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...bulking up is suddenly not so chic. Giambi, who claims he lost only 4 lbs. over the winter, looks as if he's shrunk a few shirt, shorts and shoe sizes. "Spring training used to be an annual game of who got bigger," says Josh Suchon, an Oakland Tribune sportswriter who wrote a book on Bonds. "This year it's the game of who got smaller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baseball Takes A Hit | 3/15/2004 | See Source »

...body, breaking apart before it reaches the urine and becoming invisible to screening tests. To track it, the UCLA lab invented a new test that is sensitive to the elements of the deconstructed steroid. So far, five track and field stars and four players from football's Oakland Raiders have tested positive for the drug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Steroid Detective | 3/1/2004 | See Source »

DePodesta has spent the past five years as the assistant to the Oakland Athletics’ GM Billy Bean, and was expected to take over for Bean in November 2002 when it seemed that Bean was going to become the new GM position for the Red Sox, but Bean changed his mind and stayed in Oakland...

Author: By Evan R. Johnson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Alum DePodesta Named New Dodgers GM | 2/19/2004 | See Source »

...assembling successful teams with limited financial resources, making the playoffs for the past straight four years despite a limited payroll. He will enter a drastically different situation, as McCourt has announced that he is willing to spend $100 million a year on payroll, compared to the $56 million Oakland spent last year...

Author: By Evan R. Johnson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Alum DePodesta Named New Dodgers GM | 2/19/2004 | See Source »

Before joining up, I had taken a lesson with the French composer Darius Milhaud. When I got home, I continued to study with him on the G.I. Bill at Mills College in Oakland, Calif. He knew I wanted to write oratorios and cantatas, but he also said I should not give up jazz. He said, "Jazz is the most American art form. It's too late for you to have a European classical background. But you'll do it on your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Musical Prayers | 2/16/2004 | See Source »

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