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America Has Spoken: MLB Steroid Users Should Lose A Third Of Their Stats

This weekend, only one batter — Houston Astros stalwart Craig Biggio — will be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. One major reason for the lack of swingers: The folks voting people into Cooperstown are (how can we say it?) skeptical of hitting records achieved during baseball’s “steroid era.” Spanning from the early […]

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What Powerlifting Tells Us About The Effects Of PEDs

An athlete lives at the whim of a sport’s rules, and when those rules change, so can their career. This happened to Mike Bridges. You’ve probably never heard of him, but he’s one of the strongest men who’s ever lived, and he was a powerlifting god in the early 1980s. Bridges weighed just 173 pounds, […]

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What Powerlifting Tells Us About The Effects Of PEDs

An athlete lives at the whim of a sport’s rules, and when those rules change, so can their career. This happened to Mike Bridges. You’ve probably never heard of him, but he’s one of the strongest men who’s ever lived, and he was a powerlifting god in the early 1980s. Bridges weighed just 173 pounds, […]

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Alex Rodriguez Would’ve Made The Hall Of Fame Without Steroids

News broke Wednesday morning that Alex Rodriguez, the New York Yankees third baseman who was suspended by Major League Baseball for the entire 2014 season over allegations of performance-enhancing drug (PED) use, had admitted to federal Drug Enforcement Administration officials that he used the prohibited substances from 2010 through 2012. Rodriguez’s confession came behind closed […]

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Alex Rodriguez Would’ve Made The Hall Of Fame Without Steroids

News broke Wednesday morning that Alex Rodriguez, the New York Yankees third baseman who was suspended by Major League Baseball for the entire 2014 season over allegations of performance-enhancing drug (PED) use, had admitted to federal Drug Enforcement Administration officials that he used the prohibited substances from 2010 through 2012. Rodriguez’s confession came behind closed […]

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