Boston Red Sox players

Legendary baseball player Curt Schilling is pitching a new idea: running for Ted Kennedy’s open Senate seat. Does he have what it takes to play ball in the U.S. Senate? The Takeaway’s sports contributor, Ibrahim Abdul-Matin, gives us his thoughts.

With David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez being outted as steroid users, The Takeaway’s Sports Contributor Ibrahim Abdul-Matin ? who has remained relatively quiet about steroids in baseball ? has decided it’s time to take a harder line against cheaters.

The Boston Red Sox’s David Ortiz and former Red Sox player Manny Ramirez are on a list of a hundred players who tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in 2003. Joining The Takeaway to talk about this is sports contributor Ibrahim Abdul-Matin.

Yesterday, the Baseball Writers Association of America inducted two players into Baseball’s Hall of Fame. Jeff Beresford Howe, is here to tell us about Rickey Henderson, who might be called The Great One, and Jim Rice, who maybe, you’d call The Lucky One.