Steroid Cycles News
- Opinion: Thomson’s home run echoes across time Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 3:49PMWHEN New York Giants third baseman Bobby Thomson stepped up to home plate at the Polo Grounds just before four o’clock in the afternoon on October 3, 1951, he had no idea that he was about to be frozen in time. The Giants were losing 4-2 with two men on base in the bottom of the ninth inning. Thomson’s job: to win the National League crown against the archrival Brooklyn Dodgers. Maybe time did ...
- Burns takes hard look at baseball's steroid era in latest project Sunday, August 22, 2010 @ 5:58PMFew Americans look at baseball with a sharper eye than Ken Burns, the celebrated filmmaker and lifelong Red Sox fan. He has spent at least five of the last 20 years studying the sport with the same perspective he brought to the groundbreaking Civil War project that launched his career. read more
- MLB Steroid Era: Chances Notable PED Users Have of Place in Hall of Fame Saturday, August 21, 2010 @ 11:08PMThe Steroid Era has been around pretty much since the early nineties, a span of about nearly 20 years. With a grueling 162 game regular season plus postseason play, it adds up to playing nearly 200 baseball games if you want to go ahead and count Spring Training. The contract status, fatigue and desire to stay on a big-league roster are all reasons why players, even the best ones, have used ...
- Brian Cushing's Ban Upheld: Houston Texan Forced Roger Goodell's Hand Thursday, August 19, 2010 @ 6:39PMWhen Houston Texans linebacker Brian Cushing was notified in May of a failed drug test he took last September, he refused to believe the results came out correctly. There was no way the test could be right. There must have been some mistake, Cushing thought. Cushing vehemently denied testing positive for hCG, a fertility drug commonly used in conjunction with steroid cycles to help restart ...
- Roger Clemens Indicted: Is the Steroid Era Finally Over? Thursday, August 19, 2010 @ 3:10PMRoger Clemens was indicted today on federal charges of lying to Congress about using performance-enhancing drugs. The announcement comes as no surprise, as Clemens has already suffered through public scrutiny about his alleged steroid use. Clemens' former trainer, Brian McNamee, testified in 2008 that he had personally injected Clemens with human growth hormone (HGH). Clemens flatly denied the ...
- Survey: More Aussie kids taking steroids Tuesday, August 10, 2010 @ 9:08PMSYDNEY - Australian schools have been told to broaden their drug education programmes as research shows how many teens are experimenting with anabolic steroids.A major survey conducted in secondary schools has found 2.4 per cent...
- Australian school kids taking steroids Tuesday, August 10, 2010 @ 8:10PMResearch from the National Drug and Alcohol Centre shows more teens experimenting with anabolic steroids.
- School kids taking steroids Tuesday, August 10, 2010 @ 8:02PMAUSTRALIAN schools have been told to broaden their drug education programs as research shows how many teens are experimenting with anabolic steroids.
- Australian school kids taking steroids Tuesday, August 10, 2010 @ 7:56PMResearch shows how many Australian school students are experimenting with anabolic steroids.
- Texans' Cushing blames suspension on overtraining Monday, August 9, 2010 @ 11:21AMThe Texans linebacker cites "overtrained athlete syndrome."
- Teva Respiratory reports positive results from BDP HFA Nasal Aerosol Phase III trial in seasonal allergic rhinitis Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 1:06AMTeva Respiratory today announced positive results from a Phase III trial evaluating the efficacy and safety of beclomethasone dipropionate (BDP) hydrofluoroalkane (HFA) Nasal Aerosol in the treatment of seasonal allergic rhinitis (SAR). The study met all efficacy endpoints, demonstrating a statistically significant benefit as compared to placebo. Furthermore, the safety profile of BDP HFA Nasal ...
- Contributing Editor For Rolling Stone Was Former Male Stripper, Steroid User Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 3:48PMPaul Solotaroff is currently a Contributing Editor at Men’s Journal and Rolling Stone, and is the former Editor of The Village Voice. He was also once a steroid-using college student who stripped for cash during the free-swinging days of NYC’s disco era.
- Saved from death by cancer drug the NHS wouldn't fund Monday, July 26, 2010 @ 8:30PMMike Soper was given Taxotere, a drug available in the States but not immediately given to cancer sufferers here. It early use undoubtedly saved his life.
- Choice, Referendum and the Midterm Elections Wednesday, July 21, 2010 @ 3:43PMA referendum on the party in power, or a choice between opposing ideologies? The answer in November.
- FEATURE : Body builders face dangers with growth hormones use Wednesday, July 14, 2010 @ 11:40AMHarry (not his real name), 27, a marketing executive from north London, is a keen sportsman and bodybuilder. He spent hours in the gym and poring over health pages for muscle-boosting tips. Yet he grew frustrated when his muscle growth appeared to plateau.
- Paul Gutierrez: Pitchers stage a throwback Tuesday, July 13, 2010 @ 1:55AMClose your eyes. Perk up your ears and hear the ball pop the catcher's mitt. Inhale the smells of a ballpark on a warm summer afternoon and let your memory and imagination run free, back to 1968.
