Steroids in Baseball: AP Sports Story of the Year

[Auggie]

(12-23) (AP)

Alex Rodriguez joined the list of cheaters this year, and Manny Ramirez and David "Big Papi" Ortiz are forever tainted now, too.

Five years after Major League Baseball added punishments to its testing program, questions about performance-enhancing drugs still swirl around America's favorite pastime. The sport's ongoing drug problem was chosen as the 2009 Story of the Year by members of The Associated Press, outmuscling even the shocking downfall of Tiger Woods.

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In fact, the Woods scandal finished fifth in the top story voting. Jimmie Johnson's unprecedented fourth straight NASCAR championship was second, followed by Roger Federer winning his 15th Grand Slam and Brett Favre ending his (second) retirement to lead the Minnesota Vikings to the division title.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/12/23/sports/s072443S97.DTL#ixzz0achyLSSB

The top five:
1: Steroids in Baseball
2: Jimmie Johnson's 4th NASCAR Championship
3: Roger Federer 15th Grand Slam win
4: Brett Favre's return to football
5: Tiger Woods' infidelities

[fishnfla]

1. LOL #4

lolololololol

[Onceuponalife]

2. I'm waiting for upton* to start whining

about Timmy's second Cy Young not being the top story....

5...4...3...2....1..