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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 Illustrated September 10, 2002 Tom Verducci |
A Dopey Policy Baseball's new drug testing program is the laughingstock of experts who see it for what it is -- a toothless public relations ploy. |
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 August 6, 2009 Sean Crowe |
The 2003 Steroid List is Ruining Baseball Release the entire 2003 steroid list, let everyone react, then let everyone move on. Just close your eyes and rip off the Band-Aid. |
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 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 November 25, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
The Fan Who Transformed the Union As long as Michael Weiner sat in the Major League Baseball Players Association's top seat, the most grievous issue wouldn't be grievous for very long, and that going to war rather than building a peace would be a fool's errand. |
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 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. |
AskMen.com |
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 August 8, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
Beware Innuendo, Even With and After Biogenesis Not only did ESPN uncover the fact that Gio Gonzalez never received a single actual or alleged performance-enhancing substance from Biogenesis, but Gonzalez passed a drug test shortly after the scandal broke in the first place. |
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 November 19, 2005 Jeff Pohlmeyer |
A-Rod and Bartolo: Definitely Valuable Boston's hatred of Alex Rodriguez ends with the fans of their beloved team. On Monday, A-Rod was rightfully voted the Most Valuable Player in the American League by the baseball writers for the second time in three years. |
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. |
Salon.com June 20, 2002 Allen Barra |
Marvin Miller: Don't trust baseball's drug-testing proposal The former head of the Baseball Players Association says that the owners have no reason to crack down on steroid use -- so the commissioner's random-test proposal may just be moral grandstanding. |
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 7, 2005 Dave Golokhov |
I Hate Mondays: First is the Worst Who will be the first Major League Baseball player to test positive for steroids? It's what we are all waiting for ... someone to slip up. |
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 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 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. |
AskMen.com January 7, 2004 Steve Seepersaud |
Steroid Use In Sports If the guys around you are using supplements, the pressure is high to keep up with them. For pro athletes, high-profile jobs and very high incomes are at stake. |
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. |
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. |
Reason January 2003 Dayn Perry |
Pumped-Up Hysteria Forget the hype. Steroids aren't wrecking professional baseball. |
Sports Central February 17, 2005 Daniel Collins |
Why Baseball Should Let the Players Cheat Former Arizona Cardinals head coach and current Redskins coordinator Joe Bugle once coined the phrase, "if you're not cheating, you're not trying." If that's the case, you have to give the bulk of Major League Baseball players an "A" for effort. |
Sports Central April 3, 2005 Mike Round |
Baseball Returns After a Tumultuous Winter It hasn't been a great winter for sports in general, but only baseball has drawn the wrath of Congress. So who's to blame for this steroid mess, and how does the sport repair the damage? By playing the games and letting the actual drama of the season take precedent. |
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? |
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 May 13, 2009 Jeff Kallman |
A Tale of Two Sox The one thing you probably can't say about Manny Ramirez's somewhat clumsy come-uppance for actual or alleged performance-enhancing substances is that here at last is the proof that the two Boston Red Sox World Series wins to which he contributed equals tainted curse-busting. |
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 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 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. |
Sports Central February 27, 2009 Jeffrey Boswell |
Sports Q&A: A-Rod: HG "H" For "Honesty" Coming "clean" has never been so dirty. |
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? |
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 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 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 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. |
Sports Central September 16, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
Big Papi: From Hard Times to 500 His surge since June 10 has been staggering, with 28 bombs in 273 at-bats, a surge that at his point in life has probably been equaled only by Barry Bonds and Hank Aaron before him. |
Sports Central September 16, 2006 Bob Ekstrom |
Jeter, Ortiz Win Primaries, Face Off in Nov. Baseball is already preoccupied with potential winners of its most coveted honor: league MVP. |
Sports Central April 16, 2009 Sean Crowe |
Step Off the Ledge, Red Sox Fans You have to admire Red Sox fans. What other group of fans would reach for the panic button in unison 5.55% of the way into the season? |
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 June 5, 2013 Adam Russell |
Lifetime Bans Will Cure the Steroid Problems Well, here we are again with another drug scandal in Major League Baseball. We are, once again, faced with our diamond heroes having their reputations tainted with the use of illegal substances. |
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 September 28, 2004 Jeff Kallman |
Yanks/Sox: "It's Like a Disagreement in a Family" "It's a heated rivalry," said Boston"s Dave Roberts. "There's respect between the teams, but there's no love lost." |
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 Illustrated July 9, 2002 Tom Verducci |
Fehring the worst Baseball's union head has many issues to solve -- starting with steroids. |
AskMen.com |
Steroids It is important to understand the dangers associated with steroid use -- dangers that not all men are aware of. |
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? |
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. |