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February 06, 2010
PUBLIC OUTCRY OVER STEROIDS HASN'T HIT NFL
Palm Beach Post (Florida), February 6, 2010 Saturday
 Major League Baseball executives must be feeling some pangs of jealousy this weekend. Not only has the Super Bowl surpassed the World Series as the year's pre-eminent sports event, but the NFL also se...
February 05, 2010
"Gene Doping" To Be Next Sports Scandal
National Public Radio (NPR), SHOW: Talk of the Nation 3:00 PM EST NPR
 IRA FLATOW, host: You're listening to SCIENCE FRIDAY from NPR. I'm Ira Flatow. The Olympics, they're just around the corner, and you know they have become synonymous with drug testing, and it's where ...
EXTENDING THE SUPERS' REACH
St. Petersburg Times (Florida), February 5, 2010 Friday
 The woman in the canoe looked confused. "What is that thing?" she asked. "A stand-up paddleboard," I replied as I strapped camping gear to the deck. "A what?" she asked again. "A stand-up paddleboard,...
February 03, 2010
Australian Amateur Banned for Steroid
The Ledger (Lakeland, FL), February 3, 2010 Wednesday
 SYDNEY | The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Agency says leading Australian amateur golfer Daniel Nisbet has been given an 18-month ban by the Court of Arbitration for Sport for the possession of a proh...
February 02, 2010
Doping ban for golfer
The Nelson Mail (New Zealand), February 2, 2010 Tuesday
 The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Agency says leading Australian amateur golfer Daniel Nisbet has been given an 18-month ban by the Court of Arbitration for Sport for the possession of a prohibited su...
Pakistan: Golfer banned for drug possession
Daily the Pak Banker, February 2, 2010 Tuesday
 SYDNEY, Feb. 02 -- The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Agency says leading Australian amateur golfer Daniel Nisbet has been given an 18-month ban by the Court of Arbitration for Sport for the possession...
February 01, 2010
Bell-Ringer; Ratings Soar for Ring Sports, Despite Steroids, Violence and Unknowns
Multichannel News, February 1, 2010
 Eight years ago, not many networks looked to the ring for a ratings boost, much less for core programming. Pro wrestling's biggest franchise, World Wrestling Entertainment, was still operating under a...
January 31, 2010
Slider's journey to Games is a long, hair-raising ride
THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS, January 31, 2010 Sunday
 U.S. skeleton athlete Zach Lund is the first to admit his hair has never been his strong point. Back in high school, his hairline already receding, he wore a mullet. When he was ranked No. 1 in the wo...
January 28, 2010
Rain and controlling runoff is big part of state's history
Record Searchlight (Redding, California), January 28, 2010 Thursday
 Ah, yes, I love the sound of rainfall in the night. Whether it was last night or last week, it's as good as money in the bank for our future. It's the end of January and we're still hoping for more mo...
January 26, 2010
BALCO founder Conte says now he's one of the good guys
The Philadelphia Daily News, January 26, 2010 Tuesday
 WHEN IT COMES to performance-enhancing drugs, a central figure in a scandal-plagued era contends the real villains are sports fans who want to believe in the concept of all-natural heroes, but maybe n...
January 25, 2010
McGwire lied to baseball fans
USA TODAY, January 25, 2010 Monday
 The highly orchestrated apology by retired baseball star Mark McGwire has reached a point that tests one's tolerance. Has no one noticed? McGwire is not apologizing for his deceit, only for the embarr...
January 19, 2010
SPORTS Briefs
Charleston Gazette (West Virginia), January 19, 2010, Tuesday
 Pujols fully in McGwire's corner ST. LOUIS - Albert Pujols supports Mark McGwire, both for acknowledging his use of steroids and in his new role as hitting coach of the St. Louis Cardinals. "I told hi...
Bill Conlin: Baseball arbitration and Haitian devastation
The Philadelphia Daily News, January 19, 2010 Tuesday
  THE GAP BETWEEN the Eagles' last loss and Phillies' pitchers and catchers reporting is a 6-week hole in the calendar. The interlude is more annoying than usual this year because Donovan McNabb's futu...
January 17, 2010
Bob Ford: How little we've learned from scandals
The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 17, 2010 Sunday
  Here in the front row of Short Attention Span Theater, where America comes for its sports news, Mark McGwire's jaw-dropping admission that he used steroids during his baseball career has been neatly ...
January 16, 2010
ANOTHER VOICE Philadelphia Inquirer Steroids in baseball: A late swing at the full truth
The Houston Chronicle, January 16, 2010 Saturday
 Mark McGwire's confession that he took steroids while playing pro baseball wasn't a surprise, but it confirms how the sport allowed itself to become phony.
Stain of steroids
The Hamilton Spectator (Ontario, Canada), January 16, 2010 Saturday
 Mark McGwire's confession that he took steroids while playing pro baseball wasn't a surprise, but it confirms how the sport allowed itself to become phoney. McGwire, who played for the Oakland A's and...
Sports and political oversight do mix
CNN.com, January 16, 2010 Saturday 10:22 AM EST
 When baseball slugger Mark McGwire admitted he had used steroids in his record-breaking 1998 season, he recalled refusing to talk about the subject in his 2005 testimony to Congress. "After all this t...
TRAUMA CENTER TO STUDY DRUG THERAPY FOR BRAIN INJURY
US Fed News, January 16, 2010 Saturday 11:54 AM EST
 SACRAMENTO, Calif., Jan. 15 -- The president of the University of California issued the following press release: A clinical trial of a new neuroprotective drug for people with traumatic brain injuries...
No real shame, just sham; Despite the tears, Mark McGwire's confession was stomach-churning
The Straits Times (Singapore), January 16, 2010 Saturday
 DURING a week of human devastation and dying, the sight of a discredited sporting icon crying for himself was stomach-churning. After years, decades, of living the steroidal lie, Mark McGwire chose to...
January 15, 2010
Separating Steroid Facts from Fiction in the McGwire Era
Targeted News Service, January 15, 2010 Friday 3:56 AM EST
 The Federal Citizen Information Center issued the following news release: For many people, baseball superstar Mark McGwire's recent admission that he used steroids is creating more questions than answ...
Preferring sex to steroids
USA TODAY, January 15, 2010 Friday
 Newsmakers from the wide world of Web and TV sports: *Mark Grace: The ex-Cubs and Diamondbacks star has a simple explanation for why he never considered taking steroids. "I like my sex life," Grace sa...
UAE: 'Run record should come home'
Right Vision News, January 15, 2010 Friday
 Pakistan, Jan. 15 -- The son of legend Roger Maris has called on baseball chiefs to recognise his father as the sport's greatest home-run hitter after Mark McGwire's admission that he used drugs while...
January 14, 2010
Commentary: Subject to Change: Truth is more precious
The Journal Record (Oklahoma City, OK), January 14, 2010 Thursday
 Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time. This was a fortune cookie message I received in 1986, at a short-lived Chinese restaurant on Owen K. Garriott Road in Enid. I have referred to t...
Sports comment: Athletes, coaches test depth
The Capital (Annapolis, MD), January 14, 2010 Thursday
 Honestly, the sports world sure has been taking it on the chin lately, thanks to some of its most high-paid, low-principled performers. Earlier this week we had Mark McGwire give a disingenuous apolog...
Up to bat
The Lebanon Daily News (Pennsylvania), January 14, 2010 Thursday
 There wasn't much shock about Mark McGwire's announcement this week that he had used steroids during his playing career. There was some hyperbole: "stunning;" "shocking revelation," but come on, it wa...
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