Latest Anabolic steroid Stories
By Adam Tanner SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The head of the BALCO lab at the center of a global sports steroid scandal was sentenced to four months in prison on Tuesday, a punishment the judge said was less than drug dealers get in less significant cases. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston approved a plea deal that will send BALCO head Victor Conte, 55, to prison for four months and home for four months of confinement. She then sentenced Greg Anderson, 39, baseball superstar Barry Bonds'...
By Adam Tanner SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday sentenced the head of the BALCO nutritional lab to four months in prison and four months home confinement in a sports steroid scandal that badly damaged top names in global sports. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston also sentenced Greg Anderson, personal trainer to baseball superstar Barry Bonds, to three months in prison and three months home confinement for distributing steroids. "They were cheating on those...
SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) - A year after vetoing similar legislation, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill on Friday to bar schools from taking sponsorships from companies that make performance-enhancing supplements. The reversal follows revelations this summer that the former Mr. Olympia had signed deals to earn millions of dollars while governor as executive editor of two fitness magazines. Under the deal that he has since ended, Schwarzenegger was to receive 1...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The steroid that snared Baltimore Orioles' Rafael Palmeiro in baseball's new get-tough policy on performance-enhancing drugs was stanozolol, a source told the New York Times in Wednesday's editions. Stanozolol was the potent anabolic steroid linked to Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson, who was stripped of his Olympic gold medal in 1988 after testing positive for the drug. The Times said its source had direct knowledge of the drug-testing program but did not want to be...
A nationwide survey of more than 10,000 adolescents, published in the August issue of Pediatrics, reports a high rate of concern about body image in both boys and girls, and finds that adolescents with such concerns are much more likely to use hormones and dietary supplements to enhance their physique. Moreover, adolescent supplement users appear to be heavily influenced by the media. In the largest population-based study to explore the use of hormones and supplements, body image, and media...
(Corrects third paragraph to read ...I am here to make it very clear that I have never intentionally used steroids...instead of....I am here to make it very clear that I have intentionally used steroids) WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Baltimore Orioles first baseman Rafael Palmeiro was suspended for 10 days after testing positive for steroids, Major League Baseball said Monday. The 40-year-old Palmeiro, who two weeks ago reached the 3,000 career-hit milestone, denied intentionally ingesting...
MCALESTER, Okla. (Reuters) - A man who killed a store clerk during a 1991 robbery and blamed it on steroid use was executed on Tuesday by lethal injection. Michael Pennington, the third person put to death this year in Oklahoma, was condemned for murdering Bradley Grooms while robbing a Lawton, Oklahoma, convenience store on Oct. 21, 1991. Pennington later said he was psychotic at the time of the crime because of anabolic steroids he took to enhance his weight-lifting regimen. He had no...
By Adam Tanner SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The key figures charged with distributing steroids from the BALCO lab in a scandal that damaged the reputations of top athletes agreed on Friday to plea deals that will result in little or no time in jail. The pleas in U.S. federal court could spare some of the world's top athletes the embarrassment of possible subpoenas or revelations had the case gone to trial in September. It is not known whether prosecutors, in securing the pleas, gained...
