Posts Tagged ‘Steroids’

Saturday Night Live spoofs Moneyball (video)

October 13th, 2011 by Chris Humpherys

For those of us who work Saturday nights, watching Saturday Night Live has become a thing of the past.  Thank goodness for DVR. Read the rest of this entry »

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SportsChump makes the Majors, contemplates HGH: A hypothetical fairy tale

July 8th, 2011 by Chris Humpherys

I’m about to turn 43.

Roger Clemens is 48.  Mark McGwire is 47.  Barry Bonds and Rafael Palmeiro are both 46.  Sammy Sosa is 42 and Andy Pettitte is 39.

These are the names most commonly associated with Major League Baseball’s steroid era.  Read the rest of this entry »

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Busting out the STFU Meter for Donovan McNabb and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

May 19th, 2011 by Chris Humpherys

Without getting overly vulgar on this family-oriented website, I believe we all know what STFU stands for.  If not, I’ll pause a second while you look it up.

( theme from Jeopardy plays softly in the background)

Okay, now that we’ve got that out of the way, let’s move on. Read the rest of this entry »

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The 13 most memorable individual altercations in sports, Part One

March 4th, 2011 by Chris Humpherys

When I first heard that Jerry Sloan, long time coach of the Utah Jazz, had retired due to an alleged altercation with point guard Deron Williams (which inadvertently led to both of them leaving Utah), I was immediately taken by surprise, even though we all know Coach Sloan never met a fight he didn’t like. Read the rest of this entry »

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National League Hit Leaders by Team: My shot at redemption

August 19th, 2010 by Chris Humpherys

As I mentioned in part one of our all-time hit leaders trivia contest, I had a significantly easier time naming the greatest hitters of the 16 National League teams than I did with the American League. Read the rest of this entry »

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Steroid use in cycling and marketing: Floyd Landis, Lance Armstrong and the Michelin Man

May 27th, 2010 by Chris Humpherys

Professional cycling continues to prove it’s a shady business.

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The pay-per-view event we would ALL like to see

January 15th, 2010 by Chris Humpherys

“I’m an idea man, Chuck”

-Michael Keaton as Bill Blazejowski in Night Shift

Hey, I have ideas too. Good ones sometimes. And just like every other sports fan, I have unanswered questions. Read the rest of this entry »

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A juicing Big Mac: Mark McGwire’s steroid use leaves more questions than answers

January 13th, 2010 by Chris Humpherys

I don’t like movies that are predictable. Like the typical romantic comedy where the couple who despises each other falls in love in the end or the true-crime thriller where we know the killer’s identity from scene one. Scriptwriters may try to pull the wool over our eyes but the American public is not stupid. Read the rest of this entry »

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This week’s caption contest featuring Sammy Sosa

November 11th, 2009 by Chris Humpherys

It’s rare that we at SportsChump.net are blessed with a photo that needs no doctoring or no explanation. It stands alone on its own freakish merit. Read the rest of this entry »

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November Chumpservations, Part Two: Tim Lincecum, Las Vegas, the NFL and Hall & Oates

November 10th, 2009 by Chris Humpherys

sportsbook1Wanna bet?

Las Vegas sports books have been taking a bath lately and I don’t mean comfortably inside a lavish Bellagio hot tub. Read the rest of this entry »

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