Australian footballer Alex Overs banned for 15 months for use of painkiller

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/act-news/queanbeyan-footballer-fails-drug-test-banned-for-15-months-20130906-2t9ii.html

Jose “Pepe” Rojas, Chilean footballer scratched from national team line up after his domestic team doctor gave him injection with a banned substance. When Chile’s team officials saw it on his medical report they dropped him from the squad to avoid FIFA sanctions

http://www.ilovechile.cl/2013/09/05/jos-rojas-chile-squad/91235

http://www.santiagotimes.cl/sports/soccer/26684-pepe-rojas-removed-from-chiles-national-squad-following-drug-controversy

Sports Authority of India supports triple jumper Renjith Maheswary in drug case dispute. File on athlete’s case is missing.

http://www.thehindu.com/sport/other-sports/sai-backs-maheswary/article5093895.ece

http://english.manoramaonline.com/cgi-bin/MMOnline.dll/portal/ep/contentView.do?contentId=14923695&tabId=1&programId=11565535

Sidecar motorcycle racer provisionally suspended after adverse finding for clenbuterol

http://www.bennetts.co.uk/bikesocial/articles/sidecar-motocross-rider-banned-for-doping/#.Uik9ZNKc9IE

http://blog.motorcycle.com/2013/09/05/motorcycle-category/off-road/sidecar-motocross-racer-tests-positive-for-clenbuterol/

German administrative court rejects journalist’s request for access to all documents in the Humboldt University report on Doping in Germany from 1950 to today.

http://www.spiegel.de/sport/sonst/doping-studie-gericht-verweigert-journalisten-vollstaendige-akteneinsicht-a-920584.html

Cyclist Danilo Di Luca says he is “collaborating” with Italian authorities regarding his positive rhuEPO test

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/di-luca-asked-to-collaborate-by-coni-anti-doping-investigators

Andy Murray is glad drug testing in tennis seems to be more aggressive. Murray having been blood tested three times since his Wimbledon victory

http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/other-sports/andy-murray-is-glad-that-drug-testers-have-stepped-up-action-8799294.html

More from Ben Johnson and the Choose the Right Track NYC media event

http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-ben-johnson-gold-medal-anti-doping-20130905,0,2303834.story#axzz2e4ddOkcG

Victor Conte says he didn’t want to be interviewed by ESPN reporter Mark Fainaru-Wada

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/iteam/2013/09/victor-conte-explains-refusal-to-speak-with-mark-fainaru-wada-tj-quinn-on-espns-outsid

Image matters in sports doping cases

http://www.hngn.com/articles/11678/20130905/steroids-baseball-difference-between-players-love-hate-commentary.htm

Logical debate needed on where to “draw the line” regarding performance enhancers, not abolishing rules or creating an “anything goes” atmosphere

http://www.runnersworld.com/general-interest/drugs-ethics-and-gladwell

http://www.careycuprisin.com/malcolm-gladwell-pines-for-more-doping-in-sports-heres-why-thats-ugly-and-horrifying/

Chinese track athletes take anti-doping exam

http://www.china.org.cn/china/Off_the_Wire/2013-09/05/content_29941096.htm

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell says hang up in the negotiations with the NFLPA is a “reputational issue”: “And so, we are not going to relent on the commissioner’s discipline or the discipline to make sure that we do what’s reputationally important for the NFL or hand that off to somebody else.” Congressman write opinion piece asking why HGH testing has not been implemented in NFL.

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap1000000238599/article/goodell-expresses-frustration-over-stalled-hgh-testing

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap1000000238576/article/qa-roger-goodell-stands-ground-with-union-on-hgh-testing

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101007186

http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/09/05/darrell-issa-elijah-cummings-nfl-hgh-testing/2762891/

Pro marijuana group lobbying NFL to loosen rules on pot

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/world-of-sport/pro-marijuana-group-urges-nfl-loosen-pot-rules-211438166.html

Study concludes that hypogonadism linked to anabolic steroid use

http://www.renalandurologynews.com/hypogonadism-linked-to-anabolic-steroid-use/article/310138/#

Weight loss medications containