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...meantime, events like the MIT Bouldering Competition help to bolster enthusiasm for the up-and-coming sport of indoor climbing...
...history? Baseball is all history: comparing today's players with yesteryear's is among the great pleasures of the sport. That makes baseball fans more fervent lovers of tradition than Tevye. They can cite, as Scripture, the career home-run totals of Ruth (714) and Hank Aaron (755). And they're not always eager to see records broken. So old-time fans are skeptical of modern-era players, who have had as many 50-homer seasons in the past decade as occurred in the previous century. Bonds, 39, set the all-time season home-run record...
There's a fourth reason: steroids can kill. Athletes in any sport might consider football's Lyle Alzado, an all-pro defensive lineman who took anabolic steroids throughout his career and later believed they were linked to the brain cancer that killed him. "Now I'm sick, and I'm scared," he said just before his death, at 43, in 1992. "Look at me. My hair's gone, I wobble when I walk and have to hold on to someone for support, and I have trouble remembering things. My last wish? That no one else ever dies this...
...four-horse steeplechase. Ice Saint's price had drifted from 5-2 to 4-1 amid strong rumors that several gamblers on Internet betting exchanges had wagered heavily on the horse losing. The rise of Internet betting troubles racing authorities, who understand the dangers of corruption in a sport whose raison...
...that you are not alone. So get out there and do something about it. Grab a few buddies and start a game of football in the snow. Cheer on the Harvard varsity athletes as they take on the rest of the Ivy League. Try your hand at a new sport. Whatever you do, make sure that you keep athletics in your life in any way that you can. Fill The Void...