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Appalled at Petrino hiring? It's easy to take stand with nothing to lose

We will never know what Bobby Petrino would have done if he had been a baseball player before there was steroid testing, but I'm betting it would involve
Michael Rosenberg|
Appalled at Petrino hiring? It's easy to take stand with nothing to lose
Appalled at Petrino hiring? It's easy to take stand with nothing to lose

We will never know what Bobby Petrino would have done if he had been a baseball player before there was steroid testing, but I'm betting it would involve enough testosterone to make a ballerina look like Zach Galifianakis. It is easy for me to be appalled by his hiring, just as it was easy for me to be appalled a decade ago, when Bonds was quite obviously juicing. Louisville would love it if Petrino is really a reborn, honest, ethically sound man. You know, as long as he wins.

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Michael Rosenberg
MICHAEL ROSENBERG

Michael Rosenberg is a senior writer for Sports Illustrated, covering any and all sports. He writes columns, profiles and feature stories and has covered almost every major sporting event. He joined SI in 2012 after working at the Detroit Free Press for 13 years, eight of them as a columnist. Rosenberg is the author of “War As They Knew It: Woody Hayes, Bo Schembechler and America in a Time of Unrest.” Several of his stories also have been published in collections of the year’s best sportswriting. He is married with three children.

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