A 'Level Playing Field' for the Super Bowl

Given the serious and seemingly intractable problems facing America, one of the more shameful spectacles in recent years has been the congressional hearings on the use of performance-enhancing drugs in professional sports. Congress has more urgent business to attend to than parading our sports heroes before the public, tainting and casting doubt on their achievements, and almost daring them to lie under oath. Let pro sports police itself. What’s legal in pro sports shouldn’t be within the purview of Congress; it doesn’t concern those showboating old fuddy-duddies. Harry Reid isn’t man enough to hoist Mark McGwire’s jockstrap off the locker room floor. Be that as it may, many sports fans get upset when certain hallowed and long-held records are broken by athletes who’ve had an “unfair” advantage in gaining the top spot that the previous record holders didn’t have. A prime example is baseball’s single-season home run record,...(Read Full Article)
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