They really didn't know?

The Washington Post says the players may have a legitimate claim to the “I didn’t know what I took contained steroids.

diploma factories.

Ian O’Connor rips the Mets for squelching Carlos Delgado’s freedom of expression

Catching up

Pat Forde looks at Tulane's long, disjointed football season.

Woj thinks its time to put Buck O'Neill in the Hall of Fame. I met Buck O’Neill at the Negro League Museum (a great place to visit if you’re ever in KC). The man is a great ambassador for baseball.

Did Pete Rose cork his bat? The Cincy Enquirer has reason to think its possible.

A liitle of everything...

Gene Wojciechowski has a nice story on good guy Michael Redd.

Pete Thamel on Jordan Palmer

Rosenberg on a rejuvinated Joey Harrington.

The Denver Post is doing a series on Beisbol.

Way behind...

Covering a potentially playoff bound I-AA football team and the start of hoop season has slowed my blogging in the last two weeks, but things should improve shortly thanks to lap top upgrades that should help my blogging considerably. I've missed all of Theo and much of T.O. which I regret, but I'm not going to go too far back.

Dan Wetzel's annual College Hoops Preseason road trip is rolling. For hoops fans, it's an essential read over its 10-day run.

William Gildea has a look at the often controversial John Chaney.

The Boston Globe's ombudsman looks at the much scrutinized relationship between the Red Sox and Globe, whose parent company owns 17 percent of the team.

Phil Sheridan says McNabb seemed sad to miss out on what could have been.

Mike Wise's column has to be good for me to read about a marathoner, but this is about much more than that.

Ian O'Connor and Mike Vaccaro think Mariano Rivera got jobbed.

J.A. Adande says Kim Ng should strive for better than the Dodgers.


Woj on the rise of Rutgers.

Whitlock, Willingham and Weis

Whitlock has a good column about Notre Dame.