TE Weslye Saunders will face suspension for the first four game of the 2012 season, according to reports.

However, there was no verification of whether the suspension was for the substance abuse policy (drugs, narcotics, etc.) or the anabolic steroid and related substances policy (HGH, anabolic steroids, etc.) of the NFL.

From Behindthesteelcurtain.com:

The NFL has run into this issue in the past – with a player currently on the Steelers roster.

As Georgia Tech running back Jonathan Dwyer prepared for the draft in 2010, his agent, Robert London, notified every NFL team that his client took Adderall – a medication for attention deficit disorder (ADD) – which is amphetamine salts. London told teams that Dwyer’s drug test would come back positive for amphetamines.

Dwyer’s test came back positive, as predicted. The league considers it to be a therapeutic exemption though if the player has the proper prescriptions for the medication (as a Schedule II Controlled Substance in the United States, you cannot possess it without a prescription, and that prescription must be hand-written from a doctor).

It has been believed that the claimed positive test of Saunders came not from PEDs or medication, but rather, because of a therapeutic pharmaceutical that included an ingredient on the league’s record of suspended ingredients.

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The ongoing standoff between NFL players with WADA and its American arm, USADA, over human growth hormone testing, is becoming intense with each passing day.

“To me it’s clear that WADA is more interested in bullying us into a test than in scientifically supporting and justifying their testing protocol,” NFL Players Association Executive Director DeMaurice Smith said.

From Washingtonpost.com:

The union has taken the brunt of public criticism for the delay in implementing an HGH test, but WADA is equally to blame for its lack of transparency and refusal to answer some basic questions the union is asking — questions that Congress and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell also should be asking. Questions such as: Is there enough independently published medical science that validates the test? How was it devised, and its parameters established?

“That’s odd to me,” said Doping researcher Don Catlin, founder of the UCLA Olympic lab and the man who cracked the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative case. “I don’t understand it. Scientists with a good finding are usually crawling to get published in a peer-reviewed journal so the world can see it.”

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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 latest feat of Major League Baseball of extended “labor peace” with the Major League Players Association was reached on November 22, 2011.

MLB has apparently won out in its attempt to curb illicit use of human growth hormone (HGH) by its players, as per terms of the latest basic agreement between the parties.

From Sports-central.org:

The lockouts by both the NFL and NBA this year perhaps did not go by unnoticed by MLB brass in its seemingly under-the-radar collective bargaining talks with the MLBPA this past fall. MLB attempted to show up the other leagues’ rather unkempt labor relations.

And MLB Commissioner Bud Selig made it quite clear by way of his public display of self-aggrandizement during the week following a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA) was reached, that his is the first North American professional sports league to agree to such a test for HGH. And perhaps it was indeed Selig’s latest and greatest coup yet, in such a pronouncement, however yet to be realized.

The agreement will run five years in duration and expire on December 1, 2016. Article 39, Sec. 7 (b) of the NFL’s CBA states: “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.”

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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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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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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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