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You can exhale, America. Curt Schilling has weighed in on the A-Rod scandal.

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Because no scandal is complete without No. 38's opinion.

Curt Schilling is at it again. As soon as a report surfaced that Alex Rodriguez failed a drug test in 2003—a truth A-Rod admitted to yesterday—Schilling got up on his blog mountain and shouted down this:

"I'd be all for the 104 positives being named, and the game moving on if that is at all possible," he writes. "In my opinion, if you don't do that, then the other 600-700 players are going to be guilty by association, forever."

The 2003 drug tests were supposed to be anonymous. Someone screwed up and labeled them in such a way that they were not. Even if the results were subpoenaed before they were destroyed, these players were still promised something they were not given.

Yesterday, perhaps a bit less enraged about the situation, Schilling took to the blog and seemed to realize this.

"I still believe the names of all the positives should be released," he writes. "That the media chose to only 'out' [A-Rod] is a crime in and of itself."

"I also believe someone, or many someone's at the MLBPA should be fired, right now, today, for failure to follow the protocols and procedures outlined in the testing agreement. Same for the MLB offices."

"This whole situation stinks to high heaven but it's completely wrong that one guy is being held out there for everyone to pencil whip, flat out wrong."

Elsewhere …

Think Curt Schilling is the only athlete with something to say about A-Rod? Of course not. Shaq has been tweeting about it like crazy. A few cuts:

"Ok i admit it i ate performance enhancing frosted flakes 2 yrs ago, lol"

"Is a rod done, whats goin on here, aggggggh, what iz da world comn 2"

"103 players tested positive, do steroids really help, any drs on twitter"

LeBron James is back!

It's been three months since LBJ dropped any knowledge on his blog, but he checked in a few days back after he wowed the Madison Square Garden crowd with his near triple-double:

"We all know what Kobe came in and did there the other day, and it was just an amazing individual performance," he writes. "When we're in the game, the heat of battle, you're not thinking about records. I promise you. After the game, you know the media, they always say 'Did you know that you were the first to do this?' Well, I don't. You never know until the media talks about. On the floor of the game you just out there playing. You just trying to make every play to help your team win the basketball game."

Thanks, LeBron. We look forward to reading you again once the playoffs hit.

Earlier in the season, it looked like the Celtics could very well beat the Bulls' 72-10 record. But they're already 42-11. The Lakers, on the other hand, are the only team still able to beat or tie the record, as they sit at 41-9. But if you are hip to Jordan Farmar's blog over at Playboy, you'd get some wisdom and perspective on it from a guy who really knows what he's talking about.

"Our coach Phil Jackson, who led the Bulls to a 72-10 record in 1995-96 based out of the Central time zone, doesn't think it's possible for a Western-based team to have a chance at 70 wins because he says, 'Changing time zones just makes it very difficult to be consistent night in and night out on the road,'" he writes. "But all of us are looking to win as many games as possible."

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