The thing that really starts to rub me the wrong way is this:
Half the reporters and personalities working for ESPN seem to look at pro and especially college sports with this kid-like nostalgia assuming that a player's love for the game is the only real reason he/she should be competing.
They present this idea that, even though players salaries are in the millions, that sports is only secondarily a business. People need to wake up and realize how much money we pour into sports day in day out and how lucrative a business it is for so many athletes, coaches and networks.
And hey, ESPN! Guess what! When there's millions per year in it for the athletes don't you think they're going to do all they can to be all they can be? Wake up! You (ESPN) carry live telecasts of all major sporting events. You are one of the main reasons sports is so popular and athletes make so much money.
Are steroids really a problem ESPN? If they are than you can wipeout every NFL season for the last 20 years because, according to your views, they were tainted by heavy steroid use among players. Wake up! Don't play innocent. You helped create this environment.
Yes, steroids in the wrong hands is a problem. But so is alcohol and cigarrettes. Kids abuse those much more than steroids. If you really want to save lives ESPN concentrate on that. You'll save 1000's more lives.
But above all. Don't play this pretentious innocent school-boy bullshit! You know steroids are there. You've always known they were there. But you play innocent and point fingers at people like Arnold and run prick-like stories like this to hopefully distance yourselves from what you helped create.
This whole BALCO scandal and general steroid scare (as well as the supplement scare) is predicated on ignorance. Ignorance of not only what steroids and supplements are and what they do. But how everyone has all but forced athletes of almost all types to make the practically no-brainer decision to use them to make their fortune. And make their fortune at progressively younger and younger ages each year.