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Barry Bonds is a contact hitter who seems on his way to eclipsing Hank Aaron's career home-run record of 755. But it is Bonds' confirmed contact with illegal steroids that sent runners into motion last week to confront the biggest drug scandal in baseball history. Suddenly the most open secret in the sport was out, and it implicated baseball's biggest star and the titanic records he had accumulated. "I will leave no stone unturned in accomplishing our goal of zero tolerance by the start of spring training," vowed Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig in New York...
...electric (but pre-rock and roll) feel. The disc features omnipresent Silvertone-esque guitars channeled through what sounds like fuzzy vintage Fender Frontman amps. With a couple of exceptions, the songs are written by Golightly herself but sound like they could have come from the likes of Patsy Cline, Hank Williams or Loretta Lynn...
...there’s a precedent here, too. Baseball mega-legend Hank Aaron was the 1995 Class Day speaker, and it’s high time we get another sports great to speak at Harvard. “Ron-Ron” is one of the elite defensive stoppers in the game of basketball, and someone who also has a genuinely fascinating story to tell as he grew up on the wrong side of the tracks in New York City...
...equating Hank Aaron, one of the classiest acts in professional sports, with Ron Artest? Well, let’s just say that Artest was charged with just one count of assault and battery on Wednesday night—a misdemeanor that carries, at maximum, three months of jail-time and a $500 fine. I think we can say that Lady Justice agrees with...
Hammerin’ Hank is the consummate class act and, basically, my hero. In this particular case, he’s dead wrong...