Tag Archives: peds
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Lance Armstrong’s Interview With Oprah Went Pretty Much as Expected (Video)
Last night was part one of Lance Armstrong’s interview with Oprah. Of course, you probably didn’t watch it, having lost interest in the spectacle once you heard about that whole “Manti Te’o fake dead girlfriend” scandal over at Notre Dame. So we’ve gone through and selected just the most interesting parts. We’ll start with a [...]
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Before Watching Lance Armstrong’s Confession, Watch this Compilation of All the Times He Denied Doping (Video)
So that big Lance Armstrong interview with Oprah in which he admits to using performance enhancing drugs? Yeah, that’s tonight at 9 p.m. ET on OWN—a.k.a. the Oprah Winfrey Network. Of course, now that this whole Manti Te’o mess has come to light, I’m sure Oprah and her people wish they didn’t wait so long to [...]
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Lance Armstrong’s Confession Gets the Taiwanese Animation Treatment (Video)
Over the last several years, pretty much every major event in the world of sports has been explained and analyzed in very helpful computer animation form by Next Media Animation. They’ve helped us understand the Penn State sex abuse scandal, the Roger Clemens steroids trial, Linsanity, and even the Boston Red Sox’s epic 2011 late-season [...]
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Lance Armstrong Admits PED Use To Oprah
Apparently Lance Armstrong finally saw the writing on the wall: everyone knows he used performance enhancing drugs to win his seven Tour de France titles. Time to stop lying through his teeth and ask for forgiveness. So where does one go in this day and age to ask for such forgiveness? To a church confessional? [...]
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New York Times Uses Blank Cover Page To Commemorate Lack Of Baseball Hall of Fame Inductees
On Wednesday, the Baseball Writers Association of America announced their 2013 selections to the Baseball Hall of Fame. And the inductees are… Nobody. For the first time since 1996 not one candidate received 75% of the votes, which is the percentage required for induction. Now, this wouldn’t be such a big deal if not for [...]
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9 Disgraced Sports Heroes
We love turning sports stars into heroes. Is it fair or rational to do so? Maybe, maybe not. On the one hand, pro athletes are just people like you or me, the only difference being that they were born with innate abilities the rest of us don’t have. Why do we expect them to serve [...]
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Want To Know Why Nike Dropped Lance Armstrong? Watch This Commercial (Video)
If you still don’t want to believe the USADA’s doping allegations against Lance Armstrong because you think they’re just out to get him, and if you don’t want to believe pretty much all of his former teammates who’ve said, “yes, he doped like it was going out of style,” then maybe you’ll believe Nike. Yesterday, [...]
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Watch Jose Canseco Endorse Steroids, Jiggle His Pecs, And Trash Talk Players Who Didn’t Take Steroids (Video)
You can love Jose Canseco or you can hate him. Either way, you have to admit that the guy is one of the most entertaining baseball personalities of all time. On the field he was famous for his huge guns and 500 foot home runs. Off the field, of course, he’s become known for [...]
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15 Best Athlete Excuses For Failing A Drug Test
Last week we discovered that the MVP of the MLB All-Star Game, Melky Cabrera, was caught using steroids and banned for 50 games. That was a big deal, but hardly shocking, since the guy’s numbers took such a huge spike over the last two seasons. What was shocking, however, were the lengths he seemed willing [...]
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Lance Armstrong To Be Stripped Of His 7 Tour De France Titles For Doping
So did Lance Armstrong have to cheat to win all those Tour de France titles? Probably, yes. Though he’s been the subject of speculation and accusation for years, most of those claims seemed to come from angry Frenchman and jealous teammates. However, recently Armstrong has been the subject of a major investigation by the United [...]
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Melky Cabrera Set Up Fake Website For Fake Supplement To Try To Avoid His 50-Game Suspension
From 2006 through 2010, Melky Cabrera’s WAR declined from 2.7 to -0.5. Then in 2010 it was 4.1, which was why the San Francisco traded for him. And this year the turn-around continued, with Cabrera posting a 4.8 WAR through 113 games, which included a batting line of .346/.390/.516 and a trip to the All-Star [...]
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Roger Clemens Found Not Guilty On All Counts In Perjury Trial
After five long years of investigations and a ten-week trial, Roger Clemens has been acquitted of all charges against him. The charges stem from claims that he lied to Congress when he denied using performance-enhancing drugs while testifying at a deposition in front of a nationally televised audience back in February 2008. Facing a total [...]
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11 Female Athletes Caught Using Performance Enhancing Drugs
Women’s sports have come a long way since trailblazers like Wilma Rudolph, Billy Jean King, and Althea Gibson. Today, women’s sports are more popular than ever, and female athletes are making more money than ever—both good things. But, as with everything in life, there’s also a downside. Namely, with all that glory and money at [...]
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Tiger Woods: Sex Yes, PEDs No
Tiger Woods has some more drama in his life. His swing coach Hank Haney has quit on him and now Haney is spilling stories like Tiger spills his seed all over the country. Haney might have just cost himself some future clients by revealing personal details about his relationship with Tiger. He confirmed that Tiger [...]
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The Albuquerque Isotopes Take In The Manny Ramirez Show
Total Pro Sports – It was madness in Albuquerque last night as the home town Isotopes had an injection of their own into the lineup. Coming off a long layoff due to a 50 game suspension for using PEDs, Manny Ramirez played his first game in the minors on the road to his MLB comeback. [...]
