The seven-time Cy Young Award, Roger Clemens contradicted the issue that his former personal trainer Brian McNamee administered him performance-enhancing drugs. He pointed out that McNamee never injected HGH or steroids on him, contrary to what the former trainer told baseball investigator George Mitchell.

Roger Clemens told the media that he would not use steroids because their family has a history on heart conditions.

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Roger Clemens broke his silence Tuesday, again denying that former personal trainer Brian McNamee injected him with performance-enhancing drugs in his first public comments in more than a year.

The seven-time Cy Young Award winner was interviewed by phone on ESPN Radio’s “Mike & Mike in the Morning.” He said he chose to speak out Tuesday because it was the official release date of a book about his alleged drug use.

“He’s never injected me with HGH or steroids,” Clemens said of McNamee, who told baseball investigator George Mitchell he had injected Clemens with drugs.

“American Icon: The Fall of Roger Clemens and the Rise of Steroids in America’s Pastime,” by four New York Daily News reporters, recaps previous reports in the newspaper. It had been available to reviewers and had excerpts published before Tuesday.

Clemens said he had given a DNA sample to federal investigators but that syringes provided by McNamee would not link him to performance-enhancing drug use.

Clemens is under investigation by a federal grand jury in Washington that is trying to determine whether he lied when he told a congressional committee last year that he had not used illegal performance-enhancing drugs.

Clemens had previously denied the allegations on steroids last year, and had filed a defamation charge on McNamee. He chose to speak out last Tuesday since it was the release date of a book about his alleged steroid use.

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Just this week, Andrew Michael Bogdan revealed the story behind how he found out about steroid use in the Major Leagues. Bogdan was the FBI informant that led the agents to Kirk Radomski. Although indirectly, he played an important role in the formation of the Mitchell Report. Bogdan helped the FBI in exchange for some leniency in his real estate fraud case.

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In an exclusive interview with The Baltimore Sun yesterday, Andrew Michael “Mike” Bogdan admitted to helping the FBI in a real-estate fraud case as part of a plea agreement. But he said he did not use his close friendship with former Orioles outfielder Larry Bigbie to assist the FBI in nabbing one of baseball’s primary steroid distributors.

“It sounds like Mike Bogdan single-handedly was bringing down Major League Baseball,” said Bogdan, while sitting in his rowhome in the Eastwood area of Dundalk. “I just had the pleasure of being friends with Larry Bigbie.”

Larry Bigbie used to be a talented player of the Baltimore Orioles and of the St. Louis Cardinals. He was one of the young stars with lots of talent that even Ray King was traded in for him. Unfortunately, Bigbie always got stuck in the bench because of one injury or another. Back in his Orioles days, there was a locker room “hang-outer” also known as Mike Bogdan. Bogdan was a cool guy so he easily befriended the athletes. What they didn’t know was that even at that time, Bogdan was already working for the FBI. He was charged for real estate fraud but instead of serving his time in jail, he volunteered to be an informant to track down steroid dealers. It was easy to do so especially when he manages to befriend Bigbie. Bigbie eventually admitted to Bogdan that he took anabolic steroids and HGH. Bogdan ratted him out to the feds and even took a used syringed from his trash to serve as proof. This soon led to Radomski who had supplied Bigbie with the performance enhancing drugs. And so, Bigbie was soon forgotten and the Mitchell Report was born.

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At the Growth Hormone Summit held November 10 at the Beverly Hills Hotel and Bungalows, anti-doping experts discussed two of the most contentious issues concerning exogenous human growth hormone.

First, its efficacy. Second, the accuracy of its testing. And since after the daylong conference no consensus was reached by the attendees on both issues, Major League Baseball decided to forego its testing for this controversial compound.

“Growth hormone is widely abused by athletes,” Richard Holt, a professor at University of Southampton in Great Britain said. “There is little scientific evidence that growth hormone is performance-enhancing. I think the scientists are wrong and the athletes are right.”

The professor said that by itself hGH does not do much – athletes have to take other performance-enhancing drugs along with hGH to improve their abilities.

“In order to get the full benefit of growth hormone, you need to take it with other agents as well,” he said.

Even anti-doping czar Don Catlin is in the dark regarding hGH’s affect on the performance.
“There is no answer and I don’t think there will be unless somebody gets approval to do the study. It’s the same thing with anabolic steroids 25 or 30 years ago. We need the same study with HGH,” Catlin said.

