steroids News Archive

12-Feb-2007

 

  • Spring training to begin this week (AP via Yahoo! News)
    Detroit pitchers will try to get those infield throws down, Dice-K will make the transition to American-style baseball and Barry Zito will start justifying the $126 million that's become attached to his name. That's right: It's time for pitchers and catchers.


  • DREW SHARP: Selig should boycott Bonds (Detroit Free Press)
    Bud Selig should not only stay home if Barry Bonds breaks Henry Aaron's career home run record this season as most fear, but he should firmly state that his absence serves as an admission and apology for baseball turning a blind eye to steroids enforcement after the baseball lockout in 1994. Any bets on that happening?


  • Wisconsin College to Begin Drug Testing (The Sentinel)
    MADISON, Wis. - The University of Wisconsin-Stout will require athletes to undergo random drug testing, a response to December police searches that netted steroids and other drugs from the homes of two football players.


  • Bigger, Stronger, Faster: Recruiting Pressure Drives Some To Steroids (KXAN 36 Austin)
    Bigger, stronger, faster... it's become the mantra for high school sports. And for many young athletes, It's the key to going pro. But in reality, only two percent of high schoolers will receive an athletic scholarship.


  • Pakistan paceman Shoaib Akhtar doubtful for World Cup (AFP via Yahoo! News)
    Pakistan pace bowler Shoaib Akhtar said he fears he could miss the World Cup after suffering a knee injury that may take three to four weeks to heal.


  • A rough week for free speech? (Ars Technica)
    Amazon sued for selling cockfighting magazines. Atheist delisted from YouTube for posting Quranic verses. Cyber-bullying discussed in legislatures across the country. Three new cases test the limits of free speech.


  • John Donovan: Vincent predicts Mitchell probe to go to D.C. (Sports Illustrated)
    Almost a year into Major League Baseball's investigation into its sordid steroids past, all exit signs seem to be pointing toward the one place that nobody really wants to go: Back to Capitol Hill, under the klieg lights, in front of a bunch of made-for-TV politicians looking for truth, blood and some face time on the evening news.


  • Between Bonds and a hard place (USA Today)
    As spring training commences, Jon Saraceno contemplates Bud Selig's long, awkward doubleheader this summer: slugger Barry Bonds bearing down on the sanctity of a cherished record and sleuth George Mitchell bearing up as he tries to uncover the truth regarding the steroid scandal that has rocked, if not rolled, baseball.


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