[TS] Sports of the Times: If Golfers Are Taking Drugs, Start Giving Names
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If Gary Player is trying to alert golfâs ruling bodies to the use of performance enhancing drugs on various world tours, he needs to name the cheaters.
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NORTON -- Golf isn't only about Tiger Woods. There were other players out there at TPC Boston yesterday swinging in the September sun, trying to establish their own reputations.
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LONDON: With the shadow of the Tiger receding, the yearâs dominant figure in golf was the workaholic Vijay Singh. The 2004 season will also be remembered for the last-day drama at each of the four majors
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Just eleven days into the 2004 Olympics in Athens, we have already been confronted with the seemingly common problem of drug use within sport. So much so, in fact, that it has been dubbed "The Gene Games" by chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency's ethical issues review panel, Thomas Murray.    In a recent interview conducted by the New York Times, Murray talks about the impact of drugs in sport, and what effect they have on the athletes involved.
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If the nuances of golf are often lost on those who do not play it, there are times when even its existence doesnât make much sense.
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When representatives from Major League Baseball met with members of the Albany, N.Y., district attorney's office Monday they were looking to get a better handle on the investigation into an extensive prescription-drug distribution ring, a probe that already has seen a number of major league players linked to the purchase of performance-enhancing drugs.
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The news is not so much shocking as sad. Surely, everyone whose eyes were open suspected that Jason Giambi and Barry Bonds had been using performance-enhancing drugs for many years.
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Two recent events have me thinking that maybe we put too much importance on winning in sports. First, there were reports that baseball superstars Barry Bonds and Jason Giambi took steroids, drugs that can help make players stronger.
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Inspiring drives. Cutthroat competition. Transatlantic tension. And it's O.K. to talk about a handicap with a one-armed golfer
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There are people who put their lives on the line every day they go to work. Phil Mickelson apparently places golfers in that category -- at least when it comes to the US Open.
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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla.  -- Golf finally joined other major sports Thursday when its leading organizations announced an anti-doping policy that will begin in 2008.
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The world governing body for athletics will consider lowering from three to two the number of drug test no-shows before an athlete is considered to have committed a doping offense.
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By Shabina S. Khatri, Detroit Free Press  Sep. 10--Four years ago, curiosity about marijuana brought an Idaho teenager named Nick to a popular online drug encyclopedia.
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CROMWELL, Conn. -- Changing his stance, PGA commissioner Tim Finchem is calling on golf to come up with a universal policy to test for performance-enhancing drugs.
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Purses overflowing with cash, exotic locales, manicured golf courses. The World Golf Championships have it all. Except for totally committed players, that is.
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Golf begrudgingly joined the new world of sport yesterday when leaders from its most influential organizations signed off on an anti-doping policy with hopes of proving its players are clean.
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You could look at the scores and submit that perhaps he was out of his element at Oakmont Country Club last week. But if you were to do so, you'd have to lump Allen Doyle's name in with dozens of others, for this US Open business annually beats up on golfers, particularly those who aren't quite on their games.