Catlin, who is the director of Anti-Doping Research at the UCLA, acknowledged the need to come up with an effective testing method, even if it means soliciting government support.

“The government needs to come in. I don’t like it, but I don’t like X-ray machines at the airport, either. There really isn’t much choice. We’re trying to find a needle in a haystack. There’s good hope.”

As far as the period to accurately test for hGH the timeline is quite narrow.

“Thirty hours, I’d say,” said Douglas Rollins, executive director of the Sports Medicine Research and Testing Laboratory in Salt Lake City.

Other resource persons were of the opinion the timeline can still be narrower.

Bob DuPuy, MLB’s president and chief operating officer, was well aware of the challenge hGH presents, and overcoming that challenge by coming up with such conference is a positive indication that his organization is willing to clean up the sport.

“The commissioner (Bud Selig) is committed to eradicating all performance-enhancing drugs, including HGH,” DuPuy said. “One of the things we’ve recognized from the start of this is HGH presents challenges. One of the purposes for this conference is to get everybody on the same page. All we can do is continue to fund things like this.

“I think we’re doing the best we can do. You’ve got most of the leading experts in the field here today, and that’s a good start.”

Gene Orza, the No. 2 official of the players’ union, said if there’s a scientifically valid test for HGH, the association could go for it. However, for the meantime, they’re not giving the green light.

“My suspicion is they would adopt it, but they wouldn’t be railroaded into doing so,” he said. “Today’s conference suggests a lot of hard work is being done by a lot of qualified people, but there’s a long way to go. No one should have complete faith in a test that has never tested anyone positive.

“We don’t oppose blood testing. We say we’ll consider blood testing, which is different from urine testing. We’re saying we’ll consider blood testing when the time is right. Now is not that time. The players’ association is contributing now to the development and analysis of HGH testing. That’s part of this conference.”

The conference, titled “Growth Hormone: Barriers to Implementation of hGH Testing in Sports”, was co-funded by the MLB with David Geffen School of Medicine of UCLA and Foley and Lardner LLP. Among the summit’s aims was to “identify the scientific, medical, legal, and ethical issues that must be addressed before hGH testing is considered a routine part of sports drug testing.”

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The hGH market reportedly amasses $2 billion annually, and majority of this staggering amount is not earned through hGH therapeutic applications but for its anti-aging and athletic-enhancing properties. And this is causing jitters from both the medical community and the federal government.

Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine, Boston Medical Center and the University of Illinois published an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) with regards to this growing concern. The article revealed many concerns about nonmedical use and distribution of hGH and principal of these concerns are the so-called anti-aging and age-management clinics, which aggressively market hGH (Human Growth Hormone) and use deceptive marketing tactics to lure customers. By deceptive, the group says, these clinics intentionally cross out the potential risks of hGH use. Since the article’s publication in 2005, the research group says the problem is getting worse, and the public should be warned against this.

“Despite the overwhelming evidence that the risks and dangers of growth hormone far outweigh the clinically demonstrated insignificant benefit in normally aging individuals, the prescribing, distribution and sale of hGH for alleged anti-aging aesthetic and athletic enhancement has dramatically grown over the past few years. Clearly, the coordinated and aggressive marketing campaigns of the anti-aging and age-management industries are highly and most unfortunately effective,” says Dr. Thomas Perls, Director of the New England Centenarian and medical professor at the Boston University School of Medicine.

“In my capacity as a reviewer of medical records seized from anti-aging clinics by the DEA, I almost never see hGH provided in isolation. It is usually a part of a complex cocktail of one or more anabolic steroids, human chorionic gonadotropin (specifically for men to decrease the obvious signs of steroid abuse such as small testicles and enlarged breasts), thyroid hormone, DHEA and other drugs. Additional drugs such as blood pressure medicines, diuretics and insulin may be given to treat the side effects of the basic cocktail,” Perls adds.

The authors of the study propose that several measures need to be taken to address the inappropriate distribution and use of hGH.

