Two former NHL heavyweights, Georges Laraque and Andrei Nazarov, recently found the spotlight for different controversies.

Laraque says in his soon-to-be released biography, The Story of the NHL’s Unlikeliest Tough Guy that both tough guys and star players used steroids during his 11-year NHL career.

From Montrealgazette.com:

While Laraque doesn’t name names — in contrast to the storm Jose Canseco set off with his kiss-and-tell book about major-league baseball players using illegal substances — he issues a challenge for professional leagues to clean up their dressing rooms.

“Hockey, as well as any other sport in the world, has to take action against the human growth hormone that players have been using for a couple of years now,” he wrote.

Bill Daly, the NHL’s deputy commissioner, said it would be inappropriate to respond.

“Most of us knew who they were, but not a single player, not even me, would ever think of raising his hand to break the silence and accuse a fellow player,” Laraque wrote. “I don’t like snitches and will never be one.”

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Jason Stevenson of Redding will get a first crack at ex-major leaguer Jose Canseco and the Yuma Scorpions when the Chico Outlaws independent league baseball team begins a 14-game, three-venue series with the Scorpions at 7 p.m. at Tiger field in Redding.

The first five games are at Tiger field, the second quintet is set for Shasta College, while the last four contests between the two teams begin at 7:05 p.m. Aug. 8 at Nettleton Stadium in Chico.

From Paradisepost.com:

Yuma is led by player manager Jose Canseco and his hitting coach and brother Ozzie. Jose Canseco won the American League Rookie of the Year Award in 1986 when he belted 33 home runs and drove in 117 runs. Two years later, Canseco did something nobody before him had done when he hit 40 home runs and stole 40 bases in a single season. He’s also a six-time Major League All-Star, two-time World Series Champion, four-time Silver Slugger Award winner, an American League MVP winner and a Comeback Player of the Year winner.

Canseco specifically identified Mark McGwire, Rafael Palmeiro, Jason Giambi, Ivan Rodriguez, Juan Gonzalez, Jorge Delgado, Damaso Moreno, and Manuel Collado as steroid users.

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Jose Canseco, the former baseball slugger, has expressed regret over his involvement in the sport’s ongoing steroids controversy in a one-hour documentary titled, “Jose Canseco: The Last Shot.”

Canseco regretted “mentioning players (as steroids users)” in his book “Juiced” that was published in 2005 and ultimately led to a congressional hearing on doping in the sport.

From Espnstar.com:

Canseco, 44, revealed that he wrote the book because he wanted to get even with Major League Baseball, which he believed had him “forced out of the game.”

In his book, Canseco named Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire and Rafael Palmeiro as steroids users. Those three players, along with Canseco, were present at a March 2005 congressional hearing in which Sosa and McGwire provided questionable testimony while Palmeiro defiantly denied using steroids.

Less than four years later, Sosa and McGwire are widely considered longshots to reach the Hall of Fame despite ranking sixth and eighth, respectively, on baseball’s all-time list for career home runs. Palmeiro tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs during the 2005 season and was suspended.

“If I could meet with Mark McGwire and these players, I definitely would apologize to them,” said Canseco, who developed a friendship with McGwire during their seven-year stint together with the Oakland Athletics. “They were my friends. I admired them, I respected them.”

“I never realized this was going to blow up and hurt so many people,” Canseco said in the interview.

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The efforts of Mark McGwire for reducing the extent of his decade-long doping program seem to be as inauthentic as his home run records.

The records of McGwire are under scrutiny ever since a California steroid dealer handed Mark McGwire a sophisticated array of super-potent anabolic steroid almost twenty years ago.

From NYdailynews.com:

That’s not only the reaction of Jose Canseco, who lashed out at his former Bash Brother on Tuesday during an interview with ESPN 1000 radio in Chicago. It’s also the reaction of an FBI informant who was involved in Operation Equine, a long-running investigation that uncovered McGwire’s use of hard-core drugs.

The needles were thick, the anabolic steroids were potent, and the injections were frequent and furtive. McGwire kept them secret for more than 15 years, and now – like Alex Rodriguez before him – claims not to remember exactly what he took in those “small doses.”

