[TS] Sports of The Times: Fans Tolerate Doping, and Media Remain Riveted
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The question I find myself asking with greater frequency is, how many fans truly care about steroids in baseball?
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Much as it pains me, I cannot vote against Sports Illustrated&#39;s pick of the Boston Red Sox as Sportsmen of the Year. Similarly, I cannot say that in any other year since 1918 Michael Phelps, or perhaps Lance Armstrong, was not a worthy choice.
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The month of August was rife with arrogance, malfeasance and criminality in professional sports, but all is not lost for cynical fans seeking a new start.
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Suspicion of performance-enhancing drug use circles the sport now, but the evidence of past doping remains in black and white.
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There's hype. There's hysteria. And there's history.
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Games between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox have, for at least the last half-century, attracted a media mob fascinated with every scrap of information about the famous rivalry.
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ATHENS -- It was telling yesterday that the majority of the dozens of journalists who asked questions and attended a news conference into a Greek doping scandal were mostly Canadian. Question after question came from Canadians. We were all there, I think, ...
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Comment is free: Geoffrey Wheatcroft: Football, athletics, even cricket - the stain of cheating and doping now seems ingrained in our most cherished games.
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European papers celebrated the Athens 2004 Olympics and also had a few words to say about the doping cases that marred the games. &quot;The cynics were wrong,&quot; declared London&#39;s The Independent.
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Only the naÃ¯ve or willfully ignorant seem not to understand that drug use has been widespread for many years in elite sport.
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No more speculation about what so many people have felt was happening for so long. Baseball has a major problem with performance enhancing drugs.
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Reports of substance abuse by top competitors in the baseball and cycling worlds remind us once again that it is important to keep athletic heroics in their proper perspective.
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The sound you just heard was the other shoe dropping. The noise you detected was that of hearts of the hopeful breaking. Who wants to believe that a massive doping scandal has taken place in several sports?
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Stadiums were filled to capacity. TV ratings were high. In most ways, this was another great season for the NFL. Except for this: America's favorite league took some serious hits to its image.
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When his positive dope test was confirmed, Adrian Mutu forgot to blame someone for spiking his drinks. Odd this, because athletics, swimming and cycling have taught us that
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Years of ignoring or downplaying steroid use among athletes have come back to haunt baseball and Olympics officials. By STEVE WILSTEIN.
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Lance Armstrong called it a &quot;witch hunt&quot; from the very beginning, saying a French newspaper used dubious evidence to accuse him of doping &amp;#151; even charging that lab officials mishandled his samples and broke the rules.