The IHT says two more minor leagues dropped positive urine tests.
Two more minor league ballplayers were suspended for positive drug tests on Friday.
Cincinnati Reds minor league pitcher Renny Amador and Arizona Diamondbacks minor league shortstop Bernardino Jimenez each received a 50-game ban after testing positive for performance-enhancing steroids. Both players are in the Rookie level Dominican Summer League.
The suspensions, which are effective immediately, brought the number of minor leaguers receiving drug bans to 11 since last Friday, July 25.
Amador has only pitched 2 2-3 innings this season. Jimenez, in 45 games this season, is hitting .164, but with a .320 on-base percentage and five steals in eight attempts.
Five million dollars of drugs including GHB and steroids nabbed in Toronto..of course that is Canadian dollars (Toronto Star). We are glad the detective below is not so experienced with heroin.
Police found six kilos of the drug, along with 31 kilos of cocaine, five kilos of marijuana, two kilos of crystal meth, four kilos of Ecstasy, a quantity of the date-rape drug GHB, steroids, Ketamine and Viagra. The street value of the drugs is estimated at about $5.5 million. Police also seized $400,000 cash.
Officers arrested 25 people yesterday and six others during the investigation.
"I personally have not seen that much heroin in one location," Det.-Sgt. John DeCourcy said.
There is a positive side to all this doping. Joe Lindsey in Bicycling reports on the Garmin-Chipotle team.
This is part two in a series on anti-doping measures by the Garmin-Chipotle team (Click here to read part one). The issue of doping in sports, for a fan, boils down to a simple question: how do we know that the performances we see before us are real? The 2008 Tour de France seems to have provided two instructive answers to that so far between the mountain-top finishes of the 10th and 17th stages and Christian Vande Velde's fight for a podium finish. Are Vande Velde's results proof of a cleaner sport? Do the numbers from his team's testing program back it up? Read on and find out as the most-transparent team in the history of the sport has shared its testing numbers with Bicycling.com's Joe Lindsey for the world to see on page four.
The top controversies at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. (The Street)
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