Wednesday 28 September 2011

New Orleans Saints guard suspended

The NFL has suspended New Orleans Saints guard Jamar Nesbit without pay for violating the league's policy on anabolic steroids and related substances.
The suspension begins immediately for Nesbit.
"We are disappointed in the suspension of Jamar," Saints general manager Mickey Loomis said. "We will support Jamar through this process and look forward to having him rejoin the team soon."
Nesbit will be unable to participate in team activities until the week of October 20. New Orleans heads to London that week to face the San Diego Chargers in Wembley Stadium on October 26.
The Saints re-signed Nesbit to a three-year contract in February. The 10-year veteran had appeared in all 16 games the past two seasons.
Nesbit has started 87 games in his career with the Panthers, Jacksonville Jaguars, and Saints.

Saturday 24 September 2011

WWE shttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifuspends Sin Cara

The WWE has handed over a suspension of thirty days to Luis Ignascio Urive Alvirde, who performs as Sin Cara after he was found violating the Talent Wellness Program.
Cara failed a drug test on June 23, 2011.
According to a source close to F4WOnline.com, WWE is seriously pondering his future and are considering not bringing him back to the roster when his 30-day suspension ends. McMahon brought Cara on the roster earlier this year amongst fear that Rey Mysterio was going to be leaving the company and wanted to beef up the roster on Hispanic stars but, according to various sources, Cara has underperformed in McMahon’s eyes and his future is still undecided as of press time.
It is assumed by many that Cara tested positive for anabolic steroids.

Tuesday 20 September 2011

Perfect ending to steroid era

The mistrial in the Roger Clemens perjury trial has provided the best ending to the steroid era.
It was suggested by the trial that no one was definitively guilty and undeniably innocent.
Performance-enhancing baseball probably started earlier than we realize, hit its stride with the bogus Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa love fest and peaked when Barry Bonds' head was mistaken for an entrant in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Very few elite power hitters from the performance-enhancing era emerged unscathed, with Ken Griffey Jr., Frank Thomas and Jim Thome being the most prominent apparently clean hitters to come to mind.
Few admitted guilt. McGwire did so only in order to return to the field as Cardinals' hitting coach. Sosa not only failed to remember any encounter with steroids, he forgot how to speak English. Andy Pettitte came clean and was largely forgiven, as was Jason Giambi. Bonds stuck to never “knowingly” using performance enhancers. Clemens denied, denied, denied.
But the era, like the Clemens trial, came to an abrupt, unsatisfying end. Now we don't know which records are legitimate, although Bonds' regular-season and career home-run marks will never resonate like 60 or 61, 714 or 755. Most can still recall Bonds' 73 in a year. Do most people know his career total? I had to look it up. It's 762.
With this trial, the final unsatisfying chapter of the steroid era is all closed now.

Friday 16 September 2011

Sprinter handed suspension by UK Athletics

UK Athletics has charged and suspended Bernice Wilson, the British sprinter, charged with an anti-doping offence.
The 27-year-old Wilson tested positive for the anabolic steroids, testosterone and Clenbuterol, last month.
From News.bbc.co.uk:
The provisional suspension came into effect on 9 July. It was issued by UK Anti-Doping, the independent body responsible for all anti-doping programmes and the management of violations and disciplinary issues in the United Kingdom.
Wilson, from Lincolnshire, could face a two-year ban if found guilty of doping.
This year she has set new personal best times in the 60m and 100m. She ran 7.25 seconds for the 60m at the European Indoor Trials in Sheffield in February, and 11.57 seconds for the 100m at the Inter Counties Championships in Bedford in May.
Bernice Wilson ran a wind-assisted time of 11.41 seconds for the 100m in Loughborough in May.

Tuesday 13 September 2011

Breivik was wired on steroids

The mass killer, Anders Breivik, slaughtered 68 people while wired on anabolic steroids and listening to powerful music used on Britain’s Got Talent and X Factor.
The killer listened to rousing violin anthem Lux Aeterna by Brit Clint Mansell on maximum volume on his iPod while indulging into 90-minute death spree that shocked Norway and the world.
The stirring song is used at the beginning of BGT as the judges walk out on to stage and has also featured heavily at various stages of The X Factor. Breivik said it and a cocktail of steroids and ­stimulant enphedrine would turn him into “an extremely focused and deadly force, a one-man-army,” adding the track will increase “my aggressiveness, physical performance and mental focus”.
A version of it was used in a battle in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and is the opening for Sky Sports’ Gillette Soccer Saturday.
Lux Aeterna means “eternal light” and Breivik said he wants his extremist conservative movement, European Federation to use the song as its anthem.
Breivik added: “I’ve listened to this track several hundred times and I never seem to get tired of it. It is very inspiring and invokes a type of passionate rage within you. In Lord of the Rings, a good version of this track (Requiem for a Tower version which I think is the best) is performed during the most intense fighting of one of the central battles.

