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November 16, 2003

Now, It's The NFL's Turn


Dana Stubblefield. Barret Robbins. Bill Romanowski. Chris Cooper. Four Oakland Raiders. Four positive tests for THG, the latest in designer performance enhancing drugs.

UPDATE: Selena Roberts in the New York Times has some other interesting factoids to share:

Really, who knows what goes into an herbal shake? Truly, what's in those zinc casseroles?

The ignorance defense doesn't hold up, not for today's athlete.

Take Romanowski, the player credited with introducing Conte to his pro buddies a decade ago. With his trademark tackle box of pills, potions and powders always by his side, Romanowski has been known to send his blood, urine and feces to a lab in order to strike the right mineral balance. Copper, it does a body good.

At the Super Bowl, folks marveled over how he was willing to inject adrenal cells from sheep into his body.

Did he stop at that?

Gee, and all this time I thought it was just Bowflex.



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