Sports are a major factor in the Chicano/a community. It constructs gender by oppressing women through their exclusion from participation in sporting events as well as providing men with a way to let off steam and regain their manhood. Delgado's article, "Golden But Not Brown" references Oscar de la Hoya and how some members of the Chicano/a community view him as lacking masculinity; comparing him to “El Lion”, Julio Cesar Chávez. “El lion” evokes a more traditional and virile, more aggressive boxing while Oscar de la Hoyas involves more strategy and movement. He is often described as a pretty boy for this by macho people in the Chicano/a community. De la Hoya's distinctive boxing style won him a gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics and ranked him among the best boxers as well as one of the most successful. Now primarily a promoter, running his company "Golden Boy Productions", he is a success in the neighborhoods of East Los Angeles. Yet even with all this fame and fortune, he is often ridiculed for his "winning, sunny attitude" outside the ring, calling his manhood into question. Men are supposed to be “quiet, sullen and aggressive,” all qualities to which de la Hoya does not belong. This shows that even though one can play a highly masculine and masculine-gendered sport, it does not necessarily mean that one has the characteristics of being macho according to the Mexican American community. Another article that focuses on sports and the importance of gender within it is that of Alamillo. “Baseball and club sports,” Alamillo argues that sports were an example of social construction. Transnational sports like baseball have shaped male behavior and gender in the United States and Mexico. For the youth discussed in the Alamillo conference, for me baseball also prevented the delinquency and negative activities that many young adolescents associated with. In middle school and high school, many kids smoked weed after school and hung out until they thought of something to do, which often ended in graffiti or consuming others. drugs. Many of these children ended up in gangs or in juvenile prison. So for me, it was a benefit to be in a positive environment that taught me how to behave like a “typical” masculine man in the Chicano/a community. The game promoted aspects of what was considered masculine that many men in the Mexican American community embrace in order to find their place in Chicano/a society..