You might know Jason Giambi.  He was the 2000 AL MVP, is a five-time All-Star and two-time Silver Slugger award winner.   He’s hit 406 home runs in his career. And there was that little juice issue we heard about now and again.
Yet none of this earned him a spot on the radar of recent [...]

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Jose Canseco’s Mixed Mixed Martial Arts debut in Yokohama lasted all of 1:17 as he was KO’d by South Korea’s 7′2 Choi Hong-man in what Japan Times reporter Kaz Nagatsuka described as a disgrace to professional sports.
From the Japan Times:
In this brutal, no-mercy sport, it’s not unusual when a fight ends a moment after the [...]

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No, not a story about Kobe, unfortunately, but about Tim Laker, a former MLB player  with Montreal, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Tampa Bay and Cleveland, named in the Mitchell  Report. ESPN has a report  covering an interview session  Laker did with the media today in  which he expresses great regret for doing steroids.  His tale is one [...]

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Every baseball season I have a mental list of things I’d like to see happen. Naturally, being a Reds fan the team’s success is at the top of my list. Since that has only happened during in my lifestory I have to find other things to root for. Sadly, these concern my fantasy baseball [...]

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It’s too bad Hank Steinbrenner has already been deemed an idiot for life by the entire baseball world (fans and media included) because he should actually be commended for his recent comments on steroids in baseball.
“I don’t like baseball being singled out,” the New York Yankees senior vice president said in a telephone interview [...]

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Just when you thought A-Rod was the only Yankee with a she-male fetish, rumors now abound that Debbie Clemens also injected HGH–only after several days of persuasion from the Rocket due to her initial reluctance to be injected by a man who wasn’t her husband.
While you’re busy contemplating the metaphoric ramifications of the word injection [...]

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The East Windup Chronicle — your home for Korean baseball and Roger Clemens drama coverage. No wonder  our readership is  suddenly growing.
Right. So another Clemens story. Wait! Don’t go away. One of the more fortunate aspects of the ongoing Clemens steroid drama is that it’s produced some compelling sportswriting for a change of pace. Interpret [...]

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From today’s ESPN article about the Roger Clemens/Brian McNamee saga:
Brian McNamee told federal law enforcement officials that Roger Clemens developed an abscess on his buttocks around the time that McNamee said he was giving him steroid injections in 1998, a lawyer with knowledge of details of the case told The New York Times.
For some reason [...]

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Some people might claim this post amounts to little more than gratuitous Clemens bashing.   Well, they’re right. Here’s a full transcript of Clemens’ 60 Minutes interview with Mike Wallace, courtesy of Gary Dzen at Boston.com.
Update: You can watch it here on CBS news online.

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Yeah, for a guy who said he wasn’t interested in the performance enhancer  side of baseball, I sure do a lot of posts on it. I guess I’m a little awestruck by the whole thing. As I’ve said before, I think the only way to really get to the bottom of it is to either [...]

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It’s a dark day for baseball as the long-awaited and feared Mitchell Report officially names names. Some, like John Rocker above, don’t exactly come as a surprise. Others will both suprise and sadden. And fans of Clay Hensley will wonder why the hell he wasn’t a whole lot better than he was if [...]

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