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Feb. 27, 2008 | I'm sick of cheaters. Sick of reading about 'em, writing about 'em, hearing about 'em and talking about 'em.

I'm sick of the cheating they do and the lying they do to cover up the cheating, sick of debates about how bad the cheating really is and sick of the sanctimonious moralizing about the cheating cheaters, no matter how bad the cheating is or how much the cheating liars lie about their cheating, even when I'm the one doing the sanctimonious moralizing, which I'm sick of doing.

And now after two paragraphs I'm sick of complaining about the whole thing.

The congressional committee that probable cheater Roger Clemens probably lied to is reportedly moving toward starting criminal proceedings against the pitcher, who showed up as a visitor and batting practice tosser at Houston Astros camp Monday and said he had no comment about the Mitchell Report or steroids. Hey, at last: Somebody definitely told the truth.

The same committee has also asked the Justice Department to investigate whether Miguel Tejada lied to it about cheating liar Rafael Palmeiro three years ago.

This was the big news Tuesday, one day after the big news was the details of the buyout deal cheating liar Kelvin Sampson signed to step down as men's basketball coach at Indiana.

It's this column's sincere hope that the Clemens affair doesn't distract Congress from its real work, investigating the videotaping activities of cheater and probable liar Bill Belichick, coach of the New England Patriots.

Yes, Bill Belichick. It's true this column has serially dismissed the New England Patriots videotaping scandal as a tempest in a comically small container of some sort. Hide the children, the man has been convicted of videotaping some of the most videotaped events on the planet, an illegal act because of where the cameraman was standing -- maybe 10 steps away from what would have been a legal vantage point.

Still and all, it was against the rules and it must have been done to gain some sort of advantage, even if none of us nongeniuses can figure out what the advantage might have been. That's cheating. And I'm sick of cheaters.

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