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Jan
29

Steroids Invade the NBA – Actually It’s Only DHEA

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The National Basketball Association (NBA) suspended the Memphis Grizzlies’ O.J. Mayo for violating the NBA/NBPA Anti-Drug Program after he tested positive for DHEA. Mayo’s first violation of the league’s SPED policy (steroids, performance-enhancing drugs and masking agents) automatically results in a 10-game suspension. The suspension corresponds to a forfeiture of $405,109 of his salary.

Sportswriters are mistakenly reporting that O.J. Mayo is the second basketball player in the NBA to test positive for DHEA. Orlando Magic Rashard Lewis did not test positive for DHEA. He tested positive for anabolic steroid use after failing the testosterone:epitestosterone ratio (T:E ratio) test which is suggestive of exogenous testosterone use. Lewis blamed the positive steroid test on his inadvertent use of DHEA in a smoothie he purchased. [Read more…]

Jan
29

Steroid Use Not to Blame in Iowa Football Mass Hospitalization

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Thirteen Hawkeye football players from the University of Iowa were hospitalized due to rhabdomyolsis. Rhabdomyolsis is a condition in which muscle tissue is rapidly broken down leading to severe muscle pain, weakness and soreness; the byproducts of the muscle damage become toxic to the kidneys leading to possible kidney failure.

“Experts” were quick to blame “nephrotoxic” supplements or anabolic steroids for this highly unusual cluster of rhabdomyolsis cases even though no evidence has surfaced to suggest either as a causal factor.

Creatine has previously been blamed for rhabdomyolysis in spite of research suggesting creatine supplementation is safe. Dr. James Williams, of the St. Joseph Medical Center, blames “nephrotoxic” supplements in the Hawkeye football case when interviewed by a CBS affiliate. [Read more…]

Jan
27

Pittsburgh Steelers Can’t Escape Steroid Past

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The Pittsburgh Steelers will play the Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl XLV in Dallas’ Jerry World on February 6th. It seems every time the Steelers football team does well enough to make them a contender for the Big Game, sportswriters feel compelled to find a steroid scandal to which they can connect the Steelers.

ESPN’s Mike Fish was fortunate enough to find a scandal when the Steelers played in the 2009 Super Bowl; it doesn’t get any better than connecting a team physician with boat loads of human growth hormone. Sportswriters are usually not so lucky. However, when it comes to the Steelers, they can always take a walk down memory lane, they can provide their readers with a history lesson covering anabolic steroids and the 1970s Steeler dynasty as ESPN’s David Fleming does this year. [Read more…]

Jan
25

Experts Think Contador Innocence Possible in Clenbuterol Doping Case

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Professional cyclist Alberto Contador tested positive for clenbuterol after winning the 2010 Tour de France. Contador was caught with infinitesimally small amounts of clenbuterol that were 40 times less than the minimum standards of detection capability required by anti-doping labs accredited by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). However, WADA has a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to clenbuterol; any detected amount, no matter how small, is sufficient to impose a ban. Contador claims the clenbuterol present in his urine was the result of the consumption of meat contaminated with clenbuterol. Many experts think this is a very plausible explanation for the small amounts of clenbuterol discovered [Read more…]

Jan
23

Ryan “Bench Monster” Kennelly Faces Steroid Trials in Two Different Jurisdictions

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Ryan “The Bench Monster” Kennelly faces criminal charges in two separate but related cases involving anabolic steroids. In October 2010, Kennelly was arrested and charged with “manufacturing marijuana and possession with intent to deliver marijuana and anabolic steroids” in Grant County. In December 2010, Kennelly was arrested and charged with “possession with intent to manufacture or deliver anabolic steroids” in Benton County. Kennelly holds the World Powerlifting Organization world record in the assisted bench press of 1075 lbs (489 kg) [Read more…]

Jan
23

Overreaction to Steroid Scandal Destroys College Football Dreams

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Two former University of Waterloo football players who transferred to another college in order to fulfill their dreams of playing college football were denied eligibility. The former Warrior football players had to seek another college football program after the Waterloo Warrior program was shut down for a year after a steroid investigation.  The harsh sentence for the football team has been criticized for punishing innocent players who were not involved in doping. The overreaction to the steroid scandal will unfortunately keep players Matt Vonk and Steve Ples from playing football next year. [Read more…]

Jan
21

Sports Illustrated’s Lance Armstrong Story: Santa Claus Doesn’t Exist

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Selena Roberts and David Epstein of Sports Illustrated have published their story about the allegations that cyclist Lance Armstrong used performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) on his way to seven Tour de France victories. The story is targeted at all those people who still believe in Santa Claus. Roberts and Epstein are here to to you that Santa Claus is a fraud. [Read more…]

Jan
20

Cyclist Floyd Landis Thinks Cyclists Should Use Steroids

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Floyd Landis Shared his thoughts on the state of doping in professional cycling recently with CyclingNews.com. The American cyclist thinks that it is easy to get away with doping for cyclists (even though he was caught using exogenous testosterone during the 2006 Tour de France). Landis believes doping is pervasive in the sport and that, for the most part, anti-doping agencies are light years behind the cyclists who dope. He recently told CyclingNews.com that the only solution is to legalize doping and approach the issue in a rational way. [Read more…]

Jan
20

NFL Gives Advance Notice for Steroid Tests?

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The National Football League (NFL) has masterfully handled the public relations of their drug testing program. The NFL has largely escaped the steroid scandals that have engulfed Major League Baseball (MLB) in the past decade. It isn’t because NFL has eliminated steroids from football. It isn’t because steroid use is lower in football than baseball. It’s simply a matter of PR that has created the perception among the general public and sportswriters that the NFL’s Policy on Anabolic Steroids and Related Substances is effective and steroid use isn’t a problem.

Maybe giving football players advance notice of steroid tests helps minimize any problematic failed steroid tests as well. The Wall Street Journal recounts an incident last week during the Green Bay Packers – Philadelphia Eagles playoff  game where a reporter observed a player receiving advance notice of a steroid test from the team’s head trainer [Read more…]

Jan
19

When Steroids Came to Baseball and Destroyed the Integrity of the Game… in 1889

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Jose Canseco may like to be credited as the man who introduced anabolic steroids to baseball.  And sportswriters may like to blame Patrick Arnold as the evil chemist who ruined baseball with the nefarious scheme to cook up designer steroids in his Illinois lab.  But the truth is that anabolic steroids have been used long before either Canseco or Arnold were linked to the modern-day steroids in baseball scandal. If anyone is worried about an admitted steroid user finding their way into Major League Baseball’s Hall of Fame, well it’s a little too late for that.

The first baseball player to use steroids for performance-enhancing purposes has been documented as taking place over one hundred years ago. [Read more…]

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