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WWE's Jeff Hardy Arrested, Jailed on Drug Charges

Posted: Sep 11th 2009 5:30 PM ET by Ryan Wilson (RSS feed)
Filed Under: PEDs, Pro Wrestling, Twitter

WWE's Jeff Hardy was arrested and jailed in North Carolina on Friday after authorities searched his home and found enough drugs to start a small pharmacy. Via ProWrestling.net, police "discovered 262 Vicodin pills, 180 Soma pills, 555 milliliters of anabolic steroids, and a residual amount of powder cocaine and items of drug paraphernalia."

Apparently, you just can't just stockpile this stuff in your industrial-sized medicine cabinet with the intent to start your own business. Even if you own one of those white lab coats.

Boston Cops Busted for Steroids

Posted: Jul 4th 2009 7:39 AM ET by Michael David Smith (RSS feed)
Filed Under: PEDs

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The Boston Police Department has disciplined 11 officers as a result of a federal investigation that uncovered steroid use in the department's ranks.

"There is an emerging trend of steroid use in law enforcement that we're monitoring very closely," Boston Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis said. "Unfortunately, we were on the leading edge of this being disclosed."

Belgian Bodybuilders Refuse Drug Tests, Championship Canceled

Posted: May 18th 2009 3:53 PM ET by Michael David Smith (RSS feed)
Filed Under: PEDs

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When it comes to the use of performance-enhancing drugs, no sport is completely clean and no sport is completely dirty. But on the clean to dirty spectrum, the sport that's probably the farthest on the "dirty" side is bodybuilding, those beauty pageants of musculature in which competitors are judged by the bulges in their biceps and the thickness of their thighs. And now a bodybuilding competition in Belgium has reached a new low.

For Clemens and Others, Their Lies Are The Truth

Posted: May 18th 2009 12:31 PM ET by Terence Moore (RSS feed)
Filed Under: PEDs

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Now Roger Clemens and Jeremy Mayfield are among the latest to suggest that we should view their (ahem) alleged transgressions through the words of that old song.

"Who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?"

Week in Review: You Go, Girl

Posted: May 17th 2009 4:45 PM ET by David Whitley (RSS feed)
Filed Under: PEDs, Horse Racing, Featured Stories

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On behalf of David Feherty, I'd like to apologize for the following column. It again takes shots at House Mis-Speaker Nancy Pelosi, not to mention her fellow victims of CIA subterfuge, Roger Clemens, Tim Floyd and Mine That Bird.

Who knew the CIA was plotting to overthrow the Preakness? You will after reading the latest installment of Week in Review.

Did Nancy Pelosi Know About Manny's Drug Use?

Posted: May 10th 2009 1:59 PM ET by David Whitley (RSS feed)
Filed Under: PEDs, Featured Stories, Sports Media, Current Events

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Manny Ramirez, David Feherty, Nancy Pelosi

What a crazy week. I'd say it was a news week on steroids, but that would just prompt the week to blame everything on its doctor who prescribed the drugs.

From Manny Ramirez's departure to A-Rod's return, the news spun like a roulette wheel. That made it just like most weeks in this 24-7 news era, which is why we here at FanHouse decided a Week in Review column was needed.

HausCast 20: Jay Mariotti Talks Manny, Favre, Dirk's Ladyfriend and Tiger

Posted: May 8th 2009 9:30 AM ET by Will Brinson (RSS feed)
Filed Under: PEDs, TV and Movies, Sports Media, FanHouse Exclusive, Podcast

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The FanHouse Podcast: Because bloggers are much sexier on the phone.

We get to celebrate our 20th HausCast by welcoming FanHouse's own Jay Mariotti, whom you've likely heard of, due to his presence on your tee-vee screens every day at 5 on "Around the Horn", not to mention his work here at the 'Haus. Fortunately, there's plenty of heavy news to choose from: Manny Ramirez suspended for 50 games, Brett Favre deciding he won't come back to football after all, and Dirk Nowitzki getting busted in a very weird relationship. Ryan and I discuss this super-trifecta of sports news with Jay and then bounce around the idea of golfers on steroids, just for shiggles. Enjoy.

With Little Funding, Steroid Testing Nixed In Florida High Schools

Posted: Feb 16th 2009 4:30 PM ET by Tom Mantzouranis (RSS feed)
Filed Under: PEDs, High School, Current Events

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People haven't stopped ranting and raving about steroids in MLB, but the incredulity that trickled down from the beginning of this mess into all levels of baseball --and sports in general -- appears to have slowed. Not many states were as quick to jump on the bandwagon to test high school athletes as New Jersey, the first, with only three others (Illinois, Texas, and Florida) joining the cause.

But the economy, as it has been wont to do lately, has hung a black cloud over that initiative in Florida, and a lack of funding has caused the state to cancel the testing program.

Lance Armstrong Abandons Anti-Dope Testing Before It Begins

Posted: Feb 11th 2009 5:02 PM ET by Shane Bacon (RSS feed)
Filed Under: PEDs, Cycling

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In the wake of the Alex Rodriguez admission to steroid use, you'd think athletes are doing whatever they can to keep their name and steroids as far apart as possible, especially if they've been questioned in the past.

Not the case for seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, who, after announcing his comeback to cycling, claimed that he would be undergoing some comprehensive testing by Don Catlin, basically the Tiger Woods of anti-doping scientists. The tests were to be extremely strict and available for everyone on the Internet, but have since been canceled without Catlin ever getting a chance to test Armstrong even once.

8 Arrests Made in Michael Phelps 'Case'

Posted: Feb 10th 2009 3:10 PM ET by Will Brinson (RSS feed)
Filed Under: PEDs, College Sports, Sports Media, Current Events, Swimming

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Michael Phelps and his bong, despite the best intentions of Alex Rodriguez, will simply not go away. That's probably because Sheriff Leon Lott won't let the whole "smoking pot in a picture" thing go, and, as a result of the sheriff's investigation into the party that Phelps attended, eight arrests have been made. (No word yet on whether any were a result of swindling Phelps out of two grand in beer pong.)

Michael Phelps Snapshots

EDITORS, PHOTO EDITORS, LIBRARIANS - DELETE FROM YOUR SYSTEMS, AND DO NOT PUBLISH, AP PHOTO NY162 OF FEB. 5, SHOWING MICHAEL PHELPS HOLDING A BOX OF KELLOGG'S CORN FLAKES. PHELPS HAS NOT ACKNOWLEDGED SMOKING MARIJUANA OR INHALING FROM A MARIJUANA PIPE

EDITORS, PHOTO EDITORS, LIBRARIANS - DELETE FROM YOUR SYSTEMS, AND DO NOT PUBLISH, AP PHOTO NY160 OF FEB. 5, SHOWING MICHAEL PHELPS ON THE COVER OF A BOX OF KELLOGG'S CORN FLAKES. PHELPS HAS NOT ACKNOWLEDGED SMOKING MARIJUANA OR INHALING FROM A MARIJUANA PIPE ** NO SALES **

Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps, front, and Olympic medal winner Katie Hoff, rear, train at the Meadowbrook Aquatic Center, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Rob Carr)

Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps trains at the Meadowbrook Aquatic Center, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Rob Carr)

Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps takes a break while training at the Meadowbrook Aquatic Center, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Rob Carr)

Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps trains at the Meadowbrook Aquatic Center, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Rob Carr)