Steroids' Shadow: 2009 AP Sports Story Of The Year
Alex Rodriguez joined the list of cheaters this year, and Manny Ramirez and David "Big Papi" Ortiz are forever tainted now, too. Five years after Maj...
Alex Rodriguez joined the list of cheaters this year, and Manny Ramirez and David "Big Papi" Ortiz are forever tainted now, too. Five years after Maj...
Ben Eagle | Posted 11.17.2009 | Sports
Doug Barron, the first PGA tour player suspended for testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs, asked a federal court to lift his suspension. Not only is he right to ask for the ban to be lifted, the PGA should comply, and quickly.
Wall Street Journal | Posted 11.16.2009 | Sports
We examined antidoping policies of 22 major sports or governing bodies and gave them a "clarity quotient" based on the presence of a policy, its acces...
Graham Bensinger | Posted 11.04.2009 | Entertainment
He retired from the game just before the Steroid Era came to light. While he previously denied illegal performance enhancing drug use, those denials stopped when under penalty of perjury.
Brian Ross | Posted 11.20.2009 | Entertainment
Selig is making a mockery of the rule book used for more than a century, in my opinion. The tug of war between the union and ownership is the primary concern for him. The game is getting lost.
Eugene Michael Santiago | Posted 11.10.2009 | New York
I am willing to bet any Yankees fan worth a pint of pinstripe blood would want Andy Pettitte on the mound in a do or die start situation with the current rotation.
Patrick Sauer | Posted 08.31.2009 | Comedy
There's been a lot of "teachable moments" in Beantown this week and the revelation that Ortiz's name is on a list of players that was meant to be confidential with anonymous testing shouldn't be wasted.
Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 08.24.2009 | Living
Many years ago, my kung fu master warned me that I was over-training. "I show you something and you practice it 5,000 times," he said. I swelled with pride at my teacher's comment, figuring it was a sign he recognized how tough I was, and how dedicated and disciplined too. It took me a long time to realize that his remarks were actually a call to moderation.
Dave Astor | Posted 08.01.2009 | Comedy
The general public doesn't mourn the deaths of less-famous people who might have continued to also do great things if they hadn't left us before their time.
Carol Smaldino | Posted 06.19.2009 | Living
Battle and competition have become not only endemic to the sports of our times but to how we see the world and how we teach our children.
Lance Simmens | Posted 05.01.2009 | Politics
It is really not complicated: cheating is wrong. But more importantly, once you get caught there are negative consequences.
Rip Esselstyn | Posted 04.01.2009 | Living
The secret to hitting fifty home runs, to stealing a hundred bases, to pitching a perfect game, doesn't involve needles or pills -- the secret's in the produce section.
Rick Horowitz | Posted 03.15.2009 | Living
Steroids...will make you so strong,/ Steroids...will help you last long,/ Steroids...they'll do you no wrong,/ And as easy to swallow as to sing this song.
The Sportsman's Daily | Posted 03.14.2009 | Comedy
Next Monday, two professors from the University of Chicago will hold a press conference to announce an explosive new paper.
Graham Bensinger | Posted 01.17.2009 | Entertainment
Chris Carmichael: Well, let me tell you. Lance is not going back to the Tour de France to finish second. It's obviously a very big challenge and he recognizes that, but his standard is winning.
Roger I. Abrams | Posted 07.29.2008 | Entertainment
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?"
AP | JAMEY KEATEN | Posted 07.25.2008 | Home
NARBONNE, France — With the competition reduced to an afterthought, the Tour de France was rocked by another drug bust Thursday that left cyclin...
Dave Hollander | Posted 07.09.2008 | Entertainment
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.
Washington Independent | Matthew Blake | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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 03.28.2008 | 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 03.28.2008 | 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...
NY Daily News | STEVE KETTMANN | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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...
AP | RONALD BLUM | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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...
AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
Roger Clemens posted a video repeating his denials of steroids use and will interview with "60 Minutes" to answer questions about allegations against ...
Huffington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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...
AP | NANCY ARMOUR | Posted 12.23.2009 | Sports