First, Steve Czaban has the read of the day regarding Dan Snyder’s hiring Jim Zorn to be the new head coach of the Washington Redskins. Dan Snyder is another boy king in the same line as Jim Dolan of New York Knicks and Tiennamen Square Garden infamy. Snyder is clumsily trying to buy a championship and is living vicariously through his players. All that will be...
Filing that lawsuit may be the worst decision of Roger Clemens’s life. It was bad enough he tried to bully and intimidate a government witness, (not to mention run him out of money in a massive lawsuit), but when he alleged governmental misconduct, that made both sides of the aisle stand up and take notice. Congress is now demanding not only the tapes of BOTH...
I’ll make this short and sweet. Clemens filed suit against MacNamee for defamation this morning. He has simultaneously created an out from the thorny problem of dealing with the Congressional grilling. “Sorry, sir..but I have a lawsuit going and that’s the proper time and proper manner.” We were having this discussion somewhere else, so...
Genius. In the name of “protect the player, whatever the cost,” the MLB players’ union has completely failed the interests of all those who were not cheating. Here’s a link to Mushnick’s New York Post article. From the article: How is it possible no member of the MLBPA has stood up to ask why his union has always chosen to protect its...
Hat tip to Awful Announcing.
In a nutshell: we have a huge problem, everybody’s guilty for not doing something earlier but oh, hey, just give them a slap on the wrist.
Remember who paid this $20 million bill…MLB.
You know what? Clemency to these crimes is just as reprehensible and scandalous as the cheating itself.
World Anti-Doping Agency chief Dick Pound is getting an early Christmas gift – so to are all athletes determined to play fair and avoid the horrors of steroids and performance “enhancers.” Ex-BALCO Chief Victor Conte will name names and share files and information with WADA in what may herald a greater assault on Major League Baseball as being...
Well, it’s the day after Thanksgiving and everyone except me and a few other Turkey haters are eating leftover dry stringy bird remnants. I had steak and pasta yesterday, as usual, and watched everyone else fall asleep due to tryptophan or whatever it’s called. So it’s time to give out the Dry, Stringy Turkey of the Year Award. This time it goes to...
This year we have a tie for the best sports article of the year. The spectre of steroids burned like a proprietary torch everywhere in the sports world this year, even golf, where the PGA and LPGA TOURS enacted testing policies. Finally, we will never have to hear the drivel of “steroids can’t help your golf game” – they can – more...
From Finchem’s memo: PGA TOUR Anti-Doping Program The Policy Board has approved the PGA TOUR’s Anti-Doping Program. The TOUR’s primary objective is to have a credible program that will aggressively deter the use of any prohibited substance. The key elements of the program include extensive player outreach and education; a comprehensive list of...
To be fair and offer equal time, occasionally ESPN does show the darker, seedier side of steroids. This morning on “Outside the Lines” Bob Lee featured a report on China’s exporting HGH and other steroids to the U.S. Moreover, the reported highlighted a far more alarming trend. Bathtub steroids – made in the same homebrew methods...
John Anderson began ESPN’s “newscast” – if you can call SportsCenter that anymore – of the PGA TOUR’s adopting a steroids testing policy with this extra bit of window dressing. Always remember, he’s not reporting the story, he’s telling you how to think: “The ball is juiced and the drivers are hot,” but...
Arbitrators in Floyd Landis’s (yes, that is the correct punctuation) doping case found him guilty of using steroids. They also ruled in dicta that they did NOT rely on Greg Lemond’s testimony that Landis admitted doping to him. The hearing turned into a soap opera when Lemond said thaccused Landis’s manager of trying to influence his testimony...
This LPGA list of banned substances is all over the map. Clomid, an anti-estrogen drug IS on the list, happily. The presence of clomid or other anti-estrogens is, according to Selena Roberts of the New York Times, a sure-fire guilty sign around an athletes neck. Sadly, there are wide gaps in the list as well. OK so nobody will be using heroin, so I...
Quick news and notes today: 1. Good reads. First, the USGA’s Craig Smith penned a solid review of the U.S.A.’s Walker Cup victory at Royal County Down. The Walker Cup goes to Royal County Down, but the Ryder Cup goes to Valhalla and Adare Manor and that horrible, horrible Palmer mess (a.k.a. The K Club, a.k.a. “PGA National East?” Why? The...