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...Every one of us has an interest in making sure we do not turn on its head the fundamental precept that people are innocent until proven guilty." DONALD FEHR, head of the baseball players' union, in an appearance before the U.S. Senate, resisting calls to toughen the monitoring of steroid use among players...
Powerful forces are marshaled on both sides of the debate (and in the middle). The union is fighting to limit the number of players whose steroid tests the government can subpoena. The owners--grateful for the home-run explosion that helped put fans back in the seats after the bitter 1994 strike but worried that fans will cry foul over steroid use--have assumed their familiar duck-and-cover stance. And Bush, a former co-owner of the Texas Rangers, is reportedly trying to organize a steroids summit. Tony Serra, Anderson's lawyer, argues Bonds is a "trophy martyr." Says...
Chemistry and history intersect in this steroid story. "Most of the drugs of abuse came to the marketplace as great advances in medicine," says Dr. Gary Wadler, a New York University professor of medicine and member of the World Anti-Doping Agency. Jocks may even have been among the first users of the hormone EPO, which some athletes have been taking to improve endurance...
...newest performance enhancer to emerge is the designer drug THG, a previously undetectable steroid for which five track athletes and four Oakland Raiders football players tested positive last year. "It's clear that THG was made for no medical purpose," says Charles Yesalis, professor of health policy at Penn State. "It was clearly made to circumvent the testing process. And to create something like this, you don't have to possess the Nobel Prize in chemistry...
Getting Bigger The inquiries into steroid use by pro athletes heat...