Aggressive & Passive Responses to Doping
A Yahoo! Sports headline and associated summary regarding the Tour on Monday headline reads, Sastre Wins Doping-Scarred Tour de France. Setting aside moral philosophy, I …
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Steroid Publicity & Hall Voting
Whatever readers and contributors to TSE think about publicity given to MLB steroid use, it continues to hammer the chances of Hall of Fame inductions …
Why MLBPA Slow to Protect Non-Users?
Milwaukee Brewer Ryan Braun surpised the baseball world this week by admitting his use of steroids and accepting a suspension. Of course, after failing a …
Fans Care about PED Use — Sometimes
What spurred the public’s negative view of the use of PEDs? Why have MLB and pro cycling received much more attention than the NFL? Some …
PEDs and Quality of Competition
In a recent TSE post, Brian writes: The league’s testing procedure (“analytic evidence”) uncovered only 13 users from 2009 to the present. Yet, now there …
Is Steroid Use in Baseball a Positive-Sum Game?
I don’t like pitchers’ duels in baseball. I like to see high-scoring games. Low-scoring games remind me too much of all the things I didn’t …