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Sports - Page 4

  • Guess who was the BALCO leak? Not the government!

    Well, those S.F. Chronicle reporters aren't going to have to do any jail time, because their source has revealed himself.

    Remember all those journalists who were crying, saying the government should never have threatened the reporters with jail unless they revealed their source? One of their major arguments was that it was probably a federal prosecutor who leaked the secret grand jury information, so it wasn't fair for the same prosecutors to now be attacking the poor, innocent reporters.

    Now that it's been revealed that the leak was a defense attorney, maybe those journalists owe the federal prosecutors an apology.

  • Heisman prognosticators aren't that smart

    Congrats to Troy Smith for winning the Heisman trophy. He deserved it, and his win was a foregone conclusion.

    But most college football analysts dismissed the second-place finisher, Arkansas' Darren McFadden. Not a single ESPN talking head even gave him a chance to finish second. Every single one of them said Brady Quinn would finish second and really didn't give McFadden a 'second' thought.

    <>Here's to hoping he stays healthy next season, because he will be the first Razorback to win the Heisman trophy.
  • Why the Yankees should trade A-Rod

    The Yankees should trade A-Rod while he still has value.<>

    <>Why? Because the Yankees don't need him as much as the potential players they could get for him in a trade.

    All season long, as the Yankees took advantage of the Red Sox' injuries and sub-par performances from off-season acquisitions (Lowell, Crisp, Beckett), all baseball fans heard about was how the Yankees were fielding an all-All-Star lineup that was bashing its way to victory after victory. But we heard little about the Yanks' pitching staff, which is getting older and less effective each year.

    Detroit knocked them out of the playoffs because of the adage, "Good Pitching Beats Good Hitting." So for all that offensive firepower, the Yankees still couldn't beat good pitching, and A-Rod was just one of the Yankee hitters who had a miserable postseason.

    So, the Yankees could have made the postseason even without A-Rod in their lineup, but they might have advanced if their pitching staff was better.

    Trading A-Rod before his career begins to fade could net the Yankees some younger pitching that could, within a few years, give New York the kind of dominant pitching staff necessary to compete for more World Series titles in the near future.