Cushing hCG
At the beginning of the month, Houston Texans linebacker (former USC Trojan) Brian Cushing was given a four game suspension for testing positive for hCG. hCG is a hormone that is commonly used during or after a steroid cycle in order to maintain and increase testosterone levels that are lowered by performance enhancing drugs. Manny [...]
ROMO's Life On The Edge
With so much spare time on my hands lately, I’ve been reading some great, awful and interesting books. I’ve just started to read Bill Simmons’ Book of Basketball (only 260-something pages into the monster of literature), but previously read former NFL linebacker, Bill Romanowski’s autobiography. ROMO : My Life On The Edge : Living Dreams [...]
Steroids In Sports Making A Comeback
ESPN’s Mike Fish just released some great information today. As you may know, I am fully interested in all facets and aspects of any story that involves steroids or performance-enhancing drugs of any kind in sports. I have crammed my brain with both of Jose Canseco’s books, I am currently reading Bill Romanowski’s auto-biography (Adam [...]
Mark McGwire Admits To Using Steroids, HGH
In an interview with Bob Costas on Monday night, Mark McGwire finally admitted to using steroids and human growth hormone over the past decade. McGwire said that he used steroids in the 1989-1990 off-season then again in 1993 after an injury and periodically throughout the remainder of his career, including 1998 when he set the [...]
Mark McGwire Back In St. Louis
The St. Louis Cardinals are bringing Mark McGwire back to major league baseball as a hitting coach. After disappearing from the baseball scene after breaking the single-season home run record and then denying any use of performance enhancing drugs to the US Senate, McGwire is coming back in 2010. Big Mac was seen as the [...]
The List Should Be Released
The SportsFans have spoken and the decision by the people leans in favor of publishing, completely, the list of 104 players that tested positive for performance enhancing drugs in 2003. With a few players including Sammy Sosa, David Ortiz, Manny Ramirez and Alex Rodriguez, the public is thirsty for more. I’ve vented my thoughts on [...]
Should The List Be Released From 2003 PED Testing
As more time has passed, more major league baseball players names have come out on “The List” of players that tested positive for performance enhancing drugs in 2003. Seven players results from this anonymous test in 2003 are now public knowledge. Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez, Sammy Sosa, Jason Grimsley, David Segui, David Ortiz and Manny [...]
Prayer For Big Papi
With the news about David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez also being on “the list” of players that tested positive for performance enhancing drugs in 2003, I thought I’d show Big Papi our support by saying a prayer for him. Large Father, Who bats at Fenway, Hallowed be thy game. The Nation won, You’re still number [...]
'Roids Are All The Rage
I recently picked up Jose Canseco’s New York Times Bestseller, Juiced. In his first release on the Steroid Era in baseball, Canseco starts with his life story and works his way toward his major league career. The Cuban born Canseco went from a scrawny 220 pound Rookie of the Year in 1986 to a devastating [...]
Manny Shouldn't Have Been An All-Star
On June 1st, we asked you if you thought Manny Ramirez should be allowed to play in the 2009 All-Star Game. The results are final and the fans spoke loud and clear. Manny shouldn’t have been allowed to play in the all-star game. The best part about this, he dropped in the voting and wasn’t [...]
Steroids Did NOT Make Baseball Better
We recently ran a poll asking our readers, Did Steroids Make Baseball Better? We posted the poll after news broke that Manny Ramirez was suspended for using Performance Enhancing drugs. Though he wasn’t using steroids, it did make for a simpler headline and at this point we all use the words steroids and Performance-Enhancing drugs [...]
Should Manny Ramirez be Allowed to Play in the 2009 All-Star Game?
What do you think about Manny [Ramirez] going to the All-Star Game? Do you think we should stop chastising the players and let them play in these situations, even though under suspension? Or should he rightfully so be suspended from this too, even though the fans are still voting for him. One of my readers, [...]
Big Papi's Power Outage
Chuck Hanf is a sports blogger and Boston sports fan. He writes about sports at Two Cents from Beantown. I’m tellin’ ya Sully–Big Papi Ortiz was on the juice just like that bum Nomaahh Garciawhatevathehell. I’m tellin’ ya guy! – “Smitty”, a patron at the Two Cents From Beantown Pub. Smitty, do you remember a [...]
Did Steroids Make Baseball Better?
To follow up our recent posts about How to Spot Steroid Users and Manny Ramirez using Performance Enhancing Drugs, I wanted to ask everyone, did steroids make baseball better? Remember, baseball was coming off a strike and we all fell back in love with it because of all the dingers being hit and records being [...]
How to Spot Steroid Users
After Manny Ramirez received a 50 game suspension for the use of performance enhancing drugs and the talk of the “steroid era” and “cleaning up baseball” have all been the topic during games and news, it’s time to fill you in on some of the tell tale signs that a player is juicing (either using [...]
Manny Tests Positive For Performance Enhancing Drugs
Manny Ramirez has been suspended for 50 games this season after testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs. Manny countered that the positive test result came about from prescribed medicine from a doctor (sounds familiar; what was that, something about your cream Mr. Bonds?). Recently I saw a physician for a personal health issue. He gave me [...]
