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 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 »

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

A-Rod Juiced but Fellow Players Will Pay

Endorsements dry up as advertisers avoid risky baseball stars

Feb 16, 09 11:54 AM CST
(Newser) - A lot of people will pay for Alex Rodriguez’s admission that he used steroids—and A-Rod isn’t one of them, writes Jeremy Mullman in Advertising Age. A-Rod’s already shallow pool of endorsements isn’t likely to dry up, but by bringing steroids back into the spotlight,... More »

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steroids • advertising • marketing • Alex Rodriguez • anabolic steroids • endorsement • performance-enhancing drugs

Witness Says She Saw Bonds Being Injected

Family friend, ex-Giant catcher to testify at slugger's perjury trial

Feb 14, 09 4:56 AM CST
(Newser) - Prosecutors say they have a witness who saw Barry Bonds being injected by his trainer, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Kathy Hoskins, a personal assistant and friend of Bonds' since childhood, is expected to be a key witness at the slugger's perjury trial along with former Giants teammate Bobby Estalella,... More »

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steroids • MLB • San Francisco Giants • Barry Bonds • perjury • BALCO • Greg Anderson • steroid use

 Selig: A-Rod 'Shamed the Game' 

MLB boss, powerless to impose penalty, scolds player over drug use

Feb 13, 09 7:23 AM CST
(Newser) - Bud Selig slammed Alex Rodriguez yesterday for "shaming the game" by using steroids, reports the AP. Angry words may be the only thing the MLB commissioner can use to punish the Yankees player, however, since his positive test was meant to be anonymous and took place years before the... More »

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steroids • MLB • Bud Selig • New York Yankees • Alex Rodriguez • steroid use

 Madonna 
 Fumes as 
 A-Rod Turns 
 to Ex-Wife 

Singer wants him back, bad

Feb 12, 09 10:26 AM CST
(Newser) - Will the drama never end? Alex Rodriguez should have known Madonna would be "pissed" when he ran back to ex-wife Cynthia as he did damage control after Saturday's steroids bombshell, the New York Daily News reports. “To Madonna, this is the ultimate dis,” says an insider, adding... More »

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steroids • Alex Rodriguez • Cynthia Rodriguez • celebrity • Madonna • baseball • scandal • steroid use

 Besieged A-Rod 
 Runs Back to Ex 

Wife who dumped
him for cheating is
at his side again

Feb 11, 09 1:36 PM CST
(Newser) - Alex Rodriguez made a quick about-turn from partying to the arms of his ex-wife as the steroids scandal broke last weekend. The defamed Yankee was partying in the Bahamas when news of his steroid use broke, but arrived at Monday's confessional with Cynthia Rodriguez in tow, the Daily News reports.... More »

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steroids • New York Yankees • Alex Rodriguez • Cynthia Rodriguez • infidelity • Madonna • cheating • celebrity divorces • steroid use

Canseco Calls for
Major League Drug Summit 

Says he can help baseball quit steroids

Feb 11, 09 3:06 AM CST
(Newser) - Former slugger Jose Canseco, who blew the lid off steroid use in two controversial books, is seeking to meet with baseball commissioner Bud Selig and union head Donald Fehr to discuss his plans to run drugs out of the game, reports AP. "I think I have the ear of... More »

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steroids • Bud Selig • Alex Rodriguez • Jose Canseco • Mark McGwire • baseball • Donald Fehr

(Newser) - Houston Astros shortstop Miguel Tejada has been charged with lying to congressional staffers involved in the inquiry into steroids use in baseball, the Washington Post reports. Federal prosecutors say Tejada’s accounts of conversations with teammate Adam Piatt in 2003, while both played for the Oakland Athletics, are contradicted... More »

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Oakland Athletics • steroids • MLB • Houston Astros • Baltimore Orioles • Miguel Tejada • human growth hormone • Rafael Palmeiro • federal prosecution • criminal charges • Adam Piatt

OPINION

 Expose the Users 
 to Clear the Clean 

'Real victims' of performance drugs are those left behind

Feb 10, 09 10:20 AM CST
(Newser) - The steroids-in-baseball "shame game" shouldn’t be limited to A-Rod and Barry Bonds, writes Mike Wise in the Washington Post. To keep mum on the others who cheated the game is to ignore the "real victims": The regular players who "chose correctly between right and wrong" ... More »

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steroids • MLB • Barry Bonds • Alex Rodriguez • drug test • baseball • performance-enhancing drugs • minor league baseball

(Newser) - Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez today admitted, in a voice that wasn't always steady, that he took steroids for three seasons beginning in 2001. Amid swirling rumors that he'd tested positive in 2003 while playing for the Texas Rangers, A-Rod told ESPN's Peter Gammons that he succumbed to "an enormous... More »

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steroids • Texas Rangers • New York Yankees • Alex Rodriguez • Mitchell steroids investigation

A-Rod Tested Positive
for Steroids: Report

During MVP 2003 campaign

Feb 7, 09 10:08 AM CST
(Newser) - Alex Rodriguez tested positive for anabolic steroids during his 2003 MVP season, sources tell Sports Illustrated. A-Rod was one of 104 players to test positive that year, in a survey test conducted to determine whether the league needed tougher drug policies. Asked about the results this week, Rodriguez... More »

