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Baseball’s numbers may be fake, but what isn’t?
MITCHELL BLATT
Baseball just keeps getting hit with more steroid news, and somehow we are supposed to be surprised, and the game isn’t supposed to be pure.
The latest bad news for baseball is that Manny Ramirez tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs the same week that Selena Roberts released her [...]

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I will be attending the Indians-White Sox game on May 13 and blogging about it here. I received the Indians tickets from Razorgator as part of my membership to a new program called EventChaser.
EventChaser is a website which lets bloggers attend events for free and write about them. If you are a [...]

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If MLB fined players a huge amount for failing a drug test, instead of just suspending them, baseball could solve their biggest problem

SCOTT JACOBS
Today Manny Ramirez was suspended 50 games by Major League Baseball for failing a drug test.  Shocking!
Did I suspect that Manny was using performance enhancers?  No, not really.  Did I think that [...]

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8 Books on Individual Cities
MITCHELL BLATT
The Great Book of Sports Lists is an eight book series featuring top lists on Philadelphia, Denver, Washington, DC, Cleveland, Detroit, Seattle, L.A., and San Fran sports.
The books in this series are extremely detailed. I read the the Cleveland book and it’s 100+ lists.
The topics are wide-ranging and often [...]

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With the economy reeling, foreign powers building nukes, and no oversight over $700 billion in bailout money, Congress is fast at work trying to use state force to restrict the rights of the BCS and athletic directors.
MITCHELL BLATT
Texas Rep. Joe Barton compared the BCS system to communism as he wrote a bill attempting to outlaw [...]

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