Biogenesis
MLB Commissioner says that “We pursued this matter because it was not only the right thing to do, but the only thing to do.”
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/05/us-baseball-doping-selig-idUSBRE9740XL20130805
Short bios of the 13 MLB players who were banned
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BBO_MLB_DRUG_INVESTIGATION_THUMBNAILS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-08-05-15-46-08
Summary of today’s MLB announcement
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BBO_MLB_DRUG_INVESTIGATION?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-08-05-23-04-27
Statement from USADA’s Travis Tygart on MLB suspensions
http://www.usada.org/media/statement-mlb852013
WADA statement on the MLB sanctions
http://playtrue.wada-ama.org/news/wada-supports-mlb-player-suspensions/
“Admit the truth,” Tygart says.
http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-travis-tygart-alex-rodriguez-20130805,0,4866938.story#axzz2b9dSJZ2x
Legal analysis of the potential fallout from the MLB attempt to implement a 211 game ban on A-Rod
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/mlb/news/20130805/a-rod-suspension-legal-fallout/
A-Rod: If I don’t defend myself, who will?
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BBA_JIM_LITKE_080513?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-08-05-21-25-42
For A-Rod today’s announcement is more of a beginning than an end
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2013/08/05/alex-rodriguez-mlb-suspensions-biogenesis/2619175/
MLB scores a “victory” in anti-doping fight, but more work remains…
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2013/08/05/alex-rodriguez-bud-selig-drug-policy-steroids-hgh/2618643/
Part of that work should be better testing and stiffer sanctions…
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/08/05/major-league-baseball-players-association-editorials-debates/2621491/
Give MLB the power to void contracts
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/08/05/baseball-suspensions-alex-rodriguez-steroids-editorials-debates/2621527/
Suggestions for a strategy to further “clean up” MLB
http://thinkprogress.org/sports/2013/08/05/2410611/alex-rodriguez-suspension-post/
Opinion piece: A-Rod’s baseball accomplishments “hollowed out by his choices”
NYT Debate: MLB suspensions, justice or a scapegoat? The A-Rod problem
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/08/05/in-baseball-suspensions-justice-or-a-scapegoat
Entire career a hoax?
http://espn.go.com/new-york/columns/mlb/story/_/id/9541056/ian-oconnor-alex-rodriguez-entire-career-was-hoax?fb_comment_id=fbc_622981614401747_95372874_623117481054827
MLB doping timeline
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/05/us-baseball-doping-timeline-idUSBRE9740X820130805
Onion satire A-Rod article—“All I want to do is play ball, ya know? Take steroids and play ball.”
http://www.theonion.com/articles/all-i-want-to-do-is-play-ball-ya-know-take-steroid,33375/
A-Rod blames everybody but himself
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/lupica-a-rod-plays-blame-game-drug-ban-article-1.1418084
Hooton Foundation cuts ties with A-Rod after suspension is announced
http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/2013/08/anti-steroid-group-cuts-ties-with-alex-rodriguez-in-wake-of-mlb-drug-suspension
Statements from eight of the 12 other players who accepted 50 game bans from MLB
http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/iteam/2013/08/statements-from-eight-players-suspended-by-mlb-today
Germany
501-page report on systemic doping in Germany with some information redacted released
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/OLY_DOPING_GERMANY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
http://www.euronews.com/sport/2059192-german-report-on-banned-drugs-to-be-made-public/
Full text of the 501 page report
http://www.bisp.de/cln_320/nn_15936/DE/Aktuelles/Nachrichten/2013/Berichte__WWU__HU.html
German NADA statement on the Doping in Germany report
http://www.nada-bonn.de/de/nada/aktuelles/newsdetail/?tx_news_pi1%5Bcontroller%5D=News&tx_news_pi1%5Baction%5D=detail&tx_news_pi1%5Bnews%5D=533&cHash=dfa05747d8#.UgB4EtLOt48
