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The real question now, though, is not "how mad should everyone be at Alex Rodriguez?" but rather "since this keeps happening, how can we start talking about and dealing with PEDs in a more productive way?"
Whether or not we ever manage to make the use of performance-enhancing drugs a rarity in sports, we should at least be able to find a way to break the cycle of PED revelation, upset and stale debate. Steroids are a fact of life in the modern athletic era, and sports discourse is chasing its own tail.
Use of performance enhancing drugs is an odd sort of transgression. It's not entirely victimless -- clean players feel pressure to use, which can have a negative effect on their health, but they may lose money if they don't, and suffer competitively; fans feel misled...
The Yankees had dated Alex Rodriguez for four years before popping the question after the 2007 season: Will you take this 10-year, $275 million contract? Rodriguez said yes, and together they have had some fun. But a marriage... more »
The Drug Enforcement Administration and Major League Baseball are investigating a Miami-area man named Anthony Bosch — who has worked closely with Alex Rodriguez — for Bosch’s possible links to performance-enhancing drugs,... more »
Brian Cashman made an appearance on the Joe Benigno/Evan Roberts WFAN show Friday and succeeded in diverting the attention from his inability to land a righthanded-hitting outfielder by suggesting Alex Rodriguez could miss the... more »
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