Former beefy lineman Tony Mandarich has recently admitted to the world that, yes, the incredibleness of his bulk was actually acquired not just by G'N'R and caffeine, but steroids. In the latest issue of SI, Rick Telander revisits the man he lionized and made extremely wealthy with his 1989 SI cover...

So Tony Mandarich has come clean on his use of steroids back when he played for Michigan State. The use of the roids allowed him to beef up, become super-human, and get drafted second overall by the Green Bay Packers in ‘89. Mandarich has written a tell-all book to explain his addiction to pai...

We all know Murray Chass may be insane. But sometimes I just can't resist. Mike Piazza: His Bat and His Back By Murray Chass March 4, 2009 Baseball writers spend a lot of time in press boxes together, and the close and frequent proximity does not always foster positive relationships. For example...

Darryl Strawberry has a book coming out in April, which makes this a good time for him to comment on steroids. Right? Hey, couldn't hurt sales. This by no means should surprise, but Strawberry would have taken steroids had they been available when he played. In copious amounts. That's about the only...

One of my favorite guilty pleasures is the Dateline DEA newsletter, the Drug Enforcement Agency's a "bi-weekly email informant." The DD is drug war news you can use. This week's edition is especially juicy. We learn that the DEA helped arrest 750 alleged members of the Sinaloa drug cartel after 21-m...

Well not quite, but spring training is here. My local teams, the Giants and A's, both play their first spring training game today. Tim Lincecum is even pitching today. Very exciting! Of course it's been an ugly time lately for Major League Baseball. Everyone is upset about Alex Rodriguez and his use...

Twitter has been on steroids over the past few weeks. Interesting enough, it was about 2 years ago right before SXSW that twitter fully took off. I hadn’t even signed up for an account until right about the time before SXSW 2 years ago. Interestingly enough, as seen by the below tweets by @mar...

They always say that it's not the crime that ruins you—it's the cover up. Well, if the latest reports about Alex Rodriguez are true, his "confession" may have done more harm than good. Rodriguez's big steroid admission amounted to three years of primobolan use, administered by a harmless unnam...

Attorneys for Barry Bonds on Wednesday made a defense filing that their client's gigantic skull and tiny nuts should not be entered into evidence at his perjury trial. The object of attention on Wednesday was one of the government's expert witnesses on steroids, Larry Bowers, who is the senior manag...

Everyone is dying to know more about this mysterious "cousin" that Alex Rodriguez refused to identify, and it turns out the cousin is not imaginary! He's been identified...and now begins the hunt. The man in question is Yuri Sucart, and the next few days of this "A-Roid" saga will involve people fly...