Montana sized ego? Check! Which brings up a question. Does the go drive the drug use or does the drug use drive the ego? It's the chicken and egg argument for steroids. I can see both sides easily, but without solid proof on either side I will choose to lean towards the drug drives the ego.
Excuse used: “I took it (human growth hormone) for a brief period and I didn’t receive any great benefits from it. I compromised my morality to play another two years in the NFL.” I don't buy it. His incidents go back to 1989 and they all reek of roid rage. Again we stand in a place where we will never know the truth so we are forced to speculate if we want to deal with the situation.
What's he doing now? Selling supplements....
This past year the Baseball Hall of Fame didn't induct anyone. I thought at first that was a bad decision. I saw steroids as a bad habit and sports is more than bad habits. There are plenty of bad habits by anyone, including athletes.
...Jeff Katz (click here) wants everyone to know that Cooperstown will be OK.
The mayor of the small village in upstate New York that houses the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum says that not having a living inductee this summer, for the first time since 1965, won't put his town's stores out of business.
"The idea that this will seriously hurt our town is just not true," Katz said....
But, taking drugs to enhance the performance of one's profession is not simply a habit, it is a character issue. So, I rethought the idea that 'the steroid age' was simply a category the Hall of Fames would have to reflect. As if the choice to use performance enhancing drugs was not a choice at all, so much as a victimization of naive athletes caught in a meat grinder.
That is wrong. Being an alcoholic is a bad habit. But, to take drugs that are to enhance the performance of a well paid athlete is corruption. It is a character issue. Character issues are more than a 12 step program could reverse.
Below, is an example of how a character issue follows a person. There is no need to make that an example as the best athletics has to offer.
By Andrew Zajac - Feb 21, 2013 12:10 AM ET
Former National Football League player Bill Romanowski (click here) can’t deduct costs of a horse-breeding operation, the U.S. Tax Court ruled, upholding a $4.7 million levy by the Internal Revenue Service.
Romanowski and his wife, Julie, didn’t try to make a profit on horse-breeding activities in 2003 and 2004, and as a result, the expenses they incurred aren’t deductible, Judge Joseph Goeke in Washington said in yesterday’s decision.
The couple’s involvement in a horse-breeding program “was almost entirely motivated by tax benefits available to them through such participation,” Goeke wrote....
