Bud Selig, the baseball commissioner, has warned that Alex Rodriguez may face a suspension in the wake of his admission.

Selig said in an interview with USA Today. “It was against the law, so I would have to think about that,” Selig told the newspaper. “It’s very hard. I’ve got to think about all that kind of stuff.”

From Espnstar.com:

One obstacle to meting out punishment for the New York Yankees‘ third baseman is the time frame of his admitted guilt.

Steroids and human growth hormone officially were placed on baseball’s banned substance prior to the 2004 season so any attempt to penalise a player for an infraction beforehand would almost certainly be challenged by the players union.

“I would be surprised if there was an attempt to do it,” said Donald Fehr, the union’s executive director.

Rodriguez admitted his use of steroids in an interview with ESPN on Monday – two days after Sports Illustrated reported that Rodriguez tested positive for two anabolic steroids in 2003.

According to the report, Rodriguez’s name appeared on a list of 104 players who tested positive during a survey conducted by Major League Baseball in 2003.

Selig also said that he is mulling reinstating Hank Aaron as baseball’s career home run leader.

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A high-profile trainer of jumps racehorses, Howard Johnson, has been charged with doping and horse welfare offences by the British Horseracing Authority.

Johnson has been the leading trainer at the Cheltenham Festival in 2005 and has been charged three separate offences of administering the banned anabolic steroid nandrolone to his horses.

From Guardian.co.uk:

A significant ban from racing could deal a fatal blow to Johnson’s training career, which took off in 2002 when the computer-software tycoon Graham Wylie – said to be the richest man in the North-east – sent him a horse called Lord Transcend. The horse was a present for his wife, Andrea, and the couple’s interest in racing boomed over the next few seasons as their string grew to more than 100 horses.

Wylie has invested many tens of millions of pounds in the sport over the past decade. Unlike many major owners, however, he does not spread his horses around different yards and has never had one saddled by anyone but Johnson, whose stable has also been extensively upgraded thanks to Wylie’s investment.

Highlights of their partnership have included several victories at both the Cheltenham and Aintree Festivals, including Inglis Drever’s three wins in the space of four years in the World Hurdle at Cheltenham. The horse is generally recognised as one of the finest staying hurdlers of recent years. Should Johnson be suspended from racing for more than a couple of months, it is possible that Wylie’s entire string would need to find new homes.

The charges came to light during a post-mortem after Striking Article suffered an injury and was put down following a race at Musselburgh last February.

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Nathan Baggaley, the disgraced Australian Olympic medalist, has been charged with possessing steroids in jail. The Olympic medalist was already serving a nine-year jail term with a non-parole period of five years for dealing in ecstasy.

The three-time kayaking world champion and double Olympic silver medalist was charged with “possession of a prescribed restricted substance (steroids)” while serving his time in Cessnock Correctional Centre.

From Perthnow.com.au:

It was claimed after Baggaley and his brother Dru were convicted on ecstasy charges last year that the press was used to manufacture almost 15,000 tablets with a street value of $2.5 million.

Allegations of steroid use began the demise of the Baggaley’s kayaking career.

The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Agency busted him for anabolic steroid use in 2005, resulting in an international two-year ban.

Baggaley has continually maintained the steroids were consumed inadvertently. His lawyer said he consumed the steroids after drinking from an orange juice bottle belonging to his brother.

The bottle allegedly contained an unlabelled mix of steroids and orange juice in the family fridge.

Baggaley has subsequently been moved to Silverwater Metropolitan Remand and Reception Centre and will appear in Cessnock court on July 21.

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The South African-born left-handed tennis player, Wayne Odesnik, has been handed over a ban of two years by the ITF. Odesnik has been banned for violating doping rules by possessing human growth hormone.

The tennis player had not obtained a therapeutic use exemption for the HGH.

From Espnstar.com:

Odesnik, 24, had not obtained a therapeutic use exemption for the HGH, of which eight vials were found in his luggage by customs officials in Australia in January.

