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...here to discuss the past. I'm here to be positive about this subject." MARK MCGWIRE, record-setting former baseball slugger, repeatedly refusing to answer questions about whether he ever used steroids, at a U.S. House committee hearing...
...heart of the lineup features the program’s top two single-season home run leaders, junior shortstop Zak Farkes and captain and catcher Sky Mann, who blasted 14 and 11 homers last year, respectively. No other Crimson slugger had ever hit more than...
BASEBALL The steroid scandal widened and moved inexorably closer to Barry Bonds. Fans wonder: Did the slugger really think his trainer was just giving him flaxseed...
That was not the case with New York Yankees slugger Jason Giambi, whose vivid description to the same jury of the outlaw apothecary available to athletes also made its way into the Chronicle. Unlike Bonds, Giambi said he knew what he was taking and told of injecting the steroid Deca Durabolin in 2001. Giambi said Anderson had provided him with the clear, or THG (tetrahydrogestrinone), a then undetectable synthetic steroid that's absorbed with a few drops under the tongue. Anderson also gave him the cream, a mixture of testosterone and epitestosterone that's rubbed into the skin. Giambi also...
...enhancement of society promises to get only more radical, especially as genetic engineering grows more advanced. When people of means can buy sharper brains and stronger bodies for themselves or better genetic profiles for their kids, juiced-up athletes will be the least of our ethical worries. If Giants slugger Barry Bonds deserves an asterisk next to his home-run records, maybe we will deserve asterisks next to our salaries, our sexual conquests and our kids' SAT scores...