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Professionals Need the Same Standards as Amateurs: A Division-1 College Baseball Player Speaks Out

Nicholas Friar | Posted 05.15.2013 | Sports
Nicholas Friar

The NCAA preaches ethics to its athletes because they are sending the message that the sport you play is greater than any individual, and that we are expected to maintain integrity for the game.

Baseball: America's Game?

David Aronchick | Posted 03.28.2013 | Sports
David Aronchick

When I was a kid, baseball was America's game. My memories linger around visions of classic summertime Americana; hot dogs on the grill, cold beer (or in my case Coca-Cola), sweet apple pie, and Vin Scully on the call from Dodger Stadium.

I Love LIVESTRONG... and So Should You

Evan Handler | Posted 05.18.2013 | Impact
Evan Handler

I am tired to the bone of the baseless and uninformed criticisms people continue to hurl toward the Livestrong Foundation, based on crimes Lance committed as a cyclist.

In Defense of the World Baseball Classic

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 05.03.2013 | Sports
Lincoln Mitchell

The WBC is far from perfect, but it is also a lot of fun for many people and an opportunity to highlight one of baseball's biggest accomplishments in recent years.

Five Questions for the 2013 Baseball Season

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 04.15.2013 | Sports
Lincoln Mitchell

Baseball is, among other things, a game of questions. As each new year begins there are significant questions facing baseball that address deeper issues facing the game.

Does Deer Antler Spray Actually Work?

Posted 02.01.2013 | Science

By: Marc Lallanilla, Assistant Editor Published: 02/01/2013 12:41 PM EST on LiveScience The carnival huckster of yesteryear, selling snake oil and ...

A New Voting System for the Hall of Fame

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 04.02.2013 | Sports
Lincoln Mitchell

This year the Baseball Writer's Association of America failed to elect anybody to the Baseball Hall of Fame. This was partially because some all time greats were linked to steroid use. The steroid issue, however, only partially explains why nobody was elected to the Hall of Fame.

UM Assistant Denies Link To PED Ring

Sun Sentinel | Michael Casagrande | Posted 04.01.2013 | Miami

CORAL GABLES -- Glue still stains the stucco wall of the Coral Gables office plaza where Biogenesis once operated. Just a few hundred yards across US...

REPORT: A-Rod, Other MLB Stars Linked To PEDs

Posted 01.29.2013 | Sports

Once again, Major League Baseball has another performance-enhancing drug scandal on its hands. According to a damning report published on Tuesday morn...

Retired MLB Slugger On Steroid Users: 'They Chose This'

AP | ANDREW SELIGMAN | Posted 01.26.2013 | Sports

CHICAGO -- Retired Chicago White Sox slugger Frank Thomas feels even better about his career after watching steroids-tainted stars Barry Bonds, Sammy ...

Daniel Day-Lewis Admits to Using Acting Steroids

Spencer Green | Posted 03.20.2013 | Comedy
Spencer Green

In a shocking revelation, two-time Oscar-winning actor Daniel Day-Lewis has admitted to using performance enhancing steroids throughout his career. "P...

WATCH: Marlon Wayans Lampoons Lance Armstrong

The Huffington Post | Lindsay Wilkes-Edrington | Posted 01.18.2013 | HuffPost Live 321

As the world reacts to Lance Armstrong's doping admission, comedian and actor Marlon Wayans says we shouldn't be so surprised by what happened. "I ...

Asthma and Arthritis Medications Are Drug Muggers

Suzy Cohen, R.Ph. | Posted 03.19.2013 | Healthy Living
Suzy Cohen, R.Ph.

Corticosteroid treatment has been associated with many side effects. The most noted is increased loss of bone mineral density, causing a predisposition to osteoporosis.

Cheating in Sports: A Moving Target

Jose Antonio Tijerino | Posted 03.16.2013 | Sports
Jose Antonio Tijerino

As disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong flirts with coming clean about steroids to Oprah and ostensibly all-time greats Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens are shut out of the baseball Hall of Fame, the issue of "cheating" has become ubiquitous in sports.

Pete Rose: 'If I Had Taken Steroids, I Would Have Had 5,000 Hits'

HuffPost Live | Posted 01.11.2013 | HuffPost Live 321

Pete Rose, baseball's all-time hit king with 4,256 career hits, came by HuffPost Live Thursday to talk about baseball's Hall of Fame vote, his new rea...

MLB Steps Up Drug Testing

AP | BOB BAUM | Posted 03.12.2013 | Sports

PARADISE VALLEY, Ariz. — Major League Baseball will test for human growth hormone throughout the regular season and increase efforts to detect a...

Baseball Hall of Fame 2013: For Mercy's Sake, Put Barry Bonds In

Eric Marmon | Posted 03.06.2013 | Sports
Eric Marmon

Baseball made this bed a long time ago. The sooner they get in between the itchy sheets, the sooner the morning sun will rise again.

AP REPORT: Steroids Loom In College Football

AP | MATT APUZZO, ADAM GOLDMAN and JACK GILLUM | Posted 02.19.2013 | Sports

WASHINGTON — With steroids easy to buy, testing weak and punishments inconsistent, college football players are packing on significant weight – 30...

U.S. Shot Putter May Land Gold Medal Eight Years Later

The Huffington Post | Ron Dicker | Posted 12.06.2012 | Sports

Thanks to new technology that reveals more steroid cheats, Adam Nelson may win the 2004 Olympics shot put more than eight years after he finished seco...

Some Perspective on the Steroid Era

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 02.03.2013 | Sports
Lincoln Mitchell

We have a Hall of Fame filled with many players who played in a segregated era and said nothing, who either took amphetamines or looked the way while others did and probably even players who said nothing about the gambling and betting on baseball they saw around them.

Airline Slammed For Transgender 'Joke'

The Huffington Post | Ron Dicker | Posted 12.04.2012 | Gay Voices

An Air New Zealand riddle about a steroid-enhanced female shot putter from the Olympics is causing turbulence, the Dominion-Post reported. Twitter fol...

Juicy Debate: Bonds, Clemens, Sosa Up On Hall Of Fame Ballot

AP | BEN WALKER | Posted 01.28.2013 | Sports

NEW YORK — The most polarizing Hall of Fame debate since Pete Rose will now be decided by the baseball shrine's voters: Do Barry Bonds, Roger Cl...

More Students Using Steroids, Protein Powder To Bulk Up

St. Paul Pioneer Press | Christopher Snowbeck | Posted 01.19.2013 | Home

A new study finds that more teenagers are using steroids and protein powders to bulk up. Plus, there's a surprisingly high rate of muscle-enhancing b...

Armstrong Does Not Live Strong

The Miami Hurricane | Posted 12.25.2012 | College
The Miami Hurricane

Beneath the multi-million dollar salaries, glamorous homes, lavish vacations and designer wardrobes, these icons are human beings who will make mistakes just like average people. Yet there is something that sets these superstars apart: They have an image to uphold.

Hope for Armstrong

Daniel Hill | Posted 12.24.2012 | Sports
Daniel Hill

The road to redemption is less like the Tour, where teams and crews play such prominent roles; Armstrong is at the starting gate of the longest, most taxing individual time trial of his life.