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Major League Baseball will seek to suspend up to 20 players connected to a performing-enhancing drug (PED) clinic in the Miami area, including Alex Rodriguez and Ryan Braun, possibly within the next few weeks, according to sources for ESPN. The suspensions - which would purportedly range from 50 to 100 games, according to MLB's current drug testing policy - would represent the largest PED scandal in American sports history.
Are steroids to blame for Oscar Pistorius's murder of his supermodel girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp? Steroids were found in the Olympian's home.
Only three weeks after coming clean to Oprah Winfrey about doping allegations things may be getting worse for seven time Te de France winner Lance Armstrong. According to an ABC News, the 41-year-old cyclist is under investigation by the federal government for obstruction, witness tampering, and intimidation.
Professional athletes aren't the only ones who get in trouble for performance-enhancing drugs. The University of Alabama football team is now under scrutiny for allegedly using deer antler spray before the 2012 BCS Championship Game, a contest the Tide won over the LSU Tigers. Vijay Singh has been added to the list of using athletes, as was Ray Lewis. Some doctors claim Deer Antler Spray and IGF-1 may not be as effective as initially thought though.
Sheryl Crow apparently knew about Lance Armstrong's doping while they were dating, Celebuzz! reports.
