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Players, Agents and Two Willing Doctors Conspired on Steroid Use ...
[SIZE=-1]New York Times[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Even after Major League Baseball and its players union bowed to pressure and started a testing program in 2003, the All-Star third baseman Troy Glaus of the Anaheim Angels and the worn-down pitcher his teammate Scott Schoeneweis said they continued using steroids. (Steroids had been banned in baseball since 1991, but there was no way to enforce the ban until 2003.) [...][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The accounts of Glaus, Schoeneweis, catcher Todd Greene and pitcher Ismael Valdez were written by federal agents who interviewed the players as they gathered evidence in the case of Ramon Scruggs, an anti-aging doctor who was indicted last year on charges that he illegally wrote prescriptions for steroids and human growth hormone to the players, business executives, police officers and others. [...][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Scruggs, 62, no longer has a medical license and said his lawyer was negotiating a plea agreement. Nevertheless, he is unapologetic about the players use of steroids. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]These players benefited from restoration, not performance enhancement, Scruggs said in a telephone interview. Steroids dont make someone a good athlete or a bad athlete; they may make you stronger, but they dont make you a better athlete.[/SIZE]
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[SIZE=-1]New York Times[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Even after Major League Baseball and its players union bowed to pressure and started a testing program in 2003, the All-Star third baseman Troy Glaus of the Anaheim Angels and the worn-down pitcher his teammate Scott Schoeneweis said they continued using steroids. (Steroids had been banned in baseball since 1991, but there was no way to enforce the ban until 2003.) [...][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The accounts of Glaus, Schoeneweis, catcher Todd Greene and pitcher Ismael Valdez were written by federal agents who interviewed the players as they gathered evidence in the case of Ramon Scruggs, an anti-aging doctor who was indicted last year on charges that he illegally wrote prescriptions for steroids and human growth hormone to the players, business executives, police officers and others. [...][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Scruggs, 62, no longer has a medical license and said his lawyer was negotiating a plea agreement. Nevertheless, he is unapologetic about the players use of steroids. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]These players benefited from restoration, not performance enhancement, Scruggs said in a telephone interview. Steroids dont make someone a good athlete or a bad athlete; they may make you stronger, but they dont make you a better athlete.[/SIZE]
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