to that point would have still been good enough to merit being voted into the baseball hall of fame, probably on the first ballot. Instead, assuming he's guilty (and the book presents reams of evidence in support of that guilt), he tarnished his reputation and legacy for all time, will not receive due credit for the bulk of his career when he was clean, and may never be voted into the hall of fame. The book also includes interesting description of how steroids help improve performance, and what some of the side effects and health problems that are likely to result from steroid use. This is a good book and I recommend it.  Media Framing of The Steroids Scandal in Major League Baseball: Negative Framing, The Fallen Hero, and Emerging Frames in Coverage $75.74 Long considered to be the 800-pound gorilla in the room that league officials, players, and owners ignored, the steroids issue in Major League baseball began to emerge in the late-1990s. It came to a head in 2004 with federal investigations of the Bay Area Lab Cooperative (BALCO) and several prominent Major League Baseball players, including Jason Giambi, Gary Sheffield, and Barry Bonds.Fans read along in the news as heroes came under question, the validity of records were challenged, and the people they once admired were potentially compromising a game they love. Investigations led to greater scrutiny and culminated in Congressional hearings and an eventual set of league reforms relating to drug testing and penalties for violations.This analysis is a content analysis of the print and Internet coverage of several regionally relevant newspapers and national news Web sites. It examines coverage in terms of frame presence, frame valence, issue specific frames, episodic frames, and incorporates emerging frames in the analysis. |
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