the ceremony will take place in july. here is the bigger story. players tainted with steroid allegations, the all-time homerun leader, at one time the single season homerun leader and one of the greatest pitchers of this generation, roger clemens, barry bonds and mark mcguire, all saw their voting percentages drop. so the writers are speaking out. you do steroids, i don t care about your numbers, you won t be going on their vote. i get to see my mom is the quote. those are the first words from a vietnam veteran. darryl waltrip presents him with a brand-new van. charlie harvey won first prize in operation independence star spangled salute contest. his name was pulled from 850 disabled vets. they donate add 2013 the special access chair and van for his transportation. finally, lebron james has a
always wanting to dabble in politics. we did a forum with him in 2007 with the livestrong foundation. i remember we had this debate, hey, you know, who are we doing this with? lance or the foundation? the foundation we were more comfortable with than lance, because you never knew when this day was going to come. i think this story has gotten so many traction because he was seen as one of the good guys. right. the austin guy. loved by everyone there, and lance armstrong, in sports sometimes you have the bad guys, the people you want to root against. when you see steroid allegations or doping, you say that s par for the course, particularly with the livestrong foundation he was seen as one of the good guys. he wants to compete, he s trying to save his legacy in a way. this is a man who bullied ruined other people. what he did to greg lamont or
this is a very tricky balancing test for the nine justices. we expect their opinion by june. shep? shepard: shannon bream in the d.c. tonight. historic day for cooperstown for just the second time in more than four decades. the baseball writers failed to elect even a single former player to the hall of fame. of course, the biggest names on the ballot all faced steroid allegations. the home run leaders barry bonds seven time cy young winner and sammy sosa. need 70% of the writers vote to make the hall. none of these guys was even close. clemens did the best but but got 37%. writers can still vote on them again as early as next year. for more on the hall of fame voting, tune in to on the record tonight baseball s controversial all time hits leader pete rose is set to join greta. redskins nation breathing easier tonight. the doctor who performed knee surgery on robert griffin iii
so they have averted a government shutdown. the house voted this after into on the megamuss, as they call it around here the massive spending bill to fund the government through the end of september. so, this has been negotiated for months now. and congressional leaders came to an agreement late yesterday evening finalizing this massive spending bill, the house voted on it today so a government shutdown has been averted. the senate is expected, they could still vote on it ostensibly, vote on it today, most likely, the senate will be in working tomorrow and vote on it tomorrow. the big overwhat really kind of started this whole standoff and brinksmanship up here, the latest round of brinksmanship is where do things stand on ex-standing the payroll tax cut? short answer, brooke, still negotiating, still talking, with he don t have the details of when we could be hearing an answer if they are going to be able to beat the deadline of the end of the year or not, but we know both t
professional baseball to date in this country. last year it was 10%. 8.5% is one of the lowest that they have seen in major league baseball in the last 30 years. back in the 90s, it hovered around 16, 17, 18%. you can see where this trend is going. in the wrong direction. when you bring up the name hank aaron, people will start the debate, is he the home run king or is barry bonds? barry bonds has hit more home runs but with all of the steroid allegations surrounding barry bounds, people say he cheated. the real champion is hank aaron. he doesn t like to talk about that a lot but he chose to talk a little bit about it with me. what would you say to those fans that say, hank aaron is the home run king, he will always be my home run king and they refuse to acknowledge anybody at this point that is above your name. would you say to them, hey, let