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ESPN Outside the Lines:What's Lurking in Your Stadium Food
Health department inspection reports for food and beverage outlets at stadiums and arenas home to Major League Baseball, National Football League, National Hockey League, and National Baseball Association teams showed that more than half of them had been cited for a "critical" or "major" health inspection.
Tags: sports; stadium; arena; stadium food; health; safety; food preparation
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Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel: Black in Bellaire
Robbie Tolan dreamed of a career in Major League Baseball, until a night that changed it all. While driving home to a predominantly white and affluent neighborhood, he was stopped by the police in front of his home and was suspected of stealing his own car. As his parents stood by, the police officer shot Robbie and almost killed him. He now lives a life without his love, the game of baseball.
Tags: Bobby Tolan; Bellaire, Texas; gunpoint; crime; law enforcement; criminal; race; bias; discrimination
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Dykstra's Business a Bed of 'Nails'
Lenny Dykstra appeared to be the picture of success. He set out to build a “financial empire” based off of professional athletes and his own reputation as a former Major League Baseball star. “But an ESPN.com investigation discovered that Dykstra was a financial train wreck with a long history of skipping out on bills. Also, ESPN.com discovered that at least 24 legal actions had been filed against Dykstra over the previous two years.”
Tags: Baseball; Financial; Players; Lawsuit; Entrepreneur; Major League Baseball; MLB
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"How (And Why) Athletes Go Broke"
In "How (And Why) Athletes Go Broke," Pablo S. Torre, investigates how professional athletes squander their high salaries on "lavish spending," failed business attempts and corrupt "money managers." He also reveals illegal activities by a "Texas investment firm" with prominent sports affiliations.
Tags: NFL; NBA; Triton Financial LLC; Raghib Ismail; Kurt Barton; baseball; PGA
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Follow the Money
Corruption among street agents in the Dominican Republic has been public knowledge, but after a Chicago White Sox assistant general manager tried to bring $40,000 in undeclared cash into the United States a new story emerged: corruption among MLB employees.
Tags: David Wilder; kickbacks; Washington Nationals; signing bonus; Outside The Lines; baseball
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Tech CEOs Lobby for Immigration Break Enjoyed by Baseball Stars
"The story focused on how technology companies lobbied Congress to secure little-known visas for foreign-born employees. The tech industry was seeking immigration exemptions similar to those that professional sports teams receive for athletes."
Tags: technology companies; visas; immigration exemptions; immigration; Senate immigration fight
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Winnipeg's Mayor and his Field of Dreams
Sam Katz, the mayor of Winnipeg, is the owner the local minor league baseball team. The team plays on a field " built with substantial public funds." Despite their popularity, Katz claimed that the team made no money and could not pay back the money it borrowed. However, the investigation showed that the mayor " pays himself a substantial salary, and also runs expenses, like nannies for his children on the team payroll."
Tags: money; city government; bankruptcy; Crocus;
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Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids scandal that Rocked Professional Sports
San Francisco Chronicle reporters broke the story that some elite athletes used drugs to "run faster, hit harder, and cash in on the fame that comes only to those at the very top of their games." Fainaru-Wada and Williams used"Federal Grand Jury transcripts and federal investigative reports... court records and state health department records," among other documents. (332 pages)
Tags: steroids; drugs; BALCO; Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative; San Francisco Chronicle; Victor Conte; Major League Baseball; football; track and field; California Public Records Act; Federal Grand Jury; sports agents; trainers; sports doping; Olympics; Justice Department; IRS; U.S. Anti-Doping Agency; USADA
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Ongoing Steroid Coverage
The year long investigation focused on the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sports, particularly in baseball.
Tags: drugs; steroids; baseball; Mark McGwire; Jose Canseco; Major League Baseball
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Who Knew?
This investigation traced the arc of the anabolic steroids age in Major League Baseball. The report describes the phenomenon by telling the story of critical characters in the national pastime's chemical history.
Tags: sports; drugs; illegal substances; BALCO; baseball; professional athletes