Dana White, the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) president, has been on the defensive trying to defend the integrity of the UFC’s anti-doping program. The UFC claims that it has the most rigorous steroid-testing program in North America. However, it appears that only morons get caught in the UFC program. (What about the “smart” athletes?)
“If you get caught using steroids these days you seriously have to be a moron,” according to the UFC President. [Read more…]
A former volunteer high school football coach in Tennessee received probation after pleading guilty to selling anabolic steroids to a high school football player. The former coach was also granted judicial diversion meaning that the guilty plea will be removed from his record after successfully completing a six-year suspended sentence.
Jim Wilson, a volunteer coach for the Stone Memorial High School (SMHS) Panther football team, admitted to selling 85 tablets of the powerful steroid oxymetholone (Anadrol) to a 17-year old member of the football team in the parking lot of Cumberland County High School (CCHS), a neighboring school in Cumberland County, Tennessee. [Read more…]
USA Track & Field (USATF), the national organization governing track and field, running and race walking, generally does not support athletes who attempt a comeback to the sport after serving a ban for using performance-enhancing drugs according to USATF spokesperson Jill Greer. “We would essentially ignore them and pretend they didn’t exist,” Greer told the New York Times in an interview regarding the return of American sprinter Justin Gatlin. [Read more…]
Baseball player Jay Gibbons is playing Major League Baseball for the Los Angeles Dodgers almost four years after his dismissal from the Baltimore Orioles following steroid allegations. Gibbons believed his dismissal was related to the allegations concerning his use of performance-enhancing drugs although Orioles management claims the decision was unrelated. He wrote an emotional letter to all MLB baseball teams asking for a second chances. Gibbons feels he has finally surmounted the steroid stigma with his second chance in the Majors. [Read more…]
Bob Weiner, a former spokesman for the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) and a former spokesman for the World Anti Doping Agency (WADA), recently suggested that anabolic steroids may have caused Lance Armstrong’s testicular cancer. Weiner brought up the dubious link between steroids and testicular cancer during the University of Massachusetts Sports and Drugs Distinguished History Ken Feinberg Lecture on April 20, 2011.
“[W]hy did [Lance Amrstrong] get testicular cancer in the first place at that young age,” Weiner asked those in attendance. “That’s also a symptom of steroid abuse.” [Read more…]
The Texas University Interscholastic League announced that one student tested positive for anabolic steroids out of 2,083 tests conducted at 135 schools. During the four-year history of the Texas steroid testing program, there have been only 30 confirmed cases of steroid use out of over 50,000 steroid tests administered. In other words, less than 0.0006% of student-athletes tested failed the anti-doping protocol. [Read more…]
Terry Bollea, also known as Hulk Hogan, reflects on the hypocrisy surrounding his use of anabolic steroids in his second autobiography – “Hulk Hogan: My Life Outside the Ring”. Bollea used steroids for decades beginning in 1975 according to his first autobiography – “Hollywood Hulk Hogan” – published in 2002. Hulk Hogan hid his steroid use from his fans even going as far as publicly denying using steroids on the late-night Arsenio Hall Show in 1991. However, the truth about his steroid use was made public during the the Vince McMahon steroid trial in 2004. Bollea was subpoenaed to testify against his employer and admitted, under the penalty of perjury, to using anabolic steroids. [Read more…]
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) essentially has a zero tolerance policy for the use of anabolic steroids in human athletes. An athlete could theoretically apply for a therapeutic use exemption (TUE) and receive permission to use anabolic steroids since several steroids have legitimate medical uses. However, it is unclear how often WADA grants such TUEs. Equine athletes have it much easier than their human counterparts when it comes to the freedom to use anabolic steroids.
The Racing Medication and Testing Consortium has approved the therapeutic use of four anabolic steroids in equine athletes. The therapeutic use of stanozolol (Winstrol), boldenone (Equipoise), nandrolone (Deca Durabolin) and testosterone are permitted for racehorses in many states that sanction horseracing as long as they are discontinued within a certain window prior to competition and test below a certain threshold level during in-competition testing. [Read more…]
An NPC bodybuilder and an IFBB professional bodybuilder have been sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to the delivery of anabolic steroids. Amateur bodybuilder Edward Moyzan and IFBB pro bodybuilder Brian Chamberlain were arrested after being implicated in a steroid investigation that was codenamed Operation Roid Runner. [Read more…]
The Road Warriors were among the first to introduce bodybuilding-type muscularity to professional wrestling. The wrestling tag team was comprised of Hawk (Mike Hegstrand) and Animal (Joe Laurinaitis). Hegstrand died in 2003 of an apparent heart attack at age 46. The popular media explanation for the numerous early deaths of professional wrestlers usually focuses on their use of anabolic steroids. Steroids have been blamed as the culprit in Hegstand’s death as well.
Joe “Animal” Laurinaitis acknowledged the use of anabolic steroids by the Road Warriors but strongly denied that steroids were the cause of Hegstrand’s death. [Read more…]
