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The NFL Players Association will file a lawsuit in U.S. District
Court in Minneapolis on Thursday, seeking to overturn all suspensions
issued Tuesday by the league for any player who took the supplement
identified as StarCaps that triggered several positive tests for the
banned diuretic Bumetanide, union sources said.
The action will ask the federal court for a ruling by Friday, the sources said.
The basis for the union's action is founded on many of the same
arguments that resulted in a temporary restraining order issued in a
Minneapolis state district court on Wednesday that will allow Minnesota Vikings defensive tackles Kevin Williams and Pat Williams to return to the team after they were suspended for a mandatory four games in Tuesday's action.
Players who were suspended included both Vikings players, as well as Deuce McAlister, Will Smith and Charles Grant of the Saints and Bryan Pittman
of the Texans. Pittman did not use StarCaps but tested positive for a
banned diuretic that he claims was prescribed by a physician.
The NFLPA's suit may seek retroactive pay for any player who
already as served a suspension in which StarCaps was the product in
question. The union, as Williams' legal team argued Wednesday in court,
will cite that the NFL improperly administered the policy for steroids
and performance-enhancing drugs by failing to notify players that it
had specific knowledge since late 2006 that StarCaps contained the
banned diuretic.
The legal brief filed on behalf of Kevin and Pat Williams also
claimed that a politically charged climate contributed to the league's
negligent action.
The issue, of course, is the NFL's ban on bumetanide which contaminates StarCaps. The diuretic can be used to mask anabolic steroid use.
The NFL sideline show involving a woman's diet weight-loss supplement containing a potent diuretic banned by the NFL as a steroid masking agent just went into overtime, compliments of a Hennepin County (Minneapolis) judge tonight.
The byzantine case started about 6 weeks ago when several NFL players tested positive for bumetanide, a banned diuretic which can be utilized as a masking agent. The situation become more complex when players began admitting that that they took the weight loss supplement StarCaps, a supplement known to be contaminated with bumetanide.
The NFL suspended the players Monday, based on a collective bargained steroids policy violation. However, like may professional situation a judge was more than happy to stay the execution of the ban, pending review and appeal. Here is the Minneapolis Star-Tribune's story:
The Vikings spent Wednesday afternoon preparing to complete the
regular season without Pat and Kevin Williams. But by Wednesday
evening, the Pro Bowl tackles were back at Winter Park and hoping they
will be allowed to play in Sunday's game at Detroit.
The Williamses, suspended for four games by the NFL on Tuesday for
violating the league's policy on anabolic steroids and related
substances, were granted a temporary restraining order to rejoin the
team by Hennepin County District Court Judge Gary Larson. The
suspensions came two days after the Vikings moved into sole possession
of first place in the NFC North with a victory over Chicago.
Larson acknowledged leaving the case in limbo after he issued his
ruling, but he said he is poised to conduct a full hearing as early as
today, if that's what the NFL wants. That means Larson could still
issue an order before Sunday that would make the Williamses ineligible
to play.
The NFL appear to be caught by surprise, even after past history of frequent injunctions by local judges, and copious threats by the players to obtain a judicial stay.
Dan Nash, a lawyer for the NFL who is based in Washington, D.C., said he needs to consult with the league.
"I'm not sure what our next step will be," he said, adding that if
the NFL doesn't try to move the case to federal court, he will want a
hearing today.
The NFL better be prepared to fight a change of venue to a federal court. The Williams's lawyer will clearly be adverse to moving the case out of the Viking-friendly county court.
New York-based attorney Peter Ginsberg said the players would fight
a move to federal court from Hennepin County District Court.
Larson issued his ruling after an hour of vigorous debate from both
sides. The request was filed at midday Wednesday and arguments were
scheduled late in the afternoon. Ginsberg flew in shortly before the
hearing; Nash conducted his arguments via conference call in the
courtroom.
