I'm sitting in my dining room rereading Ryan Braun's weasel remarks about his suspension, remarks in which he never admits exactly what he did wrong. The line that really kills me is -- "I wish to apologize to anyone I may have disappointed." May have disappointed? What a nerve. This [...]
We discussed Ryan Braun on Yahoo! Sports Talk Live yesterday. Such a phony and fraud. Last year after he failed a drug test, he got off on a technicality, nailing some poor urine specimen collector on a chain of delivery screwup or something like that. Then Brawn went all angelic [...]
Here is something that interests me and puzzles me. Recently, I linked a column about Ryan Braun on my blog. I had an expert explain why Ryan Braun really is guilty of taking something or other and deserved to get suspended for 50 games. I also wrote a blog on [...]
ESPN.com just posted an article in which the man who collected Ryan Braun's urine sample explains himself. As you know, the urine sample was off the chart for testosterone. Braun originally got slapped with a fifty game suspension which was overturned when an arbitrator ruled the collector did not ship [...]
I had to weigh in on the Ryan Braun mess. His getting off his drug charge from Major League Baseball is an important development and, I believe, the correct outcome given what took place with the collection of his urine sample. Having written that, I still believe Braun is guilty [...]
I may or may not write a column about Ryan Braun beating the drug charge -- I next write Saturday for Sunday. But I find this subject interesting. The way I understand it, Braun got off on a technicality. The urine sample was not delivered to a lab in a [...]
Lowell Cohn, retired columnist for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, covered sports for almost 40 years and never ran out of things to say.