Mark McGwire’s admission to using steroids is at best delusional and at worst sleazy “image” spin-control to garner sympathy for Cooperstown consideration.
HITTING THE HALLMARK
Mark McGwire’s former team, the St. Louis Cardinals, has recently hired him as their hitting coach. It’s part of that organization and their famous slugger’s plan to help “Big Mac” slink [...]

Hank Aaron this week called for the entire 103-name list of baseball players who tested for positive for steroids in 2003 to be made public. I believe most people, like myself, agree with him. Transparency is the only way for us to put the Steroid Era behind us once and for all. [...]

I was watching some of the Detroit Tigers – New York Yankees game today and was bemused by the color commentary. After Alex Rodriguez hit his nineteenth home run of the season, the announcers discussed how impressive A-Rod has been this year, first coming back from his injury ahead of schedule and then hitting those [...]

It appears that the entire sporting world has subscribed to the Lindsay Lohan school of career-scarring substance abuse.

Drugs in sports are nothing new, but recently we’ve been subject to an alarming upswing.  In just the last two weeks the following headlines have disgraced the front pages of the sports sheets:

Manny Ramirez tested positive for a [...]

The witch hunt continues.
France just won’t accept that Lance Armstrong has not used performance-enhancing drugs.
Armstrong has never tested positive.  Ever.  Not during his run of Tour de France victories, not now.
With advances in drug technology, there of course can be no guarantee he hasn’t taken performance-enhancers, but the single-minded doggedness with which French anti-doping agency AFLD [...]

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Sometimes, too often, relationships waste our time.
The absent father consumed with work. The clueless mother who doesn’t know the sting of her own words. The overly tattooed “bad-boy” who some women believe only they can change. The hot chick whose flirtatious ways with you were cool, but with other guys…
Inside our [...]

I’ve never liked Alex Rodriguez. Not when he was with the Mariners, not when he was with the Rangers, and certainly not since he’s been with the Yankees. For all his talent–and, like A-Rod or not, he is a talented ballplayer–I’ve always thought his attitude was terrible and his actions (such as shouting at Howie [...]

BARRY BONDS: He’s the guy I hate most in sports. The people who think his records have any legitimacy are blind or ignorant. Yo, Barry, let me clue you in on something —the human head does not grow in size past the age of 18. If it did, morticians would have [...]