Braun rejects all steroid allegations
Maintaining his innocence, Milwaukee leftfielder Ryan Braun disputed allegations that he took performance-enhancing substances when accepting his National League MVP.
“I always believed that a person’s character is revealed in those moments of adversity,” he said. “I have so much respect for the game of baseball. Everything I’ve done in my career has been [...]
MLB warns over deer antler spray
Baseball players in both the major and minor leagues have been warned to stop ingesting deer-antler spray, according to a story first reported by Sports Illustrated and confirmed by the New York Times.
The spray includes “potentially contaminated nutritional supplements” and has been added to MLB’s list of cautionary substances.
From Cbc.ca:
Velvet from immature deer [...]
Efficient method to detect illegal steroids in urine
Researchers in Indiana and China have reported development of a faster and more efficient method to detect the presence of illegal anabolic steroids in urine.
The new method that takes only a few seconds and involves no time-consuming sample preparation will be described in Analytical Chemistry.
From Sciencedaily.com:
The study notes that use of banned [...]
Arrest of FBI employees over use of steroids
Three FBI special agents and one FBI intelligence analyst were arrested recently on charges that they concealed the use of performance enhancing drugs, including steroids and human growth hormones.
The four accused were charged by U.S. prosecutors for lying on forms that are used to assess fitness for duty by omitting that they had [...]
Barry Bonds - Still King of the City
In the world of professional sports, Barry Bonds is one name that cannot be kept out of action for long and his presence was recently felt in San Francisco when he was looking fit in his familiar No. 25.
The Giants took pride in inviting Bonds back as he is San [...]
Parallel between home runs and steroid use
While every one was talking about the home runs in the steroids era, there were only a few noticing the tall numbers of batters hit by pitches.
The game of baseball was manly in the past when pitchers used to knock down batters for the smallest perceived imperfections yet the golden age of batters [...]
Baseball haunted by steroid accusations
Alex Rodriguez, star third-baseman for the New York Yankees and baseball’s highest-paid player, who recently touched the magical figure of 600 career home runs, has been accused of making use of steroids.
It seems that there is no getting back for the game of baseball, which has been haunted by steroid accusations in the recent [...]
PEARLMAN TO WRITE CLEMENS’ BIOGRAPHY
Red Sox teammates know Roger Clemens to be a fierce competitor on the field. He has always been bullish when it comes to his drive in playing baseball. This personality had already existed even during his Little League days. And this would be written in a book authored by Jeff Pearlman, a biographer and writer [...]
DOCTOR SUPPLIES STEROIDS TO MLB PLAYERS
Have you ever wondered how baseball players got their steroids if they don’t come from steroid dealers? New York Times released a report that some players got their prescription and syringes from an anti aging doctor, named Ramon Scrugs, who was charged with writing off these prescriptions for steroids and hgH not only to the [...]
A-ROD’S ABSENCE PUTS PRESSURE ON GIRARDI
Girardi is facing tremendous pressure as the MLB opens for the season. His star player, Alex Rodriguez was still recuperating from a hip injury and staying out of the limelight for a while. A-Rod had been making the headlines since February when the results of the random drug test were leaked which was followed [...]