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Let's get something straight. There is sport. There is opinion. There is investigative writing.

There is sportswriting.

And there is something that makes all those things look like specks of dust on an asteroid.

Freedom of the press.

San Francisco Chronicle writers Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada were ordered last week by a federal judge in California to obey a subpoena and tell a grand jury who leaked them the secret testimony of Barry Bonds and other athletes caught in the BALCO government steroid investigation.

U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White told the pair, in essence, talk or go to jail.

The pair have said they'll go to jail.

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