Insisting on anonymity, the informant of FBI revealed McGwire’s regimen was one-half cc of testosterone cypionate every three days; one cc of testosterone enanthate per week; the veterinary steroids Equipoise and Winstrol V, one quarter cc every three days, injected into the buttocks, one in one cheek, one in the other.

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Ever since Barry Bonds entered a San Francisco courthouse to testify about the use of drugs by him, baseball fans and media have been a part of anguished debate in relation to use of drugs in sports.

The baseball world is all full of speculations whether two “cheaters”, Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, will be excluded by the Hall of Fame voters for making use of steroids and performance enhancing drugs.

From Cbssports.com:

But because wrestling is not taken as seriously as baseball or football, oversight of its health hazards has been relatively low profile. Congressional investigators interviewed representatives of pro wrestling after they staged the Mark McGwire-Sammy Sosa-Jose Canseco extravaganza. The wrestling inquiry took place behind the scenes, off camera. No one in the WWE had stolen Roger Maris’ place in history or cheapened 500 career home runs. So a public hearing was deemed unnecessary.

But while Congress criminalized steroid possession without a prescription 20 years ago, it still hasn’t made a move on corked bats or Gaylord Perry. The cheating element of PEDs wouldn’t matter so much if not for associated health risks.

In choosing their nominee, Connecticut Republicans discounted a scathing Hartford Courant editorial written by the father of the late wrestling star Chris Benoit, who killed himself, his wife and 7-year-old son in 2007. Michael Benoit attributed the murder-suicide to brain trauma detected in his son during postmortem testing. (There was also evidence of steroid use.) He blamed the McMahons for demanding excessively dangerous stunts in the ring.

Linda McMahon who has been accused of doing little to nothing to curb steroid use may find respite in the fact that users of anabolic steroids and performance enhancing drugs such as Jesse Ventura and Arnold Schwarzenegger have been appointed as governors.

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The Mets’ new general manager, Sandy Alderson, who presided over the Oakland Athletics and G.M. in the late 1980s, recently addressed the issue of steroid use in baseball.

It is worthwhile to note that Alderson was interviewed by Congress and former Senator George Mitchell for a report on the subject after Jose Canseco wrote a book detailing his and teammate Mark McGwire’s use of performance enhancing drugs.

From NYTimes.com:

On Friday, Alderson addressed the issue again during his introductory news conference with the Mets and acknowledged that the A’s pioneering emphasis on weight lifting might have indirectly contributed to the drug abuse.

“I guess in a nutshell, I suspected Jose Canseco of using steroids,” Alderson said. “I never suspected Mark McGwire. It was at a time when, as an organization, we actually had begun to emphasize weight training as part of our regimen, which is now a very widespread commitment on the part of players in baseball.

“But nonetheless it was new at that time and may have inadvertently gotten us involved with that steroid aspect of weight training and weight building, body building.”

I wanted to enact drug testing at the time but was limited by California state law and the collective bargaining agreement with the players, says Alderson.

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There is too much hype around the use of anabolic steroids and performance enhancing drugs by professional sportsmen, according to Jose Canseco.

Canseco, who exposed baseball sluggers in MLB with his book, “Juiced“, said that anabolic steroids are overrated.

From Content.usatoday.com:

MLB’s first 40-40 man has landed with the Laredo Broncos of the United Baseball League, an independent league. He’s earning $500 a month as a DH and bench coach, and has four homers and 13 RBI in six games, and says he’s doing it without steroids.

“I will prove once and for all that steroids are completely overrated,” the 46-year-old Canseco tweeted yesterday.

One of his homers flew a reported 565 feet. Canseco also is campaigning for Hall of Fame voters to quit making steroid use an induction issue.

Canseco went on to say that players like Mark McGwire, Rafael Palmeiro, Sammy Sosa, and Juan Gonzalez deserve a place in the hall of fame as they have been great performers and some of the greatest players in the world of baseball.

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Jose Canseco, the former baseball slugger, has expressed regret over his involvement in the ongoing steroids controversy surrounding the game of baseball.

