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 [...]
Six more arrests have been made in Operation Roid Runner, nearly a year after the operation was announced to the media. As I noted last November, the snitch factor in this case is huge, and because these guys are mostly NPC bodybuilders and promoters, they’re going to be very quick to dime each other [...]
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 of criminal [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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? [...]
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, 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 in [...]
The reality was obvious: American football was beset by muscle doping and related systemic problems at all levels by the 2000s, professional, collegiate, and secondary school. The primary evidence was increasing sizes, the documented history of anabolic drugs in football [steroids from about 1960 followed by human growth hormone, clenbuterol, GHB, IGF-1, and more], and [...]
As the high schools of America were drawn into national debate on anabolic steroids, prep coaches and officials maintained that use was minimal. Politicians and media expressed outrage, proclaiming that kids mattered while denouncing pro athletes as poor role models. Studies concluded teens used steroids, and kids said the drugs were accessible and becoming [...]