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I understand that Shaquille O'neal is a man that transcends just the NBA, but watching him attempt to play against other athletes in their own sport is extremely difficult to swallow.  Watching Shaq attempt to swing a bat was like watching a baby giraffe trying to walk.  It was hard to watch yet I could not take my eyes off of it, like a car accident.  The 7'1" O'neill attempted to out-slug Albert Pujols, out-spike beach volleyball stars Misty May and Kerri Walsh, and out-throw Ben Roethlisberger, needless to say he could not out-do anybody at anything.  The show is a half hour too long and the hosts are extremely annoying.  The most important part of the show, the actual competition, takes place in the last fifteen minutles of the show making the first 45 minutes irrelevant.  Here are some short examples of the show from Youtube:

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The Russian passport was not just a ticket to the Olympics for Hammon. Her dual-citizenship increased the value of her CSKA Moscow contract substantially; dual-citizens are highly coveted by the Russian league because its rules limit the number of foreign players they are allowed to employ, and players like Hammon can conveniently side-step this rule with a Russian passport. So, then it became a matter of straight-up probability. Does she take the sure thing: a guaranteed spot on the Russian team, or turn that down and gamble on a long-shot: making the U.S. 12-player team, for which she was only invited to try out after the invite list had been expanded beyond its original 23. She did not feel that she had a legitimate chance to make the team, and like most athletes, the idea of competing in the

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          It was as recent as 2004 where Roger Clemens was at top of his game.  It was his first year in the National League while playing for the Houston Astros.  He ended up going 18-4 and eventually went on to win the National League Cy Young Award.  How quickly can things can fall from grace.  In December 13, 2007, Clemens name was listed in the Mitchell Report, which alleged that he had used steroids and HGH during the 1998-2001 seasons.  Ever since those allegations, Clemens has been saying he was falsely accused with his lawyer Rusty Hardin backing him up.  Even under oath in front of federal investigators and the Supreme Court, he kept to his story that he never did take HGH or steroids.  What a horrible decision that would later be for him.

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y with the harmful drugs, but more prominently disgraced herself, her sport, her teammates, and the Olympics in which she competed. Her crime was largely symbolic, though I do not deny the gravity of her misdeeds. Then there’s Scooter Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff who outed Valerie Plame as a CIA operative shortly after her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, published an op-ed piece questioning whether or not Iraq had actually sought uranium yellowcake from Niger. It is an indiscretion that, politically motivated or not, bears enormous consequences for Plame, personally, leaves our national security exponentially more vulnerable, and causes our intelligence infrastructure to grow mistrusting of the executive branch. Do we really hold the purity of sports to a higher standard than we do the life and death issue of war? Marion Jones doped up to get a competitive edge and did not do so as a deliberate attempt to destroy others. Libby’s indiscretion was directly infringing on somebody else’s safety, valuing his own political career above another’s life. 

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