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ITF authorizes Yanina Wickmayer’s return to tennis
by WTA Women's Tennis
posted December 16, 2009 at 1:53pm

ITF authorizes Yanina Wickmayer’s return to tennis Finally Yanina Wickmayer will be able to play tennis in 2010 and she can take advantage of the wild card offer to play in Auckland. ITF officials lifted her one-year ban for violating anti-doping ru...more

Court suspends tennis ban for Yanina Wickmayer
by WTA Women's Tennis
posted December 15, 2009 at 11:23am

Court suspends tennis ban for Yanina Wickmayer A Belgian court decided to suspend the one-year doping ban given to Yanina Wickmayer. Wickmayer’s lawyers hopes she can play as soon as possible while she wishes to receive a wild card for the Australia...more

Sesil Karatantcheva Interview: I still believe in miracles
by WTA Women's Tennis
posted December 14, 2009 at 6:05pm

Sesil Karatantcheva Interview: I still believe in miracles Sesil Karatantcheva climbed up to 35th in the WTA Sony Ericsson Tour ranking list but a positive doping test took her off the scene for two years. She appealed to the CAS excusing the high nand...more

Jones-ing
by C and R's Stanford Women's Basketball Blog
posted December 2, 2009 at 6:09pm

Okay, so when C opens her internet browser, she has her home page set to Yahoo. Not Google. Her kids, questioning her technology knowledge (and sanity), always ask why she is using the "inferior" Yahoo instead of God-Almighty-Google. C likes to tell them ...more

Mailbag: What's your two cents on Marion Jones?
by Jayda Evans: Womens Hoops Blog
posted December 2, 2009 at 3:28pm

Ever felt an e-mail lashing? It has the subject line of "Enough vacationing!" Then it succinctly tells you what has happened while you were gone (LJ's not going back to Russia. Oregon scored something like 115 points. You missed the Husky Classic) and clo...more

Marion Jones in the WNBA
by Chantelle Says
posted December 2, 2009 at 11:36am

So Marion Jones wants to play in the WNBA. A few people have asked what I thought about it, so I figured I’d comment. I’ll admit I was a little offended when I first read about her intentions. To me, it already seems like people don’t give the ...more

Marion Jones seeking a pro basketball career
by HoopFeed.com
posted November 30, 2009 at 7:20pm

Marion Jones is training for a professional basketball career in Europe according to Fanhouse.com. The former world champion track and field athlete trains in San Antonio. She helped North Carolina win the NCAA basketball championship in 1994 when she wa...more

Yanina Wickmayer appeal against doping bans
by WTA Women's Tennis
posted November 19, 2009 at 12:13pm

Yanina Wickmayer appeal against doping bans Yanina Wickmayer fell foul of anti-doping regulations and was suspended for 1 year from the Sony ericsson WTA Tour but she has appealed against their one-year ban to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ...more

Unhealthy practices of coaches
by One Sport Voice
posted November 11, 2009 at 2:32pm

In a session at NASSS, colleague Jim Denison (University of Alberta) made an interesting comment I’ve been thinking about ever since. He asserted that some coaches ask athletes to do all kinds of things that are bad for their health– and much less h...more

Yanina Wickmayer susp for one year ended by Belgian Anti-Doping Tribunal
by WTA Women's Tennis
posted November 5, 2009 at 6:43pm

Yanina Wickmayer susp for one year ended by Belgian Anti-Doping Tribunal At the begging of October we learnt that Yanina Wickmayer needed to face a Belgian Tribunal and today we have the results. Yanina Wickmayer has been suspended for one year by a B...more

MLB will not punish Alex Rodriguez for steroid use
by Draft Day Suit
posted September 12, 2009 at 1:16pm

After completing their investigation Major League Baseball has decided not to punish A-Rod. Well, why the hell not? Is it okay to cheat as long as you come clean about exactly how long you were breaking the rules and you were telling the truth about tha...more

The Real Players of New Jersey: Sky Blue FC wins WPS championship!
by From A Left Wing
posted August 23, 2009 at 5:41pm

Walking into Carson stadium for the WPS final, I found myself thinking that a win for Sky Blue would be good for the league, and perhaps even good for the Sol. The WPS needs to get rid of the impression that there is one team that is far and away better t...more

Cheaters never prosper
by Women's Sports Nation
posted July 29, 2009 at 1:08am

The sport of softball has had a clean doping record since its inception in the 1996 Olympic Games and has taken further action to continue its streak of dope-free play. More than 250 tests have been taken in all of the ISF's member nations as softball str...more

That's A Lot of Dope
by Women's Sports Blog
posted June 21, 2009 at 1:13pm

Former mountain biker and queen of bad hair Missy Giove was arrested with 100 kilograms (yes you read that right) of pot. Unless she was planning to burn it in her fireplace, there's really no way you can get away with personal use on that one. The st...more

Missy “The Missile” Giove arrested for transporting marijuana
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted June 19, 2009 at 4:37pm

Missy Giove was one of the most daring downhill biking racers on the circuit before she retired in 2004. She won several championships and was known for her “take no prisoners” style of riding which led to numerous crashes and injuries in the process...more

The steroid double standard
by After Atalanta
posted May 8, 2009 at 11:19am

Luckily I am not a member of Red Sox Nation currently overflowing with schadenfraude nor am a disillusioned fan of baseball with hopes for some return to a state of purity in the sport. So the Manny Ramirez revelation (on top of the A-Rod thing and the Mi...more

Root for a clean horse in the Derby
by Women's Sports Blog
posted May 2, 2009 at 4:07pm

According to this lengthy and disturbing Times article, many of the horses racing at the Kentucky Derby will be doing so on a cocktail of drugs. With favorite I Want Revenge scratched, however, odds move toward Friesan Fire, one of the few horses who is...more

Evolution of the action sports athlete
by Pretty Tough
posted February 20, 2009 at 4:20pm

A couple of interesting articles today demonstrate just how far action sports have come. First, comes Forbes with its list of the highest-paid action sports stars. Huh? A couple years ago mentioning Forbes and action sports in the same sentence would b...more

Many Athletes Upset by New WADA Code
by WomenTalkSports
posted February 12, 2009 at 11:04pm

Many athletes are not happy about the new "whereabouts requirements" recently instituted by the World Anti-Doping Agency. Serena Williams says, “It’s very invasive. ... Basically, they show up at your house on any day.”...more

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