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Golf Week Magazine's Equisitely Bad Idea

03:09 AM ET 01.18

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A member of Congress once described a particularly bad law passed by Congress as "...a rotting fish in the moonlight. It both shines and stinks at the same time." What I believe that he meant was that Congress' finished product was an exquisitely bad idea. This saying comes to mind when I think of the geniuses at Golf Week Magazine whose latest edition features a hangman's noose on its cover.I am no demagogue and don't really like to discuss the issue of race, but talk about an equisitely bad idea! Let's walk through…

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Bud, Bud, Bud!

12:23 AM ET 12.20

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Today, MLB Commissioner Bud Selig defended MLB's drug testing program in the wake of the Mitchell Report. He actually stated that he was "proud of where we are."In the days since the release of the Mitchell Report, the standard dodge for players named in the Mitchell Report has been to say that they only did it once...or twice...and/or were recovering from injury (if they are saying anything at all). I guess this is kind of like "I didn't inhale...not really."Bud...this is where MLB is right now...and Congress is on deck, waiting to hold hearings on…

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The Revenge of the Black Sox...The Mitchell Report

03:39 PM ET 12.13

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Now, it's finally public. Approximately 80 present and former players named (the first news reports said 102), including several future Hall of Fame candidates. A players union that actively circumvented the drug testing program by informing players about scheduled "random" drug tests. A franchise (the San Francisco Giants) that actually marketed the home run chase of the game's most notorious steroid abuser---Bary Bonds, the all-time home run king, who may well be on his way to prison for lying to the feds about his role in the scandal. Franchise…

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