While Thome has earned the distinction over the course of a 21-year career, some commentators are wondering if his pending accomplishment forces us to reassess what 600 homers means anymore.

WASHINGTON -- Roger Clemens, one of the most imposing and accomplished pitchers in baseball history, is going on trial Wednesday to fight allegations ...

Steve Phillips, former New York Mets general manager and ex-ESPN analyst weighed in on the steroid era in Major League Baseball on his Sirius XM radio...

WOODLAWN, Md. — One of the hundreds of high school students attending an assembly Monday about the dangers of performance-enhancing substances w...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Colorado Rockies first baseman Jason Giambi says Barry Bonds' personal trainer first sent him steroids at the end of 2002. Giambi is...

Coverage of the steroid era by sports journalists has resembled a police procedural or, in its more hysterical phases, a murder mystery. The great que...

SAN FRANCISCO — Barry Bonds looked at the witness stand with a blank expression as a childhood friend and former business partner described how ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Barry Bonds finally sat across the court room Monday from the 12 people who will judge whether or not the greatest home-run hitt...

SAN FRANCISCO — Federal prosecutors on Wednesday released transcripts and recordings of voicemail messages Barry Bonds left for his former mistr...

Zenyatta is having a baby. Fifteen days after her last trip to the breeding shed with her consort, Bernardini, racing icon and Eclipse Horse of the Year Zenyatta is in foal.

SAN FRANCISCO — Barry Bonds' former personal trainer is facing prison and a judge admitted a trove of evidence while the admissibility of still ...

MADRID — Tour de France champion Alberto Contador believes "irreparable" damage has been done to his reputation despite being cleared of doping ...

There are villains in sports, but they're not the people who unintentionally cost their team an important game.

Bribery, gambling, and other strong-arm tactics make for a full day in the life of a gang member. But similar tactics have also become a large part of the world of sports.

Rafael Palmeiro is sticking to his story that a tainted vitamin shot caused his failed drug test five years ago, and hopes Hall of Fame voters will ov...

Brent Musburger, the play-by-play man for some of college football's biggest games, told a group of college journalism students that professional athl...

Imagine if two months after the New Orleans Saints beat the Indianapolis Colts in Super Bowl XLIV, the NFL announced that several Saints failed drug tests but the league wasn't sure what to do about it.

If the new standard is that players tainted by steroids are not Hall of Fame worthy, then the voters must bar the man who was most singularly positioned to take a stand against that taint and failed to do so.

There will always be champions and also-rans, but doping makes it impossible to discern one group from the other. When did we begin acting as though athletes are not like everyone else?

Tiger and Roger Clemens are surely not the only athletes whose egos contributed to their troubles and they will certainly not be the last.