Comment and response
hardballtimes.com 6/17/2009 — This morning I wrote a post that, among other things, lauded the legal counsel Sammy Sosa appears to have been given in advance of his Congressional testimony in 2005. I said this: [Sosa] said "To be clear, I have never taken illegal performance-enhancing drugs." He said "I have never ...

Translating For Sammy Sosa
bootleggersports.com 6/17/2009 — First you get the money, then the steroids, then you get the women Remember that Congressional hearing in 2005 when Sammy Sosa was questioned about steroids? He barely spoke English and his attorney did most of the talking, which included reading a statement Sosa had prepared. Now, news is ...

Is Sosa “Enhancing” His Arms? And Other Sammy News
feedproxy.google.com 6/23/2009 — In the wake of the Sammy Sosa steroid scandal, many people around the majors have been chiming in about what they think regarding this topic. Ryne Sandberg does not approve, and he had this to say : Appearing on the “Waddle & Silvy” show on ESPN 1000, Sandberg was asked ...

Is Sosa “Enhancing” His Arms? And Other Sammy News
notqualifiedtocomment.com 6/24/2009 — In the wake of the Sammy Sosa steroid scandal, many people around the majors have been chiming in about what they think regarding this topic. Ryne Sandberg does not approve, and he had this to say : Appearing on the “Waddle & Silvy” show on ESPN 1000, Sandberg was asked ...

Report: Sosa worked out with A-Rod’s banned trainer
scoresreport.com 6/17/2009 — According to a report by the New York Daily News , Sammy Sosa worked out with Alex Rodriguez’s trainer Angel Presinal , who was banned by MLB for his involvement in selling and distributing performance-enhancing drugs. “He worked with him in 2001, 2002 and 2003 in the Dominican ...

Sammy Sosa Had Guns, and Wanted You to Know About It
bleachernation.com 6/25/2009 — Hey, if I were pumping my body full of ultimately harmful steroids just so that I could be a beast physically in the short term, I’d want to show it off, too. It turns out Sosa had his jerseys tapered around his arms for a period of years. A study of photo archives suggests Sosa’s ...

Is Sammy Sosa Hall of Fame worthy?
thesportsbank.net 6/8/2009 — By Jake McCormick Sammy Sosa and Brett Favre have more in common than you think. Both road drugs through their highest peaks of success, and enjoyed unanimous admiration by their respective leagues and fans while building themselves into living legends. But in the words of Harvey Dent, ...

Did Sosa Alter Jerseys To Make Arms Look Bigger?
cnbc.com 6/23/2009 — Posted By: Darren Rovell Former baseball slugger Sammy Sosa didn’t just get bigger over the years, he also might have wanted to show his fans how big he was getting. Read More Topics: Consumers | Marketing | Advertising |  ...

Something about Sosa and Steroids
puristbleedspinstripes.com 6/17/2009 — Yesterday, the news broke that former Chicago Cubs star Sammy Sosa had tested positive for steroids or some other sort of PED in 2003. Like many, I shrugged and moved on. There was (and possibly still is) a time when such news would be shattering, with the potential to devastate the sport, but ...

Another One Bites The Dust
baseballreflections.com 6/17/2009 — Image by Getty Images via Daylife In yesterday’s New York Times, Michael S. Schmidt reported that “ Sammy Sosa …is among the players who tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug in 2003, according to lawyers with knowledge of the drug-testing results ...

MLB: Why No Steroids Should Be in the Hall of Fame — Bleacher Report - MLB 6/18/2009
Another one bites the dust. With this week's disappointing, yet predictable news that Sammy Sosa failed a drug test in 2003, the running list of great home run hitters linked to PED's continues to grow.   While many people had already  ...

Cubs 6, White Sox 5 — NYT > Baseball 6/19/2009
CHICAGO (AP) -- Derrek Lee and Geovany Soto hit consecutive homers to tie the game in a four-run eighth inning, then Alfonso Soriano singled home the winning run in the ninth to give the Chicago Cubs a 6-5 victory over the White Sox on Thursday.

Cubs rally to beat Sox — chicagotribune.com - Sports 6/19/2009
5 runs in 8th and 9th innings doom Chicago White Sox > What happened Thursday at Wrigley Field was one of most dramatic games in Cubs-White history, and certainly one of the most ...

Cubs rally past White Sox 6-5 at Wrigley Field — Examiner Sports 6/19/2009
Derrek Lee and Geovany Soto hit consecutive homers to tie the game in a four-run eighth inning, then Alfonso Soriano singled home the winning run in the ninth to give the Chicago Cubs a 6-5 victory over the White Sox on Thursday.

Writer may beat Mark McGwire to Hall of Fame — L.A. Times - Baseball News 6/19/2009
Steve Wilstein, who got McGwire to admit to using androstenedione in 1998, has been nominated for the J. G. Taylor Spink Award and admission to the baseball writers' wing in Cooperstown. >  ...