Steroids: Baseball goes slow

[CShine]

His team didn't play baseball yesterday, but Barry Bonds nonetheless was ducking to avoid a hardball. The San Francisco Giants slugger, in town for a weekend series with the Orioles at Camden Yards, was asked about his ties to BALCO, the California lab at the center of an investigation of an alleged sports doping conspiracy.

"I don't know BALCO, dude," Bonds said in the visitors' dugout before last night's game was rained out.

The issue has potentially serious repercussions for Bonds and baseball, which has been criticized for not acting as quickly as its Olympic counterpart to uncover steroid use that could sully the records of some of its top stars.

This week, four of America's elite track athletes were notified of potential BALCO-related drug violations by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, which launched proceedings against them. The accusations against Tim Montgomery, Michelle Collins, Chryste Gaines and Alvin Harrison followed their appearances last fall before a San Francisco grand jury investigating the alleged sale of performance-enhancing drugs to athletes by the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative. It was the same grand jury that in December summoned Bonds, who had publicly touted the lab and whose personal trainer has been charged in an indictment alleging the distribution of banned substances.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/baseball/bal-sp.balco12jun12,0,621039.story?coll=bal-sports-headlines

[pauliedangerously]

1. Professional Sports...HA

I lost interest in pro sports years ago. Revolt by ignoring it.

[sam sarrha]

2. They will have to go slow.. it will take a while for them all to withdraw.

it is very addictive..:nopity:

[Trillo]

3. I find it quite ironic that animals herded for food

are given growth hormones to increase muscle mass, no retail labeling required; but athletes who use their muscles aren't allowed to do the same.

[HuckleB]

4. More steak for me!

Good point. Of course, in my nanny-state world, neither would be OK. Or, we would, at the least, label farm products and athletes correctly.