The US track and field team...

[Nash]

How truly inspiring, Holden.

The connection is quite obvious. You have not seen the test results and yet you seem to think you are fully informed about Carl Lewis.

Despite a few attempts... I guess I haven't been able to express myself clearly enough. Happens alla time. Again, I am not fully informed enough to know. I am fully informed enough to come to an informed opinion.

I would be suprised to somehow find myself proven wrong wrt to Lewis... but it would not rock my world.

[Holden McGroin]

Sports stories are supposed to be inspiring.  Sometimes like the little kid asking Joe Jackson to "Say it ain't so, Joe", our sports heros come down to earth and show that they are human.  

But just because the 1919 Sox threw the series, I am not ready to say all sports is corrupt.  I know too many in my sport who are not.  But perhaps it is just because competetive rowing is as pure as the wind driven snow.

[Nash]

I hear ya.

My brother ended up playing a talking head on like, ABC or NBC news for a story they did about doping. (he aint a doping expert, just a writer for the LA Times and something he wrote sparked something). He basically said "People want to know that what they're watching out there is real".

Like you said, "our sports heros come down to earth and show that they are human." But that's hard to do if they're transforming themselves into displaying unhuman-like abilities.

Great for shoe sales, not for "Joe" tales.