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Mellowyel posted Bolt's the Name | Aug 16, 2008
Here's my question: am I the only one who thought "steroids" when this dude won the 100m with a HUGE gap? That's what it seems like. Everyone's simply saying "Usain Bolt is awesome!" But no one's calling him out. Maybe it's because it's the Olympics, and there's supposed to be a higher standard of...
Hieronymus posted Book Review: Game Of Shadows | Jul 31, 2008
I finished Game of Shadows : Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the steroids scandal that rocked professional sports the other day and it lived up to its bulky subtitle alright. What an absolute fiasco the whole BALCO scandal was, pointing fingers at dozens of elite athletes and showing just what a sham even...
Hieronymus posted My Reading Month - July | Jul 28, 2008
A quick rundown of my recent reading history: Update The Afghanistan Wars by Willam Maley is a straight forward accound of recent Afghanistan history, from the mid-70s through the early 2000s. I only made it up to the Soviet invasion before I had to return it, but I found it a very good way to get...
Betsy Milligan posted Chemo Day --- More Fun than it Sounds | Jul 10, 2008
June 25, 2008 CHEMO DAY It's 11:50 pm on the day I had chemotherapy. Why am I still up? Because the truth is, chemo day is, in a way, the best day of the month. It's the day I feel most like my old self because "chemo day Betsy" is actually "cancer Betsy" on steroids! Part of the $16,000 chemical...