Among their recommendations are (as published at Science Daily):

•    The public must be accurately informed by physicians and scientists who do not have a vested interest in hGH, about health risks, fraudulent marketing and illegal distribution of this drug.
•    Organizations that promote or indirectly profit from the medically inappropriate and illegal distribution of hGH that have been accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to offer American Medical Association Physician Recognition Award (PRA) category 1 CME credits or other categories of CME credit should, at a minimum, have their accreditation revoked.
•    U.S. manufacturers of hGH must be more effective in, and held accountable for, controlling the distribution of the drug to companies providing the drug for illegal uses.
•    Congressional hearings and media attention surrounding hGH should focus less on athletes and prominent entertainers who are also victims of deceptive marketing and pushing of hGH, and much more on the distributors who are violating federal and state laws by making the drug available for non-approved uses.

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Jose Canseco is just non stop.  Jose Canseco gave up anabolic steroids, so he’s using HCG, but then again does he have a brain.  Why would he bring HCG over the border from Mexico when you’re on of the most recognize steroid users in the USA?  After Barry Bonds, Jose Canseco is probably the most notable figure in steroids and baseball.   So why is he brining PCT (post cycle therapy) drugs over the border? is he still using anabolic steroids? obviously he is.  Has he not heard of the internet? obviously NOT! he could have easily gotten HCG over the internet from a pharmacy delivered to his home.

What we cannot understand is why does Jose Canseco need to use anabolic steroids? does he not understant the mounting political and media pressure on him to be in the public light?  It’s obvious he doesn’t understand the consequences of steroid use in the public eye.  He would rather buy steroids over the border in mexico and bring them back, then use his brain and order anabolic steroids online.  It was very obvious that Jose Canseco was/is also using human growth hormone (HGH) and probably some IGF-1 or MGF.  It depends on how much he can smuggle over the border.

The realistic situation about Jose Canseco is not going to change, as he is arrogant.  Jose Canseco doesn’t think he can be touched after his book exposing so called steroid users in baseball and sports.  Jose Canseco forgets the criminal penalties in USA for steroid use, especially since he’s a big media figure - they will make an example of him.

From San Diego News:

Former baseball star Jose Canseco was detained by immigration officials at a San Diego border crossing as he tried to bring a fertility drug from Mexico, authorities and his lawyer said yesterday.

Canseco was issued a notice to appear in federal court “relative to a smuggling violation,” U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Lauren Mack said.

“It’s a discretion we have, to issue a notice to appear rather than make an arrest when a smaller volume of items are being smuggled,” Mack said.

Mack said no charges have been filed against Canseco, who was given the notice to appear and released Thursday night. She declined to elaborate on the allegation.

Canseco, a former major league All-Star slugger, was held for nearly 10 hours at the San Ysidro border crossing, said his Los Angeles attorney, Gregory S. Emerson, according to The Associated Press.

The AP reported that immigration agents said they searched Canseco’s car and found human chorionic gonadotropin, which is illegal without a prescription.

Emerson declined to say if Canseco was carrying the drug, which is banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency for use in men. The drug helps restore production of testosterone lost in steroid users.

Officials released Canseco after he agreed to allow ICE agents to search his Los Angeles-area home, the AP reported Emerson as saying. About 10 ICE agents searched the home in the attorney’s presence yesterday as Canseco was returning from San Diego.

“They found nothing. They took nothing,” Emerson said.

Mack said Canseco is to appear in San Diego’s federal court Tuesday. Canseco has admitted using steroids during his baseball career. In his 2005 best-selling book, “Juiced,” he not only told of his own use of performance-enhancing drugs, but also claimed up to 85 percent of major leaguers used steroids. Also in 2005, Canseco testified at a congressional hearing about drugs in baseball, and said “steroids (in the game) were as prevalent in the late 1980s and 1990s as a cup of coffee.”

In 1986, Padres pitcher LaMarr Hoyt was cited for drug violations after he was detained at the San Ysidro border pedestrian crossing from Mexico. He was alleged to be carrying three grams of marijuana, 79 Valium tablets and 46 Quaaludes, U.S. Customs officials said.

Canseco played 17 seasons for seven teams in the major leagues, hitting 462 home runs. He was the 1988 American League MVP and 1986 American League Rookie of the Year while playing for the Oakland Athletics.

