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It may be a desire for immortality that pushes some athletes to seek to transcend the limitations of mere mortal bodies through the use of performance-enhancing drugs. Certainly Lance Armstrong, the seven-time Tour de France winner and Olympic champion,...
Tags: Awards and Prizes, San Francisco Giants, Diseases and Illnesses, Sports, Blood
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Urlacher should address treatment issues frankly
Back to being a Pro Bowl grump Wednesday at Halas Hall, Brian Urlacher refused to clarify the mysterious circumstances surrounding treatment of his injured left knee. Urlacher's reaction provided the least surprising aspect of a story that cannot go away...
Tags: Steroids, Kobe Bryant, Food and Drug Administration, Sports, Brian Urlacher
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Baseball cheaters should get stiffer penalties
If sport is about mythmaking, then clean sport might be the biggest myth of all.
Baseball was reminded of this the hard way Wednesday when Bartolo Colon of the Oakland Athletics was suspended 50 games after testing positive for testosterone. Melky...Tags: San Francisco Giants, Sports, Clayton Kershaw, Bill Shaikin, World Anti-Doping Agency
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Giants All-Star Melky Cabrera Suspended for Positive Drug Test
FOX40 NewsMelky Cabrera, the San Francisco Giants’ All-Star outfielder, has tested positive for a banned substance and has been suspended for 50 games. Cabrera tested positive for testosterone, one of the 70 steroids listed as banned by the MLB. In a...Tags: San Francisco Giants, Baseball, Melky Cabrera, Sports, Major League Baseball
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U.S. Olympian Dunn has positive drug test
Debbie Dunn, who made the 2012 U.S. Olympic team in the pool of runners for the 4 x 400-meter relay, tested positive for the likely presence of an anabolic steroid at the 2012 U.S. Olympic trials in Eugene, Ore. Dunn, 34, of Norfolk, Va., finished fourth...
Tags: Steroids, Track and Field, U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, 2012 Summer Olympics, Drugs and Medicines
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No evidence that sex spoils sport
ReutersLONDON (Reuters) - The ancient Greeks believed athletes should avoid sex before sport, but modern Olympians and scientists are torn over the merits of in-competition coitus and whether abstinence enhances performance. For years coaches and athletes...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Track and Field, Philosophy, Boris Johnson
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William and Mary, Old Dominion key in women's athletics, Title IX timeline
One was a tennis player from Illinois, a man with a well-honed sense of fairness combined with a fierce independent streak. The other was a self-described tomboy from Georgia, a woman whose grace and charm made her crusading spirit all the more effective....
Tags: John Randolph, Financial Aid, Crime, Law and Justice, High School Sports, National Collegiate Athletic Association
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INKED! Don't batter the chicken, batter the game, haters
It’s been difficult to come to terms with my masculinity, all 260 pounds of grotesque mannishness. I do so love getting makeovers at the hands of my 7-year-old daughter, but when a perfectly applied coat of crème foundation is marred by a 5 o&...
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Despite new film role, Jane Fonda says she was 'never a hippie'
24 FramesNow 74 and in her self-described “third act,” Jane Fonda is clear-eyed, focused, fit, relaxed — and busier than ever. Her new film, “Peace, Love & Misunderstanding,” opens Friday in limited release, with Fonda playing an... -
Drug may be near for cancer's companion condition cachexia
Bonnie Addario didn't even know there was a word for what was happening to her. As if lung cancer weren't bad enough, the 54-year-old had lost 30 pounds off her normally 130-pound frame. Her life was limited to her husband's Barcalounger, where she had to...Tags: Hormones and Metabolism, Hofstra University, Oncology, Lungs and Airways, Prostate Cancer
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Till tedium do us part
Ours has been the summer of extreme marital discontent. From Arnold Schwarzenegger's love child to Anthony Weiner's tweets to J.Lo's divorce No. 3, dysfunction and discord have been writ large.
So what does that mean for regular folks? The ones whose...Tags: Family, Oxytocin (drug), Marriage, Human Interest, Divorce
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Did pregnancy make Mariah Carey's voice stronger?
Mariah Carey, she of the five-octave vocal range, is showing off her new figure. The platinum pop diva, who gave birth to twins in April, recently dropped 30 pounds -- but that's not all that's changed. Carey says pregnancy has made her voice stronger....Tags: Opera (genre), Human Body, Breastfeeding, Twins, Health
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