Can we take back the tour? Despite the best efforts of race organizers, sponsors and television networks like Versus, which adopted the slogan “Take back the Tour” for its coverage of this year’s Tour de France, cycling’s most prestigious event can’t quite right itself after weathering a decade of doping scandals. The problem? The riders [...]
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Butt wedges, whizzinators on Olympic hit list
Doping in sports is a cat and mouse game.
That’s the intro into a fascinating report that aired today on “The Bryant Park Project,” a National Public Radio news and public affairs show, exploring all of the ways that elite athletes will try to cheat during the Beijing Olympics.
The seven-minute discussion with Larry Bowers of the [...]
Jose Canseco, boxer
I guess those two books he “wrote” didn’t sell enough: former baseball player and steroid user Jose Canseco has reportedly joined the world of celebrity boxing. Canseco’s having financial troubles, including two divorces and a foreclosure on his home, so he’s hooked up with a local promoter. They’re looking for someone to fight Canseco at [...]
How many tell-all books will Canseco write?
Jose Canseco’s second tell-all exposé of MLB’s steroid culture hits the shelves today and the media is shamelessly parading him around as if he’s breaking some salacious news story. I’m in full support of discussing the harmful and underexposed issues in sports (which steroids certainly is), but Canseco, who is clearly swinging for the fences publicity-wise, has already has [...]
Someone needs a proofreader
The folks on ESPNEWS (and other places as well, I’m sure, but that’s what I was watching at the time) were breathless a little earlier this evening. Just one day after the steroids showdown between Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee in a congressional hearing, it was reported that federal prosecutors, in papers filed in court [...]
Clemens sweating fastballs
Watching Roger Clemens on 60 Minutes made me even more convinced that the guy did something shady. Mike Wallace did a great job of grilling Clemens, and the Cy Young winner looked like he was sweating bullets throughout, drinking from his water bottle over and over and at times avoiding Wallace’s eye contact or fidgeting [...]
Sports roundup: Snowboard for two, Gatlin’s massage, Good coach bad coach
- For the couple who never wants to be separated by more than six to eight inches comes the snowboard built for two. “On steeper hills you’re definitely looking for some drag,” the board’s creator said.
- With Justin Gatlin’s 4-year ban in the news, several pubs are revisiting Gatlin’s claim that a masseur rubbed steroids [...]
