The news of some of the biggest baseball players on steroids and other performance enhancing drugs is now regularity and the faulty faucet of baseball is a true testimonial.

According to reports in The New York Times, Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz were two of the players on baseball’s list of nearly 100 players who tested positive for banned substances in the year 2003.

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The great Cal Ripken retired before steroid testing. After the disclosure about A-Rod’s failed test, Ripken announced that he wanted to have a talk with Rodriguez. Good for Ripken to step forward. But where was he when a loud and respected voice was needed to push the players union into testing?

Where does baseball go from here?

Hank Aaron has proposed a formula of putting asterisks on certain records to reflect the time in which they were accomplished. With all due respect to Aaron, every era seems to have had its legion of wrongdoers and shortcutters who used whatever science was available to get an edge. Amphetamines, red juice, concoctions and whatever else preceded steroids.

Baseball fans hope that the disclosures from baseball’s secret list do not name their favorite players but the players need to stop admonishing news media and fans before that.

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According to a report in THE TIMES, two sluggers who helped Boston Red Sox to two World Series championships are on the secret list of major league players testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs in 2003. The two players were Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz.

This revelation of sportsmen on performance enhancing drugs is indeed a blow to baseball. The last untainted home run record holder, Henry Aaron, said that the complete list should be released so that baseball goes on.

From NYTimes.com:

But The Times got little thanks in some quarters. I heard from fans angry at the drip-drip of names that keeps diverting attention from play on the field. “When I talk about, watch, or read about baseball, I do it for relaxation and fun,” said Douglas K. Scheier of Sacramento. “Please either get all the names out or just stop. It’s starting to feel like a witch hunt for drama and entertainment purposes.”

I sympathize with the wish to make the bad news go away, but one of a newspaper’s fundamental obligations is to examine the integrity of institutions, including baseball. If the steroids story seems drawn out, it is because it is hard to get. Tom Jolly, the sports editor, said nobody is slipping the list of those who used drugs under the door: it is taking old-fashioned digging to get each name.

The more challenging criticism comes from those who believe The Times acted illegally — or, at least, unethically — by aggressively seeking names that a judge sealed while courts decide whether government agents had a right to seize the test results in their own investigation.

Theodore Olson, who was the solicitor general in the Bush administration and presently works in the same firm as Boutrous, said that THE TIMES acted legally and ethically.

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During a study of 234 male athletes at one university, it was found that college athletes using performance enhancing drugs, ranging from steroids to stimulants to weight-loss supplements, are at an increased risk of using heavy drinking and using drugs like marijuana and cocaine in the future.

Study co-author Dr. Robert J. Pandina, director of the Center of Alcohol Studies at Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey, said that most of the athletes are not only toying with recreational drugs and alcohol but also facing severe consequences as well.

From Sciencedaily.com:

Until now, it had been unclear whether college athletes who use performance enhancers might have any higher risk of misusing other substances. On one hand, Pandina explained, many athletes might avoid habits that could threaten their performance on the field. On the other, athletes drawn to performance-enhancing substances might have certain traits — such as a propensity toward “sensation seeking” — that make the misuse of alcohol or other drugs more likely.

In their study, the researchers, led by Dr. Jennifer F. Buckman, assistant research professor at the Center of Alcohol Studies, found that nearly one third of the athletes acknowledged using a performance-enhancing substance in the past year. The list included banned substances like steroids, creatine, “Andro,” stimulants and weight-loss aids.

The finding was disclosed in a new research in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs and the athletes in this study came from a large, NCAA Division I university where performance pressure is quite high.

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Steroids have reached every part of the world and Dominican Republic was not an exception. Young sportsmen are making use of anabolic steroids to get name, fame, money, and recognition to support themselves and their families despite being aware of the possible side effects of steroid use.

Bernardino Jimenez was a child in San Pedro de Macoris with big dreams for baseball. He got selected to play baseball but was lured by an agent who injected a mixture of Boldenone by saying that it was legal vitamins. Bernardino tested positive for Boldenone and received suspension for 50 games.

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Jimenez’s case is just one example of a disturbing trend in this hotbed of baseball talent.

Of the 69 minor leaguers suspended for using banned substances in 2008, nearly two thirds — 42 — came from the Dominican Summer League, a developmental program for Latin American players housed in secluded palm tree-lined campuses owned by big-league teams. This year, 31 of the 71 minor leaguers suspended for using banned substances came from the DSL.

