If the steroids were baseball’s Watergate, then Mark Fainaru-Wada is Bob Woodward. Along with Lance Williams, Fainaru-Wada broke the Balco steroid scandal for the San Francisco Chronicle. Sadly, the public is more forgiving of lies when homeruns are attached.

Now Fainaru-Wada is taking his scoops to ESPN, ESPN.com and ESPN the magazine. He joins Rick Reilly who left Sports Illustrated last month for a $10 million deal.

ESPN’s recently launched the newsmagazine show E-60, which is sort of like HBO’s Real Sports, but not as good. Still, with this hire, ESPN seems posed is overtake SI for serious sports journalism. Apparently that shouldn’t be so hard.