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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
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 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
December 3, 2006
Greg Wyshynski |
Why McGwire Belongs in Cooperstown There's not a single reason to keep Mark McGwire out of the Baseball Hall of Fame. |
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
May 13, 2014
Andrew Jones |
Active MLB Players' HOF Chances Major League Baseball's active list of potential Hall of Fame careers appears relatively clean. Let's turn over a new leaf and look at some worthy active candidates. |
Sports Central
April 27, 2004
Piet Van Leer |
Why Stats Can't Measure Bonds' True Worth As of Monday, Barry Bonds had reached base safely in 36 of his last 44 plate appearances. He is being touted as "the best baseball player anyone will ever see." |
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... |
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
January 10, 2013
Kevin Beane |
Steroids, Character, and the Hall of Fame Good job, Hall of Fame voters. I'm not sure whether or not to keep off-the-field villains out of the Hall or not, but please continue to keep baseball cheaters out of the baseball Hall of Fame. Thank you. |
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. |
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
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
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 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
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
January 13, 2013
Jeff Kallman |
A Hall Election and Nobody's Coming The Baseball Writers Association of America ended up electing nobody to the Hall of Fame. And I'm not sure which, among factors gaining serious discussion as the voting commenced and, at last, the results came in, may prove the most controversial of them all. |
Sports Central
June 1, 2009
Brad Oremland |
No, ESPN, Steroids Still Aren't Okay ESPN The Magazine has published a piece that goes further. Zev Chafets argues that steroids are as wholesome as apple pie. |
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
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
April 4, 2011
Clinton Riddle |
The Circus is in Town It's not likely that Barry Bonds will receive an unbiased verdict from any group of 12 jurors in this hemisphere. |
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
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
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
July 12, 2004
M. Edward Guest |
NL MVP Race Breakdown: Rolen vs. Bonds Through the halfway point in the Major League Baseball season, without any doubt, Barry Bonds deserves his seventh National League MVP Award. |
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
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
March 22, 2005
Andre Watson |
McGwire Loses in Court of Public Opinion For a person who seemed larger-than-life while he was on the baseball diamond, Mark McGwire's poor performance at the congressional hearing on steroid use in baseball will have a lasting effect on his legacy. |
Sports Central
August 15, 2005
Vince Grzegorek |
Rafael Palmeiro: Hall of Famer? The numbers may say one thing, but the chemicals say another. There is little to no chance that he will ever garner enough votes to enter the Hall of Fame. |
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
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 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
November 16, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
HOF Ballot: The Holdovers The holdover Hall of Fame ballot entrants are both an interesting and a troublesome group, largely because the recent rule changes limiting a Baseball Writers Association of America candidate to ten years on the ballot. |
AskMen.com
Bob Warja |
Andre Dawson Enters The Hall Of Fame In an era when many MLB all-time records have been tarnished due to steroid and performance-enhancing drug allegations, this weekend marks a time when we can celebrate a guy who did things clean. |
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 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
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
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. |
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. |
Sports Central
January 17, 2014
Brad Oremland |
The Hall of Fame, the BBWAA, and the Steroid Era If you care at all about the Baseball Hall of Fame, the election results released last week made you somewhat happy. |
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. |
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
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
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. |
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
January 27, 2009
Jeff Kallman |
Cooperstown Calling Commentary about recent Hall of Fame selections. |
Sports Central
January 20, 2010
Ross Lancaster |
The Hall of Why As you probably already know, a couple of weeks ago, Andre Dawson was announced as the only player to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame this year. |
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. |
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... |
