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Clinton to Attend Mideast Peace Talks in Egypt
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailySecretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will go to Egypt for the second round of the Obama administration's Israeli-Palestinian peace talks Sept. 14-15, The Hill newspaper reports. "Egypt will host the second round of . . . negotiations in Sharm el-Sheikh," Egypt's Foreign Ministry spokesman Hossam Zaki said in a statement carried by the state news agency MENA. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who began talks in Washington last week, will meet again in Egypt. A State Department official told Agence France-Presse that special envoy ...
Roger Clemens Pleads Not Guilty on Perjury Charges
By Tom Kavanagh - Politics DailyAs a seven-time Cy Young Award winner, Roger Clemens worked his way out of countless jams. On Monday he stared down one of a quite different sort when he entered a not guilty plea in federal court on charges he lied to Congress about never using steroids or human growth hormone. Clemens, 48, faces six felony charges, including perjury, obstruction of Congress and making false statement. The former all-star pitcher entered his plea before U.S. District Court Judge Reggie Walton, the AP reports. The charges stem from Clemens' February 2008 appearance before the House Oversight and Government ...
George Mitchell Lays Groundwork as Envoy for Israeli-Palestinian Talks
By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailyIf there were no conflict, Ramallah and Jerusalem would be considered neighboring towns. By car, they lie only 16 miles apart; even fewer as the crow flies. The distance might as well be an ocean. Former Sen. George Mitchell must be tired. He's swum this ocean's length already, dozens of times. Over the last weeks Mitchell, the U.S. special envoy to the Middle East, a diplomat decorated for his role in the Northern Ireland peace process, has shuttled back and forth between Jerusalem and Ramallah, working to lay the groundwork allowing mediated talks to begin between Israeli Prime ...
Daily Jolt: Major League Baseball Should Listen to Ozzie Guillen, Big Papi
By Andrew Johnson - AOL NewsThe Daily Jolt is a dose of baseball reality every weekday morning.Most of the time you can ignore Ozzie Guillen. Do so at your own peril, of course. When he's not testing the boundaries of decency or making you do earmuffs like Vince Vaughn's kid in Old School, he's wildly entertaining. And if you can get by the crudeness and the f-bombs, he's even insightful sometimes.The White Sox skipper told reporters over the weekend that he'd like to see Major League Baseball adopt stiffer punishments for players who test positive for performance-enhancing drugs the first time.Guillen supported ...
Left on Base: Mark McGwire Is So Busted, More Schilling and Radomski
By Andrew Johnson - AOL NewsLeft on Base is MLB FanHouse's link dump.* There's been plenty of talk about Mark McGwire lately, what with the Hall of Fame vote last week, and his long lost (estranged?) brother seems ready to cash in on it. From Deadspin comes the news that Jay McGwire has been shopping a tell-all book that will detail, among other things, how he got Mark hooked on steroids and how he "crashed and found God." Don't worry it probably won't be on our Amazon pre-order list either.* Curt Schilling will expand his role on Boston radio station WEEI in the coming year. Good, Schilling talking more is just what ...
Do Not Read List: Kirk Radomski's Book
By Eamonn Brennan - AOL NewsIn the annals of Major League Baseball's steroids legend, much has been made of the books of former player and current professional scumbag Jose Canseco. Those books -- the first, Juiced, especially so -- managed to blow the lid off of MLB's as-yet-quiet performance-enhancing drugs story. They also managed to make Jose Canseco look like a terrible person. One imagines it will be much the same with steroid dealer Kirk Radomski's tome, "Bases Loaded" -- the titles of steroids books are not renowned for their subtlety -- which comes out next week on Hudson Street Press. The New York Times was ...
There Might Be More to This Jordan Schafer - HGH Story
By Will Brinson - AOL NewsThe news of Jordan Schafer being suspended 50 games this season for violation of baseball's PED policy was shocking to say the least. Although maybe it shouldn't have been, since there has apparently been a Mitchell Report aftershock investigation surrounding the prospect since spring training, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. This, of course, resulted from his meteoric rise through the minors. Even more spicily, there's a lot of chatter coming out of Schafer's "camp" (read: his dad) about a slew of extenuating circumstances that surround the suspension, none of which Jordan or his ...
Look Mom: More MLB and Steroids
By PostmanR - AOL NewsCome now, you didn't think MLB had gotten to the root of all steroid evil, did you? Of course not, silly. The latest shady doctor prescription deal comes from the great state of California. The New York Times has the details.Dr.Ramon Scruggs and two of his associates face 11 charges stemming from the suspected distribution of steroids and human growth hormone to patients who did not have legitimate medical reasons for using the substances, the indictment said.The players were referred to Scruggs by agents "for the purposes of obtaining anabolic steroids and other drugs which those individuals ...
Frank Thomas Lone MLB Player to Talk With George Mitchell
By PostmanR - AOL NewsIf there's one thing I've been able to hold my head high about during baseball's ugly steroid drama, it's that the guy I grew up idolizing, the player my childhood will forever be tied to in Chicago, has been nowhere near any of it. That man is Frank Thomas. There's a certain satisfaction in knowing my guy kept his head above the fray. (Although, it was such a pervasive culture and personally, I'm not so sure it's really that bad players were/are taking HGH to hang on to a few more years.That being said: society sees the whole era as bad. So, in turn, Frank Thomas is good.) Nostalgia aside, ...
Hatin' the Patriots: Bill Belichick is Rotten and Devoid of Moral Fiber
By Tom Mantzouranis - AOL News(If you don't know why you are here, please go back to the launch page for What Kind of Pats Hater Are You?)Those who deny the Patriots cheated ... well, they should be told they're wrong. The Patriots were caught. They were punished.And cheating is bad. There's no doubt about that. If you choose to hate the Patriots because they broke the rules in order to win ... well, I can't argue with you. Bonus points if you have kids. But they certainly aren't the only ones to film other team's signals. That's not even to mention the massive use of steroids, the tampering, the holding and various other ...
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