- 2010 season belongs to pitchers Monday, July 12, 2010 @ 11:39PMTexas Rangers pitcher Cliff Lee has thrown four complete games in his past five starts. He walked two batters in that span, three in the month of June and only six all season. His 2.64 ERA ranks third in the American League. Any other season, Lee's performance stands out among the best.
- MLB: Why there are fewer great all-around outfielders playing baseball today Thursday, July 8, 2010 @ 3:41PMThere are several possible explanations for the decline in outfield talent over the years
- Seven Questions....with Yours Truly [A Blog Around The Clock] Thursday, July 1, 2010 @ 10:38AMLast week, my SciBling Jason Goldman interviewed me for his blog. The questions were not so much about blogging, journalism, Open Access and PLoS (except a little bit at the end) but more about science - how I got into it, what are my grad school experiences, what I think about doing research on animals, and such stuff. Jason posted the interview here, on his blog, on Friday , and he also let me ...
- 7 Questions with... Bora Zivkovic [The Thoughtful Animal] Friday, June 25, 2010 @ 6:52AMHere at Thoughtful Animal headquarters, we're starting a new series of seven-question interviews with people who are doing or have done animal research of all kinds - biomedical, behavioral, cognitive, and so forth. Interested in how animal research is conducted, or why animal research is important? Think you might want to do some animal research of your own someday? This is the interview series ...
- In command: Why pitchers have taken back the game Tuesday, June 22, 2010 @ 12:23PMStrikeouts and no-hit bids are way up. On-base percentages are plummeting. Why are pitchers so dominant right now? Better talent? A lack of PEDs? An emphasis on defense? Or is it merely a cycle? Scott Miller consults various MLB personnel on all the theories. Major League Baseball - Scott Miller - No-hitter - On-base percentage - Games
- Miller: Why pitchers are back Tuesday, June 22, 2010 @ 12:23PMStrikeouts and no-hit bids are way up. On-base percentages are plummeting. Why are pitchers so dominant right now? Better talent? A lack of PEDs? An emphasis on defense? Or is it merely a cycle? Scott Miller consults various MLB personnel on all the theories. Major League Baseball - Scott Miller - No-hitter - On-base percentage - Games
- Stars Stay Off the Field, and a Franchise’s Future Is Glimpsed Saturday, June 19, 2010 @ 8:11PMThe day will come when the Yankees will not have Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez on the left side of the infield every game.
- It's finally the Year of the Pitcher again Sunday, June 13, 2010 @ 2:31AMMilwaukee's Ryan Braun looked out at the mound on April 5, at that fire-breathing dragon, and said what everybody has been thinking for the last 10 weeks.
- Arms race: Offense is down again -- and young, talented pitchers are everywhere Saturday, June 12, 2010 @ 6:53PMSome of the scores the other day: 3-0, 4-3, 2-0, 3-0, 4-3, 3-2 and 4-2. And it wasn't the World Cup. It was Major League Baseball.
- Real life could take a lesson from the world of baseball Saturday, June 12, 2010 @ 3:45PMIn the first inning of his first Major League start this week, Washington Nationals pitching phenom Stephen Strasburg had been chucking fastballs at 98 mph.
- Kings of the Hill: 2010 now is Year of the Pitcher Saturday, June 12, 2010 @ 10:02AMWarm night at Citizens Bank Park, midweek game in mid-June. Chris Coghlan steps in for the Marlins, slaps a ground ball up the middle. A little leadoff single, a big reaction by his Florida team...
- 2010 has taken turn as year of the pitcher Saturday, June 12, 2010 @ 12:00AMWarm night at Citizens Bank Park, midweek game in mid-June. Chris Coghlan steps in for the Marlins, slaps a ground ball up the middle.
- 2010 is year of the pitcher Friday, June 11, 2010 @ 10:12PMWarm night at Citizens Bank Park, midweek game in mid-June. Chris Coghlan steps in for the Marlins, slaps a ground ball up the middle. A little leadoff single, a big reaction by his Florida teammates.
- Kings of the Hill: 2010 now is Year of the Pitcher Friday, June 11, 2010 @ 6:09PMMatt Slocum Florida Marlins' Josh Johnson pitches in the first inning of a baseball game against the Philadelphia Phillies on Thursday, June 10, 2010, in Philadelphia. Florida won 2-0.
- Kings of the hill: 2010 now is year of the pitcher Friday, June 11, 2010 @ 5:29PMAssociated Press Warm night at Citizens Bank Park, midweek game in mid-June. Chris Coghlan steps in for the Marlins, slaps a ground ball up the middle.
- Kings of the Hill: 2010 now is Year of the Pitcher Friday, June 11, 2010 @ 5:25PMBy BEN WALKER AP Baseball Writer Warm night at Citizens Bank Park, midweek game in mid-June. Chris Coghlan steps in for the Marlins, slaps a ground ball up the middle.
- What's with the perfect games? Tuesday, June 8, 2010 @ 3:23AMThere is no shortage of theories to explain how there were nearly three in a month's time.
