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Retired MLB Slugger On Steroid Users: 'They Chose This'

AP | ANDREW SELIGMAN | Posted 01.26.2013 | Sports

CHICAGO -- Retired Chicago White Sox slugger Frank Thomas feels even better about his career after watching steroids-tainted stars Barry Bonds, Sammy ...

Are We Really Outraged By Steroid Use in Athletics?

Dan Treadway | Posted 03.13.2013 | Sports
Dan Treadway

If we as a nation are truly upset and outraged by steroid use, why is our concern so targeted? NFL players frequently turn in positive drug tests and the sports media doesn't so much as flinch.

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Len Berman | Posted 01.08.2013 | New York
Len Berman

The cash-strapped Mets reached the inevitable conclusion that they had to jettison outfielder Jason Bay.

Broadcaster Joe Buck Discusses Charges of Nepotism, His Cancelled HBO Show, Why He Quit Twitter and Losing His Father

Graham Bensinger | Posted 11.24.2012 | Sports
Graham Bensinger

Joe Buck reflects on his canceled HBO show, losing his voice in 2011, his reasons for quitting Twitter and gives his opinion on who holds the title of baseball's home run king.

Doubt and Doping: The Lance Armstrong Saga

Dr. Gregory Jantz, Ph.D. | Posted 11.05.2012 | Sports
Dr. Gregory Jantz, Ph.D.

A struggle with doubt is, by necessity, a struggle with faith. In this chapter, that faith is in Lance Armstrong.

Lance Armstrong And The Way Of Fallen Idols

Christian Piatt | Posted 10.29.2012 | Religion
Christian Piatt

I wanted to believe what he had achieved was possible without doping. I wanted to believe that, if he could confront and conquer cancer, he could do nearly anything. I wanted to believe he was different.

Juicy Debate: Should Steroids Keep Players From Hall?

AP | JOSEPH WHITE | Posted 04.12.2012 | Sports

WASHINGTON -- Steroid use shouldn't keep baseball's best sluggers and pitchers out of the Hall of Fame, the head of the players' union said Wednesday....

Jordan Schultz

Behind The Scenes With Albert Pujols, Tony La Russa and Mark McGwire

HuffingtonPost.com | Jordan Schultz | Posted 09.25.2011 | Sports

The Huffington Post recently caught up with the St. Louis Cardinals, going all-access inside the clubhouse and in the dugout during their series with ...

Count on It: Barry Bonds Will Be Voted Into Baseball Hall of Fame

Steve Kettmann | Posted 06.11.2011 | Sports
Steve Kettmann

I am like a lot of fans of baseball in being sick, sick, sick of hearing about steroids and unlike most fans in having played a role myself in helping put the topic of steroids and baseball front and center in the national psyche.

Wrestlemania: Linda McMahon's Senate Campaign

Robert Brenner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Robert Brenner

Some people want to build a wall between the United States and Mexico. I've got a better idea -- let's build a giant steel cage around Mexico.

Why Is Terrell Owens Being Black-Balled by the NFL and the Media?

Dexter Rogers | Posted 05.25.2011 | Sports
Dexter Rogers

Let me start off by saying I'm not the biggest Terrell Owens fan in the world. But as sports fans and even journalists, we rarely get to see the "true" person.

Study: Growth Hormone Can Aid Athletic Performance

AP | STEPHANIE NANO | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

NEW YORK — Researchers are reporting the first scientific evidence that a hormone banned in sports can boost athletic performance. The improvem...

Loose Nukes

Will Durst | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Will Durst

Since you can't tell your nuclear players apart without a Nuclear Players Scorecard, here they are, with my official Threat Level grading.

Barry Bonds 'Proud' Of Mark McGwire, Still Not Ready To Retire

AP | JANIE McCAULEY | Posted 05.25.2011 | Sports

SAN FRANCISCO — Home run king Barry Bonds said he is "proud" of slugger Mark McGwire for returning to baseball as the St. Louis Cardinals' hitti...

Is Baseball a Fading Allegory for the Fading American Way of Life?

Robert Lipsyte | Posted 05.25.2011 | Sports
Robert Lipsyte

In this opening season of the Post-Steroid Era, I feel like a betrayed spouse determined to make the relationship work, struggling to balance experience against hope. Are my guys really clean now? If not, can I live with it?

News/PR Line Gets Blurrier

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Michael Sigman

Many of the thirty-thousand-plus journalists laid off in the past two years have signed on to corporate public relations gigs, further blurring the already-murky line between PR and news.

The Nude Athlete

Adam Flomenbaum | Posted 05.25.2011 | Sports
Adam Flomenbaum

The next time you confusedly see in a 6'1'', 180 lbs. wide receiver running nude through the park, Chad Ochocinco's question remains: Why wouldn't he?

Mark McGwire Highway Could Be Renamed After Mark Twain

Posted 05.25.2011 | Sports

The Mark McGwire Highway was dedicated to the then-Cardinals slugger in 1999, just one year after he and Sammy Sosa battled history in an epic home ru...

Apologizing Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Michael Sigman

The death last week of Erich Segal reminded the world of Love Story, his 1969 mega-selling book, and the blockbuster 1970 movie of the same name, for which he wrote the Oscar-nominated screenplay.

Mark McGwire Must Think We're Stupid: The Inadequate Apology

Diane Dimond | Posted 05.25.2011 | Sports
Diane Dimond

"I did this for health purposes," McGwire told Costas. This from a man who, while on the juice, put on 30 pounds of muscle, sported biceps like bazookas, and clocked home-runs off checked swings.

Curtis Wenzlaff: Mark McGwire Wanted Steroids To Be 'Bigger, Faster, Stronger'

ESPN | Posted 05.25.2011 | Sports

A convicted drug dealer who says he used to supply steroids to former baseball slugger Mark McGwire told ESPN on Thursday that McGwire's goal was to g...

Carlton Fisk: Mark McGwire's Claims That Steroids Didn't Affect Home Runs 'A Crock'

Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago

Former Chicago White Sox catcher and Hall of Famer Carlton Fisk had some not-so-nice things to say about steroid abusers in baseball Tuesday, calling ...

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Len Berman | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Len Berman

ESPN Magazine is upping the ante with their first nude issue. Serena Williams is prominently featured. But are you really racing to see Yankee Joba Chamberlain in the buff?

Hire McGwire, Bury Bonds

Jonathan Littman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Sports
Jonathan Littman

What's the moral of Mark McGwire's decade-late, half-baked steroids confession? White sluggers who juice get jobs, black all-time home run kings get indicted and run out of the game.

Don't Stalinize Baseball

Simon Maxwell Apter | Posted 05.25.2011 | Sports
Simon Maxwell Apter

History is a natural thing. The "winners" may write it, sometimes with considerable bias, but we've always allowed - and even begged for - baseball to be represented by statistics and shorthand.