The Brian Lehrer Show

Barry Bonds hits his 703rd career home run in San Francisco, Sept 26, 2004. (Jed Jacobsohn/Getty Images)

The Straight Dope

Friday, March 24, 2006

Giants left fielder Barry Bonds holds the record for the most home runs in a single season, but his reputation is in tatters. In 2004, two reporters published an account of how Bonds relied on a complicated program of performance-enhancing steroids. Now they’ve published a book on doping in sports. Also: Florida's merit-pay initiative, Freud and antidepressants, and your calls.

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The Pill and the Couch

Hara Estroff Marano, editor at large for Psychology Today
and
Dr. Augustus John Rush, psychiatrist and professor of biomedical science at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center,
- on Freud and antidepressants

» Psychology Today
» Dr. Augustus John Rush (Texas Southwestern)

It's All in the Game

Lance Williams, investigative reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle and coauthor, Game of Shadows : Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal that Rocked Professional Sports (Gotham Books 2006)
and
Mark Fainaru-Wada, investigative reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle and coauthor, Game of Shadows : Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal that Rocked Professional Sports (Gotham Books, 2006)
- on the Barry Bonds steroid scandal in Major League Baseball

» Game of Shadows (Gotham)

Merit Pay, Florida's Way

Matthew Pinzur, education correspondent for the Miami Herald,
- on a plan to link teacher pay and bonuses to students' performance on standardized tests

» Teachers' merit pay up for vote today" by Matthew Pinzur in the Miami Herald