Ryan Braun, who joined the Milwaukee Brewers in 2007, didn’t fit image fans conjure up when they hear that a baseball slugger has been accused of using performance enhancing drugs.

The player helped drive the Brewers to the playoffs was voted as the Most Valuable Player of the NFL.

From Greenbaypressgazette.com:

A spokesman for Braun said in a statement issued to ESPN and The Associated Press that there are “highly unusual circumstances surrounding this case which will support Ryan’s complete innocence.”

ESPN cited two sources Saturday in first reporting the result, saying Braun tested positive for elevated levels of testosterone, adding that a later test by the World Anti-Doping Agency lab in Montreal determined the testosterone was synthetic. Braun is appealing, according to people familiar with the case.

“One theory is that anabolic steroids hasten the repair of those muscle fibers, and allow you to work out harder,” Norman Fost, a professor of pediatrics and director of the bioethics program at the University of Wisconsin, said.

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The NFL has suspended Colts guard Jaimie Thomas for violating the anabolic steroids and related substances policy.

Thomas is on injured reserve and has been banned for four games.

From Espn.go.com:

Thomas was a seventh-round selection by the Colts in the 2009 draft and played in eight games with Indianapolis in 2010. He was placed on IR on Aug. 19 this year with a back injury.

Also Wednesday, the Colts placed defensive tackle Eric Foster and rookie offensive tackle Ben Ijalana on injured reserve, ending their seasons.

Foster dislocated his right ankle in a gruesome scene during Monday night’s loss at Tampa Bay.

“Practice will go along this week and we’ll see where we are. We do have a lot of possibilities and some of them are too endless to go through,” coach Jim Caldwell said Wednesday. “It’s just the way it is. You take a look at where you are and adjust accordingly.”

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In the past year, the number of drug tests conducted by Major League Baseball rose 3 percent when Colorado Rockies catcher Eliezer Alfonzo was the only big leaguer suspended for use of a performance enhancing substance.

According to the annual report issued Thursday by Dr. Bryan Smith, the independent administrator for baseball‘s drug program, Alfonzo was banned for 100 games and there was just one positive for PEDs among 3,868 tests that resulted in discipline.

From Espn.go.com:

Under its new labor deal reached last week, baseball players will undergo blood testing for human growth hormone during spring training, starting in February. There is no agreement yet for regular-season blood testing.

Alfonzo’s was a second offense because he also tested positive in 2008 and served a 50-game suspension. The previous year, there were two positives for PEDs among 3,747 tests: Cincinnati pitcher Edinson Volquez and Florida catcher Ronny Paulino.

While Manny Ramirez tested positive this year, he retired rather than serve a 100-game suspension. Smith’s report lists only the substances for positive tests that result in discipline.

Roughly 20 to 25 percent of the approximately 4,000 tests in 2010 in the NFL were during the off-season.

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The NFL has suspended Colts guard Jaimie Thomas after he was found violating the league’s substance policy.

Presently on injured reserve, Thomas violated the anabolic steroids and related substances policy.

From Yardbarker.com:

As the NFL and the NFLPA continue to make no progress on the question of whether HGH testing will be implemented, guys are still getting periodically caught for using other banned substances.

The latest?  Colts offensive lineman Jaimie Thomas has been suspended four games for violating the league’s steroids policy.

The NFL did not say what prohibited substance Thomas tested positive for.

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After the NFL and NFLPA not coming to a final agreement on HGH testing and the NFLPA already agreeing that players will submit to testing, the NFL has at its disposal several options for enforcing the language of the Collective Bargaining Agreement.

One ore more of the options could be used at some point by the NFL.

From Profootballtalk.nbcsports.com:

Either way, the league must at some point take the initiative to compel the NFLPA to adhere to this commitment, as codified at Article 39, Section 7(b) of the CBA:  “The parties confirm that the Program on Anabolic Steroids and Related Substances will include both annual blood testing and random blood testing for human growth hormone, with discipline for positive tests at the same level as for steroids.  Over the next several weeks, the parties will discuss and develop the specific arrangements relating to the safe and secure collection of samples, transportation and testing of samples, the scope of review of the medical science and the arbitrator review policy, with the goal of beginning testing by the first week of the 2011 regular season.”

The NFLPA has resisted HGH testing and argued that WADA’s “population study” of Olympics athletes may not translate to NFL players.

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The NFLPA has made a proposal regarding an HGH testing protocol after a meeting with two members of Congress that resulted in an apparent commitment to commence the collection of blood samples for the purposes of HGH testing.

