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A Florida man who claimed he sold anabolic steroid pills to professional athletes, including members of the Washington Nationals and Capitals, has pleaded guilty in a deal with prosecutors.
Federal prosecutors urged a federal appellate court to reverse a trial judge and let them present critical evidence they say shows Barry Bonds knowingly used steroids.
Major League Baseball will not punish Alex Rodriguez after completing its investigation into whether he lied about his use of performance-enhancing drugs, the New York Times reported Saturday.
Thousands of high school athletes are tested each school year for performance enhancing drugs. But out of the multitudes of costly screenings, only a handful of students have tested positive.
Former pitcher Jason Grimsley, a key figure in the federal investigation of steroids in baseball, met with prosecutors Tuesday at the courthouse where a grand jury is looking into whether Roger Clemens lied to Congress.
Former major league pitcher Jason Grimsley appeared Tuesday at the courthouse where a grand jury is investigating Roger Clemens.
Sen. John McCain is lamenting the latest report of a baseball player linked to performance-enhancing drugs.
A Boston newspaper is reporting the Red Sox fired two security staffers last summer after an investigation into steroid use.
Jim Parque, a former pitcher for the White Sox and Tampa Bay, says he used human growth hormone "about six times" after he was cut by Chicago in 2002 and before he tried a comeback with the Rays the following season.
A former gym owner in the Houston area says he never supplied Roger Clemens with performance-enhancing drugs and is looking forward to meeting with a grand jury investigating whether Clemens lied to Congress.
Baseball writers have turned down a proposal to form a committee for developing guidelines on evaluating players from the steroids era in Hall of Fame voting.
When it comes to the electing players to the Baseball Hall of Fame, no new guidelines are needed to deal with the so-called Steroid Era because voters are already asked to consider a player's integrity and character.
Federal prosecutors urged an appeals court to let them present evidence they say shows Barry Bonds knowingly used steroids, arguing Monday it was mistakenly thrown out by a trial court judge on the eve of his perjury trial earlier this year.
Federal charges have been filed against a Florida man who authorities say boasted of selling steroids to professional athletes, including players on the Washington Nationals and Capitals.
Manny Ramirez's positive urine test showed an elevated testosterone level, and a lab used a test to determine whether the hormone was naturally produced to build evidence against him, ESPN.com reported Monday.
Kentucky racing officials say no horse tested positive for steroids or other banned drugs at the Kentucky Derby or Kentucky Oaks.
The world of baseball executives has become almost as shadowy and secretive as the CIA. They should hold their annual meetings at Langley.
The final nail in Alex Rodriguez’s Hall-of-Fame coffin has just been hammered home. The person who wielded the hammer is Sports Illustrated’s Selena Roberts. The nail is her book, “A-Rod,” which is scheduled for a May 12 release — just in time for his expected return to the Yankee lineup.
A federal judge says she is inclined to deny a former elite cyclist's bid for a new perjury trial.
A federal prosecutor on Thursday recommended that All-Star shortstop Miguel Tejada get probation and no prison time for misleading Congress about the use of performance-enhancing drugs.
A state-by-state look at results of results of steroids tests in high schools:
At one time, testing high school athletes for steroids was seen as the best way to fight performance-enhancing drug use among the young. Now, those efforts are losing steam because of high costs and few positive results.
Lawyers for Roger Clemens asked a federal judge to reconsider his decision dismissing most of a defamation suit the pitcher filed against his former personal trainer over allegations of performance-enhancing drug use.
Brian McNamee says he injected Roger Clemens with drugs at the Yankee Stadium hot tub and that among the needles he gave government investigators was one he used to inject the pitcher in 2001, according to the Web site sportsimproper.com.
You have to wonder what Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire and Rafael Palmiero think when they read the headlines in the sports section every day.
Here we are are about 30 hours away from the start of the World Series and so far these Major League Baseball playoffs have been all about Alex Rodriguez.
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Helping Hand for Forgotten Horse Excerpt from article: Freedom's Flight's descent from the Thoroughbred circuit's pampered paddocks into equine hell took just three months after a mishap at Gulfstream Park. Article by: Elinor J. Brecher
Fred McGriff will be eligible for the Hall of Fame next year, and the folks in Tampa (his home town, and where he currently works) are already banging the drum for his induction.
HGS Stock Up 277% On Lupus ResultsShares of Human Genome Sciences soared Monday on news that the firm's experimental lupus drug showed promise in its latest round of testing.
Soon someone big is going to get traded and we'll be able to cut out the steroid chatter, but for now, know that Big Papi and Manny are likely not the only 2004 Red Sox players on the list:
Tori Hunter responded to the revelation of David Ortiz failing a 2003 drug test, saying "you never know what people do in the dark" but maybe he should shut his mouth.
And now David Ortiz looks like one of the television evangelists who gets caught in a seedy motel with a hooker. -- Dan Shaughnessy, bringing his usual brand of moderation and reason to the table in the wake of the Manny and Papi revelations.
Boston's Ortiz closer to Barry Bonds than Ted Williams - tested positive in 2003NEW YORK, New York — Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz became the latest star implicated in baseball's ever-growing drug scandal, acknowledging Thursday that the players union confirmed he tested positive in 2003
The news has only been out a couple of hours, but the blogosphere, she already rumbles:
I want to make one thing pretty clear. I've just about had it with this whole steroid controversy, what with it's secret lists and tainted records and bloody syringes.
Like we didn't know that already. Maybe there will be an All-Steroid team in Cooperstown. That would be an interesting group. Roger Clemens could be on it several times.
Here we go. The New York Times reports that Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz were on that infamous 2003 doping list:
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Yesterday we heard that the feds have subpoenaed a guy named Jeff Blair, who allegedly had the steroids goods on Roger Clemens. Last night, the guy said otherwise:
"It bothers me. A lot of Hall of Famers are very offended by this. I am starting to get affected and I am hoping that those guys that get caught don't get into the Hall of Fame.''
Manny Ramirez's return from a 50-game suspension this past week was met with a mixed reaction, helped no doubt by the games being played in "Mannywood South", also known as San Diego's PETCO Park.
The San Francisco Chronicle's Bruce Jenkins has a good point:
Catherine Rampell of the New York Times' "Economix" blog has a post up attempting to quantify the cost-benefit analysis that goes into a baseball player's choice to use PEDs or not and speculates about how the system can be re-jiggered so as to further disincentivize drug use.
The doctor who allegedly prescribed Manny his drugs is under the federal microscope:
Now if you turn your attention to the center ring, I give you Manny Ramirez, standing on his head while riding on the back of a flaming horse! Or something!
Bill Simmons has an interesting column up: We're going with a one-question mailbag this week, courtesy of Phil D. from Montclair, N.J.: "What was the purest baseball era, from a statistical perspective?"
Because steroids are such gosh darn fun, let's ponder this one for a bit: Jose Canseco plans to file a class-action lawsuit against Major League Baseball and the players' association, saying he's been ostracized for going public with tales of steroids use in the sport.
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