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• If Visanthe Shiancoe’s NFL career doesn’t pan out, there’s always the open invitation to join the adult film industry.
• Carmelo Anthony’s favorite kind of record - 33 in the 3rd.
• Vassily Ivanchuk could face a two-year ban for doping - not from the NHL, but from the World Chess Federation.
• Boys & girls playing basketball together? That’s too sinful for our schools!
Seriously.
How exactly taking steroids can make somebody a better chess player, I have no idea, but apparently the governing bodies of the sport have been testing for performance enhancers since 2001. Apparently there was a fear that chess players would start taking steroids so they could move their queen from d8 to h4 a lot quicker and with more force, possibly so they could kill two pawns at once or something.
(Look deep into my “bedroom eyes”)
Now even though they’ve been testing chess players for seven years now, as you would expect, they’ve never found anybody guilty. Well, that is until last month, anyway. Vassily Ivanchuk is one of the better known names in the world of chess — I’m sure you’ve already named your first born after him — and he’s been a grandmaster in the “sport” for over 20 years now. Well, after losing a match on November 25th the grandmaster — better known as Big Chucky — refused to take a drug test following the match, and now he may be banned for two years.