In the major leagues, where performance-enhancing substances have been a divisive issue for more than a decade, players with Dominican roots have also been at the center of several high-profile drug cases.

Sammy Sosa and Manny Ramirez have been accused in stories by The New York Times of being on a list of more than 100 players alleged to have tested positive during an initial drug survey of MLB players six years ago. David Ortiz has acknowledged the union told him he was on the list, and slugger Alex Rodriguez, following a February report in Sports Illustrated, said he used steroids while with Seattle from 2001-03. Rodriguez said a cousin obtained a substance he knew as “boli” in the Dominican Republic.

This incident once again highlighted the fact that side effects of steroids, amphetamines, or performance enhancing drug are not the influencing factor when it comes to maximizing performance.

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A convicted drug dealer, Curtis Wenzlaff, who used to supply steroids to Mark McGwire as per his claims said that he believes that the baseball slugger was not completely truthful about the reasons behind him using performance-enhancing drugs in his interview with Bob Costas on the MLB Network on Jan. 11, 2010.

Wenzlaff said while speaking with ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” on Thursday that the goal of McGwire was to use steroids for getting “”bigger, faster, stronger” for improving his on-field performance.

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McGwire said in his interview with Costas that “in the winter ‘89 into ‘90, I was given a couple weeks worth, tried it, never thought anything of it, just moved on from it.”

It was only later, following the injury-ravaged 1993-94 seasons that McGwire says he once again began using PEDs to recover from injury. McGwire contends that his use from ‘94 on was a low-dose regimen designed solely to return him to health, not to augment his performance.

“I chuckled,” Wenzlaff said when asked his reaction to McGwire’s claim that he took steroids to heal from injury. “If excelling and kicking [butt] on the field is the end result, I guess that’s a healthy, good feeling. But for health, there are other things you can take for health that are anabolic, but it wouldn’t be that type of combination.”

Wenzlaff also said he thinks the combination of drugs he provided McGwire would’ve helped his hand-eye coordination.

“When you implement into what you are doing — for instance, hitting — an individualized, specialized program with muscle growth and explosiveness … while you’re on your drugs, it will improve your hand-eye coordination,” he said.

McGwire, the Cardinals’ newly appointed hitting coach, then reintroduced himself to St. Louis fans during the club’s Winter Warm-Up on Sunday and received a standing ovation.

This revelation is bound to dent image of the baseball slugger once more for sure.

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Alex Rodriguez, the legendary baseball slugger, said that he is proud to come clean after being accused of using performance enhancing drugs. During a press conference, A-Rod said that he preferred sleeping after giving one of his best performances to end a 15-inning marathon on the Friday night and did not saw David Ortiz’s news conference Saturday.

From TimesUnion.com:

While Ortiz denied ever using steroids and blamed his positive test in 2003 on over-the-counter supplements, A-Rod came clean about his use of PEDs during his press conference, a decision that unburdened the three-time AL MVP.

“I’m so proud of the way things came out,” Rodriguez said. “I took a lot of things off my chest, and since that press conference, I feel like a new man. I feel like I’ve been embraced by not only the city of New York, but my teammates, my coaches and my manager. I feel liberated by the way I came out and did things.”

The fact that A-Rod disappeared for a month during spring training to rehab his surgically repaired hip also helped him move past the steroid controversy, his month in Colorado serving as what he called “a blessing in disguise. It gave me a chance to refocus, rethink things and basically take a time out from all the white noise I created for myself over the last year and a half.”

Fans of Rodriguez are happy to finally learn that the baseball slugger wants to remain free from controversies after being in issues, from the steroid controversy to his public relationship with Madonna to his pending divorce.

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An All-Star third baseman used steroids for promoting early recovery from a shoulder injury. He got steroids from one of his agents and assistance of a doctor who never saw him. The baseman was Troy Glaus of the Anaheim Angels.

A journeyman catcher fearing about his spot in the major leagues reached out to the same doctor.

These are just two of the incidents that suggest that circumstances are forcing or “inducing” sportsmen to take on steroids.

From NYTimes.com:

A lawyer affiliated with the doctor’s case was given much of the evidence by federal prosecutors and allowed a reporter for The New York Times to review the documents on the condition he not be identified.

Glaus, Schoeneweis and Valdez were named in connection with a 2007 investigation into an Internet-based pharmacy as receiving shipments of performance-enhancing drugs; Greene had never been identified as using steroids.

