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    Chasing Jose, By Pat Jordan

    Pat Jordan is the author of 13 books, including "A False Spring," hailed by Time as "one of the best and truest books about baseball, and about coming to maturity in America." A prolific freelance journalist for 40 years, Jordan was recently dubbed "a national treasure" by Booklist in a starred review of a collection of his finest work, "The Best Sports Writing of Pat Jordan," (Persea Books), which includes definitive profiles of O.J. Simpson, Roger Clemens and Sylvester Stallone, along with Jordan's most controversial stories, on Steve and Cyndi Garvey and Hall of Fame pitcher, Steve Carlton. "The Best Sports Writing of Pat Jordan" will be released on April 14. He writes today for Deadspin about his repeated attempts to interview Jose Canseco for the last three months. More »
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    So, Does Anybody REALLY Care About Jose Canseco And Alex Rodriguez?

    So something interesting happened yesterday, in the wake of all those Canseco stories. The "mainstream" sports world went nuts — poor Joe Lavin, the guy who bought the book, found his name on the freaking ESPN crawl — but you guys, the actual sports fans out there, responded with shoulder shrugs and collective yawns. We found this telling. More »
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    The Excerpts From "Vindicated" About Alex Rodriguez (UPDATE: Now Redacted!)

    Ever since Joe Lavin announced he'd bought a copy of Jose Canseco's Vindicated earlier today, people — OK, some people — have been curious what EXACTLY Canseco said. After the jump, the selections from Vindicated concerning Alex Rodriguez. More »
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    Source: Canseco Accuses A-Rod Of Steroid Abuse, Wife Coveting, In New Book

    In the next week, you're going to see more of Jose Canseco that you likely have much desire to see. But Canseco has a new book coming out April 1, Vindicated: Big Names, Big Liars, and the Battle to Save Baseball, coming out just in time for opening day and promising to, once again, blow the lid off the steroid menace. Once again, he's naming names, and, according to a man named Joe Lavin, who bought a copy accidentally put on sale early at a Boston bookstore, those names are Roger Clemens, Magglio Ordonez and Alex Rodriguez. More »
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    Jose Canseco Can Sometimes Look Rather Small

    Mop Up Duty brings us this ad for Testagen, which promises TESTOSTERONE OPTIMIZATION! It's Jose Canseco and Derek Anthony, who classifies himself as an "extreme bodybuilder." We'd say. More »
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    Jose Canseco Really, REALLY Wants To Get Into Film

    Our favorite aspect of this whole steroid era in baseball has to be that the grand whistleblower was Jose Canseco. Baseball was so dirty in the '90s that this meathead was the closest we have to a hero. It's kind of awesome. (We own one of these shirts, by the way.) More »
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    This T-Shirt Will Inject You With Something

    A reader sends in this T-shirt he had signed about 20 years ago. It features signatures from Jose Canseco, Mo Vaughn and Roger Clemens, all three of which were prominently featured in the Mitchell Report last week. More »
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    Jose Canseco, at it again with A-Rod. [AM570]

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    Jose Canseco's baseball camp was awesome. [We Are The Postmen]

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    Jose Canseco Is Very Cautious With His Speech

    Jose Canseco confounds us, because he's obviously a moron, yet he's pretty much the only guy who's been right about this steroid business from the beginning. It's like learning Charles Nelson Reilly came up with some cinematic innovation 20 years ago. Anyway, he's spouting off again, and this time he's picking a high profile target. More »
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    Jose Canseco, Keeping Us Entertained For Nearly A Quarter Of A Century

    Oh, 'tis a sad, sad day indeed when one is outwitted by Jose Canseco. As SportsbyBrooks so dutifly reported over the weekend, the man who once had a baseball bounce off his noggin for a home run has apparently convinced USA Today columnist Michael McCarthy that his non-existent TV reality show, Win a Day with Jose, is something that's actually being produced. More »
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    Misguided Sports Sartorial Decisions

    Just Call Me Juice is doing a clever series in which they ask readers to tell the stories of their most embarrassing, rueful jersey purchases. Unsilent Majority keeps the series going with his gruesome tale of buying a Steve Spurrier Redskins jersey (with the number he wore as a player), though we do think, if the Redskins ever become good again, that thing could have some serious ironic value. More »
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    Jose Canseco Just Can't Catch A Break In This Business

    We're trying to imagine something more sad than a once-proud athlete attempting to feed his ravenous need for competition by going against Tucker Carlson on a televised dancing show, and we think we've found it: Begging to be on "Dancing With The Stars" and being refused. More »
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    Fever Pitch ... Throughout History

    The Sporting News has a good piece about the evolution of pitching, which we read with interest until seeing the dreaded word "gyroball," which tends to provoke in us the same reaction as the word "disco." But until then there are some fun tidbits, such as the fact that until 1881, the distance from the mound to the plate was 45 feet. And for the first few decades, pitchers threw underhand (the Mets continue that tradition). Here are some other highlights: More »
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    Finally, Rik Smits And Michael Irvin Come Together

    Aside from a cocaine-infused party at a French-Canadian brothel, I can't think of many ventures that could bring together the likes of Michael Irvin, Jose Canseco, Kordell Stewart, Darryl Strawberry and Claude Lemieux. Those four are part of the cast for the new season of Pros vs. Joes on SpikeTV. More »
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    Actually, HERE'S Your Next Inspiring Real Life Story

    We don't mean to take the piss out of AJ Daulerio's work earlier today, but it turns out that we already know what the next real-life baseball story will be dramatized on the big screen: It's Jose Canseco's! More »
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    Google Video, Jose Canseco And You

    We're not sure how we'd react if attacked by a leopard; probably curl up like an armadillo and roll toward the nearest large body of water. But we would hope that it would be a manly, dignified roll. We wouldn't want to go out squealing like a Girl Scout, as you can hear in this video. The reason we mention this is that we were playing around with Google Video this morning, trying to find something on Jose Canseco. The service has been out for awhile now, but be aware that there are still some bugs. We typed "Canseco" into the search field, and the first thing that came up was the video of a park ranger poking a leopard with a stick. Bad idea, by the way. More »
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    Canseco Pitching Debut Goes As You Probably Imagined It Would

    There are many forms of self delusion. There's Kip from Napoleon Dynamite, who was "training to be a cage fighter." Then there's Jose Canseco, who beaned four batters, walked five and gave up a home run over 4 1/3 innings in his pitching debut with the Long Beach Armada on Wednesday, inspiring this classic quote: More »
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    Jose Canseco Gets Familiar With Chico Police

    You can take Jose Canseco out of the big leagues, but you can't take the big league out of Jose Canseco. Just hours after his victory in the Golden Baseball League's home run derby, Jose Canseco was involved in some kind of an incident with a woman outside of an Oxford Suites hotel room. No one was arrested, but Canseco and the woman were having a heated argument, and their hotel room was damaged. More »