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Alex Rodriguez is expected to visit Buffalo today, but this will be no pleasure trip for the baseball superstar. The New York Yankees' power-hitting third baseman, known as A- Rod, is scheduled to be interviewed by federal prosecutors and agents about his dealings with a Toronto physician who is the subject of a grand jury investigation here into performance- enhancing drugs.
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Braun tests positive NEW YORK -- National League MVP Ryan Braun has tested positive for a performance-enhancing substance, a case still under appeal to an arbitrator under Major League Baseball's drug program, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press.
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I WAS subpoenaed by Congress for its House Oversight on Any American Activities That Aren't Critical to the Welfare of Our Nation Committee hearings on sports-columnist use of performance- enhancing drugs. I will not go to Capitol Hill - I left Washington several years back largely to avoid our elected leaders - but today, under my own personal oath, I will detail to readers my activities of the past year: Jan. 2, 2007: Felt a head cold coming on. Had the UPS guy inject B12 into my buttocks.
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Roger Clemens calls the report "dangerous and malicious and reckless." Andy Pettitte insists he never took banned drugs. Miguel Tejada says he is being smeared again by scandal. Some of baseball's biggest stars responded with denials and denunciations Sunday following a Los Angeles Times report in which former pitcher Jason Grimsley accused five players of using performance-enhancing drugs, according to a federal agent's affidavit. The other players cited were Baltimore teammates Brian Roberts and Jay Gibbons.
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So maybe you'd drifted off into some fuzzy alternate reality, where major leaguers have no interest in performance-enhancing drugs. Then you blink: Ryan Braun's testosterone levels are a chemist's dream and suddenly you're staring at baseball's darker angels again. Or as Michael Corleone famously put it, "Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.
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All drug tests given to NHL players were clean during the first season of the league's anti-doping program, adopted last year in the labor agreement that ended the yearlong lockout. I suppose it's safe to say that the results confirmed what we knew already, which is the use of performance-enhancing drugs is not prevalent in our sport," NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly said Monday in an e-mail.
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Lance Armstrong's former teammate, Tyler Hamilton, says Armstrong and other team leaders encouraged, promoted and took part in a doping program in an effort to win the Tour de France in 1999 and beyond, according to a report aired Sunday night on "60 Minutes. Hamilton said he saw Armstrong take performance-enhancing drugs, EPO and testosterone and also saw him receive a banned blood transfusion in 2000.
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Performance-enhancing drugs find takers in high schools The controversy over steroid use that has rocked Major League Baseball may seem distant to the average citizen discussing it at the office, barbershop or dinner table.
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WASHINGTON - Prosecutors said Wednesday that needles and cotton balls Roger Clemens' former trainer says he used to inject the star pitcher tested positive for Clemens' DNA and anabolic steroids - evidence the defense said was faked. Assistant U.S. attorney Steven Durham revealed the results during opening arguments in Clemens' trial on charges of lying to Congress about using performance-enhancing drugs. Clemens' attorney Rusty Hardin responded that he won't dispute the needles contain Clemens' DNA and steroids, but accused the trainer Brian McNamee of "mixing" it up.
