Scolding Barry Bonds
What was Babe Ruth on, besides too many beers? No one knows. 800 years before Christ, Greek Olympic contestants ate sheep testicles to enhance their testosterone levels.
The scolds are out of control.
First, in order to judge whose (if anyone’s) business is the ‘enhancement’ of performance in sports with steroids and the like—you have to know the acronyms of the major players.
We have the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration), assigned to Alberto Gonzales’ Justice Department, which should be scary enough.
Then there’s the USADA (the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency). That’s a national affiliate of
the WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency). The WADA guys are an independent foundation created through a collective initiative
led by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Independent, my ass. They may have started out independent, but the USADA has recently collaborated with the DEA and the ante is being upped substantially. From Ann Shipley’s piece today in the Washington Post;
The collaboration has "had a…