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He's a complete and total fraud whose handlers have exploited cancer as a means to shelter his scam and it's all going to collapse around him. You can't test for what has been drained from your body. The upcoming investigation will leverage MLB as the warmup.
The best thing Lance has going is that the Grand Jury is going to take years to complete... will anyone still care or be shocked that he did drugs and cleaned his blood or will it be like ARod and get a collective shrug? Luckily the same guy that went after BALCO is going after Lance and the USPS team.
List of atheletes who haven't failed drug tests:
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Smart move... Armstrong hires President Clinton's "Master of Disaster" to counter balance the assignment of Jeff Novitzky to the Federal Grand Jury. Linky
It will definitely be interesting. Not only has almost his entire USPS team (and two of his "best friends", if the rumors of a sealed testimony are true) admitted to cheating, members of his current team have been caught cheating this month, and most of the people he "beat" were cheating... yet, he's supposed to be clean. After having cancer.
It's like taking a Chevrolet off the lot, crashing it, putting some good ole' BP high-octane gasoline in it and an oil change and then going to Daytona and beating all of the souped up, racing fuel propelled NASCAR autos. I mean... it's a real live miracle!
Had the pleasure of having breakfast in Milwaukee with quite a few members of Boston Red Sox 20+ years ago and R.C. was in attendance. Next to Michael Jordan and Lance Armstrong . . . God could not have plopped a more self-obsessed individual onto the planet had He tried. Like Armstrong, Clemmons has always had the attitude that it was all about him. As a Red Sox fan, I was glad that I owned a number 26 Wade Boggs jersey in of R.C.'s number. Although I guess Wade wasn't all that with it either.
I have been following cycling since I was 10 years old. Used to have an absolute panic attack waiting for the weekly wrap up of the Tour de France with Phil Liggett on CBS. Year after year after year, domestiques and support riders would haul Lance's a$$ up the Col du Tourmalet or Col de la Madeleine with nary a thank you at the race's end. Then, when those chaps were inevitably offered leadership roles with other teams, he would stab them in the back upon their departures with the old "he didn't really do much for the team" talk. Just a total a-hole. Don't get me started on the wife and kids thing. Guy is a first-class putz in my book. The most tested man in the world certainly has a way of hiding it if he has indeed cheated. Wouldn't surprise me in the least, but how could he have hidden it sooooooo many times?
One thing I have come to realize. One need not admire an athlete as a person to be in awe of what they can do on the diamond, court, gridiron or road. Admire their ability, for sure . . . but when push comes to shove, I'd rather have dinner with a good friend than one of these tools. But I have always thought of celebrities as nothing more than a group of people who get seated before you do at a restaurant.
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Clamato - You know who I think you'd really enjoy having dinner with? Ken Burns. Last night in Chicago he discussed his upcoming baseball documentary, presented clips, then answered audience questions. He was eloquent and unflappable as he fielded (pun intended) questions that were both obscure ("Why have you ignored the Slavic people in all of your works?") and topical ("Should baseball's steroid era have separate records?").
It was most compelling listening to someone who genuinely loves what they do and is also very accomplished at their craft.
listening to someone who genuinely loves what they do and is also very accomplished at their
MOM! You did not just write that? Please tell me that your son who calls himself an Illini wrote that. No self respecting Journalism grad who shares the same degree (and school) as me would make that mistake. Please, please, tell me it wasn't you? It is okay, you can even lie to me.....
Not that I'm in any other way comparing my writing to Jane Austen's or numerous other famous writers' works, but I do appear to be in excellent company with this style choice. Use of Singular Their
You're still just upset about that time I pointed out your "grammer" error, aren't you, Akin?
Simply because other well-written individuals have made the mistake (albeit having slipped past the editors as well), doesn't make it correct. There is no singular their. Period.
Should I give up, or should I just keep chasing pavements....even if it leads nowhere - Adele
It includes an interesting point Ken Burns made while speaking at the event we attended:
"Burns offers an understandable point of view from the players' side, pointing to America's increased reliance on all pharmaceuticals.
'We give our kids pills to be better in the classroom, and we take them to be better in the bedroom,' he said. 'Are we so shocked that our players are taking this stuff?'"
Starting to have second thoughts about him.
