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Rogues, scandals and the Church of Baseball: S&R honors Babe Ruth
Walt Whitman once said, “I see great things in baseball. It’s our game, the American game. It will repair our losses and be a blessing to us.” You could look it up. – Annie Savoy I’ll promise to go...
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Sports Illustrated's conflicted double exposure: A-Rod's artificial...
The appearance of Bar Refaeli on the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue is not without controversy. Yes, it may be the magazine’s most uncovered cover pose to date. True, too, that comments...
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The Karma wagon rolls around for Manny: respect the game, Tittie-Boy
Oh, the sheer deliciousness of it all. Manny Ramirez has been busted for using. The word is that ManRam didn’t actually use steroids. However, two sources told ESPN’s T.J. Quinn and Mark Fainaru-Wada...
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The ultimate Manny column: Manny being nanny
by Rich Herschlag and Bill Staples We knew LA was a little weird, but we really had no idea. Not even a year out there and sweet old Manuel Ramirez from the Bronx is caught taking human chorionic...
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Nota Bene #100: Il Planetario di Figaro
Wow, 100 issues of Nota Bene! Props to Russ for helping me for a while with this nifty little S&R feature. Never mind all that now, let’s get on with this issue. “What splendid buildings our...
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Nota Bene #101: Your Pal, Mike S.
“The guys who are shooting films now are technically brilliant, but there’s no content in their films. I marvel at what I see and wish I could have done a shot like that. But shots are secondary for my...
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Nota Bene #120: Crazy Ivan
“If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s earth.” Who said it? The answer is at the end of this post. Now on to the links! … “I concentrated on fish, the Dutch …...
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Why do we care about PEDs?
Dan Wetzel at Yahoo Sports is one of the smartest and most insightful sportswriters around. Today he wrote: Perhaps nothing upsets baseball fans and executives more than the double-standard reactions...
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Should Major League Baseball allow steroid users into the Hall of Fame? Yes,...
Part 1 of a series. by Matt Record Baseball has been marked by cheating forever. It’s hypocritical to draw a line now. These are – in my opinion – the top 15 best position players in the history of...
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Should Major League Baseball allow steroid users into the Hall of Fame? No,...
Part 2 of a series. How can we honor athletes for cheating and then talk to our children about honesty and integrity with a straight face? Matt Record’s post yesterday arguing that Major League...
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