Scruggs, 62, no longer has a medical license and said his lawyer was negotiating a plea agreement. Nevertheless, he is unapologetic about the players’ use of steroids.
“These players benefited from restoration, not performance enhancement,” Scruggs said in a telephone interview. “Steroids don’t make someone a good athlete or a bad athlete; they may make you stronger, but they don’t make you a better athlete.”

Whatever may be the stance of doping and government officials, one thing that cannot be denied is that steroids and sports are sharing a unique relationship among themselves, a fact that is often hidden and remains untold.

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A new Australian study by a team of Southern Cross University (SCU) scientists has been able to identify and reveal new severe side effects of performance enhancing drugs.

The study, which was led by Dr Robert Weatherby, revealed that the usage of anabolic steroids can considerably increase susceptibility to viral infections and cancers. This study also raised questions concerning the possible dangers of long-term use of prohibited substances.

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Dr Weatherby said the study revealed that using anabolic steroids, even at doses 50 times less than those commonly used by steroid abusers, significantly increased susceptibility to viral infections and cancers by weakening a vital part of the body’s immune system.

The researchers also found that steroids could cause a change in the users’ psychology, reducing their empathy for other people, and making them less sensitive to the effect of their actions on others. Unlike other drugs, which merely alter mood for a short time, this new evidence indicates steroids may cause a change to human personality, which is normally stable throughout life – a result that has potential implications for those convicted of criminal offences related to so called “roid rage”.

Dr Weatherby said that athletes on performance enhancing drugs for a long time for enhancing performance can suffer from severe health complications since androgenic anabolic steroids can have a fatal effect on a specific part of the human body’s immune system.

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According to a new research in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, college athletes using performance enhancing drugs run a greater risk of abusing alcohol and other recreational drugs than those not making a use of them. It was also highlighted that these troubled athletes also run a higher risk of failing tests, getting into fights, and missing classes.

It was remarked by study co-author Dr. Robert J. Pandina, director of the Center of Alcohol Studies at Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey, that these athletes are not only abusing recreational drugs and alcohol but are also suffering from health complications.

From Sciencedaily.com:

In their study, the researchers, led by Dr. Jennifer F. Buckman, assistant research professor at the Center of Alcohol Studies, found that nearly one third of the athletes acknowledged using a performance-enhancing substance in the past year. The list included banned substances like steroids, creatine, “Andro,” stimulants and weight-loss aids.

As a group, athletes who used performance-enhancing substances reported higher rates of drug and alcohol use. Seventy percent said they had used marijuana and one third admitted to cocaine use, versus 22 percent and 3 percent of athletes who did not use performance enhancers. They also had higher rates of smoking, binge drinking and prescription-drug misuse.

The results also hint at some reasons for the elevated rates of drug and alcohol use. Athletes who used performance enhancers were more likely than nonusers to be natural sensation seekers — a desire to have new and varied experiences — but they were also more likely to say they used drugs or alcohol specifically to cope with stress and anxiety.

Pandina was of the view that athletes make use of performance enhancing drugs after seeing the “utilitarian value” of using recreational drugs but may end up falling stressed.

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Alex Rodriguez, in a recent press conference, that he is very happy to come all clean when doubts were used on his sportsmanship after being accused of using performance enhancing drugs.

He remarked that he preferred sleeping after coming out delivering one of his most dramatic home run performances to end a 15-inning marathon some days ago. It was also said that he did not watched the news conference of David Ortiz.

From TimesUnion.com:

While Ortiz denied ever using steroids and blamed his positive test in 2003 on over-the-counter supplements, A-Rod came clean about his use of PEDs during his press conference, a decision that unburdened the three-time AL MVP.

“I’m so proud of the way things came out,” Rodriguez said. “I took a lot of things off my chest, and since that press conference, I feel like a new man. I feel like I’ve been embraced by not only the city of New York, but my teammates, my coaches and my manager. I feel liberated by the way I came out and did things.”

The fact that A-Rod disappeared for a month during spring training to rehab his surgically repaired hip also helped him move past the steroid controversy, his month in Colorado serving as what he called “a blessing in disguise. It gave me a chance to refocus, rethink things and basically take a time out from all the white noise I created for myself over the last year and a half.”

It is remarkable to note how Rodriguez has been able to stay away from controversies after a controversial last year when everything from drug accusation to break-up with Madonna surfaced.

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