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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Former Chicago Bears linebacker Dick Butkus has not changed in many ways ever since he left the football field 38 years ago.

The days of Butkus on the field may be over but he is now making every possible effort to curb steroid use among young athletes.

From Infozine.com:

Butkus took part in a luncheon briefing for congressional staff members on Capitol Hill Wednesday, where he discussed the benefits of sports nutrition, the detriments of taking performance-enhancing drugs and his effort to educate young athletes through his I Play Clean campaign.

Butkus said he first realized the severity of steroid use in youth sports when watching an ESPN special seven years ago.

“The plain truth is, if you use steroids for a prolonged period of time, you’ll probably be a heart patient, die early or both,” Butkus said.

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Eight of Indian weightlifters have tested positive for banned substances during the inter-railway competition in Kolkata earlier this month.

These doping offences leave Railway Sports Promotion Board (RSPB), which conducted the event, on the verge of being suspended for a year, if not more than that.

From Indiatoday.intoday.in:

Six of the eight samples have tested positive for stanozolol, and another for methyndienone, both anabolic steroids. Another lifter’s ‘ A’ sample revealed traces of a diuretic.

The results of the tests on the ‘ B’ samples of all the dope offenders will be known in a week’s time after which the anti- doping disciplinary panel will decide the sanctions to be imposed on them.

If the ‘ B’ samples also return positive, the RSPB is likely to be suspended for a year. However, the Indian Weightlifting Federation (IWLF) top brass said that they would insist on the punishment being extended for at least four years if the number of offenders remains the same after the second tests.

In fact, it was only after IWLF’s request that National Anti- Doping Agency (NADA) officials came to collect the samples but the move backfired on the federation, although it insists that the revelations augur well for the future of Indian weightlifting at the international stage.

The doping menace in Indian weightlifting continues unabated despite repeated attempts to control it but the federation claims that it has zero tolerance for use of performance enhancing drugs and said it will punish the guilty.

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Performance enhancing drugs or bodybuilding steroids that have been used to build solid muscle mass and enhance body strength could lead to kidney damage, as per a paper presented at the American Society of Nephrology’s 42nd Annual Meeting and Scientific Exposition in San Diego, CA.

This finding is concerning in today’s times when more and more athletes are depending upon anabolic steroids to stay close to fame and success.

From Sciencedaily.com:

When the bodybuilders discontinued steroid use their kidney abnormalities improved, with the exception of one individual with advanced kidney disease who developed end-stage kidney failure and required dialysis. Also, one of the bodybuilders started taking steroids again and suffered a relapse of severe kidney dysfunction.

The researchers propose that extreme increases in muscle mass require the kidneys to increase their filtration rate, placing harmful levels of stress on these organs. It’s also likely that steroids have direct toxic effects on the kidneys. “Athletes who use anabolic steroids and the doctors caring for them need to be aware of the potentially serious risks to the kidney,” said Dr. Herlitz.

This study was conducted in the laboratory of Dr. Vivette D’Agati, MD at Columbia Univeristy Medical Center. Study co-authors include Glen Markowitz, MD, Joshua Schwimmer, MD, Michael Stokes, MD, Cheryl Kunis, MD, Vivette D’Agati, MD, (Columbia University Medical Center); Alton Farris, MD, and Robert Colvin, MD (Massachusetts General Hospital).

The finding, which was not recognized till now, also suggests that long-term or habitual use of steroids could lead to severe effects on the kidney.

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David Justice, the former Braves slugger, has vehemently denied making use of injected steroids and remarked that he has his fear of needles.

This statement by Justice was in wake of remarks by Kirk Radomski before George Mitchell that he sold human growth hormone to Justice. The revelation was made when Mitchell was in charge of the investigation about use of performance enhancing drugs in baseball.

From AJC.com:

Now consider this: Radomski has a recently published book on steroids and baseball. It’s a book with large passages disputed by Mitchell. Which means it’s wise to question anything leaving Radomski’s lips.

“When he said he took me to the airport after we won the World Series, hey, I got my cousins, I got friends who were up there with me, and they all said, ‘That dude didn’t take you to no airport,’ ” said Justice, who did recall Brian McNamee, the former trainer, now famous for saying Roger Clemens was juiced.

Soon after Justice joined the Yankees in 2000, McNamee approached him with HGH. He told the outfielder it would help his various aches and pains.

“I’m having good days and bad days with my sports hernia and groin, and I’ve got the New York Yankees strength coach, who is Dr. McNamee and somebody I thought was a really cool guy, coming to me,” Justice said. “He tells me, ‘This is not steroids. It will not hurt your body. Doctors prescribe this every day. It will help you with the healing of your groin.’

