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Football player Jordan Matechuk has received a second chance to play professional football. The Canadian Football League’s Winnipeg Blue Bombers signed Matechuk to a contract this month. Matechuk, acting on the advice of his agent Fred Weinrauch, had sent a letter of apology and contrition to all the teams in the CFL after he was released from jail. He expressed his shame at being arrested for steroids. The Blue Bombers were the only CFL team to express interest in him. The Blue Bombers... Read Full Story

James Gahan, the father who infamously injected his 13-year old son with anabolic steroids to help him become an Olympic athlete, has completed his six-year prison sentence and is talking to high school athletes about steroids. Gahan had pleaded guilty to  possessing and distributing anabolic steroid testosterone to a minor. He collaborated with a Florida coach and trainer to provide his son with the anabolic steroids testosterone and Deca Durabolin, human growth hormone (hGH) and human... Read Full Story

The dreams of a Greco-Roman wrestler who had hoped to represent Canada in the 2012 London Olympics have ended after he was caught using anabolic steroids, diuretics and a selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERMs). Colin Daynes had won the 74 kilogram division at the Canadian Wrestling Qualification Trials held at the University of Winnipeg on December 18, 2012.  The Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sports announced that Daynes tested positive for boldenone, drostanolone, furosemide and... Read Full Story

Cyclist Jan Ullrich proved that even an athlete marred by a doping scandal can still make money from sponsorships. Ullrich was the first German to win the 1997 Tour de France and was the runner-up to Lance Armstrong in five subsequent Tour de France races.  He was incredibly popular in his homeland until he was linked to a major doping scandal in 2006. Ullrich retired under a cloud of suspicion in 2007. Alpecin, a German manufacturer of hair loss products, wasn’t put off by Ullrich’s doping... Read Full Story

Michael Lohan, the troubled father of the troubled actress Lindsay Lohan, is currently receiving treatment for the abuse of anabolic steroids and “co-dependency issues” at a residential treatment center in Florida according to RadarOnline.com. Palm Partners Recovery Center is overseeing Lohan’s reported rehabilitation for steroid abuse. Lohan was ordered to spend four months at Palm Partners as part of a one-year probationary sentence outlined in a plea agreement with Hillsborough County... Read Full Story

Louise Neathway (aka Louise Meanwell) has alleged that New York Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman intentionally mislead federal investigators about his knowledge of steroid use by the club’s players according to the New York Daily News. Neathway was the purported mistress of Cashman since April 2010. Chris Giglio, a spokesman for Cashman, has questioned the credibility of Neathway’s steroid accusations given that she currently faces felony charges of grand larceny, stalking and... Read Full Story

The popular French satirical television show known as “Les Guignols de l’Info” has broadcast a controversial video skit implying athletes from neighboring Spain are using anabolic steroids and performance-enhancing drugs. The skit displayed the logos of ten different Spanish sports federations including tennis, cycling and soccer. At least one of the federations planned to sue the French network Canal+ for slander and the unauthorized use of their logo. The Real Federación Española de Tenis... Read Full Story

Harvey Shapiro, M.D., the former Chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of California San Diego, has penned a medical-thriller about anabolic steroids, performance-enhancing drugs and gene doping entitled “Morphed: Winning at Any Cost Even if it Means Altering Your DNA”. Shapiro was inspired to write the novel after he served as a Doping Control Officer at the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City. During his time collecting urine samples from Olympic athletes... Read Full Story

David Howman, the director general of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), has admitted that the use of anabolic steroids and performance-enhancing drugs may be much more pervasive than the anti-doping testing statistics suggest. Conventional wisdom gleaned from the number of athletes actually caught taking steroids would place the number of steroid users at approximately 1-2 percent of tested athletes. Recent WADA-funded research indicates the rate may be greater than 10 percent. “We... Read Full Story

Renowned super sports agent Leigh Steinberg recently perpetuated the popular myth that anabolic steroids caused Lyle Alzado’s death from a rare form of brain cancer. Steinberg was the real-life inspiration for director Cameron Crowe’s 1996 movie “Jerry Maguire”. In an editorial entitled “Steroids Not For Sports”, Steinberg claimed that the National Football League (NFL) banned steroids as a reaction to the supposed steroid-related deaths of Oakland Raider players Lyle Alzado and John... Read Full Story