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
22
Marijuana Tip Leads to Florida Steroid Bust
The Collier County Sheriff’s Office’s Vice and Narcotics Bureau initiated there investigation of a Naples-area personal trainer and his wife after receiving an anonymous tip about marijuana dealing. The investigation expanded as evidence of steroid distribution emerged.
The Sheriff’s Office executed a search warrant last week involving a SWAT team. The steroid raid was apparently the Florida small-town version of “shock and awe” as described by Lt. Harold Minch. [Read more…]
Jan
22
Operation Jellybean Steroid Prosecutions Run Into Problems in Canada
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Drug Section arrested numerous individuals suspected of involvement in anabolic steroid and other drug trafficking in a 2005-2007 joint forces investigation codenamed Operation Jellybean. The steroid bust was one of the largest in Canadian history and disrupted hundreds of thousands of dollars in anabolic steroids sales throughout New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and even Ontario. [Read more…]
Jan
21
Sports Illustrated’s Lance Armstrong Story: Santa Claus Doesn’t Exist
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
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?
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
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…]
Jan
19
Steroids For Sale on Amazon.com
Illegal anabolic steroids are for sale on Amazon.com according to Don Catlin of Anti-Doping Research Inc. Amazon.com does not actually sell any of the dietary supplements which allegedly contain anabolic steroids. Rather, merchants participating in the “Amazon Seller” program offer steroids for sale. This is clearly done in violation of Amazon.com’s terms of service.
Amazon.com most likely has not knowingly offered steroids for sale via Amazon Sellers since the steroid products are sold and marketed as “dietary supplements”. Amazon did not ship products for most vendors; it was only responsible for product fulfilment by one vendor offering steroids for sale. [Read more…]
Jan
18
Girls Gone Wild on Steroids
Student-athletes at the University of Waterloo were recently told that the fastest growing group of anabolic steroids users are high school girls. The prospect of muscular high school cheerleaders injecting steroids is a sensationalistic visual that should cause concern. Is there an epidemic of high school girls using anabolic steroids? [Read more…]
Jan
17
Decca Duarbulon: Would You Trust a Journalist Who Can’t Spell Name of Popular Steroid?
Would you trust anything written by a “journalist” who incorrectly spells the the trade name of one of the most popular anabolic steroids ever made? A simple misspelling is one thing, but when the subject of your article is anabolic steroids, it is expected that the writer would perform some basic research on the subject matter.
Matthew Kelly of the Newcastle Herald newspaper in Australia refers to the trade name of nandrolone decanoate as “Decca Duarbulon”. In fact, the commonly used trade name for this anabolic steroid is Deca Durabolin and has been for almost 50 years. Bodybuilders still refer to this drug by its trade name and/or “Deca” for short. [Read more…]
