Who’s Next?

by Rant February 7, 2009

It’s been relatively quiet over the past year, as far as baseball and drug scandals go. The much-vaunted Mitchell Report, Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds not withstanding, there haven’t been too many doping stories related to baseball that have caught fire in the past 12 months. A few stories here and there. But on the […]

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Looks Like Barry’s in a Heap of Trouble

by Rant February 4, 2009

If what a number of news organizations are reporting is true, the Barry Bonds saga is going to be heating up in the near future. Acccording to the San Jose Mercury News web site, “hundreds of documents” were released today that paint a circumstantial picture suggesting the former San Francisco Giants slugger used steroids during […]

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Can You Say, “Oops”?

by Rant February 1, 2009

It almost doesn’t matter whether or not Michael Phelps inhaled. Unfortunately for the swimming sensation, he’s learning a hard lesson about privacy in the Internet age. In case you haven’t already heard, the 23-year-old winner of eight gold medals in Beijing was photographed taking a hit from a bong — or at least it looks […]

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Returning to the Fray

by Rant January 28, 2009

Looking at my calendar, it appears that one of my main subjects on this blog, one Mr. Floyd Landis, is less than 36 hours (as I write this) from the expiration of the suspension imposed on him by an arbitration panel in 2007, which was upheld by the Court of Arbitration for Sport in 2008. […]

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Catching Up With Kyllingen and other stories

by Rant January 22, 2009

Been a while since the Michael Rasmussen story has graced this column. You remember Rasmussen, don’t you? The cyclist on track to win the 2007 Tour de France when he was unceremoniously removed from the race and fired by the Rabobank cycling team. Well, the Danish cyclist appealed his case to the Court of Arbitration […]

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Some Things Never Die … and More

by Rant January 20, 2009

Yeah, this is a bit of old news — or at least it feels like a recycling of old news, but it bears at least a little comment just the same. Seems that “Operacion Puerto the Endless” is truly endless. Just when you think it’s faded into the background (for good or ill), and the […]

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