The ongoing saga of the "NFL v. 6 players who tested positive for bumetanide v. Starcaps" temporarily culminated yesterday when the league suspended 6 players from the Saints, Vikings, and Texans in the flap. Basically the players tested positive for the potent diuretic bumetanide. However their defense says that the NFL players took a women's weight loss supplement StarCaps, contaminated with the masking agent (covers the use of steroids)
Paula Duffy in the Examiner summarizes the entire deal:
In a move that will certainly set off legal fireworks, the NFL has decided to suspend six players for
violating the league's drug policy. The drug in question isn't really a
drug at all. It is Bumetanide, a substance that acts as a masking agent
for steroids but has a legitimate use. It is used in weight loss
products and acts as a diuretic. The players in question took an
over-the-counter product named StarCaps that contained Bumetanide. They
have weight clauses in their contracts and used StarCaps to make that
weight.
Bumetanide was not listed as an active ingredient in the
StarCaps product and according to a lawyer for three of the suspended
players, Bumetanide was also absent from the NFL banned substance list.
The attorney, David Cornwell alleges the league knew of Bumetanide's
presence in StarCaps and failed to let players know.
The league
has decided to play hard ball on this subject and along with the press
release about the suspensions it included two scanned documents that
were sent to all players. One is a portion of the league's drug policy
that concerns non-prescription supplements and warns that they might
contain substances that aren't accounted for. The other is a
notification to players that weight loss products might possibly trip
the wire on a positive drug screen. Both documents are being relied on
by the league to support these suspensions. Read the warning notices here and here.
Player included both defensive ends for the Vikings, currently fighting for a playoff spot. This list also included ex-All Pro running back Deuce McAllister of the New Orleans Saints.
The players suspended are Bryan Pittman, long snapper for the Houston
Texans, defensive linemen Kevin and Pat Williams of the Minnesota
Vikings, running back Deuce McAllister and defensive linemen Charles
Grant and Will Smith of the New Orleans Saints. The Vikings' players
are the backbone of that team's run defense and we all know about Deuce
and his importance to the Saints.
Legal act5ion will ensure: The attorney for the Williams boys in Minnesota may seek a federal restraining order; attorneys for Nesbit and Grady Jackson (Atlanta Falcons) have initiated legal action against StarCaps.
The NFL apparently knew StarCaps spiked their supplement with the potent diuretic bumetanide, obviously to cheat women who buy the pill with water weight loss. So why then didn't the league aggressively ostracize the supplement?
What makes these positive drug tests different than others is the
substance bumetanide contained in the pills is not disclosed on the
product label.
To make matters worse, at the appeal hearing for
three other New Orleans Saints players who used StarCaps their attorney
determined from a league official that it knew of the bumetanide in
StarCaps for more than a year and did not disclose that to the players.
Bumetanide is on the banned substance list because it acts as a masking
agent for steroids.
Again, the action on this suspension is not over by a long shot. More legal maneuvering, and much more talk especially if the Vikings miss on their playoff run.
From the UK's Mirror comes the story that the Mumbai (India) terrorists coughed up illicit street drugs including LSD, cocaine, and apparently anabolic steroids. The Mirror notes that it is not uncommon for training terrorists to incorporate steroids in their workouts.
The Mumbai terrorists may have pumped themselves full of drugs to keep going during their murderous three-day rampage.
Indian police sources say tests on the bodies of dead Islamic fanatics revealed traces of stimulant drugs.
One
said: “We found injections containing traces of cocaine and LSD left
behind by the terrorists and later found drugs in their blood.
“There
was also evidence of steroids, which isn’t uncommon in terrorists.
These men were all toned, suggesting they had been doing some heavy
training for the attacks
Cocaine is a 'stimulant'' drug that improves endurance and increases vigor with short term use.
“This explains why they managed to battle the commandos for over 50 hours with no food or sleep.”
The
source said one gunman is thought to have injected himself with large
doses of stimulant so he could keep on fighting after he was seriously
wounded.
