Steroids in Baseball

Why Character in Sport Matters

Tom Matlack | Posted 09.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Sports, Steroids, Basketball, Baseball, Manhood, Fenway Park, Bill Belichick, Vlad Shulman, Red Sox, Ray Allen, New England Patriots, Manny Ramirez, Boston Magazine, Steroids in Baseball, Boston Celtics, Celtics, Tedy Bruschi, Nba, Media News

Talk about a sports fanatic's wet dream. There I was in the Celts' locker room, free to talk to whomever I wanted.

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It's Time to Realize that Every Baseball Player is a Steroids Suspect

Robert E. Murphy | Posted 08.31.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: New York Mets, Manny Ramirez, Barry Bonds, Minnesota Twins, Fred McGriff, Roger Clemens, Tyler Kepner, David Wright, Gary Cohen, Steroids in Baseball, Carlos Delgado, Tom Verducci, David Ortiz, Boston Red Sox, Entertainment News

A modern fan can never trust that he or she is watching an honestly competitive game, nor that the statistical records that the baseball fan closely follows are even remotely legitimate.

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Baseball Is Breaking Our Hearts

Marlene H. Phillips | Posted 08.30.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Manny Ramirez Drugs, Steroids in Baseball, David Ortiz Steroids, David Ortiz, Baseball, Major League Baseball, Entertainment News

My enthusiasm for the game is being smothered under the weight of needles, creams, and positive tests.

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Jim Parque, Former White Sox Pitcher, Confesses Using Human Growth Hormone

AP | Posted 08.23.2009 | Chicago

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CHICAGO — Jim Parque, a former pitcher for the White Sox and Tampa Bay, says he used human growth hormone "about six times" after he was cut by ...

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Keeping Score in Chicago Episode 16: Rick Telander vs. the Sportswriters

Mark Konkol and Todd Fooks | Posted 08.21.2009 | Chicago

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Sun-Times sports columnist Rick Telander talks about how Japanese baseball writers spoiled his attempt to prompt a serious talk about voting Steroid Era players into the Hall of Fame.

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Baseball Writers: No New Guidelines For Steroid Era Hall Of Fame Candidates

AP | Posted 07.27.2009 | Chicago

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CHICAGO — When it comes to the electing players to the Baseball Hall of Fame, no new guidelines are needed to deal with the so-called Steroid Er...

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Ryne Sandberg: Sosa Shouldn't Make Hall Of Fame

ESPN Chicago | Posted 07.24.2009 | Chicago

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Chicago Cubs Hall of Famer Ryne Sandberg said his former teammate Sammy Sosa does not belong in the Hall because of integrity issues associated with t...

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Congress Reviewing Sammy Sosa's Sworn Testimony Following Steroid Use Report

AP | Posted 07.18.2009 | Chicago

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WASHINGTON — A congressional committee will look into former baseball slugger Sammy Sosa's denial that he used illegal performance-enhancing dru...

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Sammy Sosa Tested Positive For Steroids In 2003: New York Times

AP | Posted 07.17.2009 | Chicago

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NEW YORK — Sammy Sosa tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug in 2003, The New York Times reported Tuesday on its Web site, the latest ...

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The Literature of Betrayal Arrives at the Ballpark

Robert Lipsyte | Posted 07.17.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Sports, Steroids, Baseball, Sports Media, Major League Baseball, Steroids in Baseball, Sports Writing, Entertainment News

Why beat up on the mendacity of sports? Is the message from the sports media meant to be apocalyptic: the nation and its pastime have struck out for good?

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Steroid Use in Baseball? It's Often Obvious

Robert E. Murphy | Posted 07.07.2009 | Entertainment

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Exhibit number one obviously is Barry Bonds, who in 1991, at age 27, hit 25 home runs, and in 2001, age 37, whacked 73.

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Angry Yankee Fans Urge A-Roid: Get Back on Steroids

David Henry Sterry | Posted 06.30.2009 | Comedy

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Rabid NY Yankees fans, furious that Alex Rodriguez is batting a miniscule .177, are uniting to urge the beleaguered ballplayer to get back on steroids...

