Steroids

Effects of Dianabol Steroid
Dianabol, which is also known as D-bol, is an anabolic steroid. It is a derivative of male hormone testosterone, mainly used by bodybuilders for muscle growth. Read on to know more about effects of Dianabol.

Side Effects of Dianabol
Dianabol is a 'feel good' steroid that sportsmen use for increasing their bodies' growth and metabolism. It causes a positive psychological impact. People using this drug can see a significant increase in their weight, which can be up to 3 to 4 lbs per week. Just like any other steroid, it has its own positive and negative impact. Here I would like to present to you some of the side effects that this steroid can cause.

Side Effects of Steroids
The hazards of using steroids without medical justification...

The Effects of Steroids
We've had a look at what Steroids can and cannot do, here's a look at what are the other effects.

Steroids and Sports
Athletes, whether they are young or old, professional or amateur, are always looking to gain an advantage over their opponents. The desire for an "edge" exists in all sports, at all levels of play.

The Effects of Anabolic Steroids
When you are out to build musclesome people use anabolic steroids. There have been some side effects linked to different ones. You need to make sure you know all the pros and cons before taking any kind of steroids.

You Might Find That Using Alternatives To Steroids Is A Good Idea
While using steroids is one way of quickly gaining body mass it can lead to a number of side effects. These side effects can be harmful to your body both in the short term use as well as the long term usage.

Athletics: Cash Problems Driving Chambers to Gridiron
Sprinter Dwain Chambers has turned to the NFL in frustration at having to pay back £180,000 of prize money that he won while using steroids.

Cricket: Mohammad Asif to Appeal Against His Drug Ban
Mohammad Asif plans to appeal against his one-year ban for taking the banned steroid nandrolone.

Cricket: Shoaib's Gets Two-year Ban for Drug Use
Shoaib Akhtar has received a two-year ban for steroid abuse, while colleague Mohammad Asif has been handed a 12-month ban for the same offence.

Screen Break
Protein powders that wreak havoc with the bowels and steroids that lead to Lilliputian reproductive equipment - who'd be a body builder, asks Martin Kelner.

Golf: Players Line Up to Voice Fears Over Brutal Course
Leading players have been quick to voice their concerns over the Winged Foot course which Phil Mickleson described as "on steroids".

US School Teams Face Random Steroid Tests
The US state of New Jersey has become the first in the country to require random steroid testing in school sports in an attempt to halt the growing use of of performance enhancing drugs that some experts estimate affects as many as 8% of high school athletes.

Athletics: Us Seeks Life Bans for Steroid Cheats
The International Association of Athletics Federations is to discuss US proposals for a lifetime ban for athletes testing positive for anabolic steroids.

Athletics: Conte Accepts 4 Months in Prison
Owner of Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative Victor Conte gets four months in prison after he agreed to admit to conspiracy to distribute steroids.

Sally Vincent Meets Greg Rusedski
Tennis: Interview: Next week, Greg Rusedski launches what may be his final assault on Wimbledon. After all the bad years, beset by surgery, plunging world ranking and those charges of steroid abuse, can he really win it at last? Sally Vincent meets him.

Athletics: Fears Over New Designer Steroid
Drugs in sport: The World Anti-Doping Agency's director general said last night that the agency's scientists are on the verge of unmasking another designer anabolic steroid.

Rugby League: Ban Threat for Penkywicz
Huddersfield's Sean Penkywicz could become the second Super League hooker to be suspended this season after testing positive for the banned steroid stanozolol.

Rugby Union: England Teenager Given Drugs Ban
England Under-18 flanker Adam Dean has been banned until March 15, 2006 after testing positive for a banned steroid.

MLB: Big Leagues in Bigger Trouble
The excitement of a new baseball season has been overshadowed by the issue of steroids, says Duncan Mackay.

Congress at The Plate
GRANDSTANDING POLITICIANS & BASEBALL: As the House Government Reform Committee opens hearings on the burning issue of steroids in baseball, the underlying truth is as clear as a batting practice fastball down the middle.

Scientists Find New Designer Steroid
Weightlifters the world over, rejoice: the white coats at Wada have discovered a new anabolic steroid designed to evade drugs tests.

