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Sports Central August 8, 2007 Bijan C. Bayne |
In Bonds, Did We Create a Longball Monster? The most revered and memorized individual record in sport is tainted. |
Sports Central April 8, 2006 Bijan C. Bayne |
MLB Plays Hardball Too Little, Too Late Baseball commissioner Bud Selig's recent appointment of former Senator George Mitchell to investigate past drug use and abuse is misguided on many fronts. |
Sports Central April 3, 2006 Bill Hazell |
Baseball's Anti-Race is On Step right up. Fasten your seat-belts, it's going to be an awkward, tension-filled season. |
Sports Central April 7, 2005 Vincent Musco |
Bonds Leaves Us Feeling Confused Barry Bonds is positioned to break Babe Ruth's home run record but other issues such as steroid use cloud his image. |
Sports Central March 8, 2006 Mike Round |
Hold the Front Page: Barry Was Juiced We don't need two guys from the San Francisco Chronicle to tell us BALCO Barry was playing dirty. |
Sports Central May 14, 2009 Bijan C. Bayne |
Time For MLB to Man Up on Records Which sluggers from this period merit election to Cooperstown? The Manny Ramirez mess only serves to further muddy these waters. |
Sports Central March 3, 2006 Sara Normand |
Bonds Finding New Ways to Make Headlines If you haven't already seen more than enough of Bonds than you ever wanted in this past week, just wait. His new reality TV series airs on April 4 on ESPN2. |
Sports Central April 23, 2007 Eric Poole |
Flashback to 756 Hank Aaron said he is too old for "this excrement" that would go along with chasing Barry Bonds around the country waiting for home run number 756. |
Sports Central July 26, 2007 Kevin Beane |
The Beauty of Basking in Barry Is there a better player, a better dignitary, a better man to accept the torch from Hank Aaron than Barry bonds? No one immediately comes to mind. |
Salon.com October 25, 2002 Allen Barra |
Barry and the Babe Forget the nostalgia freaks droning on and on about the Mythical White Ballplayer era. Barry Bonds is the greatest player in baseball history. |
Sports Central September 8, 2004 Jeff Kallman |
Bonds: "I'm Amazed By it All" Not so amazed is Hank Aaron, who said, "he's probably one of the greatest hitters that ever played the game." And Harmon Killebrew, who added, "with all the records he's approaching, you've got to say that. He's a great player." |
Sports Central April 21, 2006 Mark Chalifoux |
Barry Bonds, the Ultimate Underdog How is it so that, so far, against all the odds, Barry is still playing baseball? |
Sports Central March 16, 2004 Jeff Kallman |
Reggie Jackson's Fuzzy Math Thoughts on Reggie Jackson's comments about homerun statistics and steroid use. |
Sports Central March 30, 2006 Jeff Kallman |
The Trouble With Barry He may pass Hank Aaron as a home run hitter and a ballplayer, but Hank Aaron is light years past Barry Bonds as a man. |
Sports Central May 7, 2007 Seth Doria |
The Legend of Barry Baseball Just as Aaron breaking Ruth's record was a symbolic victory over the racist institution that was Major League Baseball, Bonds' accomplishments are a symbolic punishment for baseball's two-faced hypocrisy over the use of chemical enhancements. |
Sports Central March 25, 2004 David Zirin |
The Case For Barry Bonds For Sports Illustrated to hang the asterisk on Bonds was to publicly call history's greatest baseball career into question |
Sports Central February 27, 2006 Dave Golokhov |
I Hate Mondays: What Does 756 Mean? Nobody cares about the prospects of the San Francisco Giants winning the World Series. It's all Bonds and it's all 756. Can he do it? And will it be relevant? |
Popular Mechanics April 2005 Allen St. John |
Barry the Babe Who's the better hitter? When Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants bats for Babe Ruth's record a few weeks from now, it'll be a whole new ballgame for stat-obsessed fans. |
Sports Central May 22, 2007 Paul Tenorio |
Should Barry Bonds Be a Hall of Famer? Barry Bonds surely had Hall of Fame numbers before the steroid controversy erupted. So does his alleged steroid use change the picture -- and should it? |
Sports Central May 20, 2004 Vincent Musco |
Baseball's Steroid Fallout Our nation's pastime faces a steroid epidemic which stands to destroy the credibility of some of baseball's brightest stars. |
Salon.com June 20, 2001 Allen Barra |
The best season ever? Barry Bonds is on his way, if you look at the stat -- and it isn't home runs -- that measures offensive performance most accurately... |
Sports Central May 30, 2006 Mark Chalifoux |
Who Cares About Bonds? You Do Just about everyone has an opinion on Barry Bonds. |
Salon.com March 28, 2002 Allen Barra |
What Barry Bonds did wrong He's the best player in baseball, but hitting 73 home runs at age 37 isn't just unnatural, it might be ruining the game... |
AskMen.com Steve Seepersaud |
Top 20: Baseball Players Of All Time This season, Barry Bonds continues his assault on the Major League Baseball record books, closing in on the career home run title. He's easily one of the best players the game has ever seen. |
Sports Central February 17, 2009 Jeff Kallman |
You Can't Always Get What You Want Barry Bonds from nearly the beginning of his major league career behaved as though baseball was his entitlement and its record books, his birthright. |
Sports Central June 12, 2008 Ben Feller |
We Wish It Was You, Ken Griffey, Jr. Now that Cincinnati Reds outfielder Ken Griffey, Jr. is on the brink of hitting his 600th home run, fans wish it was Griffey, not Bonds, that would have the all-time home run record. And it might be so, were it not for injuries. |
