• January 9, 2011 -- Seattle Seahawks "send message" (0)
  Congratulations Seahawk fans on a stunning victory over the defending world champion "New Orleans Saints" in your house you definitely are getting hot at the right time and anything can happen at thi...
• December 28, 2010 -- Looks like another year without a WS for the Cubs. (0)
  After most of the big names have found homes for the upcoming 2011 season I was wondering if the Cubs were going to make some bold moves, apparently not, I lost count but I think its now been 107 yea...
• December 19, 2010 -- UConn has only sold 4,000 Fiesta Bowl Tickets… (0)
  UConn Fiesta Bowl fiasco — $2.5 M in unsold tickets   The New Haven Register says the University of Connecticut has sold only 4,000 of its Fiesta Bowl allotment of 17,000 tickets, and is similarly be...
• May 6, 2010 -- Taser in philly (0)
  My fellow sports fans. I hope u have not condemned the tasing of this out of control person. I f we do not want to turn into the other sports we see in this world and if we want to keep the compatito...
• December 7, 2011 -- 220 million for pujos? (0)
  This is a joke. people are unemployed, can't put food on the table,and for 1 person all this money. ...

 It may have been foretold when they named the new stadium “Citi” field for (in big business like this) for a measly 2 mill?

  From a huge bailout (federal , Citi) to another big bailout (mlb, Mets). It seems like the nut didn’t fall far from the tree here. Maybe citi bank can give the # to the government loan officer who saved their **bleep**(so far) ? As far as getting more $ from MLB ,that’s the end of that or is it? Do the heads of mlb really want the Mets to have a fire sale? , well , that’s  bad news for Mets fans , and I could almost cry for them cause many of them are Great BB fans and dear friends!!

 Good news for any team looking to pick up some pitching to fill holes in their rotation hmm..:smileywink:?

Not mentioning the trouble on the field their big $ closer is trying to stay out of jail , Bey trying to stay off the DL .Etc etc..

• September 6, 2011 -- Apparently some Yankee fans have already decided they will win the ws (0)
  Some blowhard Yankee fan is at it again anointing the Yankees the WS winner.  Aside from CC and Marianio the Yanks have some real problems in their rotation as do the Sox, True the Sox are in worse s...
• August 20, 2011 -- Prosecutors want a 2nd trial for Clemens (0)
  Cut me a break.Haven't they spent enough money on the 1st trial and now want to do it again.Is there nothing more important that we could spend the money on?At this point who cares whether Clemens to...
• February 11, 2011 -- Bonds "let it go" (0)
  The middle East is in turmoil, we have young kids @ war, our economy is battered and our government is spending miliions and millions of tax payer money to go after a guy they think took a chemical t...
• January 25, 2011 -- NYY Rotation – What The **bleep** Is Going On? (0)
  Now I could drag out all those Rusty metrics that go beyond the basics of ERA and WHIP but why bother as they are available of even the most pedestrian of baseball site's.   Not necessary.  Just thin...
• December 30, 2010 -- Mike Vick and all the hypocrite that are so perfect!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (0)
  Mike Vick did his time and is paying for his crime like alot of your friends never have Carlson whoever he is, (must think hes God) He has no right to judge another human being unless his whole famil...

Seriously!!!!! Message to the feds “LET IT GO”  move on geeeeeeeeeeeez!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• August 20, 2011 -- Prosecutors want a 2nd trial for Clemens (0)
  Cut me a break.Haven't they spent enough money on the 1st trial and now want to do it again.Is there nothing more important that we could spend the money on?At this point who cares whether Clemens to...
• August 10, 2011 -- Blue Jays busted??? (0)
  http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/6837424/baseball-toronto-blue-jays-suspicion-again-stealing-signs-rogers-centre   interesting.......   The bit they're doing on SportsCenter about this shows th...
• July 27, 2011 -- PRO BOWL BEFORE SUPER BOWL? (0)
  WONDER WHOS DUMB IDEA THAT WAS??   THE SAME ONE THAT MADE THE TAUNTING RULE?   SAME GUY WHO SAID TO LET THE SAINTS WIN! ...
• March 12, 2011 -- Go ahead, take a year off. (0)
  When athletes making miliions and millions a year start suing, I'm done. The fans are the only ones getting screwed. Go ahead lose a year's pay. I'll save money and some of you will go into bankruptc...
• March 2, 2011 -- Mets in a world of hurt!! (0)
     It may have been foretold when they named the new stadium "Citi" field for (in big business like this) for a measly 2 mill?     From a huge bailout (federal , Citi) to another big bailout (mlb, Me...

