Category: Performance Enhancing Drugs
Thursday, March 28th, 2013
Earlier this week, CBSSports.com's Michael Freeman reported that a gay NFL football player is "strongly considering" making his sexual orientation public in the near future. But only a couple months ago, a starter on a Super Bowl team said he wouldn't accept an openly gay teammate.
NFLPA president Domonique Foxworth has ...
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Monday, February 4th, 2013
In a Week 16 loss to the Minnesota Vikings, Arian Foster was held out of the game because of an irregular heartbeat. It was rumored that the Texans running back was considering heart surgery on Friday, but Foster has denied that surgery was planned at all.
Foster rushed for 1,424 yards ...
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2013
Major League Baseball made some major headlines last week. For the first time since 1996, no players were voted into the Hall of Fame. Then on Thursday, MLB announced that they had reached a deal to expand the league’s drug-testing program. This will include random blood testing for human growth ...
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Monday, October 22nd, 2012
The entire Lance Armstrong doping situation continues to be a black mark on the sport of cycling. For many general sports fans, the ongoing saga surrounding those who used performance-enhancing drugs in the past 10 to 15 years has tarnished the sport forever. But Armstrong's former teammate, Tyler Hamilton, who ...
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Monday, June 25th, 2012
To Rusty Hardin, lawyer for Roger Clemens, the jury's decision to acquit him of all of his charges last week came simply because his peers on that panel saw that Clemens not only didn't lie to Congress about using performance-enhancing drugs, he simply never used them. Period.
Perhaps we'll never know ...
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Monday, December 19th, 2011
All eyes are still on Major League Baseball and National League Most Valuable Player Ryan Braun, who has tested positive for elevated levels of testosterone. Braun is appealing the test and we really haven't heard anything from MLB yet as it awaits the findings and decides whether it will suspend ...
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Monday, October 12th, 2009
What do the following names have in common: five-time Olympic gold medalist Marion Jones, former NFL player Bill Romanowski, and MLB Home Run King Barry Bonds? Victor Conte. Conte is the founder and president of Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (BALCO). BALCO has been linked to almost every big sports name ...
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Friday, July 31st, 2009
Who's sick of Jose Canseco? Hands up! Jose is not a bad man in my opinion - he may be money hungry, but he's not evil. Canseco obviously speaks the truth about steroids in baseball and I respect that he came out with these facts. Baseball needed that and it ...
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Monday, June 8th, 2009
Bill Romanowski has been labeled as a cheater based on the supplements he took and also the way he played. When he wore his uniform, he had absolutely no filter and crossed the line on several occasions, so people associated him with typical juice-monkey traits: hot-headed, quick tempered, and violent. ...
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Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
With all the big names being exposed as former users of performance enhancing drugs, it becomes more and more difficult to argue that Barry Bonds doesn't deserve to be in the Hall of Fame. Before I go on, let me be clear that it's of course totally legitimate to believe ...
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