The last-minute withdrawal of some of the best Jamaican horses from the December 3 Caribbean National Racing Challenge raceday at Santa Rosa Park in Trinidad and Tobago has sparked off a firestorm of criticism about drug testing in local racing.
In addition to the Trinidadian runners, 18 local horses were nominated at various stages [...]
A bill that would require Oregon police officerswho are involved in deadly force to undergo drug testing after an incident had its first reading on the floor of the Oregon Senate recently.
Under the proposed legislation, testing for anabolic steroids would be included.
From Oregonlive.com:
Senate Bill 895, sponsored by the state Senate Committee on General Government, [...]
A high proportion of public school districts have been instituting random drug testing on their high school students much beyond the sanctions set by the U.S. Supreme Court, as per a study led by the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (PIRE).
From News-Medical.Net:
Nearly all school districts that implemented random drug testing procedures subjected their athletes [...]
The union chief Don Fehr and his right hand man Gene Orza must leave the union graciously. The steroid controversy, which was set off when the results of Alex Rodriguez’s use of performance enhancing drugs leaked to the press, had put many of the baseball players’ careers in jeopardy. When Fehr was barraged with questions [...]
Everybody has their opinion on how the make the Major Leagues a “better place” by implementing stricter rules or by adding blood tests. David Ortiz of the Boston Red is no different. During a recent interview, Ortiz claims that he wants Major League Baseball athletes who yield positive tests to have more severe punishments than [...]
Lately, all you hear about Major League Baseball is the news that this athlete used that steroid or that this player has been named for taking this drug. Jeff Kent of the San Francisco Giants showed his love for baseball in a very effective way— speaking against anabolic steroids during the height of the steroids [...]