LA Times media columnist Tim Rutten castigated the sports journalists of America by the weekend for not covering “the transformation of baseball clubhouses into the plush equivalent of crack houses.” soon after he went on to recount a blind item about a “very veteran National Hockey League defenseman,” who told him decades ago that “If I were a racehorse, they’d never let me on

the track.” Well, that’s the first moment that quote appears on Nexis, so we’re gonna assume that either Mr. Rutten was writing for the Podunk Weekly or that he plus turned a blind eye to sports doping. [LAT]

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