Steroids in Baseball: Shoot Me Now I Can’t Take it Anymore! »
Steroids and baseball, “The Steroid Era” these words won’t seem to go away and the arguments continue to get more and more outrageous and all-in-all ridiculous. It’s not the MLB who makes the insane claims; as we all know it’s congress and more specifically media outlets in-which the true absurdity lies. Take for instance the [...]
NFL Drug Testing Woes »
In meetings this week the NFL continues to deal with arguments surrounding their drug testing procedures. Although adamant and supportive about keeping recreational drugs out of the sport, the NFL still appears to be far more laxed in regards to performance enhancing drugs. The league is doing all it can to keep the issue out [...]
Canseco Keeps Coming Back! »
For several days, former Oakland A’s BashBrother Jose Canseco has been apologizing for his controversial book “Juiced” as well as begging for a second chance. In several Tweets, Jose has given special attention to Sandy Alderson, GM for the NY Mets and is simply asking for another chance to play ball. In several of Canseco’s [...]
Trestolone Acetate (MENT): 7 alpha-Methyl-19-nortestosterone profile »
Recently there has been a resurgence of interest in Trestolone Acetate (a/k/a 7 alpha-Methyl-19-nortestosterone, or MENT), due to it’s sudden availability thanks to the efforts of several black market hormone suppliers. Until recently, we’d mostly heard about this steroid through Bodybuilding.com’s now defunct steroid profiles written by Pete Von Mol. And actually, this is rightly [...]
Steroid bust targets NPC, IFBB, in Pennsylvania »
Operation Roid Runner, a Pennsylvania-based anti-steroid operation, has recently targeted local bodybuilders, as several prominent members of the local area National Physique Committee (NPC) and International Federation of Bodybuilders have been arrested in connection with steroid and growth hormone distribution. The arrests include: Craig Johnson, an NPC promoter and judge, who is charged with one count [...]
Roger Clemens indicted for lying about steroids! »
Roger Clemens is currently facing six separate counts in a recently filed indictment, stemming from when he testified under oath in 2008 before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform – he’s charged with one count for obstruction of Congress, three for false statements and two for perjury. If he’s found guilty, Clemens faces [...]
Spiral of Denial author interviewed on doping in football »
Q1. With your knowledge about the game and drugs: How extensive is the use of HGH in the NFL? Matt Chaney, Author of Spiral of Denial: I believe use of recombinant hGHis a widespread problem in the NFL, impacting competition. Recently, Tampa Bay Bucs running back Earnest Graham estimated 30 percent of NFL players use [...]
Health Liability will make or break Football »
By 2008, I was impressed American football continued to get away with butchery, even killing. Like me, many former players saw through the football mythology, understood The Spectacle, the power of denial for issues that impacted the health of athletes. Popular sentiment held football as essential for American life, right? Yeah, we older guys heard [...]
What’s with all the hCG? »
In the last year we have seen two significant positive tests in professional athletics for hCG (human chorionic gonadotrophin). Although most people assume that the players were coming off a steroid cycle and had used hCG as way to jump start their own testosterone production. Not a bad assumption – but if you were to [...]
TMZ takes a shot at Jay Cutler »
TMZ, echoing common sentiment among the non-steroid using populace, decided to take a shot at Jay Cutler, Mr. Olympia, calling him a “former human” and poking fun at the fact that he “willingly did this” to his body. But this is nothing new to Mr. Cutler, who prior to winning the Mr. Olympia title, admitted [...]