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steroids • MLB • Texas Rangers • New York Yankees • Alex Rodriguez • anabolic steroids • baseball • performance-enhancing drugs

(Newser) - Federal prosecutors say they've got the goods on Barry Bonds, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Laying out evidence before his perjury and obstruction trial next month, prosecutors say they can prove the slugger used a designer steroid known as "the clear" in 2003 along with a female fertility drug... More »

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steroids • San Francisco Giants • Barry Bonds • baseball

OPINION

No Way Mitchell Hits Latest Pitch Out of Park

Bungled baseball steroids report bodes
ill for Mideast efforts

Jan 28, 09 2:23 PM CST
(Newser) - Those who think George Mitchell will achieve progress in the Middle East point to his record of robust diplomacy in Northern Ireland 10 years ago. One hopes, for the sake of peace, that Mitchell follows his work there and not a more recent example, Will Leitch writes for the New ... More »

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steroids • Gaza • Hamas • George Mitchell • Israel and Palestinians • Mitchell Report • Palestinian statehood • Will Leitch • Deadspin • Obama administration

McGwire's One-Eyed Brother Plugs Tell-All Book

Jay claims he introduced Mark to steroids, but having trouble finding a publisher

Jan 22, 09 12:06 PM CST
(Newser) - Mark McGwire’s less-successful, one-eyed, bodybuilding brother Jay has written a tell-all book claiming he introduced the slugger to steroids. There’s just one problem: so far, no one’s willing to publish it. But Deadspin got its hands on the manuscript, and can share its juiciest tidbits (no pun... More »

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steroids • Mark McGwire • book • androstenedione • performance-enhancing drugs • Jay McGwire

Federal Grand Jury Will Look at Clemens' Perjury Case

McNamee, Radomski may help get indictment for lying to Congress over drugs

Jan 12, 09 2:55 PM CST
(Newser) - Federal prosecutors have convened a grand jury to investigate whether Roger Clemens committed perjury when he told Congress he’d never taken steroids, ESPN reports. The grand jury has subpoenaed Kirk Radomski, who says he supplied Clemens with drugs through the pitcher’s trainer, Brian McNamee. More »

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Congress • steroids • Roger Clemens • George Mitchell • perjury • Kirk Radomski • performance-enhancing drugs



 Terrorists 
 Reportedly 
 Coked Up, 
 on Steroids 

Explains why they didn't need sleep

Dec 4, 08 8:33 AM CST
(Newser) - The men who terrorized Mumbai did so with the help of cocaine, steroids, and even LSD, claims a report in the Telegraph. Police found syringes tainted with those drugs at the scene, according to an unnamed official, and later found the drugs in their blood.  “This explains... More »

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terrorism • steroids • India • cocaine • Salafist • terrorist • Mumbai • terrorist attack

 Armstrong 
 Fears Attack 
 on Tour Return 

It's 'tense and emotional' out there, says seven-time winner

Nov 18, 08 6:39 AM CST
(Newser) - Super cyclist Lance Armstrong fears a physical attack if he returns to race again in the Tour de France, reports the Independent. “There are some aggressive, angry emotions. My personal safety could be in jeopardy," said Armstrong, 37. French team directors "have encouraged people to take to... More »

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steroids • France • cycling • Tour de France • doping • Lance Armstrong • sports doping

Deuce, 7 Others Face NFL Suspensions Over Drug Tests

McAllister, other Saints head list

Oct 25, 08 12:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - At least eight NFL players have tested positive for banned substances, including the Saints’ Deuce McAllister, Will Smith, and Charles Grant, and Houston’s Bryan Pittman, reports Denver's Fox 31 and ESPN. Many of the accused, including Pittman, are big linemen who tested positive for the weight-loss diuretic Bumentanide, which... More »

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NFL • Houston Texans • steroids • New Orleans Saints • drug test • Deuce McAllister • performance-enhancing drugs

Canseco Busted With
'Roids-Reversing Drug

Juiced author charged with smuggling testosterone booster

Oct 15, 08 12:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Former baseball player Jose Canseco was charged yesterday with bringing a mislabeled drug from Mexico into the US, TMZ reports. The drug, human chorionic gonadotropin, helps boost testosterone in men who have used steroids and can reverse some of their, ahem, shrinking effects; it’s illegal in the US without... More »

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steroids • MLB • Mexico • Jose Canseco • drugs in sports • human chorionic gonadotropin

 Jamaican 
 Hurdlers Linked 
 to Steroids 

Drugs sent through Internet network, Sports Illustrated discovers

Sep 3, 08 4:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - Two Jamaican Olympic hurdlers received shipments of banned performance-enhancing drugs in 2006 and 2007, according to documents obtained by Sports Illustrated. The drugs were sent to addresses linked to Delloreen Ennis-London and Adrian Findlay, both members of the Jamaican team in Beijing. Findlay denied using steroids, while Ennis-London was unreachable.... More »

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steroids • Jamaica • 2008 Beijing Olympics • performance-enhancing drugs • hurdles • steroid use

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