http://www.statenews.com Former MSU football player Tony Mandarich has admitted to using steroids and cheating on a steroid test administered in conjunction with the 1988 Rose Bowl, which the Spartans won. en-us Gryphon 2.2.3b-tsn (woodward)/Foundry5 Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:49:30 -0400 webmaster@statenews.com http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/23760 Half the undergrads at MSU weren’t even alive when this happened. Hell, I was 9 years old and I don’t care. Why does the State News make it a point to feature this story? The last thing the promising Spartan football team needs is more attention to this story. It’s inevitable that some dumbass reporters are going to ask Dantonio about this. 20 years ago?!? Does it make any difference? Is this a story? Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:17:30 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/23760 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/23764 I love that he was withholding in his contract trying to get more out of the Packers, said he’d fight Tyson before playing and all this other crap. Even funnier was looking at his undergrad underclassmen picture vs. his Rose Bowl picture. Talk about easily apparent! To bad big fat Georgie didn’t call him on his BS anti-steroid lie! Like Philly said though, who cares! Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:52:28 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/23764 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/23774 It’s not like there is a statute of limitations on cheating. MSU has a Rose Bowl title that wasn’t earned by the rules. We should forfeit it before it is stripped from us. Time isn’t a factor. We are either an institution with integrity or we are not. Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:43:52 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/23774 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/23780 I have no idea what dude’s stats were in the Rose Bowl, but last I knew, 1 person can’t win the game for a team. Could not agree more with Philly’s comments, how is this relevant now? It appears that Mandarich is running his mouth now, in the hopes to promote his book and make a buck the only way he can. Sounds like some other familiar deadbeat that used to play baseball. Charles Rogers smoked dope when he was in school too. What should we do about that? The collective effort of the TWO fellas who wrote this article is simply amazing. Seriously guys, why don’t you take turns bitch slapping each other until you get a lead on something that is worth writing about. Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:29:16 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/23780 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/23806 What a jerk. Get on TV, sell your book, screw your alma mater in the process. Guys like him and Canseco should have to give all their royalties back to the institutions and organizations they f*cked along the way. Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:45:30 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/23806 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/23808 Ern, don’t just focus on Charles Rogers from that doomed 2002 football team. Even worse then Rogers’ NFL behavior was Jeff Smoker’s documented behavior during the actual 2002 Big 10 season (i.e. missing plane ride to Iowa and ending up in rehab for a substance much worse then the “green” Rogers was nailed with). Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:04:24 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/23808 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/23828 Are the rest of you confused and thinking this is a rare occurance? Steroid and drug use among professional athletes is to prevalent it’s unreal. What’s the difference between a professional athlete taking steroids to help speed up their recovery from a grueling workout, versus the rest of us using caffeine to stay awake longer and study hard, get better grades, work more hours, and perform better at our jobs? Everyone wants to see records getting smashed, but don’t want to hear about the other side of what goes on with highly competitive sports. Get your head out of the sand people. This stuff goes on throughout almost every professional sport, especially football. Football and baseball are two of the biggest culprits. Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:31:53 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/23828 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/23884 TSN covered the story because as the college newspaper… why would they ignore it? It’s not like they’re desperately searching for stuff to cover. It was out there, they wrote. Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:49:30 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/23884