Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone were competitive rivals as box office muscle action heroes during the 1980s. But now Arnold and Sly are apparently good friends. According to Stallone, their friendship has flourished recently: After he became governor, we started to build this relationship. We’d go to this place called Cafe Rome and smoke cigars, then […]
Hidetada Yamagishi Preliminary Court Date Rescheduled
Allan Donnelly of Flex Magazine reports that IFBB Pro Bodybuilder Hidetada Yamagishi’s preliminary court date on steroid possession and steroid distribution charges has been rescheduled to February 6, 2008. Hide was said to have “missed” the bus transporting him to his originally scheduled hearing on January 23, 2008; when he did arrive, Los Angelese Superior […]
Roger Clemens Statistical Report Tries to Refute Steroid Allegations
Agents for Roger Clemens at Hendricks Sports Management released a detailed statistical analysis of Roger Clemens’ performance over the course of his career. In summary, the report lists various factors occurring later in his career that contributed to the maintenance of a high quality of pitching by Roger Clemens. These factors include adaptions in “style […]
Bodybuilder Art Atwood Cooperating in Active Federal Steroid Investigation
There have been unsubstantiated rumors of a steroid bust involving Art Atwood for several months. David Jacobs, known by bodybuilding fans as Branch Warren’s training partner, was rumored to be a steroid dealer turned police informant who sold 100 vials of counterfeit steroids to Art Atwood in early May 2007. However, court documents revealed that […]
Anabolic Steroids and Power Factor Statistics in Baseball
More websites are covering Eric Walker’s Steroids and Baseball website that we discussed last week, including the New York Times. Walker suggests there is “no evidence” that anabolic steroids have increased home run hitting. He points to the power factor statistics to support his claims. Most baseball fans have never heard of Eric Walker; fortunately the […]
Researcher Linn Goldberg Speaks Out Against Steroid Testing in High Schools
Catching high school athletes who used anabolic steroids was apparently never the primary goal of the Texas steroid testing program. According to a published report, state legislators say the main goal of the $3 million per year investment was to serve as a strong deterrent. But Dr. Linn Goldberg, M.D. is not very optimistic about the deterrent effect of […]
Critical Comments on Texas High School Steroid Testing Program
I applaud Laurie Fox of the Dallas Morning News for breaking ranks with the sycophantic cheerleaders for Texas’ UIL Anabolic Steroid Testing Program. The short history of steroid testing in public schools has yielded little, if anything. In the handful of local school districts that already test for steroids, no positive test has been reported. […]
Drug Testing to Reduce Steroid Use by High School Athletes
Most people at every point on the steroid regulatory spectrum, from the advocates of steroid legalization to anti-steroid zealots, agree that anabolic steroid use by teenagers is bad. There are a few people who believe steroids are good for children, pre-teens and teenagers. But in general, most people agree with government efforts to reduce steroid use in teenage […]
Accretropin – New Injectable Growth Hormone Approved by FDA
Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new recombinant growth hormone manufactured by the Canadian drug company, Cangene, and designed for subcutaneous injection. The brand name for Cangene’s injectable growth hormone is Accretropin. Accretropin has an identical amino acid sequence to natural human growth hormone produced in the pituitary. It was approved […]
Pharmaceutical Company Studying Growth Hormone and IGF-1 Stack
Tercica announced that they just started a Phase II clinical trial examining the efficacy of IGF-1 stacked with human growth hormone (GH). Unfortunately for bodybuilders and athletes, the outcome measure in this study is not performance enhancement, increases in lean muscle mass, or loss in body fat. The objective is to measure “height velocity” and […]