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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 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 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 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 3, 2006 Bill Hazell |
Baseball's Anti-Race is On Step right up. Fasten your seat-belts, it's going to be an awkward, tension-filled season. |
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 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 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. |
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... |
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 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. |
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 August 3, 2005 Bijan C. Bayne |
The Steroid Storm: Plausible Denial? A picture is taking shape in baseball that makes sense of the decade since the 1994 strike. The power surge, the nagging injuries, and so on. Yes, the picture is coming into focus, and it's ugly |
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 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 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? |
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 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 March 16, 2004 Jeff Kallman |
Reggie Jackson's Fuzzy Math Thoughts on Reggie Jackson's comments about homerun statistics and steroid use. |
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 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 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 Illustrated May 3, 2001 Stephen Cannella |
Meaningless milestones Baseball's 'magic numbers' don't mean what they used to... |
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 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? |
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 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 June 22, 2005 Bijan C. Bayne |
Raging About 'Roids: Baseball Bashers Busted Something seemed suspicious about home run statistics. As this year's statistics unfold it becomes clear who was "enhanced." |
AskMen.com Steve Seepersaud |
Top 20: Baseball Players Of All Time This season, Barry Bonds continues his assault on the Major League Baseball record books, closing in on the career home run title. He's easily one of the best players the game has ever seen. |
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 Illustrated October 30, 2002 Frank Deford |
Stuporstar Barry Bonds is as unloved as any player in sports history. |
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Illustrated June 15, 2000 Tom Verducci |
Putting stock in Bonds' MVP chances Let's start out with a couple of questions about the guy who's really been the best hitter in the National League so far. Hint: it's not Sosa or Rey Ordonez. |
Sports Illustrated September 17, 2002 Tom Verducci |
Taking the fifth Barry Bonds' multidimensional game fuels another MVP bid. |
Salon.com April 11, 2001 Allen Barra |
Is Ken Griffey Jr. past his prime? His slipping stats raise questions about whether he's really baseball's best. Plus: Remembering Willie Stargell, who let us know the sheer joy of being a big-league ballplayer... |
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 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. |
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 Illustrated June 26, 2001 Mark Bechtel |
Summit Meeting Barry Bonds paid a call on Mark McGwire, the man whose homer record he's chasing... |
Sports Central May 30, 2006 Mark Chalifoux |
Who Cares About Bonds? You Do Just about everyone has an opinion on Barry Bonds. |
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." |
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. |