Jeremy Brown on February 29, 2008 4:54 PM
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What does it take to be dominant in the world of sports? Well, the short answer seems to be money and steroids, but of course other factors exist (HGH, being scheduled against the Knicks, etc). But you just try telling that to those teams of researchers who occasionally pop up attempting to correlate wins and losses with uniform color.
One such study was conducted during the 2004 Olympics, with a focus on the judo competition, essentially concluding that athletes wearing blue robes had a sporting advantage over their counterparts decked out in white. Blue, the logic goes, is bolder and meaner looking than white, thus somehow psyching out all the lily-clad pansy boys. Blue, apparently, is the new red.
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Ted Alvarez on December 13, 2007 3:13 PM
Well, well, well: In news that surprises no one except perhaps cry-baby Barry Bonds, former Senator George Mitchell’s investigation into steroid use in Major League Baseball connects several top players to continual anabolic steroid use, including monster players like Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds, Ken Caminiti, Jose Canseco, Jason Giambi, Juan Gonzalez, Mo Vaughn, Mark McGwire, Rafael Palmiero and Miguel Tejada. From the NY Times:
“For more than a decade there has been widespread anabolic steroid use,” Mitchell said in a news conference announcing the results of a 20-month investigation he led at the behest of Major League Baseball. (...) “Each of the 30 clubs had a player or players involved in taking illegal substances (...) Everybody in baseball — commissioners, club officials, the players’ association, players — shares responsbility,” Mitchell said. “I can’t be any clearer than that.”
The report also cited a rising use of human growth hormone and MLB's incredibly slow steps to stop it. Last time I checked, most baseball players didn't have pharmacology degrees, so there's a whole lotta cheating going on.
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