In June of 2006, after his major league career was over, Canseco was signed by the San Diego Surf Dawgs of the independent Golden Baseball League. But he never played a game in San Diego, being traded to the Long Beach Armada after playing just one game for the Surf Dawgs, on the road

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The question on everyone’s mind is: Does LL Cool J use anabolic steroids or HGH? did he ever used steroids? or does he look so awesome via magic - maybe Harry Potter used “Magicum Steroidal” spell on him? I guess not.  Reality says that LL Cool J obviously used anabolic steroids, he’s clearly on steroids and/or HGH.  The is probably using Winstrol, Anavar and some Primoblan.  He might be also using some human growth hormone (HGH).

From AOL Sports:

Although Congress and the media have chosen to focus almost exclusively on the use of performance-enhancing drugs among athletes, there’s also a great deal of PED use among Hollywood celebrities, from Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone on down.

But one of the celebrities who certainly has the body of a steroid user — and who played a muscular football player in Any Given Sunday — says he has never used them. LL Cool J was on Late Night With Conan O’Brien last night, and when Conan brought up steroids, LL made clear that he doesn’t want to risk the testicular atrophy that is a side effect of steroid use.

“We don’t want the prunes to turn into raisins,” LL said. “I still want to matter at home, not just at the beach.”

I’m not sure that comparing his own testicles to prunes is really where LL wants to go, but point taken: Count LL as one muscular man who says no to steroids.

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There was a lot of talk about MMA fighter/Street fighter Kimbo Slice in the past year or so.  Ever since making his debut fighting on Youtube and other video sharing networks, for his boss - a porn site, he’s become a “huge” MMA start.  However, we all know and stated he was a joke, a big/weak joke.  Today kimbo slice proved to be a joke when he was knocked out in 14 seconds by Seth Petruzelli on EliteXC.

Here is a GIF of the knockout, no need for a video since it was only 14 seconds!

Kimbo was originally was supposed to fight Ken Shamrock - The worlds’ least dangerous man who is also the worlds’ biggest jacked up steroid users.  Unfortunately for Kimbo and EliteXc, instead of a washed out Ken Shamrock, they got a light heavyweight Seth Petruzelli, who was giving up about 30lbs. to Kimbo “the Joke” Slice.  All in all, today was Ken Shamrocks biggest knockout, as he likely delivered the knockout blow to EliteXC - most likely putting the promotion out of business by end of this year.

There were photos of Kimbo on the interent with a huge GUT, like he was really abusing human growth hormone (HGH) or IGF-1, so it seems HGH doesn’t really help you win fights.  Talent does!

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The indictments against Signature Pharmacy were dismissed by a New York state judge on Thursday because prosecutors mishandled the case.

According to USA Today, Albany Judge Stephen Herrick described the case as ‘complex and unwieldy’ and blamed the county prosecutors for the case being dropped.  The judge said the prosecutors provided incomplete information and inadequate instruction to grand jurors and that the prosecutors “have impaired the integrity of the grand jury proceedings to such a degree that a dismissal is warranted.”

Herrick added that the charges against the five people involved in the case were not well defined. The defendants – Stan and Naomi Loomis (husband-wife owners of Signature Pharmacy), pharmacist Michael Loomis and associates Kirk Calvert and Anthony Palladino – were charged with 31 felony and two misdemeanor counts.

Defense attorney Amy Tingley welcomed the news.

“The game’s over,” said Tingley. “My clients are relieved that they can put this behind them and move on with their lives. After 20 months, (prosecutors) failed to put up a case that could even proceed to trial. We were always confident that we could prevail once it got to a jury, but the judge found there weren’t even grounds to continue the case.”

Herrick’s ruling bars Albany County District Attorney David Soares from filing new charges against the defendants.

Signature Pharmacy is an Orlando-based company which advertised itself as a cutting edge drug provider in women’s health, offering customized medical solutions to its customers suffering from vitamin and hormone deficiencies. The company, however, was suspected of engaging in steroid production and distribution activity, and its alleged customers included several famous athletes from NFL and MLB.  Federal authorities reported that Signature Pharmacy supplied more than $10 million worth of illicit drugs in New York alone. Raids had been conducted in several Signature pharmacies in Florida.

The USA Today article provides further details on this news:

Since January 2007, Soares’ office has indicted 22 people linked to nine pharmacies or so-called wellness centers, most based in Florida. Seventeen have pleaded guilty, including Anthony Forgione, whose plea deal on three felony counts of distributing a controlled substance was accepted Thursday. Charges against two defendants, Steven and Karen Lampert of Nanuet, N.Y., were dropped in November 2007.

