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Drugs in Sports

  • Blogs

    December 13, 2011

    Ryan Braun: No MVP If Guilty

    ​I haven't said anything about the Ryan Braun performance-enhancing drug controversy because I don't want to rush to judgment. I'll do my rushing after all analysis, arguments, and counterarguments are in. Meanwhile, there's another issue to consider. Yesterday, ESPN.com's Jayson Stark argue ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2011

    Brad Pitt Aside, Here's a Baseball Quiz: Why Does Moneyball Leave Out Steroid Ball?

    Billy BeaneIt's a Moneyball media fest out there — the articles on the book Moneyball, the movie Moneyball, the stars of Moneyball and the articles about the articles about Moneyball have created a light industry. Everything you always wanted to know about Moneyball is currently available on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2011

    Manny Ramirez: No Chance for the Hall of Fame?

    ​If it hadn't happened while Barry Bonds was on trial, Manny Ramirez might have made the Hall of Fame. As you've heard by now, Manny's career is over. Late last week Major League Baseball released a statement confirming what many had been whispering about: Ramirez was in some violation of bas ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2011

    Barry Bonds and His Big Head

    ​Who says there are no new angles to the Barry Bonds perjury trial? Kimberly Bell, who is said to have "dated Bonds" - I love that term; it always conjures up a couple at a malt shop or at a high school football game - "until an ugly breakup in 2003," testified that Bonds threatened to cut of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2010

    Roger Clemens: Already Convicted by Sports Media. Here's Why They All May Be Wrong.

    To read the blizzard of commentary on Roger Clemens's indictment, you wonder why the government is even bothering to bring the ex-pitcher to trial. Clemens's guilt has already been decided in the sports media. For instance, Shaun Powell on ESPNNewYork.com, who writes as if a verdict of guilty is a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2010

    Roger Clemens Indicted for Perjury

    ​Following in the not-so-great tradition of Barry Bonds, former Yankees pitcher Roger Clemens has been indicted by federal authorities on six charges, including perjury and making false statements to Congress, about his use of performance-enhancing drugs.

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2010

    Study: Poker Players Use Performance-Enhancing Drugs, Too!

    ​Long left off the list of performance-enhancing drug abusing "athletes," poker players are finally having their day in the sun. A new study from Nova Southeastern University found that 80 percent of the 198 players interviewed reported using drugs and other substances to enhance their perform ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2010

    Floyd Landis Admits Doping, Accuses Lance Armstrong and Other Top US Cyclists

    Junkie​Cyclist Floyd Landis has finally admitted to doping, four years after he was caught red-handed and was stripped of the 2006 Tour de France championship. But that news is quickly being overshadowed by Landis's reported accusations against his former teammates, Levi Leipheimer, George Hi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2010

    Jose Reyes, Mets Straighten Out Thyroid Story, But -- Questions Remain! (Update: Reyes Out 2-6 Weeks)

    ​In the latest medical dispute between Mets players and management, Jose Reyes, who was sent up from spring training for a thyroid check, told the world his thyroid was fine, while the Mets said it was overactive. Later they all got together, and Reyes' agent clarified, saying Reyes' thyroid ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2010

    Tiger Woods May Get Back in the Game in Two Weeks: Post

    ​It took years -- including 18 months in prison -- before disgraced Olympic runner Marion Jones returned to sports as a member of the WNBA's Tulsa Shock. But Tiger Woods may be on a faster track: He's hired former Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer -- who also worked with semi-disgraced ballpl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2010

    Mark McGwire 'Confesses,' Says Steroids Didn't Make Him a Record-Breaking Slugger

    Yes, McGwire was one of the models for the "Got milk?" ad campaign. Mark McGwire's confession Monday that he used steroids was ludicrous. The disgraced baseball slugger says he used steroids to heal his body but not to hit home runs. He adds that the steroids didn't help him break home-run records ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2009

    No, Yanks, This Doesn't Mean You Get a Do-Over

    ​Lawyers have leaked that Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz, stars of the Red Sox teams that won the World Series in 2004 and 2007, tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in 2003, the first year Major League Baseball tested for steroids. Other previously-revealed members of that class of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 19, 2009

    Jockbeat: Why You're Just Now Hearing that Sammy Sosa Juiced in 2003

    Let's take the issues connected with the outing of Sammy Sosa's 2003 drug test results one at a time: -- First, the New York Times broke the news on June 16 with a story stating that Sosa had tested positive "according to lawyers with knowledge of the drug-testing results from that year."   ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2009

    Jockbeat: Daily News 'revelations' about A-Rod are hardly that

    If you were planning on dropping 50 cents to pick up Thursday's Daily News because of the headline - "A-Rod Book Bombshell" - let us save you the change.  The first of two front page revelations, supposedly taken from Selena Roberts's upcoming Rodriguez biography, that "Slugger may [Emphasis ou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2009

    Vecsey Gives Lance Armstrong a Nice Trim

    UPDATE: Armstrong responds to the controversy. See end of post.George Vecsey has an interesting column today about something that apparently has the French press in a tizzy: when Lance Armstrong was surprised last month by a French cycling official who showed up and asked for samples for a drug test ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2009

