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The truth about Lance Armstrong and whether he used performance-enhancing drugs will eventually come out–but to Gairzo the truth is evident.

When Will Lance’s Other Shoe Drop?

I admit it: I’ve read every credible book on the JFK assassination but cannot get over the fact that the murder was never investigated by an objective, legitimate, entity.

I admit it: 9/11… Kind of fishy those squibs exploding as the towers implode. Several independent professionals explain most of that conspiracy theory away… Kind of…

I also admit to being a quasi-conspiracy theorist when it comes to sports.
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The Boston Red Sox have been one of the more disappointing teams so far in the 2010 Major League Baseball season. Daisuke Matsuzaka’s near no-hitter may have changed those fortunes.

Have the Boston Red Sox Finally Turned 2010 Around?

Sometimes one game can change a season.

Sometimes that’s because an injury decimates a hitherto high-flying squad. Other times that’s because one player’s performance or the team’s comeback sparks a winning streak in a previously underperforming club… or inspires a weak team to play above their talent.

The Boston Red Sox may have just played such a game.
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Davis Phinney (Parkinson’s disease) and John Challis (cancer) are two athletes exhibiting remarkable courage as they battle their respective diseases.

Sports Bright From a Dim Bulb

DIS usually leaves the brighter, inspiring, uplifting, heartfelt, stories to our erstwhile editor-in-chief, Nate Barlow, and his “Sports Bright” posts.

Your humble columnist prefers to ply his craft in the muck, the darkly humorous, and the gray clouds of pain and controversy–besides, I’m not a very bright guy.

I’ve always seen myself as a very tough guy.

Give me an issue involving men vs. women–false rape accusations, Title IX abuse–PEDs and the players who cheat the fans, or some sports figure I can mock to death and I am a happy scribe.
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Rajon Rondo has turned the Boston Celtics Big Three into the Big Four.

The Ascension of Rondo

Much has been made about Rajon Rondo’s fabulous triple-double–29 points, 13 assists and 18 rebounds–in Game 4 of the Boston Celtics’ Eastern Conference Semifinals series against the Celtics Cavaliers. As eye-popping as his numbers were (particularly the 18 boards, a huge number for a 6′1″ player), the strength of his performance had more to do with how he ran the game for the Celtics than the stats he delivered.

Flash forward three games… the Celtics closed out the Cavaliers in six games, took Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals and now ride a four-game winning streak. For a team carrying three potential Hall-of-Famers in Ray Allen, Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce, no single player was more important in the Celtics resurgence than Rondo.
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The argument against steroids in sports should stop focusing on the statistics and start targeting on the ill-effects on the human body.

Juiced Up For No Good Reason

Take a fellow with no athletic ability, no interest in sports, and no time in school playing them, no college or minor leagues, give him a ton of performance-enhancing drugs such as steroids and watch him become the greatest athlete known to mankind. Just give him the juice and let him rip! But he won’t be worth a dollar to watch, even though he would do better than a typical person of similar outlook and lack of talent but without the PEDs. However, as sexy as the statistics resulting from enhancement may be, the discussion about steroids should not be about the performance enhancement at all.
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