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Has it become necessary for elite athletes to take PEDs?
At the end, when his body began failing, Manny Fernandez took any drug the Miami Dolphins' team doctor gave him. When Butazolidin, illegal in race horses, took his white count to dangerous levels, the doctor prescribed Indocin, which ate his stomach...Tags: Jim Otto, Barack Obama, National Basketball Association, Prostate Cancer, Deer Antler Velvet (dietary supplement)
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Brothers Upton could surpass the Waners
If they hadn't been able to hit a baseball, Paul and Lloyd Waner probably would have made their living in cotton in their hometown, just east of Oklahoma City. But, man, could those guys hit. Lloyd, known as Little Poison, hit .316 for his career...
Tags: New York Yankees, Kyle Lohse, Great American Ball Park, Seattle Mariners, Arizona Diamondbacks
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For Dodgers and MLB, the billion-dollar TV question
For the vast majority of Dodgers fans, the mystery about the team's television future is over. The broadcasts will move from Fox Sports to Time Warner Cable come 2014, the Dodgers could make $7 billion to $8 billion, and pitchers and catchers report to...
Tags: Television, Entertainment, New York Yankees, Bankruptcy, Satellite and Cable Service
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Pete Rose's reality show unlikely to change any minds
Pete Rose is a lot like Notre Dame football when it comes to polarization. Either you love Pete or you can't stand him. Either you admire his swagger, figuring that's what made him baseball's all-time hit king, or you consider him an arrogant, defiant...Tags: Chicago White Sox, Philadelphia Flyers, Television Industry, National Football League, ESPN (tv network)
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Move over Lance Armstrong, Magic's greatest season also tainted by PEDs
Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire were recently blackballed from the Baseball Hall of Fame because they were the biggest juicers this side of Minute Maid. Ben Johnson and Marion Jones had Olympic gold medals stripped away for being massive drug cheats. A...
Tags: Marion Jones, National Basketball Association, Oprah Winfrey, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Orlando Magic
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Flagging U.S. interest reflected in mediocre WBC roster
Will the third time be the charm for the World Baseball Classic? Not if the underwhelming U.S. roster is any indication. While many of Commissioner Bud Selig's innovations have enjoyed immediate success — especially expanded playoffs and...
Tags: R.A. Dickey, Pablo Sandoval, Carlos Gomez, Jake Peavy, Ichiro Suzuki
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Reaction to Earl Weaver's death
Peter Angelos, Orioles managing partner "Earl Weaver stands alone as the greatest manager in the history of the Orioles organization and one of the greatest in the history of baseball. This is a sad day for everyone who knew him and for all Orioles...
Tags: Buck Showalter, New York Yankees, Adam Jones (baseball), National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Martin O'Malley
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Dodgers' Vin Scully steals show at scouts fundraiser
Jim Palmer choked up when talking about his autistic son. Fellow Hall of Fame pitcher Ferguson Jenkins paid tribute to the Philadelphia Phillies scout who signed him. Tom Lasorda showed he could still make a room full of people laugh. But Vin Scully was...
Tags: Autism, Philadelphia Phillies, Stephen Fife, Mike Piazza, Sports
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Tom Lasorda, 85 years young, is still selling baseball, and Dodgers
Now that we can sweep the college football season away, much like Alabama did to Notre Dame, it is time to set our sporting sights forward. There is the NBA, college basketball, even a hockey-light season. Or is that a light hockey season? Nor...
Tags: Mike Scioscia, Hospitals and Clinics, Viagra (drug), Albert Pujols, Sports
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“Pete Rose: Hits & Mrs.” has baseball great stepping up to the reality-show plate
Channel Guide MagazineA lot of people view Pete Rose these days with a mixture of anger and pity. Anger that his long-ago sin of betting on baseball games still keeps the sport's all-time hit king out of the Hall of Fame, and pity at the sad caricature they think he's become.... -
Dodgers' Vin Scully to be honored at annual scouts dinner
I suppose you could get tired of honoring Vin Scully, but doubt it will ever happen. Scully, who was voted into the broadcaster’s wing of the Hall of Fame back in 1982, is scheduled to be given yet another honor Saturday night at the annual...
Tags: Don Mattingly, Chicago White Sox, Major League Baseball, Sports, Academy Awards
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They belong in the Hall of Fame
Did Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa and pitcher Roger Clemens miss election to the Baseball Hall of Fame because the writers don't like them rather than their alleged steroids use? The sportswriters and other purists adamantly say the three don't belong in...Tags: World Series, Sammy Sosa, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Roger Clemens, Sports
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