Football is tackling drugs, says expert
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Anti-doping expert Michele Verroken claims that football does not have a worse problem with drugs than other sports. Chelsea striker Adrian Mutu flew back to London today to face claims that he has tested
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Dozens of players are linked to banned substances, as a report on Major League Baseball alleges a serious drug culture.
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A Spanish doctor believes he has discovered why offside decisions in football matches are often so controversial. Francisco Belda Maruenda, a family doctor in Murcia, said in order for the
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Hank Steinbrenner insists baseball is being picked on for its trouble with performance-enhancing drugs, and claims the problem is bigger in football.
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The Mail on Sunday reports that a Premiership player tests positive for a "banned substance".
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In response to the troubling cases of ex-NFL players such as Patriots linebacker Ted Johnson and mounting evidence of the long-term deleterious effects of concussions, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell announced yesterday at the league's concussion summit in Chicago that when training camps open up this summer, a "whistle-blower" system will be in place to protect players.
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Major League Baseball, the NFL, NBA and NHL will join forces with the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) to combat the use of performance enhancing drugs in sport.
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The International Football Federation says it will pursue disciplinary action against France, Italy and the Netherlands for not handing down tough penalties against players who use drugs.
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Chelsea deliberately targeted Adrian Mutu because they suspected him of using drugs, chief executive Peter Kenyon has told BBC Sport.
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The World Anti-Doping Agency could wind up looking into out-of-competition cases of athletes caught taking cocaine and other recreational drugs, its president said Monday.
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Heading a modern-day football is not significantly safer than an old-style leather ball, ballistics experts find.
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Sports doctors under pressure from managers and the media could be cutting corners and risking the health of athletes, researchers said.
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ITALIAN football faced one of the biggest scandals in its scarred history yesterday, after a Turin judge found the Juventus doctor, Riccardo Agricola, guilty of administering banned drugs to some of the worldâs leading players during the 1990s.
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Comment is free: Geoffrey Wheatcroft: Football, athletics, even cricket - the stain of cheating and doping now seems ingrained in our most cherished games.
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Victor Conte, the head of BALCO  lab at the center of a global doping scandal, has detailed his  role in doping some of the top names in sport.
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CBC SPORTS ONLINE - Victor Conte, the man at the centre of the biggest doping scandal to hit the sports world in years, says there are two new undetectable drugs that are currently being used by athletes.
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The NFL and its union are discussing strengthening their drug program to keep pace with the increase in the number of performance-enhancing substances and the efficiency of masking agents.