• March 25, 2011 -- Fan Passion. This will never change (0)
  On the heels of a debate this afternoon, held by one of the highest rated sports radio stations in the country. These thought occured to me. Opening day for the MLB is a little over a week away. It j...
• July 15, 2010 -- They want to move the Allstar game from Arizona, NO WAY JOSE! (0)
  What is it with these people nothing better to do but start trouble even in sports! If you are an illegal person in the U.S.A. you don't belong, PERIOD! If you have a problem with that, oh well get O...
• December 10, 2011 -- USC (Southern Cal) ranking (0)
  It's amazing to me that the only rankings that have the guts and the rules to rank USC (Univ. of Southern California) is the AP, which voted USC #5 in the country. The Harris, USA Today, and BCS just...
• November 29, 2011 -- Saban & Alabama (0)
  He can "lobby" all he wants about the 2 "best" teams playing for the championship, but the FACT is Alabama lost at HOME to LSU mainly for lack of a kicker, I'm sorry Mr Saban, but you are not the 2nd...
• November 3, 2011 -- This Article Explains a Lot / SEC fans Should Read it (0)
  Oklahoma State No. 1 in the Computers? How Did Things Get so Messed Up? By Kelly Scaletta on November 2, 2011     Brett Deering/Getty Images Raise your hand if you think that Oklahoma State is the be...

The athletic department Bob Copeland runs at the University of Waterloo has a budget a fraction of what you’d find at major NCAA Division I programs. His football players, at best, shoot for an invite to the Canadian Football League combine. The school’s stadium holds 5,400 counting the standing-room-only section.

“The whole financial structure of collegiate sports in Canada is apples and oranges to what you have,” said Copeland, the athletic director at the college located outside Toronto. “College football alone in the U.S. involves billions of dollars. We’re not even in the conversation.”

Waterloo, however, is big time in one dubious respect: the school was the site of the biggest steroids scandal in North American collegiate sports history. One of its football players allegedly trafficked steroids and human growth hormone, a finding that led the school to test all 62 players. Nine turned up positive for performance-enhancing drugs, including the first positive for human growth hormone on the continent. Copeland and school officials announced in June they would cancel the 2010 season.

So, if it can happen at a university known more for its engineering school than athletics, in a country where football falls below hockey in popularity, why not here?

“There has to be steroid use going on underneath the radar,” said Don Hooton, whose son, Taylor, a high school pitcher in Plano, Texas, committed suicide on July 15, 2003, after he abruptly halted a cycle of steroids. “It’s happening at a Canadian university that is the nation’s equivalent to MIT and you’re saying it can’t happen at UCLA or Texas? Look how popular college football is in this country. If there was that much use going on at a school like that, are we missing something?”

Mary Wilfert, NCAA associate director for education outreach, said stemming the use of performance-enhancing drugs is as high a priority for the organization, on par with other plagues — like points shaving and kickbacks given to student-athletes by boosters — that can throw off the competitive balance.

“I would say the NCAA has always taken any kind of cheating seriously,” Wilfert told FanHouse. “We’ve been concerned about (doping) since we started the testing program in 1986. It’s a very substantial program with very substantial penalties.”

Historically, well under one percent of athletes tested under the NCAA program have come back positive for steroids. There were 13,569 tests conducted during the 2008-09 academic year, the most recent that statistics available, and there were 53 steroid positives.

Testing for colleges north of the border is conducted by the government-funded Canadian Center for Ethics in Sport. The program arguably is more strenuous than what the NCAA employs because it adheres to the World Anti-Doping Code used for Olympic sports. But despite the higher standards, Canada’s numbers mirror what the NCAA found with its testing.

“I think it shows even if you aren’t turning up many doping violations with your current testing program, you can still have a problem,” Canadian Center for Ethics in Sport President and CEO Paul Melia said. “You still need to continue to ask yourself, ‘Are we doing the right type of testing at the right time?’ That involves a lot more out-of-season testing and home visits. They have to be strategically targeted.”

“We have to be more sophisticated and we can no longer rely on athletes making mistakes.”
– Paul Melia, Canadian Center for Ethics in Sport President and CEO The NCAA tests heavily in football, spokesman Christopher Radford said. At least 18 players on a Division I team and 12 on a Division II team are tested each season. Eighteen players from each team participating in a BCS bowl game will be tested, but the tests won’t be carried out until within 48 hours of each game.

“We have to be more sophisticated and we can no longer rely on athletes making mistakes,” Melia said. “We often say that only the dumb athletes get caught during in-competition testing.”

The NCAA, whose program is carried out by the company Drug Free Sport, does do out-of-competition testing, including some at student-athletes’ homes in the offseason. Some conferences, like the Big Ten and Big 12, and about half of the athletic programs also put athletes through their own testing regimens, although a good portion of those schools only test for drug abuse like cocaine and marijuana.

Wilfert said the NCAA program is reviewed twice a year by an advisory panel and the organization aims to make testing less predictable.

