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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
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
February 11, 2009
Jeff Kallman |
A-Rod Agonistes With the New York Yankees, there's no such thing as a subdued season, and it isn't as though they've gone untouched by the long arm of actual or alleged performance-enhancing substances. |
Sports Central
May 15, 2009
Jeffrey Boswell |
Sports Q&A: Manny Ramirez' Ball Tales Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Manny Ramirez, recently suspended for testing positive for a banned drug, said the drugs were prescribed by a physician for a "personal health issue." Should we buy Ramirez' explanation? |
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
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
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 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
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
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 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. |
Popular Mechanics
February 11, 2009
Allen St. John |
Alex Rodriguez's Drug of Choice: A Close Look at Primobolan and Its Effects Since the shocking report of Alex Rodriguez using performance-enhancing drugs, there has been little of how he might have benefited. Here's a closer look at the drug that was discovered in A-Rod's urine samples. |
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
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
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
February 11, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
The Writing on the Wall Barks at A-Rod Accepting the inevitable comes hard enough. When the inevitable is banishment for cause, few kicked and screamed as loudly or as wildly as Alex Rodriguez did until Friday. |
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." |
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
August 2, 2013
Jeff Kallman |
A-Rod's Fate May Provide Once-Unlikely Opportunities It's not a question of "if" but "when" the hammer drops on Alex Rodriguez. But it is a question of just what the hammer's head will be made of that keeps observers examining A-Rod's, and baseball's, pending fate. |
Sports Central
September 11, 2007
Aaron Miller |
Pay-Rod New York actually wants, maybe even needs Alex Rodriguez, and only they can really afford to make him feel the same way. |
Sports Central
July 9, 2009
Jonathan Lowe |
Shame in Their Fame? Next Tuesday will be a night when older baseball stars show off for the masses, and rising performers will stake their claim to future success. |
Sports Central
January 13, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
A-Rod Agonistes, the Final Chapter? We could see a 2014 baseball season and maybe more without Alex Rodriguez, after all. |
AskMen.com
June 7, 2013
Dave Golokhov |
Biogenesis Steroid Scandal We want to believe that everyone is clean and that athletes are playing fair. As today shows us -- once again -- the hard truth is quite different. It will always be that way. |
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. |
AskMen.com
Andrew Nuschler |
Why Are Steroids Still Taboo? Mark McGwire must be a little confused right now. |
Sports Central
May 2, 2007
Bob Ekstrom |
Well Done, Mr. April April is and has been many things. This year, it was A-Rod's. |
Sports Central
February 5, 2009
Sean Crowe |
Taking a Stand on Performance-Enhancing Drugs Is it really fair to tarnish Barry Bonds for doing something we're pretty sure a large percentage of the pitchers he was facing was also doing? |
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. |
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Ramirez Suspended For Drug Violation Ramirez is the most prominent suspended under the drug policy players and owners put in place seven years ago. |
Sports Central
September 12, 2010
Bob Ekstrom |
Why Roger Clemens Will Beat the Rap There are plenty of holes in the prosecution's case for Roger Clemens' defense team to rip wide open. |
Sports Central
November 18, 2003
John Roberts |
Baseball's Truest Test Baseball has been brought back to reality after the dreamlike run the Florida Marlins gave us this past postseason. Major League Baseball announced more than five percent of its players randomly tested this year were positive for steroids of some sort. |
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
February 11, 2008
Diane M. Grassi |
MLB Ownership Given Pass By Feds The way in which the drug culture was arguably enabled by MLB and its subsequent punishments were laughable and was perhaps the precursor to the abuse of steroids and HGH in the 1990s and into the 21st century. |
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
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
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. |
AskMen.com
Dave Golokhov |
Victor Conte Interview We caught up with Victor Conte, possibly the most infamous non-athlete associated with steroids, to find out if the next generation of athletes are destined to raise the bar by juicing, just as snowboarders and tennis players do by continuously getting improved equipment? |
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." |
Sports Central
July 23, 2013
Jeff Kallman |
Braun and Done Since the word came that Ryan Braun accepted a suspension for the remainder of the 2013 season, he has been hammered as having gone from one of baseball's more engaging presences to one of the game's least forthcoming liars. |
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
July 20, 2011
Clinton Riddle |
Less is More Both Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens have shown federal lawyers to be rather, shall we say, prone to the breaking ball. |
Sports Central
September 19, 2007
Will Tidey |
Juicing Another Game? A while back baseball higher-ups decided performance-enhancing drugs were irrelevant to the sport. How could one group be so wrong? |
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. |
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
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 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
August 6, 2013
Jeff Kallman |
Monday, Bloody Monday A-Rod's going to appeal his suspension, maybe with an eye toward bringing it somewhere in the middle of the handed-down 211 baseball games and Ryan Braun's 65. |
Salon.com
December 20, 2000
Allen Barra |
The Alex Rodriguez FAQ Is he worth all that money? Will these giant contracts ever stop? Is salary inflation driving up ticket prices? Ruining baseball? (Short answers: Yes, no, no, no.) |
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
March 17, 2008
Matt Thomas |
MLB 2008: 15 Reasons to Watch Fifteen examples of what is sure to be served up on your Major League Baseball plate over the course of the upcoming season. |
