deadspin.com - 9/4/2008
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Out here in the West, the third and final part of the Bob Costas-Jacques Rogge tête-à-tête has just wrapped up on NBC. In this section (loosely labeled "Etcetera"), Costas asked Rogge what killed softball and baseball for the 2012 Games. Rogge eventually mentioned the domination of both sports by a few countries (*cough cough* America *cough*), which Maggie Hendricks of Fourth Place Medal ...
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Strange Fruit, Pt. I
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... hammering Rogge with questions about China’s abysmal human rights record, the censoring of foreign journalists’ Internet access, and the controversial decision to eliminate softball and baseball from the Olympics, an effort largely spearheaded and overseen by Rogge since 2002. Rogge ably deflected the questions about human rights and censorship, but when it came to the question of why softball and baseball had been eliminated, he suddenly decided to be candid. His answer? Baseball’s PED problem. And Barry ...
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... I just stumbled across this graphic on a site called Deadspin, and I must say it’s the finest G-POPE graphic I’ve seen since ...
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