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Drugs in Sports

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2013

    Hall of Fame Voters Reject Barry Bonds -- Resoundingly

    Barry Bonds, perhaps the greatest baseball player of all time, will not be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame this year. Not even close. Just 36.2 percent of baseball writers named him on their ballot. Bonds' misery, however, will have company. In a resounding, all-encompassing rejection of t ... More >>

  • News

    January 2, 2013

    Big-Headed, Tight-Lipped: Barry Bonds' Hall of Fame Defense

    Barry Bonds, perhaps the greatest baseball player of all time, will not be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame this year. Not even close. Just 36.2 percent of baseball writers named him on their ballot. Bonds' misery, however, will have company. In a resounding, all-encompassing rejection of t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2012

    The Legal Perspective on Baseball Hall of Fame Voting and Steroids

    In each of his six years of Hall of Fame eligibility, Mark McGwire received less than 24 percent of the vote. With McGwire's case, the baseball writers who cast the ballots indicated that players who took steroids should not have a Cooperstown bust. This year's eligible class will test that stance ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 7, 2012

    Marijuana Is Career Poison for Olympic Athletes who Are Not Named Michael Phelps

    While he never raced against Jim Thorpe in the decathlon and never competed against the color barrier, American swimmer Michael Phelps can nonetheless lay claim to the title of greatest Olympian. His 22 medals won over three separate Games allow him this.Judo practitioner Nicholas Delpopolo is no Mi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2012

    Nonito Donaire Becomes First Boxer to Agree to Year-Round Drug Tests, Says Victor Conte

    Nonito Donaire, the 29-year-old super bantamweight champion from San Leandro, became the one of the first professional boxers to agree to year-round drug testing when he enrolled in the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association this week. There's a bunch of reasons why this is a good move. It's cheaper tha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2012

    World Anti-Doping Agency Asked to Dump Marijuana From List of Performance-Enhancing Drugs

    Among the Drug War's finer ironies is the treatment of marijuana by the world of sport, which has taken a deliciously schizophrenic view on the miracle/devil plant: It's a gateway drug that dooms its users to a lifetime of apathy, ignorance, and nonproduction. It's also a performance-enhancer, in th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2011

    Lance Armstrong Doping Investigation: Leak Shows 60 Minutes Expose Was Right

    Matt SmithIt's hard to stop a leak.​Attorneys for Lance Armstrong pivoted from demanding an apology for purported inaccuracies in a recent 60 Minutes doping exposé to lambasting the "leakers" who proved that the report was true. Last month, Armstrong hired a San Francisco law firm famed ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2011

    Lance Armstrong's Attorneys Demand Apology From CBS Over Doping Allegation Story

    Is used to winning ​No sooner had Lance Armstrong juiced his legal team last week by adding the San Francisco firm famed for helping ballplayers battle leaks in the BALCO drugs case, than Keker & Van Nest came out swinging, making a public demand that CBS apologize for doping allegat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2011

    Lance Armstrong Doping Story Points Toward S.F. Company

    It's about the EPO.​CBS' 60 Minutes shook the sporting world Sunday with extraordinary doping accusations involving the seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong. According to Armstrong's former teammate Tyler Hamilton, Armstrong dosed his own teammates post-race with droppers-full of st ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2011

    Bill Laddish, Victim of Steroid-Cheating Cyclist, Gets Revised Race Results

    Laddish's put in hard training miles, only to be beat in 2008 by a doper.​Earlier this month we told you about how antidoping authorities penalized Oakland journalist and amateur cyclist Andrew Tilin after he released The Doper Next Door: My Strange and Scandalous Year on Performance-Enhancing Dru ... More >>

  • News

    April 13, 2011

    News Media Continues Its Slow Decline

    Laddish's put in hard training miles, only to be beat in 2008 by a doper.​Earlier this month we told you about how antidoping authorities penalized Oakland journalist and amateur cyclist Andrew Tilin after he released The Doper Next Door: My Strange and Scandalous Year on Performance-Enhancing Dru ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2011

    Andrew Tilin, Local Journalist, Gets Busted for Steroids After Writing Tell-All Book

