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Jun
04

Canadian Task Force Promotes Snitching as Solution to Steroids in Sports

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A Canadian task force has come out with several recommendations aimed at reducing the use of performance-enhancing drugs such as anabolic steroids in college football. The task force was created in response to the steroid scandal at the University of Waterloo. The scandal resulted in the largest steroid investigation in the history of Canadian college football by the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES).

The task force apparently is intent on promoting a culture of snitching in order to combat the culture of doping in college sports. One of the top recommendations involves the establishment of a “snitch line” that players and coaches can call anonymously and rat out players who may be using steroids. [Read more…]

May
14

College Football Players in Canada Use Anabolic Steroids

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Two college football players at the University of Laval were suspended after testing positive for anabolic steroids adding to the list of football players that have recently been suspended from Canadian universities. Linebacker Michaël Abraham and offensive lineman Steeve Vachon were suspended for two years for doping violations.

Athletes from the University of Waterloo, McGill University, Acadia University and the University of Windsor have all been caught using steroids over the past several months. The use of anabolic steroids by football players clearly is not restricted by geographic boundaries. [Read more…]

May
02

High School Football Coach Sells Anadrol to Student and Gets Probation

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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…]

Feb
11

Sports Writers Won’t Let Coach Washburn Forget His Steroid Past

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James Washburn, a football defensive line coach, was recently hired by the Philadelphia Eagles. Coach Washburn is currently one of the National Football League’s most respected coaches at that position. However, sports writers are determined to never allow Washburn to forget that he was involved in one of the largest steroid scandals in college football history — over twenty years ago. [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
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
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
14

Football Player Sentenced for Crime that Led to Waterloo Steroid Scandal

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The former University of Waterloo football player that committed the crime “that ultimately brought down his former team in a steroid scandal that made international headlines” was sentenced to a 9-month conditional sentence of house arrest.   [Read more…]

Jan
13

The Sport of Football Itself is More Dangerous Than Anabolic Steroids

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The dangers inherent in the sport of American football itself may be more dangerous than anabolic steroids. Such as statement may seem preposterous given the information overload of media messages demonizing steroids in sports.

Yet, the steroid hysteria that has permeated the sports media in the past decade has made a mockery of the concept of relative risk. Few people deny that anabolic steroids have serious side effects but the emphasis on steroids has led many people to overlook, ignore or discount serious risks present in sports. [Read more…]

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