- Harbor BioSciences Apoptone(R) for Prostate Cancer Shows Activity at All Doses Tested Monday, June 7, 2010 @ 1:19PMCHICAGO -- Harbor BioSciences, Inc. today presented new positive data from its ongoing Phase I/IIa clinical trial with Apoptone for castration resistant prostate cancer -- also referred to as hormone resistant prostate cancer -- at the American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting.
- (AFX UK Focus) 2010-06-06 18:00 Celgene's Revlimid myeloma data confirmed at ASCO Sunday, June 6, 2010 @ 12:33PMBy Toni Clarke
- Baseball's season of perfection Saturday, June 5, 2010 @ 10:23PMHow 27 up, 27 down suddenly has become a trend in the big leagues. Blown call cost A's Bobby Witt a perfect game, too - in 1994 | Kawakami: Ellison may be forming super group to buy Warriors
- Outfielder wants to forget sordid affair Thursday, May 27, 2010 @ 8:28AMThe sorriest chapter in Larry Bigbie's pro baseball career is also embedded in the doorstop that is the Mitchell Report, a revealing case study from Major League Baseball's steroid era.
- Triathlon champ is at the Sharpe end Sunday, May 23, 2010 @ 11:16AMBRIDLINGTON'S Darren Sharpe is set to take on Europe's top triathletes after being selected to represent Great Britain at the European Long Distance Triathlon Championship. (19/05/2010 12:35:40)
- Cushing suspended for four games Thursday, May 20, 2010 @ 2:27AMPark Ridge – Park Ridge native Brian Cushing will be suspended for four games without pay for violating the leagues drug policy, but will not be stripped of his Defensive Rookie of the Year Award.
- Sweet home, Chicago Sunday, May 16, 2010 @ 1:02AMRick Telander: This is what I think: LeBron James is coming to Chicago. I might be wrong about this, but I think he will be a Chicago Bull, and I think the only thing to be worked out now is who the Bulls' sycophant -- excuse me, head coach -- will be. Apparently, there weren't just losing issues with the Cavaliers; there were personal issues, too.
- MEDIA: AP panelists fumble away chance to rock the vote when it comes to NFL linebacker Cushing Friday, May 14, 2010 @ 1:01AMThere are those golden rules of journalism: Avoid making yourself part of the story. Gather news objectively.
- Saints, Santini might go to arbitration Thursday, May 13, 2010 @ 8:51PMGeoffrey Santini, former security director for the Saints, has filed a motion to withdraw his suit against the team and go to arbitration.
- John Niyo: Brian Cushing keeps his rookie award, but integrity lost in NFL re-vote Thursday, May 13, 2010 @ 12:03AMRight or wrong, the Associated Press re-vote for NFL defensive rookie of the year award was viewed as a referendum on steroid use in the league, and the verdict is in: We're all for it!
- Politi: Brian Cushing re-vote sacks NFL's chance for real, long-lasting impact Wednesday, May 12, 2010 @ 3:35PMDespite slap-on-the-wrist penalty, Cushing holds onto award
- Revote? Great idea because Cushing cheated Tuesday, May 11, 2010 @ 11:58AMPeter King and Don Banks are two of the 50 AP voters who will revote for the 2009 NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year award. Read Banks' contrasting view here.
- Cushing Being Manny: Test Showed hCG Tuesday, May 11, 2010 @ 9:53AMSo you might have heard Houston Texans linebacker Brian Cushing came back with a positive drug test. Well, it turns out it has little to do with steroids, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter. Via Twitter, Schefter reports the test showed "slightly elevated levels" of hCG, otherwise known as Human chorionic gonadotropin. That clinical name should ring a bell as the same thing for which Dodgers ...
- PFT: Cushing took same substance as Manny Tuesday, May 11, 2010 @ 9:25AMAlthough neither Texans linebacker Brian Cushing nor anyone associated with the NFL has said what, exactly, Cushing took to trigger a positive performance-enhancing drug test, a new report says he tested positive for human Chorionic Gonadotropin, or hCG.
- Steroids on Long Island: Inside Our Juicehead Culture Thursday, May 6, 2010 @ 8:30AMXavier* was 20 when he knew he had to quit using steroids. He was sitting in his Dodge Durango outside a Gold’s Gym in Suffolk County. A needle and syringe sat on the passenger seat next to him, along with a gym bag and water bottle. Looking to get what he describes as “that pump,” that [...]
- Test lab constantly undergoing improvements Wednesday, May 5, 2010 @ 3:21AMFor Olympic athletes, body builders and avid gym goers, anabolic steroids and drug store supplements may offer more downfalls than advantages.
- Steroids For Sale May Not Be What You Expect, So How Do You Protect Yourself? Wednesday, April 28, 2010 @ 2:38PMMost professional and even many amateur athletes have been offered steroids for sale, whether through an acquaintance or online, but with so many legal gray areas, how can a purchaser protect themselves from buying steroids that are not what they seem to be?