Terry Bollea, also known as Hulk Hogan, reflects on the hypocrisy surrounding his use of anabolic steroids in his second autobiography – “Hulk Hogan: My Life Outside the Ring”. Bollea used steroids for decades beginning in 1975 according to his first autobiography – “Hollywood Hulk Hogan” – published in 2002. Hulk Hogan hid his steroid use from his fans even going as far as publicly denying using steroids on the late-night Arsenio Hall Show in 1991. However, the truth about his steroid use was made public during the the Vince McMahon steroid trial in 2004. Bollea was subpoenaed to testify against his employer and admitted, under the penalty of perjury, to using anabolic steroids. [Read more…]
Archives for April 2011
Apr
20
Steroids Side Effects in Racehorses are Temporary and Reversible
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) essentially has a zero tolerance policy for the use of anabolic steroids in human athletes. An athlete could theoretically apply for a therapeutic use exemption (TUE) and receive permission to use anabolic steroids since several steroids have legitimate medical uses. However, it is unclear how often WADA grants such TUEs. Equine athletes have it much easier than their human counterparts when it comes to the freedom to use anabolic steroids.
The Racing Medication and Testing Consortium has approved the therapeutic use of four anabolic steroids in equine athletes. The therapeutic use of stanozolol (Winstrol), boldenone (Equipoise), nandrolone (Deca Durabolin) and testosterone are permitted for racehorses in many states that sanction horseracing as long as they are discontinued within a certain window prior to competition and test below a certain threshold level during in-competition testing. [Read more…]
Apr
19
IFBB and NPC Bodybuilders Sentenced to Probation in Operation Roid Runner Steroid Probe
An NPC bodybuilder and an IFBB professional bodybuilder have been sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to the delivery of anabolic steroids. Amateur bodybuilder Edward Moyzan and IFBB pro bodybuilder Brian Chamberlain were arrested after being implicated in a steroid investigation that was codenamed Operation Roid Runner. [Read more…]
Apr
18
Steroids Not Responsible for Early Deaths of Wrestlers According to Road Warrior Animal
The Road Warriors were among the first to introduce bodybuilding-type muscularity to professional wrestling. The wrestling tag team was comprised of Hawk (Mike Hegstrand) and Animal (Joe Laurinaitis). Hegstrand died in 2003 of an apparent heart attack at age 46. The popular media explanation for the numerous early deaths of professional wrestlers usually focuses on their use of anabolic steroids. Steroids have been blamed as the culprit in Hegstand’s death as well.
Joe “Animal” Laurinaitis acknowledged the use of anabolic steroids by the Road Warriors but strongly denied that steroids were the cause of Hegstrand’s death. [Read more…]
Apr
17
Former Gym Owner Sentenced to Prison in Pennsylvania Operation Roid Runner
Former gym owner, former bodybuilder and former police officer Eric Garonzik was sentenced to 12 to 23 months in the Dauphin County Prison Work Release Center and 5 years probation after pleading guilty to steroid distribution and conspiracy charges related to his arrest in the steroid investigation by the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office that was codenamed Operation Roid Runner. [Read more…]
Apr
16
Major League Baseball Tells Impoverished Dominicans Not to Use Steroids
Major League Baseball has singled out the Dominican Republic in one of their most ambitious efforts to crack down on the use of anabolic steroids and performance-enhancing drugs among top amateur baseball players. The sport of baseball is an obsession in the small Caribbean country with a population of approximately nine million people. Steroid use was shown to be a major problem last year when MLB tested revealed that 13 of 40 top Dominican prospects were using steroids. Up until this year, top Dominican prospects did not face penalties after a failed steroid test. [Read more…]
Apr
15
Florida “Shock and Awe” Steroid Bust Leads to Arrest of Woman for Two Vials
A SWAT team raided the home of a personal trainer and his wife in a steroid bust in January of this year that was described by the local sheriff as “shock and awe“. The Collier County Sheriff’s Office’s Vice and Narcotics Bureau seized more than 200 vials of suspected anabolic steroids which they valued at approximately $20,000. Steroid charges against Nicholas Troemner and his wife Veronica were pending the results of the lab analysis of the suspected steroids by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. [Read more…]
Apr
14
Jurors Say Government Totally Failed to Prove Barry Bonds Lied About Steroids
The majority of the jurors in the Barry Bonds steroids-perjury trial thought that the federal government totally failed to prove that Bonds knowingly used anabolic steroids or human growth hormone (hGH). The jury was deadlocked on all of the perjury charges against Bonds and only convicted him on a single obstruction of justice charge.
Eight of the twelve jurors voted to acquit Barry Bonds on Count 1 in which prosecutors allege that Bonds lied about knowingly receiving anabolic steroids from his personal trainer Greg Anderson. Nine of twelve jurors wanted to acquit the baseball star on Count 3 after the feds failed to prove that Barry Bonds lied about receiving hGH from Anderson. [Read more…]
Apr
13
The Confusing Verdict in the Barry Bonds Steroids-Perjury Trial
A federal jury found Barry Bonds guilty of a single count of obstruction of justice but was unable to reach a decision on three other charges facing the former baseball slugger in the case of the United States of America v. Barry Lamar Bonds. Bonds was essentially cleared of three perjury charges after a hung jury resulted in a mistrial on those charges; the government has the option of retrying Bonds on those charges.
The verdict was somewhat confusing to many journalists who wondered how the jury determined Bonds was guilty of obstruction if it wasn’t convinced he was guilty of perjury. Bonds’ appellate attorneys have filed a motion requesting that Judge Susan Illston set aside the jury verdict but this is unlikely to happen. Judge Illston presided over the perjury trial of cyclist Tammy Thomas in which she was found guilty in a legally inconsistent verdict; Illston refused to set aside the verdict in the Thomas case. [Read more…]
Apr
12
Steroids, God and Manny Ramirez
A discussion of “God” and anabolic steroids has curiously interjected itself into the recent retirement of Manny Ramirez from baseball. Ramirez decided to retire rather than face a 100-game suspension resulting from a violation of Major League Baseball’s anti-steroid policy.
Ramirez kicked off the discussion of God and steroids when he told ESPN Deportes in an interview that he was comfortable with the recent events in his life since “God knows what’s best (for me).” [Read more…]