“We can’t test everybody all the time,” Wilfert said. “That’s where the deterrent factor comes in. We will test whomever and test in different numbers (of athletes at a school) each time. We could be on campus more often than we are now.”

The NCAA, however, is unable to use one of the biggest deterrents to using performance-enhancing drugs: getting stigmatized as a user in the media. The Federal Educational Rights & Privacy Act (FERPA) prevents the NCAA — or any of the conferences or schools that perform additional testing — from announcing a player tested positive for drugs. (Once announced, athletes are typically given one-year bans).

Hooton advocates getting FERPA amended to allow the disclosure of student-athletes flagged for doping.

“First, these are adults,” said Hooton, who recently traveled to Canada to speak to several college coaches. “Second, they’re violating the law. Forget the rules for a moment and focus on the law. It’s a felony in most jurisdictions. We should be turning these adults over to authorities. Why are we keeping it a secret?”

Victor Conte, the founder of Bay Area Lab Co-Operative (BALCO), said another huge hole in testing is the lack of accountability for those players seeking to turn pro. From the time a player has competed in his final collegiate game until the NFL scouting combine – a span that can be anywhere between seven weeks to three months — players are not subject to testing.

“They know all they have to do is taper off right before they are tested at the combine,” said Conte, who continues to market his SNAC line of sports supplements. “Guys who may not even be tempted to use during their college careers see the combine as an opportunity for a huge payday. They want to perform because they know cutting a few tenths off their 40 time could mean tens of thousands of more dollars.”

Canada has the U.S. beat there, too. The Canadian Interuniversity Sport, its version of the NCAA, is in the process of developing a program along with the CFL that will test between 80 to 100 of the nation’s top college players who are turning pro leading up to the CFL’s combine.

Marg McGregor, the CEO of Canadian Interuniversity Sport, said zeroing in on the top athletes is the easy part. But what officials realized that Waterloo’s top players weren’t, for the most part, was the ones who were caught doping.

“It wasn’t who you’d expect to be using steroids,” McGregor said. “We still don’t know a whole lot about the motivation or the culture of doping in football. We found it was not just the studs and the rising stars aspiring to go to the next level. It was often the kids who barely made the team or were looking to avoid being redshirted. Some wanted more playing time.”

Copeland admitted that if he’d have been able to pick the players he thought were possibly using, he would have only identified one or two correctly.

It’s those kinds of insights that could prove valuable for the NCAA, but nobody at the organization has picked up the phone to call anybody at Waterloo, the Center for Ethics in Sport or Canadian Interuniversity Sport.

Copeland also said he hasn’t heard from the University of Miami, a school that recently had an incident that was very similar to how the scandal broke out at his school. Miami baseball player Frankie Ratcliff was arrested in September after he allegedly sold marijuana to undercover officers. A search conducted at his apartment turned up more marijuana and 19 vials of steroids.

Wilfert said the NCAA doesn’t have the authority to carry out such targeted testing on its own, leaving Miami or the Atlantic Coast Conference on the hook. Neither entity appears to have taken the any additional steps like Waterloo. Mike Finn, a spokesman for the ACC, said the conference doesn’t carry out its own testing and Miami spokesman Christopher Freet declined to comment.

“Where there’s smoke, there’s usually fire,” Copeland said in relation to his own case.

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Its good these players are tested before the NC games.There were a few that broke world records and found to have been taking steriods in the olympics.Check all running backs,lol.

• April 15, 2011 -- NCAA probing Auburn’s Tiger Prowl… (0)
  One thing is certain about the NCAA, when they are building a case for lack of institutional control, they will tack on every allegation they can find, and in this case they may be very well working ...
• December 28, 2010 -- Drug Policies / BCS (0)
  Thought this to be a great topic. -----------------------------------------------------------------   FanHouse Report: BCS Football Program Drug Policies Revealed By Brett McMurphy Senior NCAA Writer...
• September 20, 2010 -- College Athletes Sue NCAA ! (0)
  College athletes sue NCAA for compensation     Updated Sep 19, 2010 4:06 PM ET SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Basketball star Ed O'Bannon and quarterback Sam Keller each earned most valuable player awards during...
• October 14, 2011 -- NCAA Clears Auburn/Cam of any wrongdoing ! (0)
  First off ghone your wrong as always ranting and raging for a whole year proves the Bama inside you is hate for Auburn.All your words of advice that Auburn was going down well your wrong again,Auburn...
• September 27, 2011 -- Willie Lyles strikes again: (0)
  Willie sure got the SEC in a mess,looks like the NCAA is investigating the Vols now.Boosters sure know where the money is and just might be a nice business degree after college.   Gator Nation       ...

