OPINION PIECE
In the arcade game Whac-A-Mole, players get points for pounding a mole with a mallet each time one pokes its head from a hole. Whack away as hard and as often as you want. Your arm is likely to fall off or you'll run out of money before the moles stop popping up.
The company that says it provided deer-antler spray, a product that contains a banned substance, to Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis also sold its goods to members of the 2012 national championship Alabama football team, according to a co-owner of the company.
And Christopher Key, the SWATS co-owner, told ESPN’s Joe Schad on Wednesday he personally witnessed about five Alabama players spray what he sold them into their mouths.… Continue Reading…
Long before he was accused of peddling steroids, Richard Rydze earned more than $400,000 a year as a prominent doctor who had worked for the Pittsburgh Steelers, the FBI and the Little Sisters of the Poor.
Today, a public defender represents him in court, and his medical career is in tatters, as the U.S.… Continue Reading…
How can we expect cops to keep steroids away from our children if they are the ones dealing these drugs on the street?
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A former Philadelphia police detective pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges that he ran a network that sold steroids and human growth hormone to individuals and in fitness clubs around Philadelphia.… Continue Reading…
Here is a sample of a great article in the current Sports Illustrated – I urge you all to click the link and read the whole story.
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This story appears in the June 4, 2012 issue of Sports Illustrated. Buy the digital version of the magazine here.… Continue Reading…
By David Matthew on May 21, 2012
We are at a point in boxing where a fighter professing to be "clean" is code-speak for "I don't have anything in my system other than what my advisers/trainers gave me to mask itself as a negative drug-test." With the advent of Olympic-style, VADA (Voluntary Anti-Doping Agency) standardized drug testing, we may finally be able to truly clean up the sport, but not without growing pains, canceled fights, and fan disarray.
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…
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Eight years later, the IOC will likely retest doping samples from the Athens Olympics to catch any drug cheats who may have avoided detection.… Continue Reading…
Weight lifters are a group that is generally accepted to be large user of performance ehancing drugs. To that end, a study done last year confirmed that over 40% of weight lifters in this study group have used steroids – over 10% have used HGH.
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by:Â Dr. David Geier, MD
Human growth hormone (HGH) has been a performance-enhancing drug most commonly associated with famous professional athletes.… Continue Reading…
The son of Ventura County Supervisor Peter Foy has been indicted for the illegal manufacture and sale of HGH, a human growth hormone used by bodybuilders.
Ventura County Supervisor Peter Foy
Peter Foy II, 33, and Brandon Adams, 27, were charged with felonies in a grand jury indictment and will be arraigned on May 11.… Continue Reading…
