Eighty nine 89 Major League Baseball players, including Roger Clemens were linked with the use of performance enhancing drugs by a report by former senator George J Mitchell.
The report used informant testimony and supporting documents to provide a richly detailed portrait of what Mr. Mitchell described as “baseball’s steroids era.”
From NYTimes.com:
Mr. Clemens, a [...]
In another news-making gossip style, Brian McNamee filed a defamation case against Roger Clemens. The summons served by McNamee, the former trainer, notified that he reserved the right to take legal action against the former Yankee pitcher for defamation. McNamee’s lawyers’ representatives gave the summons last week at the Rocket’s home in the Memorial section [...]
Brian McNamee faces perjury raps himself as 46-year-old pitcher Clemens appealed to the court not to dismiss the slander case he filed against McNamee. Clemens said that his former trainer might not be telling the truth since he testified to the federal investigators with the pressure that he will be immune from prosecution.
A perjury case [...]
Administration of drug tests in international sports should consider ethnicity as one of the factors that could alter the results of the tests. This is according to Swiss researchers who discovered that there is a difference between the levels of testosterone and epitosterone ratio (T:E) in Caucasians and Asians.
In a study published by the British [...]