(th)ink: "'Roid (unde)Rage"
kids + steroids = Ha!!

On The Couch
An Analysis of Current Topics and Issues in Sports. As the most recent revelations regarding the confirmed steroid use by some of sports’ biggest athletes continue to roll out of the closet, many fans, and others connected to the sports world are in total shock.

Baseball: Bonds 'unwittingly' Used Drugs
December 4: America's most popular baseball player has admitted to using steroids from Victor Conte's company.

Steroids Found in Coach's Warehouse
Report reveals presence of small quantity of banned substances in the building used by coach of Kostas Kederis.

Shot Put Champion Tests Positive to Steroid
Russian shot put gold medallist Irina Korzhanenko is under investigation for a positive drug test after traces of the banned steroid stanozolol was found in her sample. Russian Olympic Committee spokesman Gennady Shvets has confirmed that the back-up B sample was now being analysed to...

General: Bowlers accused of steroid use
Markus Petersson sits at home and watches the rain hit the windows. The lifelong San Pedro Wis., resident is mourning the loss of the San Pedro Jumping Frogs, a local bowling team. The team has been expelled from the Northern Wisconsin Bowling League (NWBL) after accusations that Petersson and three other members of the Jumping Frogs were taking anabolic steroids.

Giambi concerns loom over Yankees
It's been a long season for New York Yankee first baseman Jason Giambi. First, he was mentioned in the steroid scandal and then his strength was sapped by an intestinal parasite. Can the Yankees survive without their cleanup hitter?

Baseball's own false positive
While U.S. Track & Field are on a mission to deny due process to its athletes without positive evidence, MLB misleadingly portrays itself as doing something about steroids.

Balco Founder 'to Name' Athletes on Steroids
June 4: Victor Conte, the founder of the Balco lab, is to name drug-abusing American athletes in exchange for a lenient sentence.

Maurice Greene's Coach in New Balco Link
May 24: John Smith, Maurice Greene's coach, is the latest high-profile name to be dragged into the Balco steroid scandal.

Baseball's steroid fallout
Even if we never find out who did what in Major League Baseball's steroid scandal, there will be repercussions. Here's a look at possible effects on fans and players alike.

Athletics: Jones - I'll Sue If Barred From Olympics
May 17: An investigation into the illegal sale of steroids could prevent Marion Jones from competing in Athens.

What do the players have to hide?
The Major League Baseball Player's Association has no good reason for fighting tougher steroid testing, unless they have something to hide.

Reggie Jackson's fuzzy math
One danger of the steroid "scandal": ordinarily-thinking people using it to try arbitrarily isolating specific achievements. Is Mr. October, Reggie Jackson, headed down that same treacherous hill?

Rusedski Cleared But Doping Still Hangs Over Tennis
Greg Rusedski was yesterday cleared of taking banned drugs despite testing positive for the steroid nandrolone last July. But the credibility of men's tennis suffered a further blow with the news that 16 players have tested positive for the same drug already this year. The not guilty...

American Sports: 'the Golden Goose of Baseball is Not About to Die of Steroid Abuse'
March 9: Rumours of drug abuse in Major League Baseball have not stopped record pre-season ticket sales with some declaring the issue an irrelevence.

Get rid of steroids -- now
Why should players who don't take steroids have to compete against people who do? It is time to take care of the problem right now. Bud Selig and the MLB Player's Union need to get together and solve this thing as fast as possible.

I don't think so
ESPN.com's Ralph Wiley is off base with the accusation that the only reason we care about Barry Bonds using steroids is strictly racial.

Cheaters have always prospered
The THG controversy is shedding new light on who is taking steroids in Major League Baseball and other high profile sports. Why is there such a big deal being made out of what has been going on in baseball for a very long time. Cheating. This baseball fan says let's get on with what really matters -- playing baseball.

Banned Steroid That Continues to Haunt Sportsmen
Greg Rusedski is just the latest top sportsman to be caught up in the nandrolone nightmare.

Jacobs to Challenge Any Ban Over Steroid
January 1: Regina Jacobs has become the first American athlete to announce she will challenge any attempt to ban her for testing positive for a new designer steroid.

