It's All About the U and Me
Ryan Braun played baseball at the University of Miami and the place where the team plays baseball is Alex Rodriguez Park at Mark Light Stadium even though A Rod never actually played for UM. Naming rights for sports venues can be convoluted.
What isn't convoluted is that there were at least two major leaguers connected to UM that are part of an unfolding story about performance enhancing drugs and a clinic that is right across the street from the UM Campus.
I am a 1973 graduate of the University of Miami and attend baseball games more often than I go to the movies or travel to see the Miami Marlins. This stuff stings. I once had a fantasy baseball team filled with former UM players that made it to the majors. The local newspaper followed former players through their minor league and big league careers if they were lucky enough to make it.
The University and the MLB both have policies against steroids and other performance enhancing drugs and players who are caught are finally being punished. The competitive nature of big time sports now rewards avoiding detection while using drugs.
I am a sports fan, but the stories about games and races and the skills, speed, statistics and hard working nature of the players that were the biggest part of the sports page have been replaced by endless discussion of contracts, drug abuse, domestic violence, dui's, recruiting violations and police blotter stuff.
Cheating has been around a long time but money and the media make it hard to ignore.
What isn't convoluted is that there were at least two major leaguers connected to UM that are part of an unfolding story about performance enhancing drugs and a clinic that is right across the street from the UM Campus.
I am a 1973 graduate of the University of Miami and attend baseball games more often than I go to the movies or travel to see the Miami Marlins. This stuff stings. I once had a fantasy baseball team filled with former UM players that made it to the majors. The local newspaper followed former players through their minor league and big league careers if they were lucky enough to make it.
The University and the MLB both have policies against steroids and other performance enhancing drugs and players who are caught are finally being punished. The competitive nature of big time sports now rewards avoiding detection while using drugs.
I am a sports fan, but the stories about games and races and the skills, speed, statistics and hard working nature of the players that were the biggest part of the sports page have been replaced by endless discussion of contracts, drug abuse, domestic violence, dui's, recruiting violations and police blotter stuff.
Cheating has been around a long time but money and the media make it hard to ignore.
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