The one surviving terrorist discussed with police the rigorous training the group undertook:
Kasav is said to have told interrogators the attack was meticulously
planned six months ago at a training camp in Pakistan. Yesterday the
death toll was given as 172 killed, with 239 people wounded.
In the worst kept most obvious non-secret in the sporting world, everyone held a collective breath to see if ex-Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong would sign up for this years bike ride. Yeah, he is.
Seven-times Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong will contest next year's race, his team have confirmed.
Armstrong, who won the Tour between 1999 and 2005,
announced in September that he was coming out of retirement next
season, three years after taking his last victory in the event.
Famously
overcoming cancer prior to the first of his Tour successes, Armstrong
has dedicated his comeback to raising awareness for the global fight
against the disease.
The 37-year-old is scheduled to make his
return on January 20 for the Tour Down Under in Australia and will also
contest the Giro d'Italia for the first time.
Appearances in the
Tour of Flanders, the Tour of California and several of the one-day
classic races have also been pencilled in.
However, a potential
bid for an eighth Tour title had been delayed, with Armstrong failing
to receive an invitation from race organisers Amaury Sport Organisation
(ASO).
Clearly Armstrong deserves admiration for the fight against cancer, and the incredible comeback following surgery and treatment. Also true that his crusade to raise funds for cancer treatment deserves kudos. However, the LA Tour 2009 has been filled with drama and histrionics. Further, the questions about Armstrong's past doping have not been answered, and likely will not be answered (charges ranging from steroids to HGH to EPO to corticosteroids).
The Texan has endured a strained
relationship with ASO - who in October said his return to the Tour
would be "embarrassing" - as well as the French crowds and media over
doping allegations.
He was linked with possible doping by a report by French newspaper L'Equipe three years ago that claimed a 1999 sample from the American contained a banned blood-boosting substance.
But Armstrong never tested positive and was cleared by a Dutch investigator appointed by the International Cycling Union.
Contrary to that statement, Armstrong did test positive for a corticosteroid, which he said he took for saddle sores. More:
He
has made a commitment to ride for the Astana team - who were barred by
ASO from contesting this year's Tour because of their part in previous
doping scandals - alongside 2007 Tour winner Alberto Contador.
Monday's announcement confirming Armstrong's presence on the Tour was made on Astana's website.
Speaking
from their training camp in Tenerife, Armstrong acknowledged that the
combination of age, time out of the saddle and talented team-mates may
leave him playing a supporting role.
"I'm committed to riding for
the best guy," he said. "We'll abide by the same code that I do:
cycling is team sport, while we'd all like to win."
After voicing
concerns in recent weeks about his personal safety in France, Armstrong
also dismissed that issue, adding: "It's not going to keep me from
going and doing my job, and it's not going to keep me from spreading my
message."
The 2009 Tour de France starts in Monaco on July 4.
Such courage once again displayed by LA...braving the vicious French cycling crowd.
Back when he announced his new foray into the pro cycling world, and perhaps the Tour de France, Lance Armstrong stated he was developing his own private doping label. Apparently the 7-time Tour winner is too busy to follow through with the details.
Lance Armstrong
has stated that his 'personal' drug-testing program will be in place by
the time of his first race at the Tour Down Under in January - but no
sooner.
When seven-times Tour de France winner Armstrong announced his comeback
to professional cycling in September, he also announced that he would
be part of a rigorous drug-testing program carried out by US
anti-doping expert Don Catlin and that the results would be published online. The idea was to silence critics and create complete transparency.
So far, no results have been published and according to the Associated
Press (AP), Catlin has admitted that he hasn't yet tested Armstrong.
As noted, Armstrong said he was working with Don Catlin, the UCLA doping/steroid wizard of BALCO fame. However, that's not happening yet.
When asked about the lack of visible test results, Armstrong told AP:
"It's a tough thing to organize, but we will make it happen."
