| Gibbons' admission of hGH use smacks of hypocrisy
Presumably, any day now George Mitchell will release a scathing report on steroids in baseball that will either eternally restore our faith in the national pastime or shock us all into moving to Ottawa and becoming NHL fans. But there's a slight problem with this premise: As far as shock goes, baseball has successfully waited out our attention span.
Steroids, human growth hormone, amphetamines, the cream, the clear, equine Viagra - it's all pushed to the very back of my mind's medicine cabinet. Mitchell can't possibly produce a guilty name that will generate any surprise or disbelief.
Barry Bonds? Zzzzzzz.
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And the Oscar Goes to…
Hillary Clinton does not do anything that is not coldly, if not icily calculated. However, seeing her ambitions and life's work of becoming the first female president go down into the primordial-primary ooze may be something for which she might exhibit a little emotion. She showed no emotion when I met with her along with another Gold Star Mother, Lynn Braddach from Oregon, whose son Travis Nall was also KIA in Iraq. We poured our hearts and souls out to her and she hardly even blinked, let alone shed a tear for our heartbreak that she had been a major neo-connette chearleader for. That meeting happened in September of 2005, just a few short weeks after we left Camp Casey in Crawford, Tx on August 31, 2005. Anti-war sentiment was high and the apex was a mass march and rally that hundreds of thousands of like-minded (many for the first time) attended in the belly of the evil empire on September 24th.
Mike Szostak’s women’s basketball notes: PC’s Marandola ...
Chelsea Marandola decided in mid-December to forgo the current basketball season so she would have two full, healthy seasons remaining to play for Providence College. She is comfortable with her decision. "I'm feeling better, and the more you feel better, the happier you are," the high-scoring guard from Johnston said yesterday from Alumni Hall. She did, indeed, sound happy. Marandola is recovering ever so slowly from a herniated disk in her lower back. She suffered the injury during a workout last May and has been in physical therapy since July. She has seen a specialist in Boston and has had three cortisone injections. The last one worked the best, she said, because the doctor put the needle "right on the spot, but it hurt really badly." She may need another shot.
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