General: Sterno's Talkin' Smack -- Episode #76
Sterno's Talkin' Smack. No holding back here. It's all trash, all the time. Welcome to another stupendous Tuesday edition of the gala. Today we rap about steroids, the BCS, and Alonzo Mourning.

BMA Calls for Drug Checks on Gyms to Cut Steroid Use
The British Medical Association yesterday urged ministers to consider licensing gymnasiums in order to tackle the rise in anabolic steroid use among young people.

Chambers' Positive Thg Test Confirmed
A source has today claimed that Dwain Chambers' positive test for designer steroid THG has been confirmed by a second test.

How a New Olympic Ideal Fell at First Hurdle
Fears for Athens as 40 to 50 elite athletes could be missing after retesting of samples for new steroid taken by British star Dwain Chambers.

Get Set for Biggest Dope Scandal Ever
Host of sport stars test positive for specially designed steroid.

Even in its shining hour, MLB seems to screw things up
With the Red Sox and Cubs on the verge of making it to the World Series, baseball seems to have come out of last year's near strike, All-Star debacle and steroid controversy without a scratch. Yet, with all the good karma, MLB has structured it so that this magical scenario will be a flop.

Internet Fostering Drug Culture
July 23: Designer steroids are now only a mouse click away, writes Duncan Mackay.

Thumbs-up for Drug-tainted Coach
June 12: British athletics was warned that it is sending out a message that drugs are acceptable after the former steroid-pedalling East German working with Denise Lewis was officially condoned.

Ulihrach admits to steroid positive
Tennis: Bohdan Ulihrach has admitted testing positive for nandrolone. Should a second test be positive he could be banned for two years.

Prince Alexandre De Merode Dead
November 21: Prince Alexandre de Merode, the man who dealt with the doping scandal when Ben Johnson tested positive for steroids, has died.

Ways to improve the pastime
The wonders of steroids, America's thirst for blood, and a major sport run by slightly modified lab monkeys devoid of common sense -- here's a look at all of this and more on baseball and it's grandmaster, Bud Selig.

Rock the wonder horse
It wasn't meant to be like this. When the 2002 Flat season kicked off in earnest with the 2,000 Guineas, all eyes were on Hawk Wing. A strapping powerhouse of a horse, he looked like a steroid-user among schoolboys. Hawk Wing would win his prep race for the Derby. He would then win at Epsom over his preferred distance.

Steroid Suspect Dropped By British Team
Pole-vaulter Janine Whitlock has been left out of the British team for next month's European championships while a UK Athletics committee decide whether she should be banned after testing positive for an anabolic steroid. "Janine Whitlock is not selected at this stage pending the decision...

General: This n'That on... The state of baseball
This past week was probably one of the worst in the history of baseball. An All-Star Game fiasco, steroids, contraction, a potential strike and the "icing" of a legend. Here are some thoughts on the state of MLB.

Whitlock and Wilkins face drug bans on eve of games
Athletics: British pole vaulter Janine Whitlock and discus thrower Periss Wilkins have tested positive for steroids.

Steroid controversy is overrated
Neither Major League Baseball or the Players' Union seem to care about the use of steroids, so why does SI's Rick Reilly care so much? In reality, we will never truly know how rampant steroid use is in baseball, even if testing begins.

Lunatics running the asylum
MLB pitcher John Burkett has decided to boycott the All-Star Game. The players oppose steroid testing and are talking strike in July. The players union will lose all public credibility if its current platform continues.

Drug stain on US gold
Olympic champion reported to have tested positive for banned steroid.

Damage done by steroid claim
The numbers offered are suspect, but the damage to Major League Baseball is real after two former stars claim heavy steroid use by today's players. Just how exaggerated are these claims and should they be taken seriously?

Point/Counterpoint -- Steroid use and testing
My good friend Harlan Goldberg joined me to debate the most recent controversy in baseball -- to juice or not to juice. What do you think?

Major League scandal
Ken Caminiti dealt Major League Baseball a heavy blow by claiming 50 percent of players use steroids. Will the League ever learn that the fans must come first, or it will it flounder to protect the players under Caminiti's confession?

Baseball's dirty little secret
Baseball has enough problems as things stand. Now steroids have been thrown in that problem pile.