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Report: Taurasi’s “B” sample is positive, teammates resist tests
by HoopFeed.com
posted January 3, 2011 at 2:13pm

According to the Associated Press, a Turkish television report says WNBA star Diana Taurasi’s “B” sample for a doping test is positive for the banned stimulant modafinil. Taurasi tested positive for the substance last month and the results of the te...more

Why the media needs to back off Taurasi
by ...Because I Played Sports
posted December 28, 2010 at 6:20pm

Over the past couple of years, I’ve been searching tirelessly for real media coverage of women’s professional basketball in Europe. With the exception of the athletes on Twitter, and a few sites like Eurobasket, FIBA and Basket Plus Internatio...more

Turkey Basketball Fed Chair:"Taurasi Sample B Should Be Tested Within 10 Days"
by Swish Appeal
posted December 28, 2010 at 4:06pm

From Millyet, the Turkish sports site, this badly-translated article quotes from Dr. Turgay Atasü, the Chairman of the Board of Health of the Turkish Basketball Federation:" Taurasi'nin A sample of the substance given to pilots in the United States, peop...more

Just the facts: Taurasi and Modafinil
by HoopFeed.com
posted December 27, 2010 at 12:09pm

Speculation, fan outrage and unsubstantiated claims have made the rounds of the women’s basketball world after news broke Thursday that WNBA star and former UConn standout Diana Taurasi tested positive for the drug modafinil while playing in Turkey....more

Say It Ain’t So, Diana!
by C and R's Stanford Women's Basketball Blog
posted December 26, 2010 at 2:08pm

C and R favorite of favorites, so much that we overlook the fact she came from UConn, Diana Taurasi, has bee reported to have tested positive for a banned drug while playing basketball in the country of Turkey. Of course, all issues of privacy went out th...more

Diana Taurasi update
by They're Playing Basketball
posted December 25, 2010 at 4:08pm

The WNBA star may face an Olympic ban in 2012 if she is suspended for the customary two years for her positive drug test.Taurasi tested positive for the stimulant modafinil: "a drug that enhances wakefulness and vigilance and is designed to treat narcolep...more

Diana Taurasi tests positive for banned substance
by HoopFeed.com
posted December 24, 2010 at 2:22pm

From the Hoopism Blog By Sue Favor Phoenix Mercury forward Diana Taurasi has tested positive for some banned substance in Turkey, where she's been playing. Her lawyer will only say that it's "not a steroid or a recreational drug." She's been suspended fr...more

Diana Taurasi Link Roundup: No clarity likely until second test
by Swish Appeal
posted December 24, 2010 at 2:17pm

When petrel originally posted the link to Turkish newspaper Milliyet's report of Diana Taurasi testing positive for drugs yesterday morning, I think he took the right approach: skepticism. But from that leak, we have a WNBA off-season story that was ...more

Tulsa Shock’s Marion Jones on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart”
by HoopFeed.com
posted November 17, 2010 at 10:14am

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Marion Jones...more

Marion Jones: Reflections on a second chance as we "Press Pause" with 30 for 30
by Swish Appeal
posted November 2, 2010 at 6:59pm

Marion Jones photo courtesy Craig Bennett/112575 Media View full size photo » Second chances, do you believe in them? The current way the world revolves, this subject can be a slippery slope when broached. Some people dole out seconds, th...more

Sunday Evening Decathlete
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted October 31, 2010 at 9:11pm

What did we learn this week?Eddy Hellebuyck's doping story. Back in 2004 he tested positive for EPO and vigorously fought it, all the way to the Court for Arbitration of Sport (and lost). Now he's finally admitted it, breaking the news in a lengthy, e...more

Anti-Doping Video: Tara Cunningham
by Pretty Strong
posted October 22, 2010 at 12:52pm

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Doping in Weightlifting
by Pretty Strong
posted October 20, 2010 at 8:25pm

In USAW's High Performance Plan it reads, "USAW decided to do the right thing with regard to doping nearly 20 years ago, by building, with the help of the USOC and then USADA, one of the strongest drug testing programs of any sport or nation in th...more

ESPN 30 for 30 on Marion Jones,
by Swish Appeal
posted October 20, 2010 at 12:39am

I thought it was very interesting that this black woman – gotta call it what it is – was jailed where few if any other athletes, no matter the sport, have ever served any time for their involvement with steroids. For me, this is a story that trans...more

Ramping down the rhetoric about steroids
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted October 16, 2010 at 5:55pm

From earlier this week, Patrick Hruby pens a smart piece on the need to take a deep breath over the hysteria over steroids in sports and address the issue like adults: “What if we’re too ignorant to judge the severity of the performance-enhancing dru...more

Weekly Roundup: Sex, Drugs, and Bieber Edition
by Draft Day Suit
posted October 3, 2010 at 2:05pm

Sex Cincinnati Bengal Chad Ochocinco was trying to help Feed the Children by having their phone number for donations printed on boxes of his cereal, “OchocincOs.” A typo sends callers to a phone sex line instead. If Chad were not a Bengal, would this...more

Here, Take This!
by My so-called FABULOUS life: Brianna Glenn
posted August 12, 2010 at 2:46pm

Submitting to random drug testing is a necessary evil of our sport. It sucks, it’s inconvenient, but at the end of the day it’s for the greater good. The inconvenient aspect of it comes in two main forms, the when and the what. The when would be th...more

MLB makes an effort to clean up its act
by Draft Day Suit
posted July 24, 2010 at 12:10pm

Well, well, well, it seems that the Major League Baseball association is trying to clean up it’s act. Or at least trying to prevent more embarrassing messes in the future. How? No, they aren’t going to be breaking out the cleanser, though it woul...more

No One Remembers Second...
by amber2jewel
posted June 10, 2010 at 8:00pm

Amidst the USC-Reggie Bush/O.J. Mayo scandals and the sanctions announced by the NCAA today, the Memphis-Derrick Rose scandal, Marion Jones and her steroids scandal, and yes, the fossil that is the MLB steroids scandal, I’ve been doing a l...more

Another round of performance enhancing drugs
by Byline to Finish Line
posted May 21, 2010 at 12:58pm

In the middle of the Tour of California with the Tour de France on the horizon, well, it’s no surprise really. Performance enhancing drugs are back in the news. Then again, really when does the topic ever go away? It started yesterday when it came out...more

Lessons from a Biking God
by Draft Day Suit
posted May 21, 2010 at 12:42pm

Be careful what you wish for; just ask Lance Armstrong. Not only is the super-cycler capable of crashing like my son who is just learning to ride a bike but he is not immune from lashing out. His tweet on Thursday called out the media. Via twitter. Ve...more

Mark McGwire: Color me not surprised
by After Atalanta
posted January 12, 2010 at 2:47pm

Woo-hoo, look at me, up on the breaking news that Mark McGwire has admitted to taking steroids. Shocker. Seriously.But even in admitting his deep regret and wishing he had never ever taken steroids, the heartfeltness of it all remains suspect--to me, anyw...more

Roid rage
by Draft Day Suit
posted January 12, 2010 at 1:48pm

“If I only had three words of advice, they would be, ‘tell the truth.’ If got three more words, I’d add, ‘all the time.’” -Randy Pausch In the category of “Not Exactly News,” Mark McGwire admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs ...more

Relationships and my whereabouts
by My so-called FABULOUS life: Brianna Glenn
posted December 28, 2009 at 2:39pm

Have you ever been in one of those relationships where the other person expects you to update them of your plans every second of every day? You’re constantly calling to check in and let them know what’s going on, and if plans change you better let th...more

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