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January 9 looms as a day of reckoning for Baseball (i.e., a referendum on steroids in Baseball). Candidates must be retired for at least five years and need 75 percent of the votes to be inducted. More to the point, members of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America (BWAA) will either vote based solely on… Read more.
Notwithstanding all of the spectacular performances, the most compelling story in Baseball over the past 20 years has been the extent to which steroids fueled those performances. For the record, I believe performance-enhancing drugs and sports have become inextricably linked, and that only latter-day puritans masquerading as “sports purists” could believe otherwise. Lance Armstrong’s final fall… Read more.
I felt conflicted on Monday when I heard that a federal jury had acquitted former Yankees pitcher Roger Clemens on all six counts related to lying to Congress about taking steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs. Because here is what I wrote four years ago after watching this seven-time Cy Young Award winner testify at a… Read more.
As I watched highlights of Roger Clemens testifying before Congress yesterday, it occurred to me that … the more he said, the more he incriminated himself – not only on the settled charge of taking illegal performance enhancing drugs, but also on the looming charge of perjury and obstruction of justice. (Forget the Hall of… Read more.
