Performance Enhancing Drugs

The Tour de Juice

Roger I. Abrams | Posted 07.21.2008 | Entertainment


Roger I. Abrams

Cyclists are drawn to EPO and other substances almost as a matter of survival. The Tour has responded with serious testing and disqualifications mid-race. Should we condone the use of the "juice?"

Riccardo Ricco Out Of The Tour De France After Doping Scandal

AP | JAMEY KEATEN | Posted 07.17.2008 | Home


NARBONNE, France — With the competition reduced to an afterthought, the Tour de France was rocked by another drug bust Thursday that left cyclin...

What Does Floyd Landis Owe Oscar Pereiro?

Dave Hollander | Posted 07.01.2008 | Entertainment


Dave Hollander

Floyd Landis would be the first cyclist to forfeit a Tour title because of doping. It would also be the first time in the 105-year history of the race that a winner has been stripped of the title.

What Is Your Best?

Jennifer Cohen | Posted 03.01.2008 | Living


Jennifer Cohen

If you can imagine, HGH usage has become so rampant in some circles that even the term performance enhancement is considered a misnomer and is replaced by the quaint and kitschy "performance enablement."

After Baseball Will Congress Begin the Big Hollywood/Botox Investigation?

Sherman Yellen | Posted 02.14.2008 | Politics


Sherman Yellen

Nancy "big eyes" Pelosi and half of our hair-transplanted Senators have recused themselves from this investigation for personal reasons.

Brian McNamee, Roger Clemens' Trainer, Brings 7-Years-Old Bloody Syringes And Vials To Congressional Hearing

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 ...

Roger Clemens Arrives At Congress For Steroid Testimony

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...

New York Yankees' Andy Pettitte Meets With Congress To Discuss Steroid Use

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...

Massive Failure Of Journalists Allowed Steroid Culture To Fester

NY Daily News | STEVE KETTMANN | Posted 01.06.2008 | Media


Maybe I was just paying more attention than others as an age-group swimmer in California at the time, but I can recall being wowed by the guts U.S. sw...

Roger Clemens: Trainer Only Injected Me With Legal Drugs

AP | RONALD BLUM | Posted 01.03.2008 | Home


Roger Clemens said former trainer Brian McNamee injected him with the painkiller lidocaine and the vitamin B-12, according to the first excerpts rele...

Steroids in Baseball: What's New York Got to Do with it?

Warren Goldstein | Posted 12.31.2007 | Entertainment


Warren Goldstein

Which sports town trains the most scrutiny on its teams, from all kinds of media? You got it. I love New York.

"Performance-Enhancing Drugs" in a Performance-Based Society: Reflections on the Mitchell Report

Paul Finkelman | Posted 12.29.2007 | Entertainment


Paul Finkelman

We filled the stands in the "steroid era" because those performances were so wonderfully enhanced. Watching players who were well past their prime playing like kids was just too delicious to resist.

On Baseball's Dirty Laundry

Daniel Silk | Posted 12.24.2007 | Entertainment


Daniel Silk

Maybe I'm blinded by my desperate love of baseball, but I actually don't feel duped by the steroid scandal. Compared to Pete Rose or the 1919 Black Sox? At least these f***kers were trying to win.

Roger Clemens Posts Video Denying Steroid Use, Agrees To "60 Minutes" Interview

AP | Posted 12.23.2007 | Home


Roger Clemens posted a video repeating his denials of steroids use and will interview with "60 Minutes" to answer questions about allegations against ...

Who Among Us Isn't Enhancing Their Performance?

Tony Newman | Posted 12.21.2007 | Living


Tony Newman

While it is easy to point fingers at baseball players, let's slow down for a moment and take a look in the mirror. We may be surprised to see how much "performance enhancing" goes on all around us.

Schilling's Challenge to Clemens Won't Erase the Bonds Double Standard

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 12.21.2007 | Entertainment


Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The Clemens and Barry Bonds treatment proved that the by now all-too-familiar double standard quickly kicked in with a vengeance.

Mitchell Report Mail Bag

Roger I. Abrams | Posted 12.20.2007 | Entertainment


Roger I. Abrams

Now that the first storm of outrage about the contents of the Mitchell Report has subsided and the season of good cheer is upon us, let's take a look at the mail bag.

Baseball's Paradox: Professionals Playing a Kid's Game

Gary R. Gaffney | Posted 12.20.2007 | Entertainment


Gary R. Gaffney

As the Mitchell Report points out the drugs were prohibited by MLB rules for decades. Furthermore, the entire unsavory process exists clearly in violation of state and federal laws.

Schilling: Clemens Should Prove Innocence Or Give Up Awards

Huffington Post | Posted 12.20.2007 | Home


Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling has called on Roger Clemens to give up four of his Cy Young Awards if he cannot clear his name after allegations...

Better Baseball Through Chemistry: A Generation of Juicers

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 12.18.2007 | Entertainment


Reese Schonfeld

We pretend we're surprised, were shocked, and demand asterisks next to each of the offenders records--the hell with that. Let's put one big bracket around the entire generation, 1985-2007, and asterisk that.

No Pain, No Gain

Bob Franken | Posted 12.17.2007 | Politics


Bob Franken

Why deal with any difficulty when it can be smoked, drunk, swallowed or injected away? The candidates have their own version of this.

Why We Are Angry at the Players

Andrei Markovits | Posted 12.17.2007 | Entertainment


Andrei Markovits

The sole issue that upsets us so much about the Mitchell Report is the sanctity of numbers, the alleged pristine-ness of records in baseball.

Assessing the "Collective Failure"

Danny Schechter | Posted 12.17.2007 | Entertainment


Danny Schechter

How naïve to think that a leading mainstream newspaper would indict men in power. No, this story was not about Busheviks or bankers. It reported on steroids by some baseball players.

How did the Steroids Change the Game?

Roger I. Abrams | Posted 12.17.2007 | Entertainment


Roger I. Abrams

None of this means that steroids were good for the game, but rather that perhaps they had little or no impact on the game. Those who have a fetish for the asterisk should put their guns away.

I'm Shocked, Shocked to Find Cheating Going on in Baseball!

Ian Gurvitz | Posted 12.16.2007 | Entertainment


Ian Gurvitz

When one of these scandals breaks, the conclusion is "a few guys cheated, but we got 'em" -- as opposed to the idea that cheating has always gone on, and occasionally people get caught.