The West Yorkshire Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has decided to drop its case against police officer Mark Carter on charges related to the possession of anabolic steroids. Carter was expected to face trial later this year on the steroid charges. [Read more…]
Archives for September 2011
Sep
18
Roger Clemens’ Steroid Supplier Gets Second Chance at Baseball Facility for Kids
The New York Daily News reports that Brian McNamee has been named the new general manager of Baseball Plus. Baseball Plus is a state of the art facility offering private, professional baseball instruction. It has been described as the “mecca” for kids aspiring to become professional baseball players. Steve Diamond and Rod Ganis, the owners of Baseball Plus, have given McNamee a second chance at being involved in the sport he loves. McNamee’s life fell apart after he was named as the steroid dealer who provide anabolic steroids and human growth hormone to Major League Baseball player Roger Clemens in the Mitchell Report. [Read more…]
Sep
17
Roger Maris’ Family Wants Baseball to Acknowledge Steroid Era
The family of Roger Maris wants Major League Baseball to acknowledge the influence that the use of anabolic steroids has had on current records. Roger Maris set the home run record of 61 runs when he broke Babe Ruth’s single-season record in 1961. The record stood for 37 years until 1998 when Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa shattered it. Barry Bonds currently holds the single-season home run record. Bonds, McGwire and Sosa have all since been linked to steroids and have become poster boys of baseball’s so-called “steroid era”. [Read more…]
Sep
16
Squirrels Teach Bodybuilders How to Use Steroids Safely
Arctic ground squirrels are clearly the “studs” of the squirrel world. They have testosterone levels that are up to two hundred times greater than other species of squirrel.
The Arctic ground squirrel hibernates for eight months during the long Arctic winter. Unlike other hibernators who use stored bodyfat as fuel during hibernation, these squirrels rely on store muscle mass to provide fuel during this period. This is due to the extreme Arctic cold that prevents the squirrels from burrowing below the permafrost meaning that they spend much of their time at temperatures as low as -23° C. [Read more…]
Sep
15
Misconceptions About Steroids in Bodybuilding Refuted by Mr. Olympia Jay Cutler
The Las Vegas Review-Journal recently interviewed Jay Cutler about the bodybuilding lifestyle on the eve of the 2011 Mr. Olympia contest. The four-time Mr. Olympia champion used the opportunity to dispel some of the misconceptions about bodybuilding. At the top of his list was the perception that bodybuilding is simply a matter of consuming anabolic steroids.
“It’s a fringe sport, a cult sport. Misunderstood,” explained Cutler. “They think we work out eight hours a day, and they have that theory, ‘If I took steroids, I’d look like him.’ ” [Read more…]
Sep
14
Wrestler Kurt Angle Continues to Deny Using Steroids for Performance Enhancement
Kurt Angle continued to deny using anabolic steroids for performance enhancement in a recent interview with Mac Engel for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. The 1996 Olympic gold-medal-winning freestyle wrestler, who has established himself as a popular professional wrestler with the WWE and TNA, maintained that he was prescribed a steroid stack comprised of trenbolone acetate (“tren”) and nandrolone decanoate (“Deca Durabolin” or “Deca”) for legitimate medical purposes and not for performance-enhancement purposes. [Read more…]
Sep
13
Steroid Dealer Pleads Guilty in Operation Newton
A Canadian man pleaded guilty to the possesion of anabolic steroids for the purposes of trafficking in the Ontario Court of Justice this week. Ontario Court Justice Timothy Culver sentenced Trevor Armstrong to 18 months probation and 200 hours of community service. Trevor Armstrong was one of 21 people arrested in April 2010 for their participation in an illegal drug distribution network “loosely affiliated with the bodybuilding community”. The 18-month multi-agency investigation codenamed “Project Newton” involved both steroids and recreational drugs. [Read more…]
Sep
12
Anabolic Steroids Contributed to Boxer’s Death According to Commission
The Arkansas Athletic Commission concluded that a boxer’s use of anabolic steroids may have contributed to his death after a January boxing match. Anthony Jones was knocked out by Quincy Palmer during a heavyweight boxing match on January 29, 2011 in Benton, Arkansas. Jones showed obvious signs of impairment in a videotape of the bout. However, the commission’s ringside doctor did not recognize the existence of a life-threatening emergency. Jones was sent to the hospital in an ambulance as a precaution. The 28-year old amateur boxer died of multiple organ failure and cardiac arrest at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). [Read more…]
Sep
11
Steroid Use is Skyrocketing in Australia According to the Media
The use of anabolic steroids is skyrocketing according to media reports. The claims seem to be based on two sources: customs seizures data and interviews with personal trainers at gyms in Australia.
Government statistics show a dramatic increase in the number of seizures made by customs in the most recent year. The Australian Customs and Border Protection Service announced that it had made 2695 seizures involving anabolic steroids and human growth hormone as of July 2010. This figure represents a 155 percent increase over the 1054 seizures made in the corresponding period last year. [Read more…]
Sep
10
Sheriff Accused of Ignoring Steroid Use by Deputy Charged with Murder
The estate of Jennifer Louise Agee has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against her ex-husband Jonathan Agee in Roanoke Circuit Court. Jonathan Agee was a Franklin County Sheriff’s deputy up until the Memorial Day incident that took the life of Jennifer Agee. The sheriff’s deputy confronted Jennifer Agee, took an assault rifle from his Franklin County police cruiser and fired five shots at close range in a Roanoke parking lot as her daughter watched last Memorial Day. Jennifer Agee was pronounced dead at a local hospital shortly thereafter.
Police have previously pointed the finger at anabolic steroids as the culprit in the murder. Investigators found two vials of steroids, including one vial of testosterone cypionate, at Agee’s home and noted that Agee had “gotten much bigger” in the weeks leading up to the violence. [Read more…]