    If aging duffers want to get caught doping, they must publish books like this one.​The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency has announced a two-year athletic competition ban for Andrew Tilin after the 46-year-old Oakland journalist and amateur cyclist released a book titled The Doper Next Door: My Strange and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2011

    Barry Bonds' Testicles to Get Their Day in Court

    Will this photo find its way into evidence as well? ​Four years ago, just one of Barry Bonds' balls sold for $752,467. Well that was then and this is now. These days, the focus is on both of Bonds' balls -- and their diminished state. Exhibits Nos. 1 and 2 at the Bonds perjury trial will be the sl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2010

    Lance Armstrong Case Takes BALCO Investigator Jeff Novitzky To France

    Look what you've done!! I'm melting, melting. ​Jeff Novitzky, the USDA investigator famed for pursuing Barry Bonds in the BALCO steroids case, was in Lyon, France this week chasing evidence that cycling star Lance Armstrong doped in violation of multimillion dollar sponsorship agreements with the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2010

    Feds Say Fuck No to Lincecum-Themed T-Shirts

    ICE Fucking Took It​The federal government is not your friend. Barry Bonds knows this -- the home run king will be in federal court next year not for using steroids, but for allegedly lying to a federal grand jury about using them (this after a federal agent rooted through BALCO kingpin Victor Con ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2010

    Lance Armstrong-Gavin Newsom Meeting Great Distraction From Doping Investigation

    What, Lance worry?​Lance Armstrong's whirlwind publicity tour of San Francisco this week was a textbook example of a damage control strategy in which a public figure faced with scandal strenuously seeks to act as if there aren't any problems, according to PR experts quoted by the Associated Press. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2010

    Lance Armstrong Lawyers Up; Doper Teammate Tyler Hamilton Spills to Feds

    What's in the cup, Lance? ​The criminal investigation into the U.S. Postal Service-sponsored team of cycling champion Lance Armstrong took a vast leap forward today with reports that former teammate Tyler Hamilton has agreed to speak with federal investigators. Hamilton, an Olympic gold medal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2010

    Cyclist Tammy Thomas' Perjury Conviction Upheld by 9th Circuit Court

    ​Back in 2008, professional cyclist Tammy Thomas was found guilty of perjury for lying to a grand jury about using steroids. Today, San Francisco's 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld that ruling. Although Thomas has long denied that she used steroids -- urine samples beg to differ. In 2003, T ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2010

    Interpol, World Anti-Doping Agency Launch Investigations of Lance Armstrong

    No, no, not that way. This way...​At this point, who isn't investigating Lance Armstrong? The World Anti-Doping Agency has joined the Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Attorney's office to look into allegations that directors of Armstrong's former U.S. Postal Service Cycling Team conducted ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2010

    Wall Street Journal Planning Lance Armstrong Doping Bombshell

    Might this affect Lance's concentration?​The Wall Street Journal, which for a week has been rumored to be preparing a Game of Shadows-style story detailing doping allegations against seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong, announced in Friday's paper that it plans to release just such ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2010

    Feds' Case Against Bonds Evaporating

    Feds Losing Their Heads​The quest to incarcerate home run champion Barry Lamar Bonds took a perhaps fatal twist on Friday, when a judge ruled that prosecutors cannot use key evidence in their case to prove the 45-year old slugger lied about using steroids.

  • News

    May 26, 2010

    Floyd Landis doping scandal: The S.F. connection

    Feds Losing Their Heads​The quest to incarcerate home run champion Barry Lamar Bonds took a perhaps fatal twist on Friday, when a judge ruled that prosecutors cannot use key evidence in their case to prove the 45-year old slugger lied about using steroids.

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2010

    Hometown Papers Claim Local Hero Cyclist Levi Leipheimer Never Doped. Oh Really?

    Hometown papers are ardently defending Levi Leiphimer from accusations of drug use. But those accusations may not be so far-fetched.​When disgraced 2006 Tour de France champion Floyd Landis last week confessed to doping and fingered other cyclists, the Santa Rosa Press Democrat was quick to jump t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2010

    Disgraced Cyclist Floyd Landis Says Lance Armstrong a Doper

    Dennis BuddLance Armstrong and two other Tour of California participants have been accused of being dope-users​Sigh of relief for race sponsor Amgen: Drugs Lance Armstrong accused of using made by competing company.The Amgen Tour of California bicycle race was rocked Thursday by accusations from 2 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2009

    Tour de France Brought to You By ... A Palo Alto Biotech Startup?

