By FAY VINCENT, Scripps Howard News Service

We are a nation of sports lovers. We love the games of the National Football League, the National Basketball League and Major League Baseball. At the moment followers of the three major sports are keeping a close eye on labor negotiations.

I cannot help thinking this Mark McGwire confession is a song I have heard before, and better done at that.

Here we have another baseball cheater who finally tells us the truth after years of silence. Of course, we all have known he had been juiced when he hit those record numbers of home runs and now he has confirmed the use of both steroids and the human growth hormone.

It has been 20 years since the major earthquake that hit San Francisco shut down the third game of the 1989 World Series and provided me with a harrowing and yet ultimately very rewarding experience.