ESPN is piling on an earlier story about Alex Rodriguez and performance enhancing drugs by reporting that the man who allegedly sold A-Rod the products, personally injected them into the slugger.
Two new exposés compound the lingering reality that no Hall of Fame snubs or Lance Armgstrong-style admissions may ever stop the larger modern problem in professional or amateur sports.
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The Big 10 and Pac-12 close a new scheduling deal to gobble up more college sports scheduling real estate, Penn State's top choice to replace Joe Paterno passes, and Alex Rodriguez's bad knee gets the experimental blood therapy treatment in Germany.
Plus: Missouri ponders staying in the Big 12; Grantland now available in print (and leather)
Plus: Ashleigh Banfield may be headed to CNN's 'American Morning'
Plus: a tree menaces the White House
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