    ​Officially speaking, the Tour de France -- which finished Sunday in Paris -- was brought to you by sponsors Carrefour supermarkets, Skoda cars and Vittel bottled water. Behind the scenes however, the physiology-defying, mountaintop-finish action of the race through the Pyrenees and the Alps may h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 5, 2009

    Reporter: Government Has Struck Out in Bonds Case -- Prosecution Won't Resume

    Since 2003, Marin writer Jonathan Littman has intimately covered the government's investigation and prosecution of Barry Bonds and other athletes ensnared in the BALCO scandal. He's shown up at nearly every court hearing and sifted through thousands of pages of court documents. And he's confident in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2009

    Why Is Barry Bonds' Case Front-Page News? Because the Media 'Think We're Stupid'

    Barry Bonds in his new home uniformThe sight of Barry Bonds, in uniform, performing in front of packed crowds is not a new one. These days, however, the uniform appears to be a dark suit and striped tie. And the crowds are gathered at his ongoing perjury and obstruction of justice trial.Certainly, a ... More >>

  • News

    January 9, 2008

    Attention SF Giants, DiFi - Matt Smith's New Year's Resolutions Others Ought to Follow

    DiFi's husband and the Giants' owner should resolve to do better in the coming year

  • News

    November 28, 2007

    BALCO Breakup - Chron Reporter Jumps to ESPN, Sourcing Gets Awkward

    DiFi's husband and the Giants' owner should resolve to do better in the coming year

  • News

    October 17, 2007

    Chron Watch -- What's Not Working -- SF Chronicle

    DiFi's husband and the Giants' owner should resolve to do better in the coming year

  • News

    September 26, 2007

    Steroids Confidential

    Greg Anderson has given up his freedom rather than testify about Barry Bonds. But one man has learned the deepest secrets of the trainer behind baseball's new home run king.

  • News

    February 21, 2007

    The Cream and the Cake

    Greg Anderson has given up his freedom rather than testify about Barry Bonds. But one man has learned the deepest secrets of the trainer behind baseball's new home run king.

  • News

    September 13, 2006

    Dopey Bid

    A close, unflattering look at San Francisco's prospective Olympic Games dance partner

  • News

    July 19, 2006

    This Is Your Sport Off Drugs

    If only baseball would deal with the drug problem instead of cowering in fear

  • News

    March 15, 2006

    Giant Fake

    Is baseball star Barry Bonds a juiced-up deceiver or just the greatest and most maligned player in baseball history? Find out where you stand!

  • News

    February 22, 2006

    Doping Scandal

    Only this one has to do with a doctor who tried to stop athletes from using performance-enhancing drugs

  • News

    December 7, 2005

    Legal Complications on Steroids

    If Lance Armstrong were found to have been on drugs, and his S.F. handlers knew it, sponsors could demand their money back, and perhaps change sports in the U.S. forever

  • News

    September 7, 2005

    Tour de Farce

    Lance Armstrong, Thom Weisel, and questions about anti-doping efforts in American cycling

  • Culture

    July 27, 2005

    Needing More Juice

    The first account of baseball's steroid scandal leaves too many questions unanswered

  • News

    August 4, 2004

    Countdown to Burlingame

    A guide to television coverage of the enhanced drama and athleticism of the 2004 Alternolympics

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 19, 2004

    Best Chronicle Tag-Team

    Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 19, 2004

    Most Candid Athlete

    Tim Brown

  • News

    May 5, 2004

    'Roid Ragers

    Two macho men and the bitchy bodybuilding world that surrounds -- and, perhaps, spawned -- the BALCO steroids case

  • News

    March 24, 2004

    Apology Accepted

    You may be an unwitting Barry Bonds apologist. Take our quiz and find out!

  • News

    March 17, 2004

    Little Fish, Big Fish

    Memo to Ashcroft: Why aren't you pursuing Barry Bonds the way you did Martha Stewart?

  • News

    August 7, 2002

    This Is Your Sport, on Dope

    State Sen. Don Perata's bill on drug testing for pro athletes isn't nearly tough enough on doped-up athletes or their enablers

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