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		<title>Peavy becomes the latest pitcher caught with &#8220;dirt&#8221; on his hand</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And I had nothing to do with it. Like Kenny Rogers, there was something that looked a lot like pine tar on his hand, and he claimed it was rosin and dirt.
&#8220;Peavy laughs off dirty-hand controversy&#8221; runs the MLB.com headline, which obviously endorses one side of the controversy.
Here&#8217;s a great bit from the LA Times, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cheatersguidetobaseball.com/2008/04/07/peavy-becomes-the-latest-pitcher-caught-with-dirt-on-his-hand/</link>
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		<title>Tainted stimulant excuse becomes less tainted</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is incredible:
A study scheduled to be released Wednesday and obtained by USA TODAY reports
that 13 of the 52 supplements (25%) purchased at various U.S. retailers
contained small amounts of steroids and six (11.5%) had banned stimulants.

What&#8217;s more, there&#8217;s a reference to another, earlier study I hadn&#8217;t heard about:
A study by the International Olympic Committee conducted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cheatersguidetobaseball.com/2007/12/07/tainted-stimulant-excuse-becomes-less-tainted/</link>
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		<title>Bonds indicted for perjury, obstruction of justice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the Chronicle:

(11-15) 17:20 PST SAN FRANCISCO &#8211; Barry Bonds, the former Giants star and baseball&#8217;s career home run king, was indicted by a federal grand jury today on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice in connection with the BALCO sports steroid scandal.
Bonds was indicted for allegedly making false statements to the grand jury [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cheatersguidetobaseball.com/2007/11/16/bonds-indicted-for-perjury-obstruction-of-justice/</link>
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		<title>Cameron&#8217;s stimulant suspension, advance drug test notification</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mike Cameron received a 25-day suspension for testing positive again under the stimulant policy. ESPN story. It&#8217;s the &#8220;tainted supplement&#8221; track, except with an interesting twist:
 He later issued a statement through his agent, saying doctors for the players&#8217; association helped him narrow down what triggered the positive test.
&#8220;After all of the analysis and testing, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cheatersguidetobaseball.com/2007/10/31/camerons-stimulant-suspension-advance-drug-test-notification/</link>
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		<title>Varitek pine tarring his fingers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Astute reader Lance Elroy wrote to point me to a bit of footage where, in the sixth inning, you can &#8211; maybe &#8211; see Red Sox catcher Jason Varitek putting pine tar on his fingers. It&#8217;s during Manny&#8217;s at-bat, the 2nd 3-2 pitch: (&#8220;good rip by Manny Ramirez&#8230;&#8221;) there&#8217;s a shot of Varitek in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cheatersguidetobaseball.com/2007/10/17/varitek-pine-tarring-his-fingers/</link>
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		<title>Manny Corpas cheating in the playoffs!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Philadelphia Daily News:
TBS cameras on Corpas warming up before coming into yesterday&#8217;s 4-2 Colorado win in Game 1 of the National League Division Series at Citizens Bank Park clearly showed the righthander pour a cup of water or soda on the front of his shirt before leaving the bullpen and then rubbing dirt on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cheatersguidetobaseball.com/2007/10/04/manny-corpas-cheating-in-the-playoffs/</link>
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		<title>Gain 5mph through steroid use? Wowza</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reader Bob Montgomery wrote:
Relatedly, I&#8217;m sure you saw this story:
Tobin said the explosion in home runs coincides with a mid-1990s &#8220;steroid era&#8221; in professional sports. Use dropped to historic levels in 2003 when Major League Baseball instituted steroid testing, the article offers as background.
&#8220;A change of only a few percent in the average speed of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cheatersguidetobaseball.com/2007/10/01/gain-5mph-through-steroid-use-wowza/</link>
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		<title>Floyd Landis and the future of baseball drug testing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Floyd Landis lost his 2006 Tour de France title, in a 2-1 decision that took well over a year to complete. It&#8217;s the first time the Tour de France has stripped a winner of their title over a drug offense, despite cycling&#8217;s long-standing reputation as the dirtiest of pro sports and the extremely aggressive drug [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cheatersguidetobaseball.com/2007/09/20/floyd-landis-and-the-future-of-baseball-drug-testing/</link>
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		<title>Howard Bryant&#8217;s ESPN article on steroids and the Mitchell Report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Howard Bryant, who wrote what I consider the best book on the steroids era in baseball (&#8220;Juicing the Game&#8221;) has an article on ESPN that makes a bold assertion:

However, what Mitchell&#8217;s report must do most authoritatively &#8212; and two seismic events last week confirm this necessity &#8212; is conclude convincingly that the events of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cheatersguidetobaseball.com/2007/09/14/howard-bryants-espn-article-on-steroids-and-the-mitchell-report/</link>
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		<title>Football cheating goodness: Patriots in trouble</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been gleefully following the Patriots-Jets controversy, because it&#8217;s interesting and because it brings out interesting contrasts in how the two sports handle this. Here&#8217;s Chris Mortensen&#8217;s ESPN story.
The summary: the NFL took a camera and a videotape from a Patriots &#8220;video assistant&#8221; when they thought he was taping signals from the Jets coaches.
For one, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cheatersguidetobaseball.com/2007/09/11/football-cheating-goodness-patriots-in-trouble/</link>
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