The proposal details are contained in an item posted at ProPlayerInsiders.com, an official licensee of the NFLPA.

From Profootballtalk.nbcsports.com:

In a press release masquerading as an article, the NFLPA proposes that the process commence with a population study of all NFL players, in order to establish an HGH testing standard that accurately reflects the naturally occurring HGH in the bodily composition of NFL players.  This goes back to the union’s concern that the World Anti-Doping Agency has developed its testing threshold based on the constitutions of Olympic athletes, including Estonian figure skaters, Korean gymnasts, and Canadian curlers.   (Of course, a population study of NFL players that includes players who are currently taking HGH will skew the numbers, potentially creating a higher threshold.)

The union also proposes six major points:  (1) “Any player found in violation of the hGH policy has the right to all of the testing information”; (2) “The burden of proof rests with the NFL, not the player, as in the American judicial system where the defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty”; (3) “The hGH testing process will be overseen by a neutral arbitrator agreed to by the NFL and by the NFLPA”; (4) “That no player shall be punished by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell until all of his appeals have been exhausted”; (5) “The testing and appellate processes shall be confidential until the player’s appeal rights are exhausted”; (6) “Players who are in the midst of the appellate process remain on their teams and continue to play until it has concluded.”

However, the agreement creates the false impression that no agreement on HGH testing has been reached as the NFLPA had agreed only to eventually “discuss and develop” the procedures for testing.

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Jimmy Kennedy, the Giants’ defensive tackle, who was suspended by the NFL after testing positive for performance enhancing drugs made a return to work.

Kennedy took the field alongside his teammates for the first time since the Week 5 loss to the Seahawks.

From Nj.com:

Kennedy was asked about his testing positive and said it was not anabolic steroids. He said he knowingly took a substance he believed he had been cleared to take.

Kennedy didn’t specify the substance or the drug, in particular, but he noted players are tested for “cold medicine and stuff like that, different creams and everything else.” He posted on his Facebook page he had tested positive because of a drug in cold medicine, though he later deleted that status.

“It just bothers me because I can’t get to all my family and friends. I want them to be clear because people are sitting there and saying you’re taking performance enhancing drugs,” he said. “It’s not like everything is steroids. I just wanted to make sure I addressed my family and let them know what it was.”

“There’s a difference between lifting weights and the treadmill and all of that other stuff, running on the field by yourself, than chasing Michael Vick or (LeSean) McCoy,” said Kennedy.

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The NFL has suspended Colts guard Jaimie Thomas for four games after the league found him violating the substance policy.

The tainted player violated the anabolic steroids and related substances policy.

From Theglobeandmail.com:

Thomas, who currently is on injured reserve, violated the anabolic steroids and related substances policy. The league and the Colts did not say what prohibited substance he tested positive for.

Thomas was a seventh-round selection by the Colts in the 2009 draft and played in eight games with Indianapolis in 2010. He was placed on IR on Aug. 19 this year with a back injury.

Thomas was placed on IR on August 19 this year with a back injury.

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Defensive tackle Eric Foster and offensive guard Ben Ijalana have been placed on injured reserve Wednesday by the Indianapolis Colts.

Foster suffered a dislocated ankle in 24-17 loss to the Buccaneers while Ijalana injured his knee.

From Kansascity.com:

Additionally on Wednesday, the Colts signed offensive tackles Michael Toudouze and Quinn Ojinnaka, elevated defensive tackle Ricardo Mathews from the practice squad and waived linebacker Nate Triplett. Offensive guard Jaimie Thomas — already on injured reserve — was suspended four games by the NFL due to violation of the anabolic steroid and related substances policy.

Foster, the fourth-year Rutgers product, has recorded 117 tackles, with six sacks, in 49 career games.

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The NFL has suspended Colts guard Jaimie Thomas for four games after he was found violating the anabolic steroids and related substances policy.

The league and the Colts did not say what prohibited substance he tested positive for.

From Espn.go.com:

Thomas was a seventh-round selection by the Colts in the 2009 draft and played in eight games with Indianapolis in 2010. He was placed on IR on Aug. 19 this year with a back injury.

Also Wednesday, the Colts placed defensive tackle Eric Foster and rookie offensive tackle Ben Ijalana on injured reserve, ending their seasons.

Foster dislocated his right ankle in a gruesome scene during Monday night’s loss at Tampa Bay.

“Practice will go along this week and we’ll see where we are. We do have a lot of possibilities and some of them are too endless to go through,” coach Jim Caldwell said Wednesday. “It’s just the way it is. You take a look at where you are and adjust accordingly.”

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