According to retired NHL enforcer Georges Laraque in a new book, steroid use was commonplace for years in hockey dressing rooms.
“I have to say here that tough guys weren’t the only players using steroids in the NHL,” Laraque wrote. “It was true that quite a lot of them did use this drug, but other, more [...]
November 19, 2011 | Posted in
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The aborted Roger Clemens trial has shown that federal prosecutors still care deeply about steroids, and lying about their use to Congress.
Clemens’ shredded reputation is in limbo after mistrial in the perjury case against one of baseball’s all-time greats.
From Miamiherald.com:
Charged with lying to Congress about performance enhancing drugs, Clemens joined otherwise surefire Hall of Famers [...]
October 3, 2011 | Posted in
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Doug Brown, the longtime Winnipeg Blue Bombers defensive lineman, recently said that steroid use among players in the CFL has been so blatant it became a joke.
Brown recently said, “There’d be a guy or two on every team that we would identify and we used to joke around -’wonder what point of his steroid [...]
August 4, 2011 | Posted in
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Legal constraints and lack of budget are hampering the implementation of routine testing for steroids and other performance enhancing drugs, according to the Director of the South African Institute for Drug- Free Sport, Dr Shuaib Manjra.
A few weeks back, it was reported that tests conducted at 18 of SA’s top schools revealed that about one [...]
June 24, 2011 | Posted in
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A science lesson was received by jurors at the Barry Bonds perjury trial from Larry Bowers — a government witness and an antidoping expert — acting as their professor.
The jurors learned about the different categories of steroids, of which anabolic steroids are one.
From NYTimes.com:
While the jurors may not have known it, that information, however [...]
June 1, 2011 | Posted in
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A steroid smuggling ring operating inside the NSW Police Force has been busted by a secret internal police investigation.
The Sunday Telegraph reported that the two-year operation, codenamed Oklahoma, exposed at least eight serving officers allegedly using and distributing non-prescribed steroids, anabolic steroids, and human growth hormones.
From Heraldsun.com.au:
The investigation focused on a group called [...]
May 26, 2011 | Posted in
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The indictment last Tuesday of suspected drug ring members who reportedly sold anabolic steroids to Danbury area high school students has once again brought debate over student drug testing for high school students into the limelight.
The testing’s value is in deterring use of drugs according to the proponents and there is no way [...]
May 5, 2011 | Posted in
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New Jersey lawmakers are making efforts for preventing steroid abuse and are in the process of introducing what may be the first law in the United States requiring police and firefighters to be examined by a doctor before they can be prescribed anabolic steroids or human growth hormone.
The State Legislature is also considering [...]
March 23, 2011 | Posted in
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MLB (Major League Baseball) and union officials may have misled the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in context of the amount of steroid use among players, according to a report by the New York Times.
The testimony of Major League Baseball officials was completely accurate, as per Deputy Commissioner Rob Manfred.
From Espnstar.com:
“It’s clear that [...]
February 26, 2011 | Posted in
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State Attorney General Paula Dow recently assembled a task force for investigating the use of anabolic steroids among enforcement officers in the state of New Jersey, as per the Star-Ledger.
The task force will consist of eight members, including Hoboken’s public safety director, Angel Alicea.
From NJ.com:
Alicea will aide the task force in examining the effect of [...]
February 24, 2011 | Posted in
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