The University Interscholastic League in Texas is the owner of the largest steroid testing program in the nation. The tests aren’t for professional athletes or cattle instead high school students are randomly sampled for ‘roids.
The steroid testing program was approved by the Texas Legislature which allotted $6 million over two years to the UIL. The findings have been terrible so far. Read more…
• STEROID NATION has a look at ADHD drugs as they pertain to baseball.
• YOU BEEN BLINDED says Stephen A. Smith wants the draft rigged in favor of the Knicks. Like that would ever happen (cough: Patrick Ewing).
• DEUCE OF DAVENPORT breaks down the Bernard Hopkins beat down. Read more…
The NEW YORK POST reports that two Major League Baseball investigators met with Jose Canseco during a reading Wednesday of his new stirring bildungsroman “Vindicated” at the Barnes and Noble in midtown Manhattan, which was just coincidentally a few blocks down from their office.
“A baseball source said yesterday they wanted to open a line of communication with Canseco.
‘His exact words were, ‘Why now?’ ‘ said Canseco’s lawyer, Robert Saunooke, who attended the meeting. “Why not three years ago, why now? They agreed 100 percent. The point is well-taken and we told them once the book tour is over we will be more than happy to talk with them and see what, if anything, we can do, and whatever we can do to help.”
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[ UPDATE: YAHOO! SPORTS is speculating that the federal case postponement will likely ensure that the trial “will not stand trial before October when American baseball holds its World Series championship.” Sorry MLB owners, cross another one off of ‘reasons why we can’t sign him’ excuses. ]
The Barry Bonds saga continues. The perjury case against Major League’s home run king has been pushed back to June, and prosecutors have told a federal judge that they plan to obtain new indictment against Bonds.
Paula Canny, a lawyer for Bonds’ former trainer Greg Anderson, said the reasons for postponement are fairly simple. Read more…
Lost in the odd remark yesterday that Alex Rodriguez made about his daughters marrying Andy Pettitte in order to laud the pitcher’s so-called truth telling about his HGH use was an assertion A-Rod made that he was tested for PEDs “9 or 10 times last season.” Problem is, that number of tests in one year is reserved for a first violation for use of a stimulant (which isn’t publicly announced).
So, per the NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, Rodriguez has issued a clarification, saying he was exaggerating the number of tests in order to make a point.
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Per STEROID NATION, the STAR-NEWS (N.C.), alerts us to a book that examines the use of performance enhancing drugs in college cheerleading.
Author Lisa Torgovnick is a former contributor to JANE who now writes for the NEW YORK TIMES. She spent an entire season following cheerleaders in competition. While much of the book has to do with the boring documenting of cheer culture, it also reports on cheerleaders’ usage of PEDs. Read more…
In what I have to assume is a terrible attempt at sarcasm, Yankees catcher Jorge Posada has gone on the record saying that despite the hearings last week where Roger Clemens revealed he didn’t know what a vegan was, he completely believes that Clemens didn’t take HGH or steroids.
Posada told the DAILY NEWS, “I support him; he said he never took it and I’m behind him 100%.” Wow. It’s almost as if Posada didn’t even watch the hearings. Oh, that’s right. He didn’t. Read more…
The NEW YORK DAILY NEWS is touting an exclusive that Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte got his shipments of human growth hormone from his father Tom.
The statement made its way to the paper and was then given to the House committee grilling both Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee this morning.
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The ASSOCIATED PRESS reports that Marion Jones was sentenced to six months in prison today. Ironically, prosecutors weren’t all that aggressive in seeking the max amount of jail time for the performance-enhanced, now-former Olympic gold medalist. But U.S. District Judge Kenneth Karas dropped the hammer on Jones anway, who we’re sure you remember previously crying outside the courthouse.
