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Baseball Started this Week, but are Kids Still Interested?

Major League Baseball started the 2013 season this week, but it doesn’t seem as though as many kids care about this as in years past.

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Mike Piazza’s Story About Roger Clemens Opens Up Discussion on Aggression & Violence in Sports

Mike PIazza has opened up about the famous Roger Clemens bat-throwing incident from the 2000 World Series, prompting questions around when its appropriate (and even expected) to “fight back.”

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What’s Happening to Our Sports Heroes?

The MLB steroid scandal, Tiger Woods and infidelity, and Lance Armstrong and rampant cheating are just three examples of the lacking integrity in sports these days – prompting many to ask why?

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Major League Baseball Weighs Bonds, Sosa, and Clemens Cheating

Major League Baseball Hall of Fame voters will decide if Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, and Roger Clemens deserve to be enshrined even though all three have been accused of cheating by using steroids. Should they still be elected?

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Mark McGwire Post-Steroids Continues on as MLB Hitting Coach

Mark McGwire admitted to using steroids while he was a league-leading HR hitter, yet even after cheating baseball he still continues to work as a Major League hitting coach today.

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