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...Cardinals' history. With the exception of the New York Yankees, who seem to buy championships, no other team has won as many championships as the Cardinals have. From Dizzy Dean to Stan Musial to Bob Gibson to Ozzie Smith to Mark McGwire, the team has been a model...
...element of surprise. Because St. Louis isn't the media capital of the world, the Cardinals have been lost in the pipe-dream speculation of a Subway Series between the Mets and Yankees. After first baseman Mark McGwire went down with an injury, the Cardinals quietly built the second-best record in the National League. Chances are good that the Mets will have their hands full with an explosive offense and stifling defense St. Louis showcased against Atlanta...
...with so few positive tests among so many athletes, Olympic sport is being tarred, with consequences that will extend to TV ratings and sponsorships. Masback is resentful that in the summer of 1998 shot putter Randy Barnes made headlines for a positive steroid test even as baseball hero Mark McGwire made headlines for hitting home runs while taking a steroid, androstenedione, that Major League Baseball, in its don't-ask-don't-tell cynicism, sanctions...
...stands are often half-empty. Matsuzaka's Lions are in a heated pennant race in a season that won't end until after the Sydney Games. Releasing him to the Olympic squad would be like the St. Louis Cardinals in the U.S. major leagues going without slugger Mark McGwire in the crucial last days of the season. But the Lions' owner, Yoshiaki Tsutsumi, is a big Olympics booster and was the main force behind the Nagano Winter Games of 1998. "He's the emperor around here, and Daisuke is like the emperor's son," says a team official. Goodbye pennant...
...gone with something else. Last week a St. Louis jury ordered McFarlane to pay $24.5 million to one TONY TWIST, 32, a former NHL enforcer for the St. Louis Blues, who sued McFarlane for using his name without permission. McFarlane, a sports nut who paid $2.7 million for Mark McGwire's record-breaking 1998 home-run ball, waffled in his testimony about the exact provenance of the Twistelli name, but in letters to fans he admitted that Twist was the inspiration for his snarling mafioso character. Never mind that Twistelli bears little resemblance to Twist; if the judgment stands, McFarlane...