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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
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. |
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
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. |
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. |
AskMen.com
Steve Seepersaud |
Endorsement Deals Gone Sour - Part 2 For advertisers, hitching their wagons to athletes can be tantamount to a crap shoot, and a financial nightmare. |
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. |
Reason
April 2009
Anderson & Jackson |
Putting Stars Behind Bars How did breaking sports rules become a federal offense? |
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
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
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
March 13, 2004
Jonathan Moncrief |
Using an Idiot's Logic: The Case of Todd Bertuzzi Todd Bertuzzi acted like the ultimate thug during his on-ice attack of Steve Moore. Todd Bertuzzi is receiving the justice he deserves. Ms. Brennan should perhaps consider this in the future, before using a broad brushstroke in painting hockey as something we need to rid ourselves of. |
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
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
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
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. |
AskMen.com
Steve Seepersaud |
Sports Gossip: Giambi Still Out, Expos Moving South? Colorado football gets another black eye... Cowboys-Jets 'unofficial' trade... Giambi benched by infection... Chewing on Wrigley's future... Expos to D.C.?... Americans volley for gold... etc. |
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
December 20, 2004
Diane M. Grassi |
Nation's Capitol, MLB Go Full Circle At one time, Major League Baseball was our celebrated pastime in the spring, summer, and early fall. Over the past couple of seasons, however, we have been put on a perpetual baseball calendar of an ongoing sideshow. |
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
January 25, 2006
Diane M. Grassi |
Winter Olympics Athletes Face Double Standard Big media and corporate sponsorship of sporting events in the US have become as big a story these days as the sports and athletes they themselves sponsor, with nary an opportunity missed by advertisers and networks alike to promote themselves. |
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
May 11, 2010
Brad Oremland |
Infotainment Comes to Sports It seems like legal experts get more face time on ESPN these days than coaches and GMs do. With each passing year, less and less of SportsCenter is devoted to game highlights, while more and more of it is devoted to off-field transgressions. |
Salon.com
September 25, 2002
King Kaufman |
MVP: Bonds and A-Rod, and it ain't close Let's cut the talk about reserving the award for a player on a winning team. The best player in the league is the most valuable, whoever he plays for. |
AskMen.com
Steve Seepersaud |
Sports Gossip: Jamal Lewis Fesses, Earnhardt Jr. Cusses Baltimore Ravens running back Jamal Lewis will spend four months in a prison uniform during the NFL off-season... New York Yankees outfielder Gary Sheffield ripped San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds a new one in an article appearing in the October 11th issue of Sports Illustrated... etc. |
AskMen.com
February 5, 2003
Mark Simmons |
Why The NFL Is So Fantastic As the NFL powers into the 21st century, it is head and shoulders above all other professional sports circuits. It is firing on all cylinders; both in terms of financial metrics and public relations goodwill. |
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
February 11, 2006
Greg Wyshynski |
Hockey's Higher Calling Hockey is bigger than the NHL, and if the NHL should ever go down, it's not taking hockey with it. |
Sports Central
August 16, 2011
Paul Foeller |
From Spring Training to the Fall Classic It may not be the way the baseball purists want to see it, and it may put a dent in yearly revenue, but a shortened MLB regular season will eventually happen. |
Sports Central
February 2, 2005
Tom Kosinski |
Sports Integrity, Where is It? I first thought maybe this was like a parody of professional wrestling, and the MLB was actually encouraging more players to start using steroids. |
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. |
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
February 17, 2006
Diane M. Grassi |
Winter Olympics TV Coverage Far From Golden Sports fans are not averse to watching Winter Olympics coverage, but trying to figure out NBC's television schedule has become a sport of Olympic proportions unto itself. |
Sports Central
September 2, 2005
Kevin Ferra |
It's Just American Football, or is it? The NFL is the top American sports leagues and is looking to expand into many international markets, including Europe, Canada, China and Mexico. |
AskMen.com
Lewis Helfand |
Pro Sports Contract Violations In contracts, as in many things in life, guaranteed does not always mean guaranteed. Players have seen their contracts revoked -- sometimes to their benefit and sometimes to a loss in personal wealth of millions. |
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
Steve Seepersaud |
Top TV Network Contracts Televised sporting events have huge audiences. The bigger the game, the bigger the audience. In America, no game is bigger than the Super Bowl. More than half of all the television sets in the U.S. are tuned in to the NFL's championship game. |
Sports Central
March 21, 2005
Diane M. Grassi |
Hearings Expose Inept Congress and MLB The House of Representatives and its House Government Reform Committee held hearings on March 17, 2005 supposedly to bring light to the subject on the prevention of steroid use in Major League Baseball. |
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. |
AskMen.com
Geoffrey Lansdell |
Top 10: Bad Apples In Sports Here are 10 bad apples in sports who have brought a lot of baggage, bad attitudes and maybe a little disgrace. |
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... |
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 Illustrated
October 30, 2002
Frank Deford |
Stuporstar Barry Bonds is as unloved as any player in sports history. |
Sports Central
April 5, 2007
Scott Shepherd |
Baseball's Back, and Not a Second Too Late Here's a look at some of the things that make baseball great. |
AskMen.com
Steve Seepersaud |
Sports Gossip: Griffey Down & Stewart Repeats Griffey injured, again!... Garnett wins NBA MVP... Trivial Matter... Feds have baseball drug test results... etc. |
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
January 12, 2005
Diane M. Grassi |
Never Say Never With Yankees Many new faces will be showing up to the Yankees' Legends Field in Tampa this February, so much so that combining this offseason with last year's offseason, even an avid Yankee fan may have to think twice to name the entire place setting at this point. |
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
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
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. |