Saturday 10 September 2011

House Committee misled on steroid use among players

Major League Baseball and union officials may have misled the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in relation to steroid use among players, according to a report by the New York Times.
The newspaper said officials presented figures that demonstrated that baseball's two-year-old testing program had substantially reduced the number of positive tests for performance enhancing drugs.
"It's clear that some of the information Major League Baseball and the players' union gave the committee in 2005 was inaccurate," Waxman said in a written statement, according to the Times. "It isn't clear whether this was intentional or just reflects confusion over the testing program for 2003 and 2004. In any case, the misinformation is unacceptable."
The newspaper also reported that the committee's staff plans to send letters to MLB commissioner Bud Selig and union executive director Donald Fehr about what Waxman deemed "misinformation."
Those falsities came from the information about 2004 testing, which was shut down for part of the season, allowing for the significantly lower number of positive results, according to the report. The newspaper said the committee was not aware of that. The Times reported that Selig's office later called that shutdown "an emergency response to an unforeseen situation," which the report said was in reference to the federal investigation of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative steroid ring.
"The testimony of Major League Baseball officials was completely accurate, and we are happy to address any concerns that Congressman Waxman may have," deputy commissioner Rob Manfred said.

Wednesday 7 September 2011

End of first juror pool for Clemens trial

The judge looking after the case of Roger Clemens, U.S. District Court Judge Reggie Walton has selected 24 potential jurors from an original pool of 50 to come back Tuesday.
The most decorated pitcher in Major League Baseball, Clemens, has pleaded not guilty to charges of committing perjury, obstructing Congress, and making false statements in 2008.
None of the potential jurors probed by the judge Monday were more than casual baseball fans, though many had heard of Clemens. The second potential juror said she was a fan of European soccer.
“I have not followed baseball since the ‘80s,” she said. She was asked to come back Tuesday.
Another juror worried the defense when he said he came from a law enforcement family consisting of police officers, detectives, a sheriff and a Texas Ranger.
But the potential juror, who catered federal and Republican Party events during George W. Bush’s two terms as president, said he would be fair.
“I’m a Regular Joe, okay?” he said. “I’m going to still love baseball, no matter which way this goes.”
Clemens told a House committee that he didn’t used anabolic steroids and Human Growth Hormone.

Sunday 4 September 2011

Woman sneaking drugs caught

A female visitor to the Lincoln prison has been caught while sneaking Class C drugs into the jail.
Katarzyna Paszkiewicz was caught while trying to smuggle drugs into Lincoln Prison hidden inside her bra.
Katarzyna Paszkiewicz, 25, appeared before city magistrates charged with possessing 100 tablets of methandienone.
She is accused of trying to supply the drugs, a controlled steroid often used for body building, to Wictor Blotnyin Lincoln Prison on June 12.
Paszkiewicz of Henry Street, Lincoln, was granted unconditional bail to return to Lincoln Magistrates' Court on October 15 to have her case committed to Lincoln Crown Court.
The female visitor attracted a sniffer dog's attention when she arrived at the prison to visit her boyfriend.

Thursday 1 September 2011

Mr Lincolnshire bodybuilding title countdown starts

Bronzed and buffed men are all set to flex their muscles in Lincoln while aiming to win the crowned Mr Lincolnshire's top bodybuilder competition.
The competitors would be striking a series of poses to show off their muscles in the best light for the show.
Kimberly White, who helps run Performance Foods with partner and former Mr Universe runner-up Laurie Carr, said: "During the competition judges will be looking for things such as body symmetry, muscle definition, weight and how well they pose.
"The Mr Lincolnshire event is not in itself a qualifier for bigger events like Mr Universe, but it's a really good place for someone to start getting some experience."
Competitors will be entered into five different categories and asked to strike a series of poses to show off their thighs, gluts, biceps, abdominal muscles and chest. They will also perform a five-minute routine featuring differently flexed poses, they will devise.
And before heading on stage they will be bronzed up in a special tanning solution aimed at showing off the definition of their muscles and will have shaved their entire bodies.
The top bodybuilder competition is set to be held at The Lawn in Union Road, Lincoln, on Saturday, July 30.