Archive for the 'Steroids' Category
Don’t blame baseball’s power surge on steroid-induced shinking balls; this study says blame shrinking strike zones
Here from Live Science comes two Univ Nebraska-Lincoln’s professor’s take on MLB’s power surge: Not shrinking steroid-induced balls; rather shrinking umpire-induced strike zones.
Benjamin G.
Rader and Kenneth J. Winkle wanted to understand the hitting
trends for the 1969 to 2006 seasons. The era fo…
Olympic sprinter Tim Montgomery pulls a fast one: Pleads guilty to fraud
Tom Montgomery’s life continues to catch cleats on the track. Today the former world record holder in the 100M, father of a Marion Jones child, and Olympic sprinter, plead guilty to fraud charges in New York.
Montgomery lost a world record in the 100m following details of his BALCO steroid a…
Will Charlie Sheen take the mound? The Cleveland Indians return to play home games in Milwaukee
Are we straying from steroids-related stories these days or what? We had to go with this story based on our man JT’s tip.
The Cleveland Indians will be playing their ‘home series’ with the Brewers, in Milwaukee’s Miller stadium, because of the cold and snow in Cleveland this week. This marks…
Weird Trifecta for former Iowa Hawkeye coaches
What a weird week for 3 former University of Iowa coaches.
1. First, recently departed basketball coach Steve Alford, leaves town on the phone to Hawk signees, which is unusual since he was calling as New Mexico’s new coach to invite them to UNM. Then Alford’s old 1.8 million dollar di…
Masters winner Zach Johnson more worried about Hawkeye basketball coach than golf game before Masters victory
Local Iowa golfer Zach Johnson (story here in Tom Kirkendall’s blog Houston’s Clear Thinkers) won the Masters down in Augusta Georgia in condition described as a golf course on steroids. Ah, but let it be revealed that Johnson was not as concerned about as his golf game as he was about findin…
Local Iowa boy makes good, wins the Masters
Local golfer Zach Johnson won this golf tournament they hold down in Georgia today…The Masters. The 31 year old son of a chiropractor from Cedar Rapids, played at Drake University in Des Moines. The Des Moines Register has the story. Augusta, Ga. — Iowa’s Zach Johnson stunned the golf …
Steroids: Letting the air out of your balls
As documented here at The Bleacher Report, a new ad from http://www.drugfree.org/ discusses the side effects of anabolic steroids. Effects on systems including: tendons, internal organs, central nervous system, and of course your testicles.
The Bleacher report doesn’t care for the ad:I…
Jim Rice: Always a big hit
Sounds like Jim Rice made a big hits in Massachusetts and Rhode Island last week. He gave a talks to Triple-A Pawtucket’s Welcome Home luncheon last week, and to a luncheon in Lincoln RI. The Lower Hudson Journal-News reported on the Mass talk. The Austin Statesman (from the…