• August 20, 2011 -- Prosecutors want a 2nd trial for Clemens (0)
  Cut me a break.Haven't they spent enough money on the 1st trial and now want to do it again.Is there nothing more important that we could spend the money on?At this point who cares whether Clemens to...
• July 17, 2011 -- Barry is the best we’ve ever seen… (0)
  I don't care what anyone says, Barry Bonds is the best baseball player I've ever seen.  I've heard a bunch of stories about Ruth, Mantle, Aaron, and Mays, and I never thought I would see a player in ...
• March 2, 2011 -- Mets in a world of hurt!! (0)
     It may have been foretold when they named the new stadium "Citi" field for (in big business like this) for a measly 2 mill?     From a huge bailout (federal , Citi) to another big bailout (mlb, Me...
• February 11, 2011 -- Bonds "let it go" (0)
  The middle East is in turmoil, we have young kids @ war, our economy is battered and our government is spending miliions and millions of tax payer money to go after a guy they think took a chemical t...
• December 30, 2010 -- Mike Vick and all the hypocrite that are so perfect!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (0)
  Mike Vick did his time and is paying for his crime like alot of your friends never have Carlson whoever he is, (must think hes God) He has no right to judge another human being unless his whole famil...

• August 20, 2011 -- Prosecutors want a 2nd trial for Clemens (0)
  Cut me a break.Haven't they spent enough money on the 1st trial and now want to do it again.Is there nothing more important that we could spend the money on?At this point who cares whether Clemens to...
• September 15, 2011 -- Ravens playing dirty??? What??? (0)
    So I was watching the news last night here in the Burgh and the during the sports portion they reported that the Steelers were upset that the Ravens were using dirty tactics in last Sunday's game. ...
• September 14, 2011 -- NCAA VS Boise ST. (0)
  NCAA sure seems sore with the Boise st team.    LSU   NCAA hits Boise with scholarship losses, cuts in practice time Posted by John Taylor on September 13, 2011, 3:48 PM EDT Three months after appear...
• September 1, 2011 -- Finebaum rips NCAA, Emmert… (0)
  Great article by Paul...I especially enjoy the part about Cecil Newton and Auburn...So what are your thoughts on the NCAA?   Under Emmert, NCAA has sunk deeper, lost even more credibility     Mark Em...
• August 10, 2011 -- Blue Jays busted??? (0)
  http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/6837424/baseball-toronto-blue-jays-suspicion-again-stealing-signs-rogers-centre   interesting.......   The bit they're doing on SportsCenter about this shows th...

• November 24, 2011 -- Forums Closing?? (0)
  Just got an e-mail from a friend who has assisted Comcast customers in the Help Forum for years.  He said Comcast was closing the forums down in December.  Not sure if it is just the Help Forum or al...
• October 9, 2011 -- Smart Homeowners Learn Mortgage Basics with David Bach (4)
  David Bach helps you understand the basics about your mortgage; how much you can afford, how to get qualified, what term is best for you and much more. You'll learn how...
• August 27, 2011 -- Walk away from your mortgage! (25)
  With banks refusing to help homeowners with their underwater mortgages, a New York Times story advocates simply walking away. On Countdown. Copyright MSNBC 2010 www.you...
• August 25, 2011 -- Homeowners Foresee Long-term Mortgage Commitment (0)
  More than one third of homeowners predict they will reach retirement before their own four walls, suggests new research. In response to an account of a survey 36 percent of homeowners predicted th...
• August 23, 2011 -- Homeowners are Taking Out Mortgages – not to Purchase a Home – But to Boost Their Purchasing Power (0)
  Real estate has an excellent investment in most parts of Canada in recent years. Home evaluations will have continue to rise, and by the climax of their 1989 "bubble" failed in many areas of the count...

• August 20, 2011 -- Prosecutors want a 2nd trial for Clemens (0)
  Cut me a break.Haven't they spent enough money on the 1st trial and now want to do it again.Is there nothing more important that we could spend the money on?At this point who cares whether Clemens to...
• March 2, 2011 -- Mets in a world of hurt!! (0)
     It may have been foretold when they named the new stadium "Citi" field for (in big business like this) for a measly 2 mill?     From a huge bailout (federal , Citi) to another big bailout (mlb, Me...
• February 11, 2011 -- Bonds "let it go" (0)
  The middle East is in turmoil, we have young kids @ war, our economy is battered and our government is spending miliions and millions of tax payer money to go after a guy they think took a chemical t...
• December 30, 2010 -- Mike Vick and all the hypocrite that are so perfect!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (0)
  Mike Vick did his time and is paying for his crime like alot of your friends never have Carlson whoever he is, (must think hes God) He has no right to judge another human being unless his whole famil...
• December 18, 2010 -- Steriods / NCAA / college testing (0)
  Canadian Steroid Scandal Raises Questions -- Is It Happening in the States? By A.J. Perez Senior Writer   The athletic department Bob Copeland runs at the University of Waterloo has a budget a fracti...