The South African-born left-hander, ranked 114th in the world, stressed he had intended to seek permission for the HGH before using it, and said he had not used it at the time of its discovery.

His suspension is backdated to December 29 and will end on December 28 next year. His results since December 29 have been quashed and he must forfeit ranking points and prize-money of just over £60,000 from the tournaments he has participated in.

Eight HGH vials were found in his luggage by customs officials in Australia in January.

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A New York Times report has suggested that MLB (Major League Baseball) and union officials may have misled the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform regarding the amount of steroid use among players.

The Times revealed that officials appearing before the House Committee presented figures that demonstrated that baseball’s two-year-old testing program had substantially reduced the number of positive tests for performance enhancing drugs.

From Espnstar.com:

“It’s clear that some of the information Major League Baseball and the players’ union gave the committee in 2005 was inaccurate,” Waxman said in a written statement, according to the Times. “It isn’t clear whether this was intentional or just reflects confusion over the testing program for 2003 and 2004. In any case, the misinformation is unacceptable.”

The newspaper also reported that the committee’s staff plans to send letters to MLB commissioner Bud Selig and union executive director Donald Fehr about what Waxman deemed “misinformation.”

Those falsities came from the information about 2004 testing, which was shut down for part of the season, allowing for the significantly lower number of positive results, according to the report. The newspaper said the committee was not aware of that. The Times reported that Selig’s office later called that shutdown “an emergency response to an unforeseen situation,” which the report said was in reference to the federal investigation of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative steroid ring.

Therefore, players who tested positive in 2003 were not tested again until the end of the 2004 season, skewing baseball‘s perceived reduction in positive tests, the report said. Those players also reportedly may have been notified prior to being tested.

Deputy Commissioner Rob Manfred said the testimony of Major League Baseball officials was completely accurate.

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The former St Louis Cardinals, Mark McGwire, has rendered a public apology after saying that he did used steroids for health reasons and not for performance improvements.

McGwire has admitted using steroids when he was a player, including in the year 1998 when he broke the single-season home run record.

From Guardian.co.uk:

McGwire told MLB Network he took steroids only to overcome health issues. “I told my dad yesterday when I finally had to. I remember calling him in ’96,” he said. “I was so frustrated with injuries I wanted to retire. He’s the one that told me to stick it out. I was using steroids to heal faster, help my body to feel normal. I did not take steroids for any gains or strength purposes.”

McGwire said he experimented briefly with steroids in the 1989-90 off-season and began taking them regularly in 1993 and used them in low dosages throughout the 1990s, including during his record-setting 1998 season, “just to feel normal”.

McGwire started his career with the Oakland Athletics, playing briefly in 1986 before his 49 homers the following year led the American League and set a rookie record. The 12-times All-Star was traded to St Louis during the 1997 season.

The 46-year-old said an admission applauded by Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig that he used steroids during his playing career.

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Denis Catana, the champion weightlifter from England, has been suspended for a period of two years after he was found abusing anabolic steroids, according to a confirmation by UK Anti-Doping.

The 25-year-old won the 2010 national 94kg title but tested positive for Metenolone ahead of the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi.

From News.BBC.co.uk:

Catana claimed that Metenolone, an anabolic steroid associated with the treatment of some forms of anaemia and osteoporosis, had found its way into his body inadvertently through a supplement he had consumed, several of which were bought in Moldova.

UK Anti-Doping‘s director of operations, Nicole Sapstead, said: “Mr Catana was tested as part of UK Anti-Doping’s pre-Commonwealth Games testing programme.

“This case shows the importance of our major event programme, and our commitment to stopping athletes who dope competing on the world stage.

“We will continue to work tirelessly to protect the rights of clean athletes in the run up to London 2012 and beyond.”

The UK Anti-Doping organisation was formed in 2009, after several delays, to combat doping in British elite sport.

Catana had been provisionally banned since 21 September 2010, a suspension that will last until 20 September 2012, but British Olympic Association rules now ban him from Team GB for life.

