I mostly agree with you in that the memories of athletic achievement shouldn’t be ruined by the revelation that they were doped, that’s just a ridiculous side effect of the public knowing everything about everybody all the time.

I’m split on Lance though. A large part of his dominance was that he was willing to pay…

I’m all for holding UFC’s feet to the fire but let’s be real here: They actually implemented real drug testing. It’s independent, effective, and putting other sports like football and soccer to shame. It’s literally a bad business decision to have such stringent testing but they do it anyways. I’d like to see…

Missed the reference, mah bad

What do ambulance chasers have to do with anything?

In family law judges have all sorts of latitude.

You may be making a leap of faith to assume that the kid “found” golf or even that it makes her happy.

I’m a 2:33 marathoner (clearly not elite, but in kind of a no mans land of competition), no drugs, and scored a 36. Some of the questions were really vague because they just used the word “Athlete” rather than “Professional Athlete”, but I think that was intentional. My personal take is that we could do a lot more to…

There would have been a lot to datamine at a minimum. It’s difficult to develop in a way that allows components to be added/removed that easily. And any effort put towards that would probably be a waste of time.

Only to be replaced by one of those 0.0 stickers

The computer hardware industry has been doing this for many years. It’s much cheaper to have fewer different things to fabricate, and it makes sense to offer multiple price points to the market. So, you make one good model and lock some of the features for a cheaper model.

I can confirm, I was at the Baylor medical center last night and there was no rape.

You’re giving the Boston Marathon too much credit really, people only heard about the winner two years ago because he was an American.

I say this as an avid marathoner, I constantly forget who won the majors and who holds the world record at any given time. All the top athletes are interchangeable.

Ok, I’ll bite. At what age do we start administering the injections to our kids who enjoy sports?

Both parts are important, nobody is looking at the stage without the UFC.

People talk about this, and drug tests, as if the controls are free or something

Beardsley had a great performance on the day and I’ve got no love lost for Salazar, but the last 34 years of absolute whining has really put me off. One race, even an epic one, shouldn’t make or break your career.

Considerate runners are avoiding the street in places where it’s busy, this usually happens on residential roads with 25 mph speed limits. We run on the street because we’re a lot less likely to get hurt that way. When you’re approaching an intersection from the sidewalk, you have a much worse angle to see approaching…