    Jockbeat: The NFL's Invisible Steroid Problem

    It isn't so much that the use of steroids and performance enhancing drugs in the NFL gets less attention than it does in baseball -- it's more like it's invisible.  On Wednesday, the Jets announced they had signed Larry Izzo, three-time Pro Bowl linebacker and special teams player for the New E ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 5, 2009

    A-Rod Will Have Surgery, Miss 6-7 Weeks of Season. UPDATE: Yanks Say: No Surgery

    We see Newsday is thinking the same way we are, and asks an expert if the cyst on A-Rod's hip has to do with his steroid abuse back in his Mariners days. Not likely, says Gary Wadler, "an internist and member of the World Anti-Doping Agency." The cyst was discovered after Rodriguez experienced some ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2009

    A-Rod: Shot Up With "Bole," Was Young and Stupid, Never Took HGH

    At his press conference in Tampa today, Alex Rodriguez said he didn't know that the substance he took back in 2003-2005 -- which he identified as something known in "the streets of DR" as "Bole," presumably the anabolic steroid Primobolan -- was a steroid. He referred to taking the substance as "stu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2009

    Lance Armstrong: The Straight Dope

    What a strange reunion is taking place for three cycling legends this weekend in California:  --Lance Armstrong, the 7-time Tour de France winner who is staging a comeback at 37 in part to prove that he's a clean rider and no doper, despite a controversial 2005 report claiming that he'd used th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2009

    Fan, Press A-Rod Reactions: No Role Model, But Babe Would Have Juiced, Too

    After his admission that he used performance enhancing drugs from 2001 to 2003, Alex Rodriguez received the support of the Yankees organization ("Although we are disappointed in the mistake he spoke to today, we realize that Alex -- like all of us -- is a human being not immune to fault"). Fans and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2009

    A-Rod to Answer Steroid Charges on ESPN (Update: He Juiced)

    Allegations having been brought by Sports Illustrated that Alex Rodriguez used steroids in 2003, the Yankees third baseman will make a statement about it on ESPN, perhaps as soon as today. The Daily News' Bob Raissman says the ESPN statement, done in interview format with reporter Peter Gammons, "is ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2009

    Smoking Gun scoop: the FBI stoolie who ignited baseball's steroid scandal

    Pictured above: Nobody who's in the story below. By the way, kids, don't try this at home without your parents' help. In news fresh off the server that should set the Hot Stove League blazing, The Smoking Gun unravels the tale of one Mike Bogdan, allegedly the previously unnamed FBI informant who ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2008

    Major League: Cop Busted for Steroids

    Pictured above: Nobody who's in the story below. By the way, kids, don't try this at home without your parents' help. In news fresh off the server that should set the Hot Stove League blazing, The Smoking Gun unravels the tale of one Mike Bogdan, allegedly the previously unnamed FBI informant who ... More >>

  • News

    July 2, 2008

    NYPD's Busts Get Busted

    Cases worked on by cops ensnared in narco and steroids probes have been dismissed

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2008

    Hard Line Drives: Viagra and Baseball

    Cases worked on by cops ensnared in narco and steroids probes have been dismissed

  • Blogs

    June 6, 2008

    Deputy Chief Faces Departmental Charges in NYPD Steroid Scandal

    Cases worked on by cops ensnared in narco and steroids probes have been dismissed

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2008

    TABLOIDED: Sex, Sports & Murder

    Cases worked on by cops ensnared in narco and steroids probes have been dismissed

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2008

    Clemens vs. Waxman

    Cases worked on by cops ensnared in narco and steroids probes have been dismissed

  • Books

    December 18, 2007

    Field of Schemes

    The Mitchell Report on steroid use in baseball joins the game's literary classics. But how good is it?

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2007

    Interview: Jim Bouton on the Mitchell Report

    The Mitchell Report on steroid use in baseball joins the game's literary classics. But how good is it?

  • Blogs

    December 13, 2007

    Clemens is a Big Fat Juicer: Mitchell Report

    The Mitchell Report on steroid use in baseball joins the game's literary classics. But how good is it?

  • News

    December 11, 2007

    Cops on Steroids

    Baseball has no monopoly on foul balls. The NYPD's own drug scandal keeps simmering.

  • News

    August 7, 2007

    Staining Names

    The A-Rod rumor mill: When steroids come innuendo, logic flies out the door

  • News

    July 10, 2007

    Rehabilitating Barry

    Baseball's new feel-good story of the summer has Allen Barra feeling burned

  • News

    June 19, 2007

    A Yankee, a Senator, and Gnarly Bud

    Baseball commish Selig's morality play deeply impresses a confused sports press

  • News

    May 22, 2007

    Speed on the Bases

    Does Jason Giambi's blabbing mean he wants to be one for the Angels?

  • News

    May 23, 2006

    The Old Brawl Game

    Baseball trades fights for hugs in the age of steroid testing

  • News

    August 2, 2005

    Steroid Ball: Palmeiro’s Numbers Don’t Add Up

    Baseball trades fights for hugs in the age of steroid testing

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2005

    The Shrunken-Balls Era

    Baseball trades fights for hugs in the age of steroid testing

  • News

    February 26, 2002

    Sports

    Baseball trades fights for hugs in the age of steroid testing

  • News

    September 29, 1998

    Betting the Pharmacy

    Rx gains in the race against drugs in sports

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