Earl Ofari Hutchinson, AlterNet. December 20, 2007. The radically different treatment Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds have received about alleged drug use is a racist double standard.
Sean Gonsalves, AlterNet. December 17, 2007. Using steroids to bulk up isn't just a problem in baseball, but it's afflicting law enforcement in New York and Blackwater mercenaries in Iraq.
Dave Zirin, AlterNet. December 14, 2007. MLB honchos not knowing about steroid use is like Bush not "reading" the National Intelligence Estimate while saber-rattling against Iran.
Tommy McDonald, AlterNet. December 13, 2007. Now that we know Roger Clemens took steroids, will he get the same rough treatment that Barry Bonds did? Doubtful.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson, AlterNet. December 13, 2007. Even though the Mitchell Report shows that much of the MLB was complicit in steroid use, Barry Bonds is the only one who will take the fall.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson, AlterNet. November 26, 2007. For Marion Jones, Michael Vick, Barry Bonds, and O.J. Simpson, their mistakes will forever hold them in infamy.
Dave Zirin, CounterPunch. November 16, 2007. As the media hovers over the legal woes of Barry Bonds, where's the talk about Bush's new attorney general, who is potentially as dangerous as the last?
Dave Zirin, TheNation.com. August 14, 2007. Instead of sparking a serious discussion on sports, steroids, celebrity and race, the media's anti-Bonds avalanche has done baseball a grave disservice.
Robert Lipsyte, Tomdispatch.com. June 2, 2007. In the Bambino, America found its prototype male athlete: the arrogant, self-absorbed rowdy whose excesses, commercial greed, and tunnel vision were justified by winning. The cock-jock has since become a business, entertainment, and political role model.
