Two major league players tested positive for drugs during this year’s World Baseball Classic, but neither will be punished by MLB. One who was punished for a test in 2008 may now be in legal trouble. The details:
Chicago Cubs catcher Geovany Soto, a member of the Puerto Rican team during the WBC, won’t be punished [...]
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On the MLB drug beat…
Quick hits: Sosa, Marshall, Yankee, LeBron
Sammy Sosa, who just a couple weeks ago reiterated that he has never taken performance-enhancing drugs, reportedly tested positive for them in 2003. If true, Sosa, who once cheated with an illegal bat, should shut his trap and never speak again.
Has any coach’s first five months ever gone worse? Broncos WR Brandon Marshall demands trade, [...]
Tabloid book about A-Rod tanking
I’ve seen quite a few news items — AP and others — about The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez by Selena Roberts becoming a book-business case of “three strikes, you’re out.” In spite of a nationwide retail slump in bookstores, Harper Collins was evidently hoping to pull off the old magic trick that has [...]
What performance was Manny trying to enhance?
Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Manny Ramirez was hit with a 50-game suspension by Major League Baseball because of a positive test for a banned substance. A statement by Ramirez, released through the players’ union, says in part: “Recently I saw a physician for a personal health issue. He gave me a medication, not a steroid, [...]
Dykstra article alleges homophobia and more
With the recession continuing to ravage the nation, there’s been a lot of discussion about last week’s interview of CNBC’s Jim “Mad Money” Cramer by Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. Stewart effectively picked apart Cramer’s reputation as a financial expert (at least from some reports — I didn’t watch it myself so I can’t [...]
A-Rod story gets a new wrinkle
So yeah, every sports channel you turn on now will probably have some talking head screaming at the top of his or her lungs at how much of a heel Alex Rodriguez is for allegedly testing positive for steroids. But one item that’s not being talked about that much is that the author of the [...]
SI: A-Rod A Roider
Michael Phelps became the absolute happiest athelete on Earth yesterday when cnnsi.com reported that Alex Rodriguez allegedly tested positive for the steroid Primobolan in 2003 when he was a member of the Texas Rangers and also the year he won his first MVP award. Rodriguez had until now been relatively clean of steroid accusations (except [...]
McGwire’s brother: I gave the him ‘roids
I almost feel sorry for Mark McGwire. First he cries before Congress. Then his baseball career is called into question and nearly disgraced. And now his own brother Jay is pitching a book in which he claims he gave Mark steroids. Jay knows a thing or two about the drugs: He’s a bodybuilder and took [...]
Fitness model loses job after steroid admission
Fitness model Christian Boeving lost his gig as an endorser for a supplement company after saying in a documentary that he has used anabolic steroids since he was 16, the New York Times reports.
Boeving was among the athletes featured in the sensational documentary “Bigger, Faster, Stronger” that looks at America’s win-at-all-costs culture and the role [...]
