Football players, baseball stars, track sprinters - these are the type of people you would expect to get caught up in a steroid scandal. But NASCAR drivers? Not so much. But that’s exactly what’s happened to defending Craftsman Truck Series champion Ron Hornaday.

ESPN THE MAGAZINE reports that he received shipments of a testosterone cream and HGH at his house from 2004 to 2006 from the same “anti-aging center” that has been linked to Rodney Harrison, Wade Wilson and Paul Byrd. But it’s OK: it was strictly for medicinal purposes. In fact, the HGH wasn’t even for him, it was for his wife. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.

Hornaday claims that he started using the testosterone cream after he mysteriously lost almost 40 pounds during the 2004 season. He also said he didn’t know it was a steroid, which seems odd. Did he think the testosterone cream was all-natural testosterone? (Freshly minted from the sweat of Mike Gundy - he’s a man, and now you can be, too!)

The best quote of the article is from Hornaday’s wife:

“He never took it at the track. Only at home.”

Why didn’t Barry Bonds think of this? If he only used the cream and the clear at home, or at the gym, or in the parking lot of the stadium, but not at the park itself, it should be OK, right?

NASCAR said they weren’t sure if Hornaday had violated their drug policies or not, which doesn’t speak to highly of the stringency of their testing. It hard to see how being more angry and aggressive would make you a better driver. I mean, look at what a jerk Tony Stewart is - the guy must drink adrenaline for breakfast - and he still hasn’t won a race this season.