Ace ’80s pitcher Jim Kaat threw some chin music at the MLBPA and Major League baseball officials for their role in profiteering off a drug-fueled workplace. “Heck, there weren’t any rules in our day. We were trying to get the edge. Who’s to say we wouldn’t have done the same thing?” That echoes the comments made by Darryl...
It just won’t work any more. No matter how much he tries to bluster his way out of it, we all see both Donald Fehr and Bud Selig for exactly what they are…crooks. Just the other day, Phil Mushnick exposed a scheme of Selig’s to keep a lid on public outcry at unchecked price gouging regarding MLB ticket sales. He said that now isn’t the...
This is juicy. The MLBPA may be in the process of being caught helping the cheaters at the expense of the clean, and helping MLB see massive profits due to a drug-feuled workplace, let alone bogus HR record chases. From the Fox Sports article: “The most disturbing allegation is that Rodriguez was tipped off in September 2004 that he would be tested later that...
When it comes to calling out scoundrels, nobody puts a fine point on it like Phil Mushnick. This article calling out Selig and the owners for turning a blind eye, pandering, enabling, and then counting the money is as accurate and gard-hitting as any I’ve seen anywhere. He only left out one thing: tickets are now more expensive because of steroids too. With all...
This is certainly the biggest story of the day. Sports Illustrated reports the Yankees’ Alex Rodriguez tested positive for two anabolic steroids, including Promobolan in 2003, according to four independent sources. According to the article: “Rodriguez’s name appears on a list of 104 players who tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in...
Good thing the guys at the daily News are so diligent exposing steroid cheats and clamoring for better testing. Nate Vinton has this article about how MLB is still dragging their feet while trying to make it seem to Congress that they are doing the minimum necessary to NOT trigger more hearings. From the article: Nearly a year has passed since the Mitchell Report...
Great job, Daily News. Keep up the good work. “10,000 tablets of steroid products were seized.”
As for golf, my Ryder Cup preview piece will be up at PGA.com in two shakes of a lamb’s tail.
Steve Elling of CBS Sports is the leader in the clubhouse for the best article of the year with this scathing appraisal of why we all don’t need to see golf in the Olympics. Here’s some great quotes: “Ah, remember the days when sports and nations trying to curry favor with the IOC did things the old-fashioned way? “Back then, IOC members would...
Until they start testing for growth hormone, they are just providing a roadmap of what to use and get away clean. Human Growth Hormone can be added to the list now and a useful and facile test has been established. The Beijing Olympics will be using it, so golf has no reason to avoid using it as well. Here’s the Daily News article.
Here’s the article. It’s no less than he deserves. Floyd Landis, steroid cheat, has run out of courts in which to continue to harass, annoy, and spread false witness about the anti-doping establishment. From the article: “In the end, the panel saved its harshest criticism for Landis, who it said essentially tried to muddle the evidence and...
Soccer has signed on…when will golf stop all the crying?
From the A.P. report: “An effective test for detecting human growth hormone will be in place for the Beijing Olympics, the head of the World Anti-Doping Agency said Wednesday.”By the Olympic Games there will be a capacity to detect HGH,” WADA president John Fahey said. HGH is considered one of the most widely abused performance-enhancing drugs in...
According to an AP report, Congress will take another look at drugs in sports next week, with a hearing that will feature top names from all four major professional leagues, the NCAA and the U.S. Olympic Committee. A House subcommittee, working separately from the committee that held last week’s hearing featuring Roger Clemens, is holding a hearing Wednesday on...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Like a lyric out of Pink Floyd’s The Wall, Roger Clemens went skating on the thin ice of modern life today, dragging behind him the silent reproach of a million disdained eyes. Of course, cracks in the ice appeared under his feet and he was left to claw helplessly as the last support disintegrated beneath him. We watched transfixed...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – I’ll be reporting live today from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform here and at Cybergolf. As we break for a few minutes, it’s clear Roger Clemens’s credibility is eroding and his risk of perjury growing with every word. He has already been trapped several times by Committee members, despite repeated...