Sports Central December 15, 2004 Diane M. Grassi |
The Epitome of Hubris At a time when Major League Baseball could really use its players to promote a positive image, two of its biggest stars -- Barry Bonds and Alex Rodriguez -- choose to take the easiest route to earn the quickest return without including the community or its children. |
Sports Central June 26, 2009 Paul Foeller |
Do We Really Hate Steroid Use? We are guilty of enabling their steroid use by remaining willingly and blissfully ignorant of it. |
Sports Central August 3, 2005 Bijan C. Bayne |
The Steroid Storm: Plausible Denial? A picture is taking shape in baseball that makes sense of the decade since the 1994 strike. The power surge, the nagging injuries, and so on. Yes, the picture is coming into focus, and it's ugly |
Sports Central February 18, 2005 Bijan C. Bayne |
Bonds' Stock Falling: Was Barry Ever "Best"? For three years, assorted scribes, radio sports talk hosts, and ESPN heads have declared Barry Bonds as either the greatest ballplayer of all-time, the best hitter who ever lived, or the best player active today. |
Sports Central May 18, 2007 Jeffrey Boswell |
Sports Q&A: Celebrating Bonds How can baseball fans celebrate Barry Bonds eclipsing Henry Aaron's record of 755 home runs and maintain their sense of dignity? |
Sports Central December 11, 2004 Greg Wyshynski |
The Business of Barry Bonds The party's over. Too many politicians are too interested in what is one of those slam-dunk public relations coups for congressmen on the stump. |
Sports Illustrated June 26, 2001 Mark Bechtel |
Summit Meeting Barry Bonds paid a call on Mark McGwire, the man whose homer record he's chasing... |
Sports Illustrated September 17, 2002 Tom Verducci |
Taking the fifth Barry Bonds' multidimensional game fuels another MVP bid. |
Sports Central August 11, 2007 Greg Wyshynski |
Barry Bonds, the Symptom and the Cause Baseball lost its way years before Barry Bonds began his formal assault on Hank Aaron's record. He's a symptom of that degradation of character, but far from its cause. |
Sports Central July 26, 2011 Brad Oremland |
Barry Bonds, on the Edge of Cooperstown A Hall of Fame that doesn't recognize Barry Bonds isn't serving its mission. |
Sports Central August 17, 2005 Josh Frank |
Baseball's Numbers Game: One For the Record In the midst of the latest steroid scandals, baseball has found its record books being threatened. But this isn't the first time those records have come under assault by a changing game. |
Sports Central April 10, 2006 Adam Russell |
Bonds, Rose Deserve Similar Punishment A number of comparisons can be drawn between the current Bonds situation and Pete Rose's of the late 1980s. One of them is the argument regarding the game's "integrity." |
AskMen.com Simon Sinek |
Are You Willing To Strike Out?: Simon Sinek It's perfectly fine to be a good, solid player who doesn't go down swinging that often, but it also means you won't hit that many home runs. |
Sports Central March 26, 2005 Greg Wyshynski |
Sports Media's Steroid Hypocrisy Today's sports pundits have more in common with Major League Baseball's braintrust than they'd like to admit -- they all placed their heads in the sand just deep enough to play blind to the sport's steroid subculture while still being able to hear the cash register ring. |
Salon.com January 16, 2002 Allen Barra |
This just in: Giuliani, Steinbrenner are sleazebags! Plus: Barry Bonds' $90 million deal is a no-brainer... |
Sports Central December 14, 2007 Bijan C. Bayne |
'Roid Rage: Fallout From Mitchell Report There will be no drop in attendance due to the cloud of suspicion, or bitterness toward past cheaters. |
Salon.com September 29, 2000 Allen Barra |
The greatness of Barry Bonds Sure, he's totally unlovable, but the San Francisco Giants superstar is still the best player in the National League, and maybe the best in baseball... |
Sports Central June 4, 2007 Brad Oremland |
Steroids: Beyond Barry Bonds Spurs win NBA Playoffs... More on Michael Vick... Feeling sorry for Gil Meche... Yadier Molina of the Cardinals fractures his wrist... Despite steroid use, Barry Bonds is still an exceptional athlete... |
AskMen.com Malcolm MacMillan |
Top 10: Valuable Collector's Items These items from key moments in sporting history are out there, but got shuffled away in the excitement of victory. And someone might just have one of them among his family treasures. |
Sports Illustrated May 3, 2001 Stephen Cannella |
Meaningless milestones Baseball's 'magic numbers' don't mean what they used to... |
BusinessWeek December 20, 2004 Mark Hyman |
Steroid Scandal? Pass the Peanuts Do fans care half as much as a few politicos and media scolds? They seem a lot more interested in the free-agent mating dance between Red Sox hurler Pedro Martinez and Yankees principal owner George Steinbrenner. |
Sports Central February 10, 2005 Piet Van Leer |
Should Jose Canseco Be Believed? Yes, we've been here before with Canseco, and odds are if we buy enough books, he'll make other shocking claims in later editions. But should he be ignored? |
Sports Central January 10, 2008 Sean Crowe |
The Obligatory "Jim Rice HOF Snub" Column Another year goes by and once again, the Baseball Writers' Association of America proves they lack the metal prowess required to elect baseball players to the Hall of Fame. |
Sports Central September 26, 2005 Chris Cornell |
Baseball's Big Embarrassment If those in charge of the sport don't change what is happening to their game in an appropriate manner, they will lose their fan base permanently. |