Steroid Nation

NFL debates HGH testing

The NFL at the NFL Players Asccociation appear to be discussing the utilization of HGH testing.  From the Pocono Record.

The evaluation of college prospects is just one of the major happenings next week at the NFoL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis.

The NFL and NFL Players Association (NFLPA) will conduct meetings that should help lay the groundwork for rules changes and tweaks to off-field aspects of league business...

The NFLPA successfully resisted the NFL's efforts to implement HGH testing for the 2011 season.

NFLPA executive George Atallah said Friday that talks between the sides "are better" but there is still no agreement on the horizon.

"It's dependent on information," Atallah said on Sirius XM NFL Radio. "We believe the proposal we gave to the league, which includes a population study for our players and fair appeals rights, are really not dependent on a date.

"The league had talked about last August wanting to get the program launched. We would have loved to been able to do that, but the data was lacking. You want to have transparency. Once we have that, we're going to get going."

The NFLPA has expressed concerns about the test's accuracy, especially when it comes to the biology of football players potentially generating a false positive.

"We're as concerned with false positives as we are with false negatives," Atallah said. "If we really want an effective plan, we have to be able to catch people who are cheating. We can't if people in the doping community know this test is not reliable."

False positive and false negatives are not the only issues here.  WE would think a pilot program is the way to kick off the era of amino acid hormone testing (HGH etc.) in the NFL.

Kirk Radomski, steroid dealer, pushes supplements

Kirk Radomski, who supplied all kinds of unhealthy PEDs to professional athletes is now concerned about health.  As noted in the Daily News, Radomski pushes supplements, like Mass Arrival X0Treme.

A man wearing a blue lab coat and a shower cap pushes a hand truck loaded with 249 boxes of dietary supplements out of the factory loading dock and toward the GMC Acadia. The next chapter in the life of Kirk Radomski — the man who supplied steroids and human growth hormone to dozens of major leaguers for 10 years — has begun.

“I want to see people lose weight,” Radomski says as he and his partner, Steve Cohen, loaded boxes of “Mass Arrival X-treme,” a supplement that boosts testosterone levels, into Cohen’s vehicle. “I want to see people get bigger muscles. I want to see them live healthier live...

“I’m a convicted felon, but that didn’t stop people from coming up to me and asking my advice about supplements,” he says. “I really couldn’t recommend a lot of products. There are a lot of companies out there that shouldn’t be in business. They put illegal ingredients in their products.

Radomski is free to engage in business activites, of course.  What is bizarre is that people ask him about supplements and nurition.

Like asking a street narcotics dealer what to use for pain relief.

Curt Schilling would not open Cooperstown Baseball Hall of Fame to 'roiders' like Bonds

Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling expresses her opipion on the entrence of PED abusing MLBers like Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire (New York Daily News):

Curt Schilling says Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa and anyone else linked to steroids doesn’t belong in Cooperstown. Their records, the former Red Sox pitcher said during his Wednesday night appearance on “Conan,” should be expunged from the record books.

“If you cheated, you’re done,” said Schilling, who will join Clemens, Bonds and Sosa on the 2013 Baseball Hall of Fame ballot.

When the Daily News called Schilling to ask him about his comments, he declined to talk. “I’m not interested in talking about any of that stuff,” he said.

Here’s a question we’d like to ask Schilling: Who made you the steroid arbiter?

From 1988 to 1996, Schilling’s record was 52-52. After he turned 30, he went 164-94 from 1997 to 2007. That kind of jump in performance, especially during the years when Major League Baseball didn’t test for steroids and even the guys selling peanuts appeared to be on the juice, deserves some kind of explanation, doesn’t it?

Snarky of the Daily News to throw in the latter comment.  You are publishing his comment aren't you?  So don't be a jerk when the guy gives you his opinion.

Schilling delivers a basic moral stance: If you cheated you are out of the HOF.  Life isn't always that simple, however that is one legitimate opinion.