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A Super Bowl on Steroids

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After just two seasons, the Broncos' Von Miller already had failed two drug tests. But he'll be on the field in tonight's Super Bowl because cheating in football, unlike in baseball, doesn't bother us. [Credit: gtbets.eu]

After just two sea­sons, the Bron­cos’ Von Miller already had failed two drug tests. His absence from tonight’s Super Bowl is due to a knee injury, not PED use, because cheat­ing in foot­ball does­n’t seem to both­er us. [Cred­it: gtbets.eu]

A 315 pound man with a body mass index over 36 is con­sid­ered obese, accord­ing to the Nation­al Insti­tutes of Health. But if he can bench press 225 pounds 35 times, jump 32 inch­es ver­ti­cal­ly and run 40 yards in 4.8 sec­onds, he prob­a­bly plays in the NFL. And we prob­a­bly don’t care what he may have put into his body to facil­i­tate such feats.

Tonight an esti­mat­ed 110 mil­lion Amer­i­cans will watch tech­ni­cal­ly obese but sub­lime­ly ath­let­ic men con­tend for foot­ball suprema­cy. Our indif­fer­ence as to how they acquired such strength and ath­leti­cism expos­es a dou­ble stan­dard in our atti­tude toward ath­let­ic achieve­ment. We shame Alex Rodriguez and Lance Arm­strong as cheaters, but we’ll cheer on two teams whose ranks include sev­er­al play­ers who have been caught tak­ing per­for­mance-enhanc­ing drugs (PEDs) and no doubt many oth­ers who have avoid­ed detec­tion. Con­tin­ue read­ing →

A‑Rod Is Right: Put Selig Under Oath

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Alex Rodriguez wants Bud Selig to answer questions about his role in baseball's long-running steroid scandal. [Credit: philly.com]

Alex Rodriguez wants Bud Selig to answer ques­tions about his role in base­bal­l’s long-run­ning steroid scan­dal. [Cred­it: philly.com]

Alex Rodriguez has a point.

The Yan­kee third base­man, who is appeal­ing his 211-game sus­pen­sion for sus­pect­ed use of per­for­mance-enhanc­ing sub­stances, stormed out of an arbi­tra­tion hear­ing last week and onto a New York sports radio pro­gram, where he deliv­ered a ram­bling, self-serv­ing and emo­tion­al screed against the pro­ceed­ings and the man who ordered his sus­pen­sion, Major League Base­ball Com­mis­sion­er Allan Huber (Bud) Selig. A‑Rod is angry that Selig did not appear at the pro­ceed­ings and go under oath.

A‑Rod is right about one thing: Bud Selig has a lot of explain­ing to do. Con­tin­ue read­ing →

Congress’s Special Obamacare Deal To Be Extended to All Americans

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Embattled slugger Alex Rodriguez could end up benefiting from a forthcoming Obamacare announcement. [Credit: The Nation]

Embat­tled slug­ger Alex Rodriguez is among the mil­lions who could end up ben­e­fit­ing from a forth­com­ing Oba­macare announce­ment. [Cred­it: The Nation]

The Oba­ma Admin­is­tra­tion, which recent­ly announced that it would pro­vide Sen­a­tors and Con­gress­men with gen­er­ous gov­ern­ment sub­si­dies for their health insur­ance despite the fact that the Oba­macare law denies those sub­si­dies, is expect­ed to announce lat­er this week that it is extend­ing this spe­cial deal for Con­gress to all Amer­i­cans. Con­tin­ue read­ing →