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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 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 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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 16, 2004
Jeff Kallman |
Reggie Jackson's Fuzzy Math Thoughts on Reggie Jackson's comments about homerun statistics and steroid use. |
Sports Central
September 8, 2004
Jeff Kallman |
Bonds: "I'm Amazed By it All" Not so amazed is Hank Aaron, who said, "he's probably one of the greatest hitters that ever played the game." And Harmon Killebrew, who added, "with all the records he's approaching, you've got to say that. He's a great player." |
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 Illustrated
November 13, 2001
Tom Verducci |
Scorecard Mark McGwire leaves the game the way he played it -- with class... |
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. |
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
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 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
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 3, 2006
Sara Normand |
Bonds Finding New Ways to Make Headlines If you haven't already seen more than enough of Bonds than you ever wanted in this past week, just wait. His new reality TV series airs on April 4 on ESPN2. |
Sports Central
July 26, 2007
Kevin Beane |
The Beauty of Basking in Barry Is there a better player, a better dignitary, a better man to accept the torch from Hank Aaron than Barry bonds? No one immediately comes to mind. |
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
May 18, 2007
Jeffrey Boswell |
Sports Q&A: Celebrating Bonds How can baseball fans celebrate Barry Bonds eclipsing Henry Aaron's record of 755 home runs and maintain their sense of dignity? |
Sports Illustrated
September 17, 2002
Tom Verducci |
Taking the fifth Barry Bonds' multidimensional game fuels another MVP bid. |
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
February 17, 2009
Jeff Kallman |
You Can't Always Get What You Want Barry Bonds from nearly the beginning of his major league career behaved as though baseball was his entitlement and its record books, his birthright. |
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 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. |
Sports Central
May 30, 2006
Mark Chalifoux |
Who Cares About Bonds? You Do Just about everyone has an opinion on Barry Bonds. |
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
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. |
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
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? |
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... |
AskMen.com
Simon Sinek |
Are You Willing To Strike Out?: Simon Sinek It's perfectly fine to be a good, solid player who doesn't go down swinging that often, but it also means you won't hit that many home runs. |
Sports Central
February 18, 2005
Bijan C. Bayne |
Bonds' Stock Falling: Was Barry Ever "Best"? For three years, assorted scribes, radio sports talk hosts, and ESPN heads have declared Barry Bonds as either the greatest ballplayer of all-time, the best hitter who ever lived, or the best player active today. |
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." |
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 Illustrated
May 3, 2001
Stephen Cannella |
Meaningless milestones Baseball's 'magic numbers' don't mean what they used to... |
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
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 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. |
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
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... |
Salon.com
August 30, 2001
Joan Walsh |
If Jeff Kent were black The San Francisco Giants' All-Star second baseman got off easy for blasting Barry Bonds to Sports Illustrated, because the media likes him and hates Bonds. Could race (say it isn't so!) have anything to do with it? |
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
July 3, 2007
Scott Shepherd |
2007 MLB All-Star Snubs When the players and coaches filled out the remaining roster spots with worthy participants, they dropped the ball. |
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
June 4, 2005
Tyson Wirth |
The 10 Greatest Records in Baseball The heroes of baseball past should share the same celebration as Memorial Day, but too often, fans and managers get caught up in the pitching probables of the day, strategic moves that were made or missed, and minor injuries to the game's biggest names. |
Sports Illustrated
August 22, 2001
Stephen Cannella |
Better Than Ever While others pursue the home run record, Sammy Sosa is having his finest season... |
