Steroid Use

"Irish trainer Gerard Butler has appealed against his five-year suspension over doping offences, the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) announced on Wednesday."

"The Jamaican government has strengthened the anti-doping efforts of the country that will be boosted by grant funding of approximately $7.2 million from the CHASE Fund."

"MILAN (VN) - Franco Pellizotti will not race in Astana's sky-blue colors next season as originally planned. The Kazakh team today announced its decision based on the Movement for a Credible Cycling (MPCC)."

"Milwaukee Brewers leftfielder Ryan Braun has expressed regret that he made use of performance enhancing drugs, which led to a suspension of 65 games from Major League Baseball."

"Three representatives from UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) recently visited Cyprus for delivering training sessions for Doping Control Personnel (DCP) on the island."

"Using a new steroid test, a German anti-doping laboratory has found 266 positive cases in the past year and the lab is now finding other positives in retesting of old samples."

"Former Giro d'Italia winner Danilo Di Luca has been banned from cycling for life after a third doping offence, an Italian Olympic Committee tribunal ruled on Thursday."

"The world governing body of football, FIFA, has called for an overhaul in the approach to the fight against doping in sport."

"And as pharmaceutical companies produce ever more drugs to combat diseases, it is making it all the harder for them to be caught out."

"Milwaukee Brewers leftfielder Ryan Braun has remarked he was "extremely remorseful" and was determined to earn back respect and trust from fans."

"UKAD Director of Communications and Education Nicola Newman recently paid a visit to Brazil for meeting with representatives from the Brazilian national anti-doping organization (ABCD)."

"The 47-year-old admitted to seven charges at an inquiry after nine horses in his care tested positive for a banned anabolic steroid."

"Feliciano Lopez of Spain, the World No. 28, has blasted the anti-doping programs of tennis."

"CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - Lance Armstrong must cooperate fully if he wants to win back some of his reputation and help cycling recover from its drug-stained past, the head of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency said."

"Fenerbahce of Turkey have had their request for Champions League expulsion rejected by the Court of Arbitration for Sport that upheld the ban of two years imposed by UEFA from European competition over a much-publicized match-fixing scandal."

"The entire board of the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission and its chairman, Dr. Herb Elliot, has resigned, after World Anti-Doping Agency officials visited Jamaica to conduct what the nation's minister for sport called an "extraordinary audit." The board members will step down on December 31."

"BERLIN (AFP) - Germany's only Tour de France winner, Jan Ullrich, turns 40 on Monday, insisting he has come to terms with his doping past. Ullrich, who retired in 2007 having won the 1997 Tour, admitted earlier this year that he had resorted to blood doping during his career with the help of Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes."

"Alex Rodriguez's attorney Joe Tacopina has remarked there was enough evidence the Yankees slugger used only legal supplements in recent years."

"WATERLOO - A new beginning means more of the same but on a bigger stage for the University of Waterloo's former athletic director."

"Alex Rodriguez, who has sued Major League Baseball to reverse his historic ban of 211 games, has walked out of a grievance hearing calling the proceedings a farce."