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Peavy becomes the latest pitcher caught with “dirt” on his hand 8 Apr 2008 | 05:31 pm
And I had nothing to do with it. Like Kenny Rogers, there was something that looked a lot like pine tar on his hand, and he claimed it was rosin and dirt. “Peavy laughs off dirty-hand controversy” ru...
Tainted stimulant excuse becomes less tainted 8 Dec 2007 | 06:29 am
This is incredible: A study scheduled to be released Wednesday and obtained by USA TODAY reports that 13 of the 52 supplements (25%) purchased at various U.S. retailers contained small amounts of s...
Bonds indicted for perjury, obstruction of justice 16 Nov 2007 | 10:28 pm
From the Chronicle: (11-15) 17:20 PST SAN FRANCISCO – Barry Bonds, the former Giants star and baseball’s career home run king, was indicted by a federal grand jury today on charges of perjury and obs...
Cameron’s stimulant suspension, advance drug test notification 1 Nov 2007 | 02:04 pm
Mike Cameron received a 25-day suspension for testing positive again under the stimulant policy. ESPN story. It’s the “tainted supplement” track, except with an interesting twist: He later issued a s...
Varitek pine tarring his fingers 18 Oct 2007 | 02:56 pm
Astute reader Lance Elroy wrote to point me to a bit of footage where, in the sixth inning, you can – maybe – see Red Sox catcher Jason Varitek putting pine tar on his fingers. It’s during Manny’s at-...
Manny Corpas cheating in the playoffs! 5 Oct 2007 | 06:36 am
The Philadelphia Daily News: TBS cameras on Corpas warming up before coming into yesterday’s 4-2 Colorado win in Game 1 of the National League Division Series at Citizens Bank Park clearly showed the...
Gain 5mph through steroid use? Wowza 2 Oct 2007 | 04:00 am
Reader Bob Montgomery wrote: Relatedly, I’m sure you saw this story: Tobin said the explosion in home runs coincides with a mid-1990s “steroid era” in professional sports. Use dropped to historic le...
Floyd Landis and the future of baseball drug testing 21 Sep 2007 | 06:08 pm
Floyd Landis lost his 2006 Tour de France title, in a 2-1 decision that took well over a year to complete. It’s the first time the Tour de France has stripped a winner of their title over a drug offen...
Howard Bryant’s ESPN article on steroids and the Mitchell Report 15 Sep 2007 | 05:42 am
Howard Bryant, who wrote what I consider the best book on the steroids era in baseball (“Juicing the Game”) has an article on ESPN that makes a bold assertion: However, what Mitchell’s report must do...
Football cheating goodness: Patriots in trouble 12 Sep 2007 | 04:22 pm
I’ve been gleefully following the Patriots-Jets controversy, because it’s interesting and because it brings out interesting contrasts in how the two sports handle this. Here’s Chris Mortensen’s ESPN s...