To the man who brought Mark McGwire before Congress, and to so many people around baseball, it always was a matter of when — not whether — Big Mac would admit publicly that he had help from steroids when he was hitting all those homers. "I think we ...

The necktie, replete with Democratic donkeys, sailed toward Tom Davis, propelled in that direction by a very frustrated Henry Waxman. "You can have your damn tie," the then-chairman of the House Oversight Committee groused to the panel's senior Republican. The tie had been a gift from Davis. After it landed, Davis remembers, both men cooled down and worked out ...