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Content warning:  This story contains details about alleged sexual abuse. The content may be difficult to read and emotionally upsetting. The Texans’ already-dramatic offseason took a sudden and serious turn in mid-March, when Houston attorney Tony Buzbee announced in an Instagram post that he was filing suit against Deshaun Watson. Since then, Buzbee has filed more than 20 civil lawsuits accusing the Texans quarterback of sexual assault and sexual misconduct, and the NFL and the Houston Pol...

Content warning:  This story contains details about alleged sexual abuse. The content may be difficult to read and emotionally upsetting. The Texans’ already-dramatic offseason took a sudden and serious turn in mid-March, when Houston attorney Tony Buzbee announced in an Instagram post that he was filing suit against Deshaun Watson. Since then, Buzbee has filed more than 20 civil lawsuits accusing the Texans quarterback of sexual assault and sexual misconduct, and the NFL and the Houston Pol...

Top 60 All-Time Greatest Jays: #25 Roger Clemens Share this story William Roger Clemens | SP | 1997-1998 We might as well get the bad stuff out of the way right off the start; Clemens is mentioned 82 times in the Mitchell Report on steroid use in baseball. Did he start using in Toronto? Roger did have a jump in performance when he hit Toronto. Clemens met his soon-to-be personal trainer and later-to-be accuser Brian McNamee in Toronto. McNamee is known to be a supplier of steroids and human g...

The following article is part of Jay Jaffe’s ongoing look at the candidates on the BBWAA 2021 Hall of Fame ballot. For a detailed introduction to this year’s ballot, and other candidates in the series, use the tool above; an introduction to JAWS can be found here. All WAR figures refer to the Baseball-Reference version unless otherwise indicated. The surge via which the Baseball Writers Association of America elected a record 22 Hall of Fame candidates over a seven-year span is over, as the...

The following article is part of Jay Jaffe’s ongoing look at the candidates on the BBWAA 2021 Hall of Fame ballot. For a detailed introduction to this year’s ballot, and other candidates in the series, use the tool above; an introduction to JAWS can be found here. All WAR figures refer to the Baseball-Reference version unless otherwise indicated. Eight years ago, on the most top-heavy Hall of Fame ballot in at least half a century, the BBWAA voters pitched a shutout, electing nobody in what...

Five things to watch ahead of Tuesday’s Hall of Fame voting reveal TSN.ca takes a look at some of the big storylines going into this year’s Baseball Hall of Fame announcement scheduled for Tuesday evening. Allan Perkins, TSN.ca Staff Barry Bonds , Jeff Gross/Getty Images Add the annual Baseball Hall of Fame induction watch to the very long list of things that don’t feel quite the same this year. For starters, last year’s class of Derek Jeter, ...

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Kerry Crowley: Writers likely won’t vote Barry Bonds into the Hall of Fame but that shouldn’t keep him out forever [The Mercury News :: BC-BBO-CROWLEY-COLUMN:SJ] Barry Bonds, the seven-time National League MVP, 14-time All-Star and all-time home run king, is once again expected to fall shy of receiving the necessary votes required to be enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame. The 2021 ballot marks the ninth time Baseball Writers Association of America voters hav...

Clemens, Bonds do not belong in Hall of Fame Letter Share Sports columnist Drew Bonifant must be a subscriber of the president’s denial of the 2020 election if he believes that Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens did not use performance enhancing drugs later in their baseball careers (“With this year’s Baseball Hall of Fame ballot, voters can make things right,” column, Dec. 19). In a windy, over-written, hero-worshipping column, Bonifant glossed over the facts on why Bonds and Clemens don�...

The following article is part of Jay Jaffe’s ongoing look at the candidates on the BBWAA 2021 Hall of Fame ballot. Originally written for the 2013 election at SI.com, it has been updated to reflect recent voting results as well as additional research. For a detailed introduction to this year’s ballot, and other candidates in the series, use the tool above; an introduction to JAWS can be found here. For a tentative schedule, and a chance to fill out a Hall of Fame ballot for our crowdsourcin...

The following article is part of Jay Jaffe’s ongoing look at the candidates on the BBWAA 2021 Hall of Fame ballot. Originally written for the 2015 election at SI.com, it has been updated to reflect recent voting results as well as additional research. For a detailed introduction to this year’s ballot, and other candidates in the series, use the tool above; an introduction to JAWS can be found here. For a tentative schedule and a chance to fill out a Hall of Fame ballot for our crowdsourcing...