Word: canseco
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...best players turned out to be its worst role models, but some of the sport’s greatest records have been forever tarnished. Baseball has been the scrutinized for years, much like professional cycling, but evidence of drug-related misconduct only came in smatterings. Jose Canseco, for example, the first professional baseball player to hit 40 home runs and steal 40 bases in a single season, confessed to using steroids years ago. And Mark McGuire has been similarly exposed in the light of his extremely productive later seasons as a home run hitter. But not until now have...
Think Roger Clemens with the Lexington Legends or José Canseco with the San Diego Surf Dawgs—the match was a minor league baseball game, only a different sport...
Times columnist Maureen Dowd excoriated Summers in four separate columns between January and March, at one point comparing him to steroid-popping slugger Jose Canseco. “The ‘different socialization’ Dr. Summers talks about may be getting worse, thanks to goofballs like him,” Dowd wrote in that column. “How did he get to be head of Harvard anyway...
...World Series run. Now, as teams get ready for opening day, drugs have dulled the allure. First, leaked grand jury testimony revealed that Barry Bonds and Jason Giambi had allegedly taken performance-enhancing drugs. (Bonds denied knowing those substances were steroids.) Then, in a splashy new book titled Juiced, Canseco wrote that he had injected McGwire and Palmeiro with steroids and noted that they were far from alone in their drug usage...
...league great, about a pitch he threw to Mickey Mantle. Representative Diane Watson, Democrat from California, dissed Arnold Schwarzenegger by flashing a 1987 SPORTS ILLUSTRATED cover featuring the Republican California Governor, an ex-steroid user, flexing under the headline HOT STUFF. Florida Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen praised Cuban American Canseco for hailing from Miami. "It was a terrible day for baseball," says former baseball commissioner Fay Vincent. "It was a worse day for Congress...