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Tension Over Sports Blogging - New York Times

Tension over sports blogging is one of the strains between sports franchises, leagues and reporters to have emerged during the digital age.

The Jock Exchange

Another twist in the business of sports from the author of Moneyball:

ADD Drugs Soar in MLB

ADD is soaring faster in the major leagues than ERAs, according to statistics cited at Tuesday's congressional hearing on doping in baseball.

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A Dozen Deserving of Hall

Finally, the Goose is in. So that's one down and a dozen to go.

Massive failure of journalists allowed steroid culture to fester

A cautionary tale -- and maybe a mea culpa -- from the sports reporter who was the ghost writer for Jose Canseco's "Juiced", the book that spurred action.

The Top Player in This League? It May Be the Sports Reporter

A few teams are rich and getting richer, hunting more avidly than ever for talent, raiding the less-endowed leagues, poaching free agents and bidding the prices of star players to unheard-of heights.

What is with Hall voters -- Duck, Duck, Duck, Goose?

It's a rare columnist that can cite such diverse and deep thinkers as Einstein, Emerson and Goose Gossage to arrive at a cutting and insightful commentary on what the writer believes is the illogical voting practices for the National Baseball Hall of Fame. A snippet:

The steroids social network: an interactive feature on the Mitchell report.

Below, we present the findings of the Mitchell report as a social network.

E&P: How Baseball Writers Blew the Drug Scandal

More than a dozen current and former baseball writers and their editors spoke with E&P about the often shoddy job sports reporters did on the steroid scandal in baseball, which now appears to date back almost 20 years.

Lots of Fear and Loathing in Gonzo Book Review

Carolyn See, book reviewer for the Washington Post, takes out some anguished loathing on Gonzo, The Life of Hunter S. Thompson, a new biography by Jann Wenner and Corey Seymour.

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