A few big reports on the THG doping scandal today.

In the Times, Jere Longman frets about why fans don't seem to care. According to Jere, fans just want to see bigger and faster athletes and more records broken. If that happens, we don't care whether the athletes are on drugs.

WaPo is less worried. This article notes that leagues face a dilemma when deciding whether to retroactively re-test urine samples. And Mike Wilbon's column notes the difficulty of punishing players for using a substance that wasn't banned when they used it.

Wilbon concludes that we will probably be left with a battle of the chemists -- cheating chemists trying to invent new substances and testing chemists trying to discover them.

I think he's probably right about that. It's not a great solution, but it might be the best possible.