The Associated Press has picked up on this year's steroid scandals in baseball, choosing baseball and steroids as their Sports Story of the Year. Choosing steroid use in baseball as the top sports story of the year, over even the Tiger Woods scandal, highlights the major impact of steroid use in sports, and the effect on fans.
The decision made by members of the AP to pick steroids in baseball as the top story of the year is not surprising, given the big names associated with the use of performance enhancers in baseball - Alex Rodriguez, Manny Ramirez and David "Big Papi" Ortiz.
"The impact that that story had made it the story of the year," said Lance Hanlin, sports editor of the Beaufort (S.C.) Gazette and The (Hilton Head) Island Packet. This year's baseball and steroid scandal, "was a big, ongoing, overall story", according to an AP press release. Steroids in baseball has indeed been big news all year.
Balloting was underway when the Tiger Woods story hit the news, but in the end, steroids and baseball was voted by the AP as the top sports story of the year. The final tally was 800 points for the steroids in baseball story and 617 points for the Tiger Woods' scandal.
It is sad that baseball, 2009, might be remembered best for the steroid scandal produced by the use of performance enhancers by some of baseball's finest. No doubt, there will be more to come from Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens whose cases regarding steroid use are still in court. The Sports Story of the Year, voted by the Associated Press and linked to the use of steroids in baseball, overshadowed even the Tiger Woods' scandal which was voted the number ten sports story for 2009.
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