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All-Steroids Team: John Rocker
No one likes John Rocker. His volatile, aggressive, and unfiltered persona rubbed everyone the wrong way. That’s why he made our team. If you were assembling a real team, one that had to actually take...
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All-Steroids Team: Phil Nevin
Phil Nevin, a former No. 1 overall pick who didn’t reach his potential until he was 30, opposed steroid testing. Something doesn’t sound right. Once again, to be fair, Phil Nevin has never been named...
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All-Steroids Team: David Ortiz
Nick Lehr, a diehard Boston fan, comes to terms with his love for Big Papi and pencils him in as our designated hitter. It’s no coincidence that I’ve put off writing this one until the very end of the...
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Shut Up and Sing: Let’s Talk Bob Costas and Make Some College Bowl Predictions
Bob Costas’ recent stance in favor of gun control has drawn the ire of many. Jim Jividen examines why his remarks about performance-enhancing drugs didn’t provoke a similar response. Gun control has...
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My Final Thought About the Baseball Hall of Fame
No one was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2013. Jim Jividen reflects on that shutout, asking “If hat size and back acne are sufficiently probative to keep the greatest players who ever lived...
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We’re Getting Catfished
Still laughing about how poor Manti Te’o got duped? Jim Jividen addresses the ways we’re all being catfished. I killed my imaginary friend. Just like Manti Te’o. I was four; I had an imaginary...
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The Super Bowl History of the 49ers + Super Bowl 47 Prediction
San Francisco superfan Jim Jividen recaps the 49ers’ 5 Super Bowl wins and predicts the outcome of Super Bowl 47. I’m too young to remember Willie Mays. That’s tough as a Giants fan. I spent a good...
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Lance Armstrong Owes Me an Apology for that Apology
All of these fallen stars are begging for our forgiveness, but their vague, evasive apologies give us no sense of what they’re sorry for having done. They’re always apologizing to us, those...
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The Unraveling of Our Fandom: Sports and Cheating
JP Pelosi wonders whether his admiration of professional athletes may have been misplaced all along. Grantland’s chief editor, Bill Simmons, last week wrote a column that lamented our ability as fans...
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Why Barry Bonds’s Conviction Should Be Overturned
Disgraced home run king Barry Bonds is appealing his obstruction of justice conviction this week. Jim Jividen explains why it should be overturned. Barry Bonds is appealing his conviction this...
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When It Comes to PEDs, Why Not Assume All Athletes Are Guilty Until Proven...
Last week JP Pelosi described the toll PED use is taking on the fans. Neil Cohen offers a somewhat radical solution. It seems like almost every day we hear about another athlete and doping...
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Would You Use Performance-Enhancing Drugs?
Is it ethically defensible to “treat” a healthy individual so that he can excel in a given career? Is it ethically defensible to deny him that treatment? Others have already skewered the...
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Can Sports Save Us?
Oliver Lee Bateman explains why we should pay closer attention to the sports that we watch. While watching a poorly hand-cammed1 version of the movie 42, I arrived at the following conclusions:...
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Be Less Loyal
Putting aside issues of team and party affiliation, Jim Jividen believes intellectual consistency is the highest possible value. Melky Cabrera returned to San Francisco for the first time since his...
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Joe Biden and Ryan Braun: Performance-Enhanced Alpha Males
There are genuine issues of goodness or badness to worry about in the world. Most involve very rich people exploiting very poor people. They do not involve Ryan Braun. They do at least...
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It’s Not About the Muscles
In the wake of A-Rod’s suspension, Ryan Bradley talks to his son about Performance Enhancing Drugs. I shushed my five year old to hear the Baseball Tonight crew discuss Alex Rodriguez and the...
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10 Things Major League Baseball Should Change Right Now
Tweet Though psyched, as always, that baseball is once again here, Neil Cohen suggests 10 changes that would make the game even better than it is. As opening day is now finally here, it seems like the...
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The National Football League: Too Big To Fail?
Michael Kasdan wonders what will happen as morality continues to collide with the sports entertainment complex we call The National Football League. Do fans care enough to really care? – I’m here to...
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Why Finally Getting The Fight of The Century Makes Me Sad
The fight was canceled once because of performance enhancing drugs. Though it will finally occur, does the past-their-prime Mayweather v Pacquiao fight represent another loss to PEDs? ___ I first...
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A-Rod Hits 3,000th But Nobody Cares
How is it possible one of the greatest hitters in baseball history gets his 3,000th hit, yet nobody cares? Adam Crawford talks the asterisk of baseball. — Beneath The Surface is peeling back the layers...
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