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It's been five years since Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, who somehow only faced off eight times in their overlapping forty-six years of playing professional baseball, last stepped onto the field. Both bitterly retired before they believed their time was up. And now the two men find themselves side-by-side again, listed together on the Baseball Hall of Fame ballot for the first time this year. Ballots are due on on December 31, and in the time we've been forced to wait for the voting sportswriters to decide the fate of these two athletes, we've seen the perception of performance-enhancing drug use in America slowly turn.
Baseball now has a defined "steroid era," which no longer seems like a derisive term meant to tarnish the period, but rather the best way we can all...
The Hall of Fame ballot released this week by the Baseball Writers Association of America had 37 names on it, and there is sure to be much debate about whether Barry Bonds deserves votes. But what's not debatable is that Bonds... more »
History is messy; so is baseball. The Hall of Fame is full of players who spiked each other with their cleats or slicked up the ball or otherwise broke the rules. It is home to bigots and liars and drunks. And soon it may... more »
They're saying competitive balance is going to be a thing of the past. They're saying the Dodgers are going to rule the world. Hey, it could happen. The Dodgers are spending money like crazy. At first, they were... more »
Mitt Romney lost the popular vote. He lost the electoral college, too, finishing behind President Obama in every swing state but one. But the GOP nominee didn’t get crushed across the board. Sixty-two percent of white men... more »
The war against tackle football continued last week at, of all places, Harvard. Ascending his bully pulpit, this time in front of students and professors from the Harvard School of Public Health, NFL Commissioner Roger... more »
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