In steroid era, no one's feat escapes doubt anymore

[GTF]

MIAMI — Once, records were made to be broken. Now, records are made to be doubted.

Sports' steroids era has calloused whatever sense of innocence we once attached to athletes and their accomplishments. Our sense of wonder has been replaced by a cynical wondering:

Whom can we believe? What can we trust?

Athletes who are clean and drug-free are cheated of the benefit of doubt. Sports and leagues are cheated of public trust, their records rewritten by scandal. And fans are cheated of the escape sports once provided, back before the story went from feel-good to not feeling quite right.

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