"We're working as quickly as we can to get everyone coordinated, but it's not that simple."
"The program we want to do is going to be intensive," Catlin said.
"And he's a moving target. He's very busy. Keeping up with him, testing
him, takes a lot of planning and it hasn't all come together yet."
Despite the stalling of his own testing program, Armstrong has so
far been tested seven times by the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) and
Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) officials.
Armstrong is currently in Tenerife with his Astana team-mates on
the squad's first training camp since the Texan joined. He is scheduled
to race in the Tour Down Under, South Australia, from January 20-25.
Also as noted above, the established programs of USADA and UCI tested the cyclist. Thus without the big show, Armstrong's testing is moving forward.
The New York Daily News carries an interview with ex-Senator George Mitchell, marking the one year anniversary of the now famous Mitchell Report, documenting the use of anabolic steroids, and human growth hormone in major league baseball.
In the interview Mitchell discusses the formation of an independent Doping division in MLB, which probably sits as the most important recommendation of his report. That office is up and budgeted.
Other interesting comments occur about the MLB PA, which refused to cooperate with the investigation (frankly an error because the players have much to gain from doping control) and the accusations that Mitchell, as a co-owner of the Boston Red Sox, paid more attention to the hated Yankee juicers.
It's been nearly a year since that cold and rainy day when former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell released his long-anticipated report on steroids and Major League Baseball during a standing-room only news conference at the Grand Hyatt New York, and the impact of the 409-page document continues to ripple through baseball. Seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens, identified by his former trainer Brian McNamee
as a steroid user, was the biggest star named in the report, and his
claims that he was falsely accused at February's congressional hearing
on the Mitchell Report resulted in a perjury investigation that could
land the greatest pitcher of his generation in prison.
Mitchell would not talk about Clemens or Barry Bonds,
who has been indicted on perjury and obstruction of justice charges,
because he did not want to comment on pending criminal cases. But he
was happy to talk about another ramification of the Mitchell Report
that has gotten less attention but may be more important: Major League
Baseball and its Players Association, he says, have taken serious steps
to strengthen the game's drug policy and turn back baseball's worst
scandal since the 1919 Black Sox. Mitchell did several interviews last week in anticipation of his report's anniversary.
Here is what he said to the Daily News:
DN: What are your thoughts regarding your report nearly a year after its release?
GM: I think Commissioner (Bud) Selig deserves
credit for calling for an independent investigation, for promising me
independence and for keeping his promise.
I think Major League Baseball and the Players Association have
responded affirmatively to the report and the many recommendations I
made, and they have taken significant steps to improve the approach to
the problem. Among the most significant actions was a decision to
provide for an annual review. In the report we stressed that one of the
real issues is that it is a dynamic problem, changing all the time,
with new drugs being developed. Under their prior approach, they were
required to bargain only in connection with the collective bargaining
agreement, which was every five or six years. They didn't adopt
everything I recommended 100% but moved very strongly in that
direction. I would say I'm pleased with the result.
We include the more important components of the Mitchell INterview after the jump.
Again emphasizing the common criminals who import any number of drugs into cash paying countries, a large Asian drug smuggling ring went down in Australia yesterday. From the New South Wales Govt:
Five men and a youth are due to face court today following their arrest
during an alleged drug sting in a city hotel room, which resulted in
police seizing thousands of ecstasy tablets.
The men — aged 20, 21 and 24 — were surrounded by Tactical Operation
Unit officers and arrested shortly after 2.30pm yesterday during an
alleged drug deal to supply 30,000 ecstasy tablets, worth an estimated
potential street value of $1.5 million.
The arrests triggered a series of raids across Sydney’s west and
south-west, with search warrants being executed at homes in Parramatta,
Lidcombe, Merrylands, Campsie, Denistone and Rydalmere.
