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It was a Mount Everest of a record. But the game has changed so much that Dan Marino's passing mark didn't have a chance of standing tall against the Drew Brees and Tom Brady ascents.

The questions for baseball get stickier with Bartolo Colon's surgery. Where on the continuum of available therapies does rehabilitation and recovery end and gaming the system begin?

When Donald Fehr is on your side, you are well protected. Baseball players should thank him for that as he winds down his long tenure as the union's executive director.

On the biggest issue in his quarter century of leadership, Donald Fehr, executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, has failed to protect the most important asset of his members -- their reputations.

Congress surely will watch commissioner Bud Selig to see if he disciplines anyone other than players. For it would not be enough for him to acknowledge the steroids era but not hold owners, general managers and other executives accountable, writes ESPN.com's Howard Bryant.