Former Major League Baseball player Curt Schilling returned to the cozy saddle of his moral high horse to speak out against anabolic steroids once again in an interview with the radio sports talk show 97.5 “The Fanatic” in Philadelphia. He told the hosts that every team which had won the World Series over the past twenty years cheated by using anabolic steroids and/or performance-enhancing drugs. Apparently, this includes the World Series Championship team that he played for in 2001, 2004 and 2007. [Read more…]
Steroids in Sports
Jul
06
Anthony Galea HGH Smuggling Case Turns into Celebrity Athlete Witch-Hunt
Canadian doctor Anthony Galea, a sports medicine pioneer who has treated professional athletes from a variety of sports, has pleaded guilty to illegally smuggling performance-enhancing drugs into the United States and providing them to athletes from the National Football League and the Professional Golfer’s Association. Galea admitted to routinely smuggling human growth hormone (hGH) and Actovegin across Peace Bridge at the United States – Canadian border. One of the most famous athletes treated by Dr. Galea was golfer Tiger Woods. [Read more…]
Jul
05
UFC Fires Nate Marquardt for Testosterone Replacement Therapy Problems
Mixed martial artist Nate Marquardt acknowledged using the anabolic steroid testosterone for medically-supervised testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) during an appearance on MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani on June 28, 2011. He was treated with testoterone injections after his primary care physician discovered that Marquardt’s serum blood testosterone levels were low. Ultimate Fight Championship’s Dana White fired Nate Marquardt due to what he considered a questionable need for TRT after he was suspended by the Pennsylvania State Athletic Commission prior to a June 2011 fight with Rick Story. [Read more…]
Jul
04
Female Athletes on Anabolic Steroids in India
A major doping scandal has engulfed the Indian National Team as eight athletes have tested positive for the use of performance-enhancing drugs over the past few weeks. What is even more surprising is that seven of the eight athletes testing positive for anabolic steroids were women. [Read more…]
Jul
03
Teenagers Using Social Media to Sell Anabolic Steroids
Teenagers in Canada are using social networking websites to sell anabolic steroids according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Patrol (RCMP) in Nanaimo. [Read more…]
Jun
30
Charlie Sheen Thinks “F*cking Steroid Maniacs” Should Play in Major League Baseball
Charlie Sheen thinks the use of anabolic steroids should be allowed in Major League Baseball – at least on a limited basis. Sheen tells Sports Illustrated that every MLB baseball team should be allowed one “total f*cking steroid maniac”. He argues that the banning of performance-enhancing drugs should follow the same model as the banning of the spitball in baseball in 1919-1920. [Read more…]
Jun
29
Charlie Sheen Admits Using Steroids for Role of Baseball Player in “Major League”
Charlie Sheen admitted using anabolic steroids in preparation for the role of the fictitious baseball player Rick “Wild Thing” Vaughn in the 1989 movie “Major League”. Sheen makes the confession in Sports Illustrated’s “Where Are They Now” issue according to a report by the New York Daily News. [Read more…]
Jun
27
Customs Shares Information About Steroid Users with World Anti-Doping Agency
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) continues to makes progress in its international lobbying efforts to convince international governments to share information about their country’s respective users of anabolic steroids. WADA has been a driving force behind the criminalization of doping and anabolic steroid possession around the world. It has succeeded, practically unopposed, in expanding the disastrous intenational war on drugs to include anabolic steroids and performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs). [Read more…]
Jun
24
World Anti-Doping Agency Falsely Accused Athletes of Using Steroids
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) determined that the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has falsely accused athletes of using anabolic steroids due to errors by one of its formerly accredited worldwide laboratories. The Malaysia lab has since been removed from WADA’s list of accredited labs. [Read more…]