Two other men, aged 20 and 26, and a 17-year-old youth, were arrested
at homes in Rydalmere, Strathfield and Denistone and taken into custody
for questioning.
During yesterday’s operation, officers will allege they seized 2000
ecstasy tablets, with an estimated potential street value of $100,000.
An additional 600 ecstasy tablets, as well as a quantity of steroids
and a large amount of cash, was seized during the execution of the
search warrants.
Meanwhile, during the two-month investigation, officers will allege they seized a further 4000 ecstasy tablets.
Police allege all the men are connected with an organised Asian crime network trafficking in illicit drugs in the Sydney CBD.
All six people have been charged overnight with supply large commercial
quantity of a prohibited drug and ongoing supply of a prohibited drug.
This particular ring sells ecstasy as well as steroids.
Yesterday’s arrests are the result of an inquiry by Strike Force
Investigator, comprising officers from the Central Metropolitan Region
Enforcement Squad (RES).
Central Metropolitan RES Commander, Detective Inspector Gavin Wood,
said the drug syndicate had supplied thousands of ‘teddy bear’ and pink
heart-shaped ecstasy tablets to police during the course of the
operation.
“Our investigation revealed this syndicate was capable of sourcing and
supplying very large amounts of prohibited drugs on a regular basis,”
Detective Inspector Wood said.
“We have intercepted thousands of pills that were ultimately destined for the streets of Sydney.”
Interesting that experts list MDMA and steroids are among the least harmful of the street drugs (graphic)
The New York Times carries the story that 5 Olympic sports do not meet WADA approval for out-of competition anti-doping tests.
The Olympic sports gymnastics, wrestling, volleyball, handball and
modern pentathlon were cited by the World Anti-Doping Agency for
failing to have consistent out-of-competition testing programs. The
findings were submitted in a report to the agency’s executive committee
and foundation board last weekend in Montreal. The report has been
published on the agency’s Web site: wada-ama.org
Although sports that fail to apply the agency’s antidoping code
risk being banned from the Olympics, WADA has extended the deadline for
six months to give federations and national antidoping agencies more
time to comply. WADA has no power to punish noncompliant groups,
leaving that to the International Olympic Committee. Under I.O.C. rules, sports that do not apply the doping code face expulsion from the Olympics.
The International Volleyball Federation issued a statement Friday
saying that it had met WADA’s demands to improve out-of-competition
testing and had been removed from the noncompliance list. Modern
pentathlon’s governing body said it also had met WADA’s requests.
As noted by the Times, WADA cannot effect punishment, however the agency does carry tremendous influence over the IOC, the committee that controls the Olympics.
In the past baseball was given trouble because that sport's out-of-season doping (and some might say in-season) does not meet WADA standards. As you may note baseball is no longer an Olympic sport in 2012.
This report was published in (link) which looks at anecdotal evidence of steroid use in polysubstance users. Although it is true that polysubstance users use many drugs, this isn't really a 'study'. This is a hypothesis generating paper, and not a hypothesis testing study.
The inappropriate use of anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS) was
originally a problem among athletes but AAS are now often used in
nonsport situations and by patients attending regular addiction
clinics. The aim of this study was to improve understanding of the
development of multiple drug use in patients seeking treatment at an
addiction clinic for AAS-related problems.
Methods: We
interviewed six patients (four men and two women) with experience of
AAS use who were attending an addiction clinic for what they believed
were AAS-related problems.
The patients were interviewed
in-depth about their life stories, with special emphasis on social
background, substance use, the development of total drug use and
subjective experienced psychological and physical side effects.
Results:
There was significant variation in the development of drug use in
relation to social background, onset of drug use, relationship to AAS
use and experience of AAS effects.
All patients had initially
experienced positive effects from AAS but, over time, the negative
experiences had outweighed the positive effects. All patients were
dedicated to excess training and took AAS in combination with gym
training, indicating that the use of these drugs is closely related to
this form of training.
Use of multiple drugs was common either in parallel with AAS use or serially.
