For the middle point here, why is it that Paterno being stripped of over 100 wins for something that had nothing to do with the act of coaching or playing football gets passed over in silence around here, but when people actually cheat, and gain a competitive advantage in the process, their records are suddenly…

Okay. My bad. That was like, a tertiary point though.

I'm confused. What exactly is your point? Did I deny the idea that the Black Sox, however indirectly, encouraged the BC point-shaving scandal?

2.Why is cheating somehow an unimportant issue?

Why is this in the grey? Is Kinja acting up, or did DS get mad at me for approving this thread?

Did you miss the part where athletes in their teens had been administered drugs by Bosch? Where do you think that they got the idea that they had to dope in order to be competitive?

• Steroids were banned in 1991, you mook.

My fear is that, to the extent that this line of thinking has been fleshed out in their minds at all over the years that they have argued it, they just don't think that PEDs constitute cheating, or at the very least, that it shouldn't have any bearing on people's appraisal of their careers.

1.True.

So, it's one thing to argue that the media is excessively focusing on the PED issue at the expense of other things. It's entirely another to say that the PED issue is of no relevance, because apparently voters should just look the other way when great athletes cheat, because after all, the Hall of Fame, which was…

Nice username, by the way.

Well, was the ref from Austin? I demand answers.

This would be a fair point if JTTP hadn't immediately responded to a one-word reply by a woman (who he just assumes to be white, by the way) by making the most outlandish assumptions about how she is so insecure that she views women thousands of miles away, on television, that her boyfriend will never ever in a…

No love for D'Joun Smith, or Anthony Harris, who lead the nation with 7 interceptions?

Oops, I'm wrong. There's an article from September 26th that mentions Detroit pensions in passing in the following way:

Devils Advocate: They should do it like soccer, and eject and suspend people after their second foul. We can totally trust basketball referees with that much game-changing power.

Maple Jordan my ass.

"WHERE'S THE FUCKIN' FOUL, REF? GOT DAMN, THESE REFS IS BLIND!"

Just go universal single payer like the rest of the industrialized world.