Freaky Friday

Headed into another weekend:

Panthers took massive steroids, report says

Players using 'alarmingly high amounts' during run to 2004 Super Bowl


Charlotte, N.C. - The NFL’s drug-testing program is inadequate, warned a doping expert who examined medical records that linked several former Carolina Panthers players to steroids and human growth hormone.

Dr. Gary Wadler, an internist and author who specializes in drugs in sports, prepared a report that federal prosecutors used in their case against James Shortt, who pleaded guilty to conspiring to illegally prescribe steroids to several Carolina Panthers. Last month, the doctor, formerly of West Columbia, S.C., was sentenced to one year and one day in prison.

In the report, Wadler said medical records showed Shortt prescribed steroids and human growth hormone (HGH) to several players for more than a year during the team’s Super Bowl season of 2003. During that time, no player was suspended for violating the league’s substance-abuse policy.

“The only way (players) could get caught (using HGH) is if someone walked in and they were being injected, because clearly there’s no testing being done,” Wadler said. “In a way, they’re sending a message: ‘Look, you can take it, because we’re not going to test for it.”’

“I think that’s something the NFL has to look into, because it’s striking that none of them had a positive drug test or were suspended for violating the substance-abuse policy.” “How can that be?”

NFL spokesman Greg Aiello defended the league’s testing policy. “We test seven players, per team, per week on a random basis,” Aiello said. “We conduct about 10,000 steroid tests a year, and we have roughly 2,000 players.

So chances are every player will be tested more than once a year. The NFL does not test for HGH, but every player is randomly tested at least once a year for steroids.

Why would anyone ever think that football players take steroids? Most of the NFL players are the same size they were in high school and we all know there are no steroids in high school!

Besides the NFL is quick to point out their great drug testing program that no one can fool!

Bury your head in the sand because it's all about the money. The owners don't think the viewing public would watch a game of "clean" players on equal ground!









Speaking of steroids:

Angry Bonds Collector to Sell Memorabilia

'I Can't Stand the Guy,' Kranz Says

San Francisco - A baseball memorabilia collector is parting with the highlights of his Barry Bonds collection, saying the Giants star treated him poorly during a federal investigation into sales of Bonds collectibles.

"I can't stand the guy," said Jeff Kranz of Phoenix, who began collecting Bonds baseball cards in 1988. Kranz also said the value of his collection has decreased because of Bonds' alleged steroid use.

The collection is being auctioned online by Lelands, based in Seaford, N.Y. It includes the jersey Bonds wore when he hit his first home run in the Giants' current ballpark, a Pittsburgh Pirates uniform he wore in 1992 and a Bonds glove from 1987 backed up by a photo of him signing it.

Kranz is selling his top six Bonds collectibles, which the auction house said could be worth as much as $50,000. Kranz has auctioned other Bonds items recently and sold some items privately to collectors.

Welcome to the club, I can't stand the roided up jerk either. Bonds' records are juiced up, unlike Ruth and Aaron who did it the right way!!!!








Where does your charitable donation go?

How many times have I pointed out similar incidents on my blog?

$16 million settlement in church abuse claims

Case involved transferred Catholic priest who committed suicide

Milwaukee - The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee has agreed to pay more than $16 million to settle sexual abuse claims involving 10 victims in California and a priest the archdiocese had transferred there, church officials said Friday.

The Milwaukee Archdiocese had transferred Siegfried Widera to California in 1981, knowing the priest had a history of abuse. Document show the archdiocese quietly transferred Widera from one parish to another after a 1973 conviction on sexual perversion.

Widera was facing 42 counts of child molestation in the two states when he died in 2003 after leaping from a hotel balcony in Mexico.

“Our hope, always, is to continue our progress in reaching resolution with anyone who was a victim of clergy sexual abuse,” Milwaukee Archbishop Timothy Dolan said in a statement.

“We believe this agreement brings closure to all cases in California and, hopefully, provides healing for victims/survivors.”

The Church doesn't get it - money does not provide healing for victims!!

This church is totally out of control and the watchdogs are also guilty of clergy sexual abuse but have not been caught yet!!!!

I bet all of my Catholic readers feel much better about their donations to the church to hopefully provide healing for victims/survivors of clergy sexual abuse.








Conscientious objector

Army Spc. Mark Wilkerson said he was tired of running and sought help from Cindy Sheehan's protest camp in nearby Crawford, which helps educate soldiers about their rights as war resisters.

"I just could not in good conscience go back to a war I felt was wrong," Wilkerson, 22, of Colorado Springs, Colo., said at Sheehan's camp before the 40-mile trip to the post near Killeen where he had been stationed.

Wilkerson, heard about Sheehan's efforts to help war resisters after he had decided to surrender.

"It's amazingly scary to do what he's doing," said Sheehan, who did not travel to Killeen on Thursday. "He has all of our support, but when he gets to Fort Hood, he's going to be by himself."

A great Sheehan quote "When he gets to Fort Hood, he's going to be by himself." Gee Cindy, thanks for all your support, help, and advice.

She did take full advantage of the photo op though!!!!





Well that's the name of that game for Friday.

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