Last year when George Mitchell released his report, a 409-page investigation into the use and distribution of performance-enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball, it seemed that everyone was ready to write off the last 10 years of baseball as a fraud. Some called for numbers to be erased from the record books and some of baseball’s most historic names to be banned from the Hall of Fame.
While the public eye was fixed squarely on what was once America’s pastime, the other major professional sports were breathing a collective sigh of relief, relieved that they had not been subjected to such ridicule and public embarrassment.
Especially football, America’s new money-making juggernaut, which gives its audience athletes that are larger than life and a game based around muscles and mayhem. Wouldn’t it make more sense for performance-enhancing drugs to run rampant in the National Football League?
Full Story: D.C. Sports Examiner: Report: 185 NFL players tied to performance-enhancing drugs
While the public eye was fixed squarely on what was once America’s pastime, the other major professional sports were breathing a collective sigh of relief, relieved that they had not been subjected to such ridicule and public embarrassment.
Especially football, America’s new money-making juggernaut, which gives its audience athletes that are larger than life and a game based around muscles and mayhem. Wouldn’t it make more sense for performance-enhancing drugs to run rampant in the National Football League?
Full Story: D.C. Sports Examiner: Report: 185 NFL players tied to performance-enhancing drugs

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