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It's time for all to come clean

By Buster Olney
ESPN The Magazine

Monday, February 21, 2005

Give everybody steroid immunity. Give everybody a chance to come out from hiding, and emerge from beneath their half-truths and the BALCO and Jose Canseco clouds. Let them talk freely, without lawyers and agents planted next to them, without the parsed lawyerly answers. Let them explain why, when, how, what, so that we have the full context of the steroid issue, a full understanding -- because until we have that, and until the bunker mentality ends, no true leadership is possible. Imagine what ...

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