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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.   |
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. |
Sports Central
March 14, 2005
Dave Golokhov |
I Hate Mondays: Gambling With Steroids Olympic athletes who try to bend the rules are ousted and excommunicated. Baseball players who have steadily used steroids in the past should go the same way. |
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
June 20, 2007
Joe Boesch |
Giambi Shouldn't Be the MLB Scapegoat But he may have opened his mouth too much this time on the issue of steroids. |
Sports Central
August 31, 2005
Diane M. Grassi |
Unaccountability Leaves Cloud Over MLB As long as positive drug test results can be dismissed by players, doubted in the headlines, and penalties to players so meager, Major League Baseball will continue to have a public relations cloud over its head. |
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
February 18, 2005
Vince Grzegorek |
A Literary Romp Through Steroids Welcome just the two latest chapters in the ongoing steroid saga that has dominated the offseason of baseball. |
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
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
August 9, 2005
Eric Poole |
Rafael in Bushworld Rafael Palmeiro is telling the truth when he says he never intentionally took steroids, or at least that's what President Bush thinks -- even though the notion that any professional athlete would ingest or inject something into his body without knowing exactly what is in it strains credulity. |
AskMen.com
July 24, 2002
Mark Simmons |
The (Sad) State Of The Pastime The question should no longer be when the music will stop for the two potentially contracted teams, but rather, when the music will stop for baseball as the national pastime. |
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
May 31, 2002
Allen Barra |
Steroids: The cancer that's growing inside baseball Until the national pastime solves its drug problem, the game's integrity will be threatened... |
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
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." |
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 Central
May 24, 2011
Brad Oremland |
Re-Thinking Zero Tolerance For Steroids We don't have to accept steroid use in baseball, and we probably shouldn't accept it. But there has to be a line. And I think zero tolerance is too strict a standard. |
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
April 13, 2006
Matt Thomas |
It's Only Cheating if You Get Caught Major League Baseball's "seek-and-destroy" mentality targeting steroid users and abusers is doing nothing to help the integrity of the game. |
Sports Central
April 16, 2005
Greg Wyshynski |
Survey Says: Steroids Don't Matter The Associated Press and AOL Sports polled 1,001 adults about their thoughts on professional baseball today. The results are interesting, if not startling. |
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. |
Reason
June 2005
Aaron Steinberg |
In Defense of Steroids Jose Canseco's surprisingly sensible case for juice: A book review of Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big, by Jose Canseco. |
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
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
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 Illustrated
May 28, 2002
Tom Verducci |
Baseball's worst-kept secret Now the worst-kept secret is out: Steroids have a firm footing in the game and they do enhance performance... |
Sports Central
March 8, 2005
Martin Hawrysko |
Selig's "I Didn't Know" Act Wearing Thin, Dull Steroid responsibility falls on the lap of MLB Commission Bud Selig... Baseball's veteran committee fails again... Illinois maintains top ranking after loss... etc. |
Sports Central
February 25, 2005
Kevin Ferra |
Questions, Answers, and More Confusion Everyone has been talking about it -- the steroid issue. Yet, believe it or not, baseball will survive with or without the steroids, and any allegations Jose Canseco has made. |
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. |
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
July 11, 2011
Bill Hazell |
Locked Out Twice? The NFL labor dispute is on the edge of being resolved, but the NBA lockout has just started and thus, they are nowhere near an agreement. |
Sports Central
December 15, 2007
Greg Wyshynski |
Lenny Dykstra, From 'Nails' to Nailed If the Mitchell Report teaches us anything, it's that "The Steroid Era" was all encompassing. Pitchers, catchers, fielders. Black, white, Latino. Stars, scrubs, and Ricky Bones. |
Sports Central
February 25, 2009
Bill Hazell |
A-Rod and the Steroid Era It seems that many want to pretend that they were not surprised by the admission of one Alex Rodriguez that he injected steroids |
Sports Central
March 13, 2005
Vince Grzegorek |
Baseball's Coming to Washington And we're not talking about the new Nationals. The steroid story has opened like a ninth-inning rally, and the U.S. House of Representatives has been called in for relief. |
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... |
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 13, 2005
William Geoghegan |
Long Live the Long Ball Who needs steroids? Certainly not the players in this year's record-breaking Home Run Derby, the opening sideshow to Major League Baseball's annual All-Star Game. |
Reason
January 2003
Dayn Perry |
Pumped-Up Hysteria Forget the hype. Steroids aren't wrecking professional baseball. |
Sports Central
January 7, 2005
Bijan C. Bayne |
'Roid Rage in the Drive For 755 All eyes will be watching Barry Bonds as he tries to break the all-time home run record held by Hank Aaron. |
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? |
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. |
BusinessWeek
November 1, 2004 |
How the Baseball Commish Calls It Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig on money in the majors, steroids, a certain rich New York team, and much, much more. |
Sports Central
August 3, 2007
Joe Boesch |
The MLB Connection in Israel Was bringing the game of baseball to Israel designed to expand the game -- or create a distract from some of Major League Baseball's problems? |
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
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
March 1, 2005
Eric Poole |
The Two Sides of Barry Bonds With Bonds, there's never any shortage of people who done him wrong. But Bonds can't simply be dismissed as a whiner. The truth is more nuanced than that, if only because he's not always wrong. |
Sports Central
May 10, 2005
Matt Thomas |
Barry Bonds, a Legacy in Transition Barry Lamar Bonds holds his own when viewed in light of standards set by the game's all-time greats. But his problems start and finish with his attitude. |
Sports Central
June 10, 2006
Greg Wyshynski |
The Steroid Gossip Game It's a difficult gig for anyone paid to promote Major League Baseball's product as a sports journalist, to reconcile one's dedication to morals and standards while celebrating alleged, supposed, and would-be "cheaters." |
