Alex RodriguezIf baseball players like South Florida homeboy ARod can use banned substances to gain supernatural powers, it seems only fair that I should be able to call upon supernatural powers to reincarnate a group of the 20th Century's best: players who managed to post their sensational statistics in an era when a "chemical advantage" meant showing up for the game with a beer buzz. Let's put them up against a mighty lineup consisting entirely of modern baseball players whose greatness has be
Fifteen Broward Sheriff's Office deputies and one civilian employee have been taken off the road on suspicion that they are using steroids.
The sixteen BSO employees were rounded up Friday and ordered to take a drug test, sheriff's spokesman Jim Leljedal told me this afternoon. They were placed on administrative assignment until the results of those tests come in and an internal affairs investigation is completed.
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This story on the underbelly of the cops-and-steroids trade can use a bit of an intro.
First, Marty Hommel, the former Plantation police officer who told me about his personal use of steroids, was an open book who should be commended for his honesty. All he wanted to do was clear his own name and explain that he wasn't some muscle-bloated roids-raging cop. And I think he did a good job of it. While I'm not sure about the other Plantation officer (who is an avid bod
Flickr user: Shawnb122Players told Starr, "I'll have what he's having."Before he became the assistant athletic director of Nova Southeastern, Larry Starr spent 30 years working as a trainer in clubhouses for the Cincinnati Reds and Florida Marlins. In a Chicago Sun-Times article published Sunday, he paints a ghoulish picture of the behind-scenes baseball culture that preceded the recent scandals about performance-enhancing drugs.He kept an
open-door policy, telling players about steroids' potent
