Friday, May 08, 2009Oh Manny! Ramirez Tests Positive for Banned Substance, Will Sit Out 50 Games Manny Ramirez of the Los Angeles Dodgers has been suspended from Major League Baseball for a whopping 50 games after testing positive for HCG, a drug just recently added to the league's banned list. The drug, with the full name of human chorionic gonadotropin, is normally prescribed by doctors as a fertility drug for women or to help men who have low testosterone levels and may be trying to conceive. On the bad jock side, HCG can also be used by male athletes to increase the production of testosterone after steroid use to help mask the use of performance enhancing substances.
Of course, Ramirez denies any wrong doing and claims the drug was prescribed for a legitimate medical condition and that he and the doc didn't know it was banned.
So, what do you think: Is Ramirez a juicer or did he just get caught in an unfortunate set of circumstances? Your comment below.
Answering questions about Manny: Slugger's 50-game suspension prompts many inquiries [MLB]Labels: steroids
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Tuesday, April 07, 2009Addicting Games Releases "Baseball Juiced" - Feel What It's Like to Be a Major League Baseball Player on Steroids It's every kid's dream: become a professional baseball player, take steroids and set home run records. Okay, maybe not EVERY kid's dream, but enough that the folks at Addicting Games have created an new online game that let's you feel what it's like to be in that position, without the public embarrassment of a former trainer's ratting your out or having to lie before Congress. It's called Baseball: Juiced and BadJocks got a sneak peak at it earlier this week. We'd like to say we played it for hours and never got busted by the league, but that would be our second lie of the day.
Below is a screen capture from the game which takes less than a minute to learn and not long to play a season. But be careful: if you do decide to play "juiced" the game can decide to drug test you at any time! Loads of fun for the whole family and a great learning tool for Little Leaguers everywhere. Hey kids! Who do you want to be? A-Fraud, Marky McWeird or Jose Conswaco?¶ 5:54 AM 0 Comments Links to this post
Tuesday, January 27, 2009Steroids for Amateurs Update: Phoenix Doctor Indicted in Federal Probe The story from our good buddy in Phoenix, reporter Josh Bernstein, continues:The ABC15 Investigators have learned that Dr. Jesse Haggard, former clinical
director of Revolution Medical Centers in Phoenix and Peoria, Arizona, has been
indicted by a federal grand jury in Mobile, Alabama.The indictment charges
Haggard with 11 counts:- 1 count of "Conspiracy to Distribute and Dispense
Anabolic Steroids"- 7 counts of "Distribution and Dispensing Anabolic Steroids"-
1 count of "Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering"- 2 counts of "Forfeiture"The
indictment refers to Dr. Jesse Haggard as a "Steroid Dealer."This is a long, sad story--dating back to April 2008--from the Valley of the Sun. Check out the link at ABC 15 for all the shocking details.
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¶ 8:02 AM 0 Comments Links to this postFriday, December 12, 2008Arizona Steroid Probe Update: Doctor at Center of Investigation Surrenders Medical License Our good buddy Josh Bernstein at KNXV-TV in Phoenix continues his investigation in to what has become the biggest steroid scandal NOT involving professional athletes. This whole thing started last spring when Josh started looking into allegations that doctors at a place called Revolution Medical Centers were giving out performance enhancing drugs to almost anyone who walked in the door and wanted to "get bigger." Since then, these clinics have shut down and the Feds are now involved. The lasted development? The former clinical director at RMC agreed to surrender his medical license. Here's more from KNXV-TV:Dr. Jesse Haggard, former clinical director of Revolution Medical Centers in the Valley, agreed to surrender his medical license on Thursday. Under the consent agreement with the Arizona Naturopathic Physicians Board of Medical Examiners, Haggard admitted to altering medical records and failing to maintain adequate patient files. The ABC15 Investigators first reported on Revolution Medical Centers in April.
The Drug Enforcement Administration has launched a criminal investigation into the clinics and its doctors related to allegations of illegally prescribing anabolic steroids and other performance enhancing drugs, and the Arizona Board of Chiropractic Examiners is looking into the clinics' owner, Dr. Jeremy Bula.
Haggard's attorney, Timothy Holt, would not comment to ABC15 on the criminal investigation. While the agreement asserts Haggard was "prescribing and dispensing steroids and human growth hormone other than for therapeutic purposes," Haggard will not face Board penalties on this claim.
According to Dr. Craig Runbeck, executive director of the Naturopathic Board, there was enough evidence to revoke Haggard's license, but the consent agreement "accomplished the same goal," he said, "which is getting the man’s license so he cannot practice medicine."Labels: steroids
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