What happens when your love of a sport is built on a major-league lie? Sportswriter Joan Niesen was a kid in St. Louis in the summer of 1998, when the home run race made baseball magic. Mark McGwire was her favorite player, and she tracked his every move that season as he chased baseball immortality. But the spectacle of that summer was not what it seemed. McGwire and countless other players had been using anabolic steroids for years. Now, Joan is revisiting the steroid era to untangle the truth from its many myths and search for answers. What happens when our heroes let us down? What can those years tell us about sports culture in America? And what is the legacy of baseball’s farthest-reaching scandal?
FALSE IDOL Part 6: Swart Gevaar
FALSE IDOL Part 5: Ready to Run?
FALSE IDOL Part 4: Reeva
FALSE IDOL Part 3: A Loaded Gun
FALSE IDOL Part 2: Oscarmania
FALSE IDOL Part 1: The Blade Runner
FALSE IDOL: Trailer
Introducing False Idol
CRUSHED Bonus: The Sticky Solution
CRUSHED Part 7: The Fallout
CRUSHED Part 6: The Reckoning
CRUSHED Part 5: The Dirty Truth
CRUSHED Part 4: The Cheater's Rulebook
CRUSHED Part 3: The Magic Shot
CRUSHED Part 2: The Snoop
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