Roger Clemens was reportedly “heartbroken” when he was not featured in the video montage of the greatest pitchers in New York Yankee history prior to Sunday’s home finale. Clemens watched the event from home on a battery-powered television (no power from hurricane), with his wife and mother-in-law as he watched himself get ignored.
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The Major League Baseball Player’s Association is curious as to why Barry Bonds has not been signed, and hasn’t even received any offers from MLB teams. They haven’t said that anyone is doing anything wrong, but union head Donald Fehr has implied that the possibility of collusion is something he’s looking at.
In the course of this week and next, we’ve had professional baseball, namely Roger Clemens “on trial” in front of Congress, and we will have the NFL, in the form of commissioner Roger Goodell, also “on trial” in the nation’s capital. So what’s to make of professional sports being investigated, or even cared about [...]
Baseball and steroids are once again on trial in front of Congress. The issue is supposed to be about setting good examples for children and being role models. If that’s true, then why are sports treated so differently than everyone else. When can we expect the Congressional hearings on steroids in Hollywood? The truth about the steroid hypocrisy in America.
The long awaited Mitchell Report was released, and as promised, it named names. From the expected names like Barry Bonds, Jason Giambi and Jose Canseco, to the surprising, like Roger Clemens, Andy Pettitte and Paul Lo Duca. One thing the report made very clear was that everyone was to blame, from the top [...]