Another school, another athletic director that is “shocked” to find that his athletes are using steroids. Further, he is shocked to learn that one of his players is not only using, but selling them to other athletes on the team!
Don
TWIN FALLS, Idaho (KBOI) – College of Southern Idaho baseball player Billy-Bob Ward was arrested on felony charges for allegedly selling anabolic steroids to several of his Golden Eagle teammates.… Continue Reading…
A DOPING suspension has cost Australia’s top female boxer, three-time national champion Bianca Elmir, a virtually guaranteed Olympic berth.
The 30-year-old, who had helped fund her now shattered Olympic dream by working as a policy adviser for ACT Greens politician Amanda Bresnan, was sent home from the women’s boxing world championships in China last Friday after Boxing Australia was ordered to withdraw her from competition.… Continue Reading…
| TF Press Release |
| Decision in the case of Dimitar Kutrovsky |
| London, England, 15 May 2012 – The International Tennis Federation announced today that Dimitar Kutrovsky has been found to have committed an Anti-Doping Rule Violation under Article 2.1 of the Tennis Anti-Doping Programme (presence of a Prohibited Substance in player’s sample). |
The doping menace in Indian athletics continued as four more athletes were caught for using banned substances during the Federation Cup Senior National Championships in Patiala last month.
The ‘A’ samples of the four were found to have contained Stanozolol and Methandienone anabolic steroid and Methylhexaneamine stimulant.
Three of them who had tested positive for steroids have been provisionally suspended.… Continue Reading…
by: Rick Bergeron
Athletes will always look for ways to improve their game and outdo their opponents. Some seek out all-natural methods to soar to the top of the leader boards in their respective sports. Others skirt or violate the rules they signed up to abide by when they resort to using banned substances and controversial treatments like Testosterone Replacement Therapy and Human Growth Hormone.… Continue Reading…
Is steroid use an epidemic in MMA? Or are most of the fighters who have tested positive simply the victims of inept athletic commissions, shady nutritional supplements, and tainted goat meat? After Josh Barnett’s latest chemical misadventure took down Affliction, we decided to round up every steroid bust in the sport since early 2002, when the Nevada State Athletic Commission began testing MMA fighters for performance-enhancing drugs.… Continue Reading…
NEW YORK — Major League Baseball dropped its 100-game suspension of Colorado Rockies catcher Eliezer Alfonzo for a positive drug test because of the same procedural issues that came up in the Ryan Braun case.
Alfonzo is eligible to play immediately, according to a person familiar with the decision who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Sunday night because no announcement had been made.
With the experience we had with Taylor, it has crossed my mind many times about the possible correlation between the use of steroids and the recent rash of suicides of professional athletes.
Phil Sheridan is asking some of these same questions.
Don
Phil Sheridan, Philadelphia Inquirer
As an undergraduate at West Chester University in the 1980s, Kevin Guskiewicz spent summers working at Eagles training camp.
May 7, 2012 — About one week after the FDA asked 10 manufacturers to provide safety information on DMAA, a speed-like ingredient found in some supplements, a Harvard researcher is calling for an out-and-out ban on DMAA.… Continue Reading…
Another over-the-counter fitness and weight-loss supplement has come under the scrutiny of the US Food and Drug Administration, with some experts calling for an all-out ban on the compound called DMAA.
Last month, the FDA issued warning letters to 10 manufacturers of dietary supplements containing the amphetamine-like substance “for marketing products for which evidence of the safety of the product had not been submitted” to the agency.… Continue Reading…