Conclusions:
The study shows the importance of understanding how AAS use can develop
either with or without the concomitant use of other drugs of abuse.
The use of AAS can, however, progress to the use of other drugs. The
study also indicates the importance of obtaining accurate,
comprehensive information about the development of AAS use in designing
treatment programmes and prevention strategies in this area.
Major League Baseball reneged on it's previous statement that the number of positive amphetamine tests in MLB will be released says The New York Times.
Major League Baseball said earlier this week that the number of players
who tested positive for amphetamines for the first time in 2008 would
be made public in a report on its drug-testing program to be released
in January. On Thursday, however, baseball said the number of positive
amphetamine tests would not be included in the report.
Rob Manfred, baseball’s executive vice president for labor
relations, said in a telephone interview Thursday that the
commissioner’s office and the players union would withhold the number
of positive amphetamine tests because, “under our program, first-time
positive tests for amphetamines are treated as confidential, and
because of that, those numbers will be kept private.”
Baseball officials said a misunderstanding in their office regarding the drug-testing policy led to the conflicting reports.
So baseball's front office doesn't know the steroid policy details? Bet the union went ballistic on that one.
Baseball stated the doping tests should be more transparent, and accessible, however that remains to be seen; apparently amphetamine use will not be transparent (was a huge star caught?)
“The report will detail the number of tests conducted this year, the
number of positives for steroids, the names of the substances players
tested positive for and the number of therapeutic-use exemptions but
will not include the total number of amphetamine positives,” Manfred
said.
Cycling News reports that suspicions of the new CERA EPO in the pro cycling world go up to 50% of the competitors. The figure came up in a recent discussion on Bernhard Kohl's use of CERA EPO in the Tour de France:
In his hearing with the Austrian National Anti-Doping Agency on
Monday, Bernhard Kohl has said that he did research about the blood
booster CERA on the internet. Many in the peloton had talked about the
drug and some thought probably half the peloton is on CERA, according
to an article on the wienerzeitung.at. The Gerolsteiner rider who admitted using the performance-enhancing drug for the Tour de France insisted that he cooperated with the authorities
and "named names" – but admitted that he did not name the doctor who provided him with the latest generation EPO for which he tested positive.
The former Gerolsteiner rider said that he had first heard of CERA last
year, and looked it up on the internet. Upon learning that it was a form of blood-booster EPO, "it was out of the question for me." However, as time went on, the drug was discussed in detail in the peloton, he toldthe wienerzeitung.at., with the supposition that "probably half the riders were underway with CERA."
Kohl wants to protect his supplying doctor, saying "He gave it to me
at my insistence. He has nothing to do with sport or doping. If I would give his name, his existence would be destroyed," according to the wienerzeitung.at. The 26-year-old further said that "It had nothing to do with a doping network."
The former pro has also testified before the World Anti-Doping Agency and the German federal police Bundeskrimnalamt, which is investigating
the former T-Mobile Team for which Kohl rode from 2005-2006. "And I definitely named names there."
Sounds like Kohl knows some doping secrets about pro cycling riders. Will these names come out?
Everyone appears to be hit hard with rising tax rates, including pro cyclists.
A certain amount of cycling winnings goes to anti-doping programs. Because of new developments, Cycling News says the dope tax will double from 2% to 4% in 2009.
The UCI's ProTour council (CUPT) has voted to increase the professional riders' contribution to the fight against doping as of next year. Until now, two percent of the riders' prize moneys in ProTour races had to be paid to the UCI to add to the financing of anti-doping measures. As of 2009, this 'tax' will be raised to four percent.
The decision did not please the rider representatives within the ProTour council, Dario Cioni and Cédric Vasseur, who voted against it. The two representatives of the riders' association CPA insisted that "the largest majority of riders were opposed to a taking away of four percent, but that they accepted a participation of two percent."
