Marion Jones was released from prison on Friday morning in San Antonio after serving a six-month sentence for her little white lie to federal prosecutors about her use of steroids.

Jones took a banned substance, tetrahydrogestrinone (THG), known as “the clear,” before the 2000 Olympics in Sydney and later lied to federal prosecutors about her usage.

Thanks to athletes like Jones, who cheated by using performance enhancing drugs, the track & field community is left to question any athlete that has great success in the sport.

Jones, 32, now faces the challenge of trying to rebuild her life after she was stripped of her Olympic medals and wiped from the record books.

Good luck with that, Marion.

“I don’t like baseball being singled out. Everybody that knows sports knows football is tailor-made for performance-enhancing drugs. I don’t know how they managed to skate by. It irritates me. Don’t tell me it’s not more prevalent. The number in football is at least twice as many. Look at the speed and size of those players.”

A lot of baseball people thought that baseball would be the last sport that it would be a problem in and probably just ignored it too long. But the fact is it’s been in football a long time and it’s been in basketball, I’m sure. Why baseball is being singled out, I don’t know. I don’t know. I know all the excuses — `Well, it’s America’s game and it’s the statistics.’” 

- New York Yankees Senior Vice President Hank Steinbrenner on the steroid issue in Major League Baseball compared to the National Football League.

Just in case you needed another reason to the hate the New York Yankees, Hank Steinbrenner is your man.

Of course he thinks the NFL has a bigger steroid problem – Jason Giambi, Roger Clemens, Andy Pettitte all were accused of using performance enhancing drugs in the Mitchell Report.

I miss George Steinbrenner already compared to this clown.