Dodgers need a slice of Piazza in 2008
I was a little sad to hear that Mike Piazza retired this week, unsigned and out of uniform. For Barry Bonds to fade out of baseball and disappear unclaimed and unwanted makes sense. It is unfortunate to see the greatest offensive catcher ever ride off into the sunset without a grand tour [...]
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- Cheating, Lying, Doping - a philosophy of failure
May 27th, 2007I’ve been following the coverage of doping in the cycling world over at Bicycle.Net
and thinking a bit about the nature and value of sports.
In the 1730s the RamChaL, an Italian Jewish philosopher and Kabbalistic mystic, wrote a guidebook to doping and cheating in sports. Well, he probably didn’t have sports in [...]
