Just because it’s an obvious idea doesn’t mean it’s not a good one: “Remembering Harry Kalas - Wonderful Stories from Friends Celebrating a Great Life” is a new book I’d recommend even if Friend of BPR Gordie Jones wasn’t involved in the project. It includes remembrances from everyone from Harry’s kids to a frat brother […]
Entries Tagged as 'performance-enhancing drugs'
Thursday briefing for make benefit of glorious BPR nation
June 25th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: performance-enhancing drugs · high school football · Harry Kalas · hall of fame · Sixers · NBA · Phillies · Lebron James · baseball
Ibanezgate
June 14th, 2009 · No Comments
Today’s Sunday News column, plus a couple additions observations at the bottom:
The Phillies’ Raul Ibanez has 21 home runs through Friday, among overall offensive numbers that, if the season ended today, would make him a serious candidate for National League MVP.
He’s 37, and has never hit more than 33 homers in a season, and more […]
Tags: performance-enhancing drugs · column archive · sportswriting · dumbness · Phillies · media · baseball
the power of juice
March 6th, 2009 · No Comments
It seems legitimate to me to wonder how much PEDs actually work - how much they actually improve performance.
In that vein consider the following piece by FOBPR Bill James. In it, James comes up with a method of rating the most unusual careers in baseball history by assigning point values to a variety of very […]
Tags: Bill James · performance-enhancing drugs · baseball
Bill James on A-Rod
February 13th, 2009 · No Comments
Bill James on A-Rod:
“Baseball allowed a situation to develop in which it was in the self-interest of players to use steroids. Now we are very angry with people because they did what the system rewarded them for doing.”
That’s about it. It was possible to be, uh, let’s go with not unsympathetic to A-Rod until the […]
Tags: Bill James · performance-enhancing drugs · baseball
Team juice
February 13th, 2009 · No Comments
Here’s a wonderful idea that’s never going to happen: when a player tests positive for PEDs, he’s banned from the sport for a year, and his team is ineligible for postseason play in the same year.
Tags: performance-enhancing drugs · baseball
Mr. Clemens goes to Washington
February 13th, 2008 · No Comments
We are blogging live from the living room, where Roger Clemens is about to testify (not in my living room, on ESPN) and Bob Ley has just assured us “there’s going to be drama.”
9:38- ESPN just reported what was obvious to a lot of people- Andy Pettitte gave new testimony, damning to Clemens, in exchange […]
Tags: performance-enhancing drugs · baseball
More fun with numbers
February 10th, 2008 · No Comments
Roger Clemens’ team of lawyers and agents released a report last month that purported to prove Clemens’ career arc and late-career success was not that unusual, and do not suggest PED use. In a piece in today’s New York Times some professors from Penn’s Wharton School of Business deconstruct the report and find that, unsurprisingly, […]
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