Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2009
| Subscribe to Newser's RSS feeds RSS | Follow Newser on Twitter Twitter

NEWS ABOUT: performance-enhancing drugs

performance-enhancing drugs stories: 63 news summaries

1 - 20 of 63 Stories | 1 2 3 4 Next >>

Switch to grid view »

 Baseball Won't Punish 
 A-Rod Over Doping 

MLB closing investigation into whether he lied

Sep 12, 09 10:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - MLB will not discipline Alex Rodriguez after investigating whether he lied to baseball officials about using steroids, the New York Times reports. In March, Rodriguez admitted to investigators and the public that he had used performance-enhancing drugs, but only from 2001 to 2003. After a book published in April... More »

MORE ABOUT:
investigation • steroids • MLB • New York Yankees • Alex Rodriguez • performance-enhancing drugs • Selena Roberts • Angel Persinal

(Newser) - Usain Bolt doesn’t even bother running through the tape at full speed. By the end of his sprints—even his mind-boggling, record-breaking 200-meters in Berlin—he’s mugging for the cameras. “Every race he leaves us wondering, ‘How fast could this guy go?’” writes Michael Wilbon... More »

MORE ABOUT:
steroids • track and field • performance-enhancing drugs • Usain Bolt • sprinters

(Newser) - David Ortiz says he has never used steroids, despite his inclusion on baseball's infamous list of juicers from 2003, the Globe reports. “I used a lot of supplements and vitamins" back then, the Red Sox slugger said at a press conference today. He acknowledged being a "bit... More »

MORE ABOUT:
steroids • MLB • Boston Red Sox • David Ortiz • sports doping • baseball • Mitchell Report • performance-enhancing drugs • Big Papi

COMMENTARY

 What's So Wrong 
 With Cheating? 


Aug 7, 09 9:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - America is shocked—shocked!—that David Ortiz took steroids, and disgusted that swimmers use full-body polyurethane suits, but “these steroided, polyurethaned cheating men should be our heroes,” writes Joel Stein in Time. “Americans are a performance-enhanced people,” a medication and surgery-enhanced super-race, using technology... More »

MORE ABOUT:
steroids • baseball • cheating • performance-enhancing drugs • Speedo LZR Racer • swimsuit

(Newser) - Insiders say both Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz are on “the list” of baseball players who tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in 2003, the New York Times reports. Ramirez recently finished a 50-game suspension for taking a banned drug; it’s the first time Ortiz—Ramirez’s teammate on... More »

MORE ABOUT:
steroids • Boston Red Sox • Manny Ramirez • David Ortiz • Los Angeles Dodgers • sports doping • performance-enhancing drugs • Big Papi

Pujols: Test Me Every Day, and I'll Pay Team Back if Caught

All-Star rips 'guilt by association' with A-Rod

Jul 13, 09 7:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - All-Star Albert Pujols is miffed over suggestions his latest enormously productive season comes thanks to drugs, USA Today reports, and says he’ll submit to testing every day—and pay the St. Louis Cardinals back if one comes back positive. “I can understand people being disappointed with A-Rod and... More »

MORE ABOUT:
St. Louis Cardinals • steroids • Barry Bonds • Albert Pujols • Alex Rodriguez • St. Louis • performance-enhancing drugs • Luis Gonzalez • MLB All-Star Game • Busch Stadium

(Newser) - Major League Baseball is in the midst of an injury epidemic, the New York Times reports, and hurting teams want to know why. Injuries are up 26% from 2006—the Mets alone have lost nearly a quarter of their opening day roster. One potential reason: 2006 is when the... More »

MORE ABOUT:
MLB • New York Mets • drug test • amphetamines • performance-enhancing drugs • random drug testing

OPINION

 To Cash In, 
 Jose Canseco 
 'Saved Baseball' 

His steroid stories prompted investigations of ignored problem

Jul 5, 09 11:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - “Sometimes it takes a jerk to change the world,” and for baseball, Jose Canseco is that jerk, writes Jonathan Eig in the Washington Post. Canseco’s confessions and finger-pointing have helped expose widespread steroid use in the big leagues, and thus have “saved baseball.” His 2005... More »

MORE ABOUT:
steroids • MLB • Jose Canseco • baseball • performance-enhancing drugs • steroid use

(Newser) - Manny Ramirez ducked questions about drug use and praised the Lord hours before his scheduled return to the major leagues, MLB.com reports. "First, I want to say that God is good and good is God," Ramirez told reporters in San Diego tonight. Asked about the banned substance... More »

MORE ABOUT:
steroids • Manny Ramirez • Los Angeles Dodgers • baseball • performance-enhancing drugs

 Manny's Return 
 Captivates Albuquerque 

Ramirez heads to triple-A Isotopes

Jun 23, 09 12:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - Manny Ramirez may play for the Albuquerque Isotopes tonight, and droves of locals are planning to be there, the Los Angeles Times reports. The Triple-A team sells 7,715 tickets for a typical game; tonight it expects up to 15,000. Fans aren’t much concerned about the slugger’s... More »

MORE ABOUT:
MLB • Manny Ramirez • Los Angeles Dodgers • baseball • performance-enhancing drugs • minor league baseball • Albuquerque