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Can Baseball Be Saved? Only Through Zero Tolerance

Joseph A. Spinelli | Posted 06.20.2009 | Entertainment

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There is only one viable solution -- to expel the cheats from the game for good.

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Say It Ain't So, Manny

George Mitrovich | Posted 06.11.2009 | Media

Read More: Manny Ramirez Drugs, Steroids in Baseball, Steroids, Manny Ramirez, Manny Ramirez Suspended, Media News

The sports writing fraternity has pronounced Ramirez guilty; but wait, not only "guilty", but guilty beyond question. (Barely mentioned were the 15 previous drug tests he had passed.)

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Angry Cleveland Indians Fans Demand Team Take Steroids

Andy Borowitz | Posted 05.08.2009 | Comedy

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The national pastime suffered another black eye last night when a mob of irate Cleveland Indians fans poured onto the diamond at Progressive Field to demand that their team take steroids.

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Steroids: Baseball's Misunderstood Savior

Alec Brownstein | Posted 06.08.2009 | Comedy

Steroids provide the unpredictability that baseball so desperately needs. What could be more interesting than emotionally volatile man children with rock-like projectiles and bats?

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The Decline and Fall of Selena Roberts

Chris Kyle | Posted 06.05.2009 | Media

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On Feb. 7, Sports Illustrated Selena Roberts reported that A-Rod tested positive for steroids in 2003. By any account, it was one of the biggest sports scoops in recent history.

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So A-Rod Juiced in High School? Didn't We All?

Dan Abramson | Posted 05.31.2009 | Comedy

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When I was on the JV basketball team, I needed to do everything I could to keep my slot as 3rd string backup point guard. I needed that extra edge.

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MLB to Start Steroid Hall of Fame

David Henry Sterry | Posted 05.06.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Ken Caminiti, Mark McGwire, Gary-Sheffield-Steroids, Congress, Major League Baseball, Lenny Dykstra, Steroids in Baseball, Barry Bonds Steroids, Rafael Palmeiro, Baseball Hall of Fame, Jose Canseco Steroids, Mitchell Report Baseball, Roger Clemens, Alex Rodriguez, Sports, Comedy News

According to a reliable source near the top of Major League Baseball, the Steroids Hall of Fame will be modeled after the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.

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Can Suffering Redeem Alex Rodriguez?

Michael Shapiro | Posted 04.06.2009 | Entertainment

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For in what promises to be a seasoning of public and daily suffering, A-Rod can achieve what no scripted press conference or seemingly candid interview can offer: a stab at nobility.

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A-Rod and Juice Ball

John DeBellis | Posted 03.23.2009 | Comedy

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I have a solution to the steroid issue with A-Rod and major league baseball. I think the commissioner, Budd Selig, should make steroids mandatory. Put them all go on the juice.

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A-Rod: Ah, Youth

Michael Shapiro | Posted 03.20.2009 | Entertainment

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A-Rod told the world a great deal about himself today, and the view is not flattering. By portraying himself as a reformed man-child he showed himself incapable of assuming responsibility.

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Free Miguel Tejada

Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 03.15.2009 | Entertainment

Instead of imaginative prosecutors stretching the law to go after stupid lies in hotel rooms, baseball should take strong, decisive, and immediate action to clean up the game.

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Drip, Drip, Drip: Baseball and Steroids, Redux

Michael Shapiro | Posted 03.13.2009 | Entertainment

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What to do with A-Rod, and perhaps Tejada, and the other 103 names that appeared on the list that ensnared Rodriguez and which was somehow never destroyed?

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Barry Bonds Steroid Evidence To Be Unsealed By Feds

AP | PAUL ELIAS | Posted 03.07.2009 | Home

Read More: Sports, Steroids, Baseball, Barry Bonds Performance Enhancing Drugs, Steroids in Baseball, Barry Bonds Steroids, Barry Bonds, Home News

SAN FRANCISCO — Court documents show Barry Bonds tested positive for three types of steroids, and his personal trainer once told his business ma...

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Steroids in Baseball

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