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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 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 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 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 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 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 Illustrated November 14, 2001 Tom Verducci |
Look for 2007 to be a Hall of a year Four first-ballot players could be enshrined in the baseball hall of fame... |
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 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 10, 2007 Jeff Kallman |
There is But One Word... Some thoughts on baseball's recent Hall of Fame voting -- especially regarding Mark McGwire. |
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. |
Salon.com July 24, 2000 Gary Kaufman |
Who's going to Cooperstown? Considering the definitelys, the probables and those intriguing maybes. |
Sports Central January 10, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
It's Past Time to Fix the Hall of Fame Voting The good news on the Hall of Fame front: Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine are the first teammates to go into the Hall of Fame together on their first try. |
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 January 22, 2010 Jeffrey Boswell |
Sports Q&A: Cardinal Sins and Sexual Healing Mark McGwire admitted to using steroids after years of refusing to discuss the matter. it was reported that Tiger Woods has entered a sex addiction clinic. Are these forgivable offenses? |
Sports Central January 9, 2014 Kevin Beane |
Baseball HOF Writer Makes it About Himself I haven't written about any HOF issues because they are way down my list of interesting sports matters at any given time, except for Pete Rose. |
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 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 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 January 13, 2010 Bill Hazell |
Mark McGwire and the Ugly Truth It may have taken some 11 years, but Mark McGwire has finally taken announcer Joe Buck's advice and touched base with all of us. |
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 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 January 17, 2011 Jeff Kallman |
The Dutchman and Other HOF Thoughts Well, now. I no longer have to apologize for championing Bert Blyleven as a Hall of Famer, which I've done for about the previous decade. He finally made it in his final try with the Baseball Writers Association of America. |
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 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. |
Sports Central January 27, 2009 Jeff Kallman |
Cooperstown Calling Commentary about recent Hall of Fame selections. |
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 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 Illustrated June 5, 2002 Tom Verducci |
Solving the steroids problem Players have the power to clean up baseball. |
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 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 Illustrated November 20, 2001 Tom Verducci |
Bash Call Big Mac has a clear path to the Hall, but what about Jose Canseco? |
Reason January 2003 Dayn Perry |
Pumped-Up Hysteria Forget the hype. Steroids aren't wrecking professional baseball. |
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 December 9, 2003 Jeff Kallman |
And Now, the End is Near? Will Pete Rose eventually be enshrined in the Hall of Fame? |
Sports Illustrated July 30, 2002 Frank Deford |
Smelling like a Rose Each year Pete Rose gets more sympathy and more visibility than the last. Frank Deford explains why baseball has only its nonsensical Hall of Fame ban to blame |
Sports Central August 20, 2005 Daniel Collins |
The National League Scorecard Comments on Rafael Palmeiro's Hall of Fame credentials, Sammy Sosa's lackluster statistics, the wild card race, and the performance of the National League West. |
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 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 July 24, 2004 Greg Wyshynski |
The Special People Club When it comes to the Baseball Hall of Fame, how do you compare position players and career starting pitchers, with glamorous stats, against players that excelled in more specialized roles? |
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. |
Sports Central February 27, 2009 Jeffrey Boswell |
Sports Q&A: A-Rod: HG "H" For "Honesty" Coming "clean" has never been so dirty. |
Salon.com May 16, 2002 King Kaufman |
A baseball strike in August? The workers demand buccaneer capitalism! The owners insist on socialism! As a strike looms, baseball negotiations offer a bizarro-world version of reality... |
Sports Central January 8, 2005 Greg Wyshynski |
Sandbaging Sandbergs The author says he is also consistent when it comes to the Baseball Hall of Fame. He remains, as always, the Cooperstown Nazi. his Hall of Fame would have about 25% of the players currently enshrined. |
Sports Central August 17, 2005 Josh Frank |
Baseball's Numbers Game: One For the Record In the midst of the latest steroid scandals, baseball has found its record books being threatened. But this isn't the first time those records have come under assault by a changing game. |
Sports Illustrated December 18, 2002 Tom Verducci |
Time to Fess Up If Pete Rose hopes to be reinstated, he must admit he bet on his sport. |
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 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 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 December 11, 2011 Louie Centanni |
Veterans Committee Should Be Ashamed Ron Santo was officially inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on December 5, 2011. A man of the absolute highest morality and class, his HOF merits had been debated for the past three decades by fans inside and out of Chicago. |