But the CUPT being composed of 12 members (six representing the UCI, two representing the race organisers, two representing the teams and two representing the riders), the two pro riders were overruled.
For all the races which are not part of the ProTour calendar, the riders' financial participation to the fight against doping remains at two percent.
Further to this, Spanish cyclist Imanol Erviti (Caisse d'Epargne) recently deplored that the press did not publicise the riders' efforts against doping enough. "The measures against doping are not given the same media attention than the positive doping cases," he said at the 13th Days of Pro Cycling held in Cuenca, Spain, from November 20 to 22. "It is not being said, for example, that the riders pay a percentage of their prize money to the UCI for the controls."
The rider, who won a stage in the last Vuelta a España, denounced doping, saying that "every case that is announced does great damage, because in the end the whole peloton seems guilty." But he also insisted that "cyclists do things to combat doping that seem incredible in other sports, like permanently being located by the UCI or give DNA samples," according to Marca.
No one likes increased taxes, however considering the reported hemorrhaging of riders using CERA EPO, looks like anti-doping in pro cycling needs more resources.
As American prepares to sit down to a fine Thanksgiving feast, they should be thankful that -- unlike USA athletes -- the turkey at dinner is steroid free. In the US, it has been illegal to pump up the turkeys with steroids for decades. However, the athletes we watch today, may be full of some juiced gravy. To the LA Times:
Here are a couple more turkey facts to get your teeth into -- one of them something you don't need to think about.
You may see some turkeys advertised as "hormone free." The Foster Farms website -- to name just one example -- says of its
fresh turkey: "You can feel good about serving it to your family as we
promise that it will be the freshest available at your store and will
never contain added hormones or steroids."
The Whole Foods Market website also proclaims that its turkeys lack
added growth hormones -- and then notes, in small letters, that
"federal regulations prohibit the use of hormones in raising pork and
poultry."
However, unlike many American athletes, those turkeys are not pumped full of the sauce:
So don't be overly impressed by such claims. It's been illegal to treat
poultry with hormones since the 1950s. "And they were never, ever used
in turkeys," says Francine Bradley, extension poultry specialist in the
Animal Science
Department at UC Davis.
In short, the only hormones turkeys have are the ones they produce themselves.
Similarly, any claim you may see about a steroid void is another red
herring since the use of any steroids in turkey production is also
illegal.
If a sports fan eats too much this Thanksgiving, try to avoid the example of those NFL players who used StarCaps, full of a diuretic which will rid you of those excess pounds...dangerously.
The Finnish public expresses great confidence that elite skiers show integrity dope. So states a poll of Fins. To the Newsroom Finland:
More than half of the Finnish public suspect the country's top
cross-country skiers of using banned performance-enhancing substances,
four papers quoted a poll as indicating on Thursday.
About 60 per cent of the respondents told market research company
Taylor Nelson Sofres that they did not believe Finnish skiers'
assurances that they were clean.
Commissioned by Karjalainen, Keskisuomalainen, Savon Sanomat and
Turun Sanomat, TNS interviewed 1,000 people last week. The papers did
not print the margin of error.
Once again we see that the public does not perceive athletes as possessing honesty and integrity, but rather possessing a win at all costs mentality.
The New York Times reports federal investigators are snooping around in Roger Clemens's ex-cell nuclei...looking at the DNA hanging on the bloody syringes that ex-Clemens trainer Brian McNamee claims came from the Rocket's rear-end after steroid injections.
Is this creepy? Investigators taking old bloody syringes for DNA evidence that the needles went into the butt of a multiple Cy Young award winner? Is this exercise preparing a perjury penalty against the Rocket?
Brian McNamee has submitted samples of his DNA to federal investigators, who are
The NFL Players Association will file a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis on Thursday, seeking to overturn all suspensions issued Tuesday by the league for any player who took the supplement identified as StarCaps that triggered several positive tests for the banned diuretic Bumetanide, union sources said.
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