A box of HGH was given to Justice during an airport ride, Radomski told ESPN. The box was given after Justice finished playing for the New York Yankees in the 2000 World Series.

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Suspended U.S. Olympic relay gold medalist Crystal Cox has denied making use of performance enhancing drugs.

The 2004 4×400 meters relay alternate whose four-year ban has put the team’s gold in jeopardy said she never used steroids and it was difficult for her to prove innocence against a goliath like the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA).

From in.reuters.com:

USADA announced Cox’s suspension on Friday, saying her results since 2001 had been disqualified because of the use of prohibited anabolic agents and hormones between 2001 and 2004.

“I fought as long as I could and tearfully signed the sanction … but knowing in my heart and every fibre of my being I was innocent,” said Cox in an email to family and friends that was first reported on the Fayetteville Observer’s website (www.fayobserver.com).

“If I did not sign the sanction, being banned (for life) from track and field would damage me more than the public scrutiny I am receiving now.”

USADA chief executive Travis Tygart defended his agency’s handling of the case and said Cox could have gone to an independent decision-making body rather than accept the four-year suspension.

Tygart told Reuters in a telephone interview that Cox acknowledged her use of anabolic agents in violation of the rules.

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A two-year suspension has been handed over to goalkeeper Omar Ortiz of champions Monterrey for doping, according to the Mexican Football Federation (Femexfut).

Ortiz tested positive for Oxymetholone and Masteron, two banned steroids, at a first division match on March 6.

From in.reuters.com:

“The player is sanctioned with two years’ suspension of his sporting activities and as a consequence cannot take part in any competition or activity under the auspices of the federation,” Femexfut said in a statement.

The start of the ban is back-dated to April 9 when ‘The Cat’ Ortiz was provisionally suspended.

Ortiz tested positive again for the same substances at a South American Libertadores Cup group match on April 29. Monterrey failed to qualify for the knockout phase.

The career of 34-year-old Ortiz is under dark clouds after this two-year ban and it is believed that the aging goalie will not be able to make it big again.

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Some retired National Football League players could face the same health complications that plague obese men who stick to watching the game.

Dr. R. Todd Hurst of the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona said things that make NFL players invincible on the field also put them at risk when they stop playing.

From in.reuters.com:

“The question really is, should there be some intervention on behalf of the National Football League Association to ensure that retired football players have adequate health maintenance?” Miller said.

The exact cause of the problems is unclear. It could be fast foods, growth hormones or steroids, said Hurst, or a combination.

As for those players looking to retire, he said, they should get a checkup at the doctor and think about changing their eating habits.

“The important message is not to believe that because you’re an athlete you’re protected,” said Dr. Sherry Baron, who led the early study at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.

Like other experts, she is concerned about the size of football players, which she said continues to climb. And the problem isn’t limited to professionals: In 2007 alone, there were an estimated 1.8 million football players in the US.

“For every professional football player, there are scores of high school and college students who aspire to become professional players,” Baron said. “So when we look at the NFL, we have to look at them as indicators of a much larger group of people.”

Dr. Miller found two years ago that retired linemen had an 85-percent chance of developing metabolic syndrome, a constellation of risk factors tied to heart disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes.

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The National Football League (NFL) has won in Minnesota case that threatened to dilute its league wide drug testing policy. This means that Kevin Williams and Pat Williams who violated policy on performance enhancing drugs of NFL will have to serve a four game suspension in the 2010 season.

Hennepin County Judge Gary Larson ruled that the NFL players were not harmed by the failure of NFL to provide notice and it wasn’t enough to block the suspensions.

From NYTimes.com:

“For the past two years, this case has been reviewed on numerous occasions by both the federal and state courts,” the N.F.L. said in a statement. “Those decisions make clear that the claims of the players and the N.F.L. Players Association were without substance and that the players suffered no harm by being required to comply with the terms of the collectively bargained policy on steroids and related substances. We intend to continue to administer a strong, effective program on performance-enhancing drugs that applies on a uniform basis to all players in all states.”

Still, the case is not over. The players plan to appeal the ruling and on Thursday asked for an injunction that will allow them to play while the appeal plays out. The judge is expected to rule on the injunction in a couple of weeks.

Their lawyer claimed at least a partial victory on Thursday. Peter Ginsberg said the decision was a victory because the judge ruled that the N.F.L. violated state law.

The N.F.L. originally suspended Kevin Williams and Pat Williams for four games in 2008 after they tested positive for a banned diuretic (bumetanide), which can be used to mask steroids.

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