Steroid Use

"FILE - Cloudy skies shroud the Capitol in Washington, Monday morning, Oct. 14, 2013 as Senate Democratic and Republican leaders remained at odds over spending in their last-ditch negotiations to end the government shutdown. At a time when many people say that the political system and societal institutions aren't working, the news in 2013 provided multiple sources of confirmation, both at home and abroad. It was the year when things broke down - or at least it often left many people feeling that way."

"Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has remarked that he has many times asked UEFA, the European governing body of football, to consider using blood tests for finding cheaters in football."

"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."

"The Zimbabwe Rugby Union (ZRU), amid concern expressed by the International Rugby Board regarding anti-doping education in age-grade Rugby in Zimbabwe, has signed up to the IRB's successful Keep Rugby Clean education initiative."

"The World Anti-Doping Agency may ban Jamaica from participating in the Olympics if the country if does not address shortcomings highlighted by a former senior employee."

"According to a new study, children who drink soda tend to score slightly higher on scales that measure aggressive behavior than kids who don't drink the carbonated beverages. It was cautioned by the study's lead author that the increase may not be noticeable for individual children and the researchers cannot prove soda caused the bad behaviors."

"Cesar Puello, an outfielder who is currently on the New York Mets 40-man roster, has received a 50-game suspension for violating the drugs policy of Major League Baseball."

"The Major League Baseball has suspended Mariners' Jesus Montero for 50 games after he was found violating the drug policy of the league."

"The 19-year-old student, and son of former Scotland and British & Irish Lions fly-half Craig Chalmers, is alleged to have tested positive in a random drugs test while involved with Scotland Under-20s towards the end of last season. The IRB, SRU and Melrose RFC all declined to comment on the case, other than to re-state their commitment to keeping rugby clean and disciplining players in line with the UK Sport and World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) guidelines."

"According to media reports from Turkey, at least 16 oil wrestlers have tested positive for banned performance enhancing substances in the latest doping scandal to hit the country."

"One of the easiest ways to prevent pain is to engage in activities like walking, gardening, swimming, and dancing as they tend to ease some of the pain in a direct manner by inhibiting pain signals sent to the brain. Moreover, these activities are useful to stretch stiff and tense joints, ligaments, and muscles to lessen the severity and occurrence of pain."

"Members of the inner circle of Alex Rodriguez obtained and leaked documents that implicated Ryan Braun of the Milwaukee Brewers and others involving in Biogenesis scandal. The leak happened in February, according to "60 Minutes", after the Miami New Times published documents implicating Rodriguez in the Biogenesis investigation. However, Rodriguez's lawyer, David Cornwell, denies the allegations."

"Usain Bolt, the fastest man in the world, may be in doubt for the next Olympic Games unless his nation gets its act together on its anti-doping measures. The World Anti-Doping Agency last night warned Jamaica it risked expulsion from major competitions if it failed to address failings highlighted by a former senior employee."