It Don't Mean A Thing: SI.com - Jones struggles into long jump final at Olympic trials - Tuesday July 13, 2004 1:42AM

SI.com - Jones struggles into long jump final at Olympic trials - Tuesday July 13, 2004 1:42AM

Except that the so-called circumstantial evidence points to the thought that things just are not the same since BALCO closed.

Maybe we should let them all take drugs and kill themselves. Maybe we should encourage it. What should we care? They're just grown adults playing games. This way we could get more people on the sports gravy train. Sports would be more entertaining if everyone were allowed to dope. Just think, the record for the 100 meter could be shaved all the way down to .01 seconds. Wouldn't that be a great achievement? Too bad his heart exploded, though. He couldn't even live to enjoy the fame.

Maybe we should make doping mandatory for sports competitions. That way we could be sure that everyone has the same competitive advantages.

I suppose it really doesn't matter in the long run, they're just athletes. They don't contribute anything to society and really are not worth all this grief. Suspend them all.