31 Turkish athletes given two year bans
http://www.taf.org.tr/disiplin-kurulu-toplandi-4/
Italian rower Bruno Bradmant and paralympic cyclist Fabrizio Macchi, banned for a month, fined
http://www.coni.it/attivit%C3%A0-istituzionali/antidoping/19395-antidoping-la-prima-sezione-del-tna-infligge-un-mese-a-bruno-bradamante-canottaggio-,-squalifica-gi%C3%A0-scontata.html
http://www.coni.it/attivit%C3%A0-istituzionali/antidoping/19396-antidoping-la-seconda-sezione-del-tna-squalifica-per-un-mese-il-ciclista-paralimpico-fabrizio-macchi.html
FIFA issues statement that says the organization found no evidence of “systemic doping” in Turkish football
http://au.eurosport.com/football/no-systematic-doping-in-turkish-football-says-fifa_sto3871452/story.shtml
NBA’s Terrel Harris suspended for five games
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ball-dont-lie/blazers-guard-terrel-harris-suspended-5-games-violating-195906478.html
Irish writer echoes comment sentiment that the “credibility of is top-level athletics is shot” due to raft of positive tests
http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/other-sports/road-to-moscow-honours-paved-with-humbug-and-hypocrisy-1.1484370
IAAF anti-doping Q&A
http://www.iaaf.org/news/feature/anti-doping-qa-explains-how-the-cheats-are-ca
Lack of stars, doping scandals clouds IAAF Moscow World Championships
http://en.rian.ru/sports/20130805/182585878/Preview-Scandal-Lack-of-Stars-Clouds-Athletics-in-Russia.html?fb_action_ids=10151513779142587%2C10151513776552587&fb_action_types=og.recommends&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=%7B%2210151513779142587%22%3A159206820936264%2C%2210151513776552587%22%3A529729220415763%7D&action_type_map=%7B%2210151513779142587%22%3A%22og.recommends%22%2C%2210151513776552587%22%3A%22og.recommends%22%7D&action_ref_map=%5B%5D
44 Jamaicans training in team camp in Moscow drug tested prior to Worlds
http://www.stabroeknews.com/2013/sports/08/05/anti-doping-agency-swoops-down-on-jamaica-camp-in-moscow/
Panama boxer El Felino Jones denies doping charge
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/sports/2013-08/06/c_132604425.htm
ACC
Essendon denies reports that coach James Hird has been given an ultimatum by the team’s Board to hand in his resignation by Thursday
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-05/essendon-denies-hird-ultimatum-reports/4866670
St Kilda player Ahmed Saad can keep playing if and until ASADA serve an infraction notice
http://news.brisbanetimes.com.au/breaking-news-sport/saad-can-keep-playing-in-afl-for-now-20130805-2ra23.html
Doping “cloud” still over Australia six months after ACC report released
http://ca.reuters.com/article/sportsNews/idCABRE97503C20130806
Legal opinion on latest WADA Code revision draft
http://www.wada-ama.org/Documents/World_Anti-Doping_Program/WADP-The-Code/Code_Review/Code%20Review%202015/WADC-Legal-Opinion-on-Draft-2015-Code-3.0-EN.pdf
No supplement is 100% safe says UKAD anti-doping education coordinator David Walsh
http://www.athleticsweekly.com/news/no-supplement-is-100-safe-says-uka-anti-doping-educator/
Bodybuilding.com suspends sale of supplement Craze. Will do further testing of the product before any further action is taken.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/08/05/bodybuilding-site-suspends-sales-of-sports-supplement-craze/2618967/
Bill introduced in French legislature to merge France’s gambling regulator(ARJEL) with its anti-doping agency(AFLD)
http://www.gamingintelligence.com/legal/21694-french-politicians-propose-to-merge-arjel-with-anti-doping-agency
Malaysian Sports Minister urges the country’s cycling federation: “As it is, this is a highly controversial issue, so I would not want to interfere in the political choices of the MNCF, or whoever they wish to support in this elections [sic]. They must remember that whatever they do, it has to benefit the development of Malaysian cycling.”
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/malaysian-sports-minister-urges-caution-over-mcquaid-support
Sports, race, and genetics: interview with SI writer and The Sports Gene author David Epstein
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/08/the-urgency-and-the-challenge-of-connecting-sports-race-and-genetics/278345/