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Alberto Contador‘s claim that contaminated meat was responsible for his positive doping test has been rejected by the World Anti-doping Agency (WADA), according to a Spanish newspaper.

Contador, the Tour de France champion, was provisionally suspended after a positive test for clenbuterol, a banned weight loss and muscle building drug.

From Timesofindia.indiatimes.com:

The Spanish rider has claimed that the positive result, which followed a doping test during the Tour de France in July, was the result of eating contaminated meat.

But a report by WADA obtained by the newspaper El Pais said its experts visited the butcher’s shop in northern Spain where the meat was purchased and the slaughterhouse that supplies it, and found no evidence of clenbuterol in any of its products.

“None of the inspections, none of the tests on samples of meat found traces of clenbuterol, a banned drug used to fatten cattle quickly,” El Pais said.

The report also cited a European Union study from 2008 in which experts tested 300,000 meat samples but found evidence of the possible use of clenbuterol in only one of those.

“Obviously, farmers who cheat will never slaughter their illegally fattened cattle until about 20 days after the last dose of clenbuterol for two reasons: to avoid being caught by checks on the meat and to allow the anabolic steroid to have its full fattening-up effect,” the WADA report said, according to El Pais.

The paper said the International Cycling Union (UCI) delivered the WADA report to the Spanish cycling federation (RFEC), which is to decide whether to sanction the rider.

The newspaper commented that the WADA report “is the main problem that Contador must overcome to prove his innocence, as his entire defence rests on the involuntary ingestion of the meat contaminated with clenbuterol in such a tiny amount that it had no effect on his performance.”

Contador, who also won the Tour de France in 2007 and 2009, has threatened to quit the sport if suspended for two years.

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Rafael Palmeiro, who is accused of using steroids, has said that he never made use of performance enhancing drugs in his illustrious career.

Palmeiro is hoping that his statement will be enough for Hall of Fame voters to overlook the mistake and honor him for his 3,020 hits and 569 homers.

From Boston.com:

Rafael Palmeiro is sticking to his story that a tainted vitamin shot caused his failed drug test five years ago, and hopes Hall of Fame voters will overlook the mistake and honor him for his 3,020 hits and 569 homers. A week before the Writers Association of America announces its inductees, Palmeiro told SI.com he never used Baseballperformance-enhancing drugs in his 20-year career. Palmeiro again insisted the anabolic steroid was in a B-12 vial given to him by Orioles teammate Miguel Tejada. One of only four players in big league history with 500 homers and 3,000 hits, Palmeiro’s once certain election to the Hall is in jeopardy. Baseball voters have denied Mark McGwire, 10th on the career list with 583 homers, four times and his election seems unlikely.

Palmeiro told Sports Illustrated he never used performance enhancing drugs.

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Police authorities may be claiming to make every effort in the world for curbing the popularity of anabolic steroids but the pages of a magazine written just for law enforcement were recently found to be all filled with ads for anabolic steroid providers.

“We’ve found the fountain of youth!” shouts an advertisement in the December issue of New Jersey COPS, a publication read by officers across the state.

From NJ.com:

The full-page ad, one of two hawking hormone replacement therapy, features the image of a shirtless man with thunderous biceps, a sculpted chest and fist-size abs that bulge through bronzed skin.

As an added incentive, a text label proclaims, “Special Discount for Law Enforcement.”

The phone number leads to an answering machine without a message. The address, on Route 10 in Whippany, leads to the Fountain of Youth Anti-Aging Center and Signature Health and Wellness Center, two distinct but affiliated firms that share a small office connected to a gym.

There you’ll find Tom Boorujy, a licensed chiropractor and Signature’s owner, who explains why it was a simple decision to place an ad in a magazine for law enforcement officers.

“From what we heard, there were a lot of cops doing it, so we thought, ‘Let’s market it to that demographic,’” Boorujy said.

The newspaper, Star-Ledger, found at least 248 officers and firefighters from 53 agencies obtained anabolic steroids and other hormones through a Jersey City doctor, Joseph Colao, who often faked diagnoses and illegally sold growth hormone on the side.

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