Drug Testing Hubris
There should be no wonder why athletes have raised serious concerns about drug testing. The impact of a false-positive result is devastating.
There should be no wonder why athletes have raised serious concerns about drug testing. The impact of a false-positive result is devastating.
AP | LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 02.28.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The FBI has begun investigating whether Roger Clemens lied to Congress when he denied taking performance-enhancing drugs. FBI agent...
AP | HOWARD FENDRICH | Posted 02.27.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Roger Clemens failed to convince Congress he was telling the truth. So the leaders of a House committee want the Justice Department...
Henry Blodget | Posted 02.27.2008 | Entertainment
Too many lawyers bend to the will of their arrogant clients -- and, in doing so, help their clients get convicted of crimes. Roger Clemens never should have testified.
New York Daily News | TERI THOMPSON, CHRISTIAN RED, NATHANIEL VINTON and MICHAEL O'KEEFFE | Posted 02.26.2008 | Politics
Congress is believed to have received new evidence over the past 10 days that may further undermine Roger Clemens' sworn testimony that he did not att...
Gary R. Gaffney | Posted 02.22.2008 | Entertainment
Anyone who has trained for a medically-related career knows that steroids constitute one of the most powerful classes of hormones and drugs known to medicine.
Marvin Kitman | Posted 02.20.2008 | Entertainment
I can see a Madison Avenue agency whipping up a campaign for all new, improved, better tasting, miracle HGH. "Does he? Or Doesn't he? Only his trainer knows" could be the start.
AP | RONALD BLUM | Posted 02.18.2008 | Politics
TAMPA, Fla. — Andy Pettitte had finished 55 1/2 minutes of apologies, explaining why he used human growth hormone and why he said what he did ab...
236.com: News You Can Misuse | Posted 02.17.2008 | Politics
Roger Clemens refuted his former friend and sports trainer Brian McNamee yesterday before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which i...
236.com | Posted 02.15.2008 | Home
The Roger Clemens show has gotten out of hand, with new allegations and admissions before a congressional panel that the All-Star pitcher's wife, heal...
Thomas de Zengotita | Posted 02.14.2008 | Politics
Identity politics. It's everywhere. Not just gender and race among Democrats. Even steroids and HDH in baseball? You betcha. The Democrats lit into Clemens and the Republicans went after McNamee.
Sherman Yellen | Posted 02.14.2008 | Politics
Nancy "big eyes" Pelosi and half of our hair-transplanted Senators have recused themselves from this investigation for personal reasons.
AP | Posted 02.14.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Debbie Clemens never pitched in a baseball game or performed at a rap concert, yet that didn't stop her from trying the performance...
Harry Shearer | Posted 02.14.2008 | Media
The most absurd moment in an absurd day on Capitol Hill came midway through the Clemens-McNamee tussle Wednesday, and it centered on the most absurd issue raised at the hearing.
Stephen Kaus | Posted 02.14.2008 | Politics
Given his demonstrably limited vocabulary, maybe Roger Clemens could not read the newspaper accounts reporting that Barry Bonds is being prosecuted for perjury, not a drug offense.
Huffington Post | Posted 02.13.2008 | Home
The Examiner has a nice recap of Clemens' best moments during the hearing. Here's one great moment: And, now, our balls and strikes from today's hea...
AP | RONALD BLUM and HOWARD FENDRICH | Posted 02.13.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Roger Clemens stuck out his famous right arm, the one that earned 354 major league wins, seven Cy Young Awards, $160 million, and p...
AP | RONALD BLUM and HOWARD FENDRICH | Posted 02.12.2008 | Home
WASHINGTON — Roger Clemens told Yankees teammate Andy Pettitte nearly 10 years ago that he used human growth hormone, Pettitte said in a sworn a...
Washington Independent | Matthew Blake | Posted 02.07.2008 | Politics
Congress's sweeping probe into performance enhancing drug use in baseball now seems more like a public feud between Roger Clemens and his ex-personal ...
AP | HOWARD FENDRICH | Posted 02.05.2008 | Home
WASHINGTON — Roger Clemens' most meaningful denial of drug use so far was also the most well-guarded. The star pitcher gave a sworn deposition ...
AP | HOWARD FENDRICH | Posted 02.05.2008 | Home
Roger Clemens arrived to give private, sworn testimony Tuesday to congressional lawyers about whether he used performance-enhancing drugs, pausing br...
AP | HOWARD FENDRICH | Posted 02.04.2008 | Home
WASHINGTON — Not one of Roger Clemens' flat-out denials about using steroids or human growth hormone was delivered while he spoke under oath. No...
Gary R. Gaffney | Posted 01.16.2008 | Entertainment
Baseball players get around the ban on amphetamines by making ADD claims that allowed them to use drugs such as Ritalin and Adderall, stimulants usually prescribed to hyperactive kids.
Posted 01.16.2008 | Home
Former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell told Congress on Tuesday that Major League Baseball's players and owners must come together "in a well-p...
AP | HOWARD FENDRICH | Posted 01.15.2008 | Home
Congress began its public examination of the Mitchell Report into baseball's steroids era by calling Tuesday for the Justice Department to look into w...
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According to Psychology Today and referencing the American Journal of Psychiatry,...
Roger I. Abrams | Posted 04.27.2008 | Entertainment