Teresa Edwards at 44

She’s no longer playing the game, but the most decorated player in Olympic basketball history is still heavily involved as a teacher and TV commentator.

Killer quote:

“The argument you’re mostly going to receive from people that don’t understand, they say, ‘Why doesn’t women’s basketball take off here?’ Well, no one truly wants to invest in it. Especially the marketability. No one wants to treat it like a sport, they want to treat it like a women’s game. And until you change the mentality of the men that are writing the checks, it will be the same.”

Stanford debacle confirms sport is a whore

Simon Barnes didn’t write that headline, but his tirade in the wake of revelations of Allen Stanford and his connections to cricket made the headline writer’s job rather easy.

Ah, if we could just go back to the Elysian days of sports amateurism, is Barnes’ outraged lament.

Where to draw the line on doping?

Ace TV and magazine legal beagle Jeffrey Toobin yawns about the A-Rod saga even more than I do. He gets some suggestions from the World Anti-Doping Agency about what substances might most reasonably be banned.

Canadiens’ players linked to alleged drug trafficker

Sacre bleu! Montreal’s once-promising season appears truly on the rocks, and not just on the ice. Andrei and Sergei Kostitsyn of Les Habitants are allegedly linked to an organized crime figure recently arrested in Quebec.

A-Rod’s steriods coverage lags behind Clemens

The Project for Excellence in Journalism examines how the media has played the A-Rod story in the context of other law-and-order stories involving athletes.

Not as big a deal as Clemens and O.J., but more than Michael Phelps’ bong hits and Plaxico Burress’ self-inflicted gunshot wounds.

Maybe we’re just used to it all by now. Yawn.

Griffey the latest to jilt the Braves

A miserable off-season of anticipated player acquisitions that never took place concluded with the future Hall of Famer’s decision to return to the Seattle Mariners.

Add him to the pile that includes John Smoltz, A.J. Burnett, Rafael Furcal, Jake Peavy and — I can’t believe I’m typing these words — Mike Hampton.

Is the BCS headed for a meltdown?

What would happen if the unregulated (by the NCAA) Bowl Championship Series hit a financial wall? If it suffers an investment bank-style crash, how devastating would the impact be on college football?

After watching the PBS Frontline special on Wall Street, Alan Schmadtke started asking those questions, and others.

D’Backs’ exec: Let’s out steroids cheats

Bob Kendrick, the top suit for the Arizona Diamondbacks, wants Major League Baseball reveal the names of the 104 players who tested positive steroids in a 2003 survey — an anonymous survey.

Big Brother’s morphing into Father Knows Best, and this isn’t going to let up anytime soon.

Here’s Big Sister Christine Brennan of the USA Today advocating “year-round, unannounced, show-up-at-the-house testing” so we don’t have more A-Rods to deal with.

And Jay Mariotti of The Fanhouse wants to know if baseball’s ever going to feel romantic again.

This foolish, sentimental, smarmy worldview of the so-called national pastime is the problem, not the use of steroids, which is plainly a stain on the game. But who’s getting worked up over the obvious juicing in football?

Hey Bud, this one’s for you!

The commissioner tries to dodge the fact that 104 baseball players failed steroids tests in 2003, when the game finally started cracking down.

And yet nothing happens to him. Just ask Vince McMahon.

No ‘roid rage for football fans

Those seeking to keep baseball on an artificial pedestal over the injection of artificial substances into the body don’t have much to say about the fact that American football fans long ago gave up the ghost.