Thursday’s decision has no effect on those who have taken pleas.

“We have received the decision issued by Judge Herrick this morning regarding the five Signature defendants,” Soares said in a statement. “We do not agree and are appealing this decision.”

Rodney Harrison, a safety for the NFL’s New England Patriots, was suspended by the league for four games last season for violating its policy on banned substances. He purchased human growth hormone (HGH) from a wellness center in Florida connected to the investigation, Chris Baynes, an Albany County assistant district attorney told The Boston Globe last year.
Dallas Cowboys assistant coach Wade Wilson was suspended for five games and fined $100,000 by the NFL after it learned through the investigation that Wilson, while a member of the Chicago Bears’ staff, had purchased a banned substance from a company that later was targeted.

Soares and members of his office also met with investigators for former Sen. George Mitchell, who was tapped by Major League Baseball to investigate performance-enhancing drug use in that sport.

Last December’s Mitchell Report alleged St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Rick Ankiel, Cleveland Indians pitcher Paul Byrd and former major leaguers Jay Gibbons and Jason Grimsley received shipments of HGH from Signature. The report also said New York Mets reliever Scott Schoeneweis and St. Louis Cardinals third baseman Troy Glaus received shipments of steroids.
None of the players were punished by Major League Baseball.

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It will be a reunion worth watching.

Randy Couture, the reigning UFC heavyweight champion has finally and officially returned to the UFC. After a nasty split in October last year from the UFC, Couture will be fighting for the organization once again at UFC 91 in a championship bout against Brock Lesnar.

Dana White himself, UFC’s president, confirmed the news to the media. White said UFC 91 is slated for November 15 at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

White also announced that their legal battle is over and that Couture’s return to UFC will be on a clean slate as a new multi-fight deal welcomes “The Natural” back to the fight promotion.

“I think some compromises were made on both sides,” Couture said.

“All I give a [expletive] about is that he’s back and fighting,” White said.

White also said that the winner of an upcoming fight between interim heavyweight champion Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira and Frank Mir will likely meet the Couture vs. Lesnar winner next year for title unification.

When Couture resigned from the UFC in October one of the apparent reasons for the split was the organization’s inability to sign Fedor Emelianenko. And now, Couture might get what he wanted, a matchup with the Russian fighter. White is open to the possibility of a Couture vs Emelianenko bout. However, White said Emelianenko’s current contract situation might pose some problems. The “Last Emperor” has just recently signed a long term deal with rival Affliction Entertainment.

Randy Couture will probably not test positive for anabolic steroids, but he is clearly a user of human growth hormone (HGH). We will see if the new HGH testing is possible/positive, it seems very early stage.

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It seems the Barry Bonds defense team has finally come up with an answer to close this ongoing steroid case.  The questions posed to Barry Bonds weren’t clear or realistic.  In fact, many of the questions such as: “did you take any steroid LIKE substacned,” were plain misleading.  Example would be perfectly legal anabolic diet or insulin, both of which you can LEGALLY do but claim each has an anabolic effect, i.e. STEROID LIKE effect! is it true? possible but it’s not realistic.  Did Barry Bonds use steroids? YES! Did he break any rules? NO!  When Barry Bonds was using anabolic steroids, steroids were NOT banned by MLB or any other baseball organization.  After the Barry Bonds fiaso, doping became a key to baseball.

However, let’s face it, baseball was a dying sport before steroids - baseball NEEDS steroids to survive and get those ticket sales.  Just look at what steroids and HGH do for the NLF, the highest value sport on the planet - bar none!  Steroid use in Baseball is a good thing, as anabolic steroids and HGH have really made the sport interesting.  It’s not the lame old sport of waiting for 3 hours for 1 home run.  People flock the stadiums to see Barry Bonds, the home run king, hit one out of the park.  Yea maybe steroids did help Barry Bonds, but how many regular folks can you load up with steroids and send them on the field and have them him 90mph ball? none.  Barry Bonds had talent, steroids just help his stamina and strenght.

Barry Bonds asked a federal judge Monday to toss out most of the government’s case against him that charges the slugger lied to a federal grand jury about his alleged steroids use.

In a filing made in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, lawyers for baseball’s home run king argue that many of the charges stem from ambiguous answers to ambiguous questions posed by prosecutors.

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