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...track and field - prompted authorities to crack down harder on drug use. But in many quarters, baseball was believed to be largely immune. In April 1988 the Los Angeles Times reported that America's pastime remained "essentially steroid-free." While Washington Post sportswriter Thomas Boswell would call Oakland slugger Jose Canseco "the most conspicuous example of a player who has made himself great with steroids" later that year, Canseco shrugged off the charge; he went on to be named American League MVP. (He would later admit to doping from as early as 1985, saying steroids in late-1980s and 1990s...
REBECCA POLIHRONIS, a friend of former Chicago Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa's, saying his lightened visage is the result of a normal skin-rejuvenation procedure. A recent photo of Sosa, who reportedly tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in 2003, showed the outfielder with what appeared to be a dramatically whiter face...
...Many cigarette makers also sponsored television shows - when Winston's ad introduced the long-running CBS Western Gunsmoke, "cigarette" was replaced in their slogan by the sound of two gunshots. For tobacco companies, it was the Golden Age: cigarette ads featured endorsements from dentists, doctors, babies and even Yankees slugger Mickey Mantle. Growing evidence of a link between smoking and lung cancer eventually led manufacturers to introduce cigarette filters - and while it was eventually revealed that filtered cigarettes were no safer than their regular counterparts, that didn't stop them from being advertised as lower in tar and nicotine. (Watch...
...right now! See? Pretty sweet. No need to thank me.Navigating the tricky waters of the Harv can be tough. It’s for sure got its ups and downs, baby, its strikes and gutters. You win some, you lose some. Sometimes you’re the Louisville slugger, sometimes you’re the ball. Sometimes Drew Faust gives you lemons, and you try to make lemonade, but you realize that the ice machine in the dining hall is turned off, and so you have lukewarm lemonade. That sucks.For me, Harvard has been a place that involves high risk...
...Harvard. The team was picked by Baseball America to win the Ivy League going into the season, but instead it finished dead last in the Rolfe Division while posting the third-worst record (8-12) in the Ancient Eight overall. Injuries were a factor—then-junior slugger Tom Stack-Babich went down early in the year and the pitching staff took a couple of big blows when it lost then-sophomore Eric Eadington after two starts and highly-touted prospect Greg Malley never made it to the mound at all.Still, with established senior starters Shawn Haviland...