 Suspended Manny 
 Nears All-Star Spot 

A-Rod not doing so well in votes

May 29, 09 1:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - Despite his 50-game suspension for performance-enhancing drug use, Manny Ramirez is in the running for a spot in the All-Star game, currently just 30,000 votes shy of an outfield post, New York magazine reports. While the media’s upset about it, the Dodgers’ owner likes the idea, and a... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Manny Ramirez • Alex Rodriguez • Los Angeles Dodgers • suspension • performance-enhancing drugs • MLB All-Star Game

OPINION

 Manny's 
 Drug 
 Excuses 
 Don't Wash 

Suspended slugger looks set to join baseball's hall of infamy

May 8, 09 2:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - The only Hall of Fame that Manny Ramirez is now likely to find himself in is the one for lame excuses, Phil Rogers writes in the Chicago Tribune. Unless Ramirez, who says he flunked a drug test because of "a personal health issue," wanted to get pregnant or... More »

MORE ABOUT:
steroids • Manny Ramirez • Los Angeles Dodgers • baseball • performance-enhancing drugs

(Newser) - Manny Ramirez has tested positive for a banned substance and will be suspended for 50 games beginning immediately, the Los Angeles Times reports. Reports have identified the substance as HCG, a drug commonly used to treat female infertility but also taken to raise testosterone levels at the end of steroid... More »

MORE ABOUT:
steroids • MLB • Manny Ramirez • New York Yankees • Alex Rodriguez • Los Angeles Dodgers • drug test • performance-enhancing drugs • sexual enhancement

 A-Rod Juiced 
 in School, on 
 Yankees: Book 

Sources tell author slugger used in high school and after NY transfer

Apr 30, 09 4:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - An explosive new book probing deep into A-Rod's career suggests the slugger has failed to fully come clean about his steroid use, the New York Daily News reports. Rodriguez insists he only used steroids as a Texas Ranger, but the book quotes sources who believe he was juicing both as... More »

MORE ABOUT:
steroids • New York Yankees • Alex Rodriguez • baseball • performance-enhancing drugs

(Newser) - The French anti-doping agency has cleared Lance Armstrong to compete in the Tour de France after resolving a controversy over blood and urine tests administered last month, CNN reports. The cyclist allegedly avoided an official by showering while the inspector's credentials were verified, which the agency has apparently found acceptable.... More »

MORE ABOUT:
France • cycling • Tour de France • Lance Armstrong • sports doping • performance-enhancing drugs • showergate

ANALYSIS

 Caffeine: Athletes' 
 Secret Weapon, 
 and Legal, Too 

Caffeine can improve sports ability by 5%

Mar 26, 09 11:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - If Alex Rodriguez had only known. Caffeine is a performance-enhancer that helps athletes go longer and faster, and isn’t a banned substance. Caffeine works by turning fat into extra fuel, releasing calcium stored in muscles, and numbing the brain’s sense of exhaustion. The triple whammy improves performance by... More »

MORE ABOUT:
sports • coffee • caffeine • scientific study • performance-enhancing drugs • performance

 Drugs Found 
 on Clemens' 
 Injection Kit 

Lawyer says McNamee must have planted evidence

Mar 10, 09 11:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - Federal investigators have found traces of banned, performance-enhancing substances on the paraphernalia Brian McNamee used to inject Roger Clemens, the New York Times reports. Clemens’ DNA was found on at least one of the syringes last month, but the pitcher says he was only injected with Vitamin B12 and... More »

MORE ABOUT:
steroids • Roger Clemens • Brian McNamee • performance-enhancing drugs

OPINION




 A-Rod's Top 
 Foot-in-Mouth 
 Moments 

Meet baseball's future home run, and dumb statement king

Mar 5, 09 11:34 AM CST
(Newser) - He has 553 career home runs, and almost as many embarrassing verbal blunders. The New York Daily News counts down its favorite Alex Rodriguez foot-in-mouth moments, Among them:             
  • “I knew we weren’t taking Tic-Tacs.
... More »

MORE ABOUT:
steroids • Alex Rodriguez • Derek Jeter • gaffe • baseball • performance-enhancing drugs

Cousin Who Helped A-Rod Juice Identified

Yuri Sucart described as A-Rod's lap dog

Feb 19, 09 12:56 PM CST
(Newser) - The cousin who injected Alex Rodriguez with steroids has been identified as Yuri Sucart, a longtime friend and confidant of the disgraced Yankee, ESPN reports. The previously anonymous relative, whom A-Rod refused to identify during his mea-culpa news conference Tuesday, is too devoted to Rodriguez to have stopped him, friends... More »

MORE ABOUT:
sports • steroids • MLB • Alex Rodriguez • cousins • baseball • performance-enhancing drugs • Yuri Sucart

UPDATED

 A-Rod: 'I Knew We Weren't Taking Tic-Tacs'

Star to tell more about his steroid use

Feb 17, 09 1:16 PM CST
(Newser) - A-Rod faced reporters in New York today to, in his words, “take my medicine.” He said he was injected by his cousin, with a substance that was legal in the Dominican Republic. “It was very amateur hour,” he said. “We probably didn’t even take... More »

MORE ABOUT:
steroids • New York Yankees • Alex Rodriguez • anabolic steroids • performance-enhancing drugs

1 - 20 of 63 Stories | 1 2 3 4 Next >>


from our news partners