The former American League MVP revealed some names in a one-hour documentary titled, “Jose Canseco: The Last Shot,” that he regretted mentioning players as steroid users in his book, “Juiced“, which led to a congressional hearing on doping in the sport.

From Espnstar.com:

Canseco, 44, revealed that he wrote the book because he wanted to get even with Major League Baseball, which he believed had him “forced out of the game.”

In his book, Canseco named Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire and Rafael Palmeiro as steroids users. Those three players, along with Canseco, were present at a March 2005 congressional hearing in which Sosa and McGwire provided questionable testimony while Palmeiro defiantly denied using steroids.

Less than four years later, Sosa and McGwire are widely considered longshots to reach the Hall of Fame despite ranking sixth and eighth, respectively, on baseball’s all-time list for career home runs. Palmeiro tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs during the 2005 season and was suspended.

“If I could meet with Mark McGwire and these players, I definitely would apologize to them,” said Canseco, who developed a friendship with McGwire during their seven-year stint together with the Oakland Athletics. “They were my friends. I admired them, I respected them.”

Canseco also claimed that he has stopped making use of performance enhancing drugs and his body is unable to adequately produce enough testosterone.

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Jose Canseco has always maintained that there has been too much of a hype surrounding the use of anabolic steroids and performance enhancing drugs by professional sportsmen.

The whistleblower who exposed use of steroids in MLB with his book, “Juiced“, said that anabolic steroids are overrated.

From Content.usatoday.com:

MLB’s first 40-40 man has landed with the Laredo Broncos of the United Baseball League, an independent league. He’s earning $500 a month as a DH and bench coach, and has four homers and 13 RBI in six games, and says he’s doing it without steroids.

“I will prove once and for all that steroids are completely overrated,” the 46-year-old Canseco tweeted yesterday.

One of his homers flew a reported 565 feet. Canseco also is campaigning for Hall of Fame voters to quit making steroid use an induction issue.

Canseco wrote that players such as Mark McGwire, Rafael Palmeiro, Sammy Sosa, and Juan Gonzalez should be inducted in the Hall of Fame because they would have performed great and arguably some of the greatest players the game has ever seen.

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Fans and media have engaged in an anguished debate about drugs in sports ever since Barry Bonds entered a San Francisco courthouse for testifying about the substances that had inflated his body and batting statistics.

The world of baseball is all full of speculations whether Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, two of the best hitter and pitchers of their eras, will be excluded by the Hall of Fame voters due to evidence that they made use of steroids and performance enhancing drugs.

From Cbssports.com:

The performance-enhancers have not been directly linked to early deaths of pro wrestlers; the immediate culprit in most of the recent cases has been prescription drugs, usually painkillers. But the freakish physiques crafted by steroid use could have increased the level of violence in the ring and the chronic pain that followed. The hormonal manipulations also have the potential to cause severe depression, which in turn can generate a dependency on other substances, including sleeping pills.

But because wrestling is not taken as seriously as baseball or football, oversight of its health hazards has been relatively low profile. Congressional investigators interviewed representatives of pro wrestling after they staged the Mark McGwire-Sammy Sosa-Jose Canseco extravaganza. The wrestling inquiry took place behind the scenes, off camera. No one in the WWE had stolen Roger Maris’ place in history or cheapened 500 career home runs. So a public hearing was deemed unnecessary.

But while Congress criminalized steroid possession without a prescription 20 years ago, it still hasn’t made a move on corked bats or Gaylord Perry. The cheating element of PEDs wouldn’t matter so much if not for associated health risks.

In choosing their nominee, Connecticut Republicans discounted a scathing Hartford Courant editorial written by the father of the late wrestling star Chris Benoit, who killed himself, his wife and 7-year-old son in 2007. Michael Benoit attributed the murder-suicide to brain trauma detected in his son during postmortem testing. (There was also evidence of steroid use.) He blamed the McMahons for demanding excessively dangerous stunts in the ring.

The fact that users of anabolic steroids and performance enhancing drugs such as Jesse Ventura and Arnold Schwarzenegger have been considered good enough by the general public to be governors may offer respite to Linda McMahon to pursue her grand ambitions without worries.

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