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“As reported on WWE.com on Monday, June 8, 2009, WWE Superstar Umaga (Edward Fatu) has been released from his World Wrestling Entertainment contract. However, consistent with the practice of announcing wellness policy violations, it should be noted that Umaga’s termination was due to his second violation of the WWE Wellness Program and his subsequent refusal to attend a rehabilitation facility. ” Link
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“Federal prosecutors have interviewed Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte as they investigate whether his former teammate Roger Clemens lied to Congress when he denied using performance-enhancing drugs.” [Link]
“After 33 minutes, Alex Rodriguez’s press conference at Yankees spring training has come to an end. Rodriguez expressed remorse and admitted to using other substances that are now banned by Major League Baseball.” [Link]
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“Alex Rodriguez has admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs from 2001-2003, ESPN is reporting. Those were the first three seasons of Rodriguez’s then-record 10-year, $252 million contract with the Texas Rangers. Rodriguez won his first AL MVP award in ‘03, his last year with the Rangers, before being traded to the Yankees prior to the start of the 2004 season.” [Link]
“During WWE’s first year of steroid testing under the new Wellness Policy, which began in March 2006, 40 percent of the company’s wrestlers tested positive for steroid use ‘even after being warned in advance that they were going to be tested.’” [Link]
“The suspended players were running back Deuce McAllister and defensive linemen Charles Grant and Will Smith of New Orleans; defensive linemen Kevin and Pat Williams of Minnesota; and long snapper Bryan Pittman of Houston. The punishment means all six will miss the end of the regular season, an especially harsh blow to Minnesota, which relies heavily on the Williamses in its run defense, which ranks second in the league.” [Link]
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“During the A&E Network’s one-hour documentary, ‘Jose Canseco: The Last Shot,’ Canseco said he ‘regrets mentioning players [as steroid users]. I never realized this was going to blow up and hurt so many people.’ During the program, the 44-year-old Canseco said he ‘wanted revenge’ on Major League Baseball because he believed he had been forced out of the game. The book was his means of getting even, and he named names ‘to show I was telling the truth’ about steroids in baseball, he said.” [Link]
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“Canceco was detained at San Diego’s San Ysidro border crossing Thursday after agents searched his vehicle and said they found human chorionic gonadotropin, which is illegal without a prescription, said his attorney, Gregory Emerson. Emerson declined to say if Canseco — who admitted to using steroids in a 2005 book that also alleged steroid use by other baseball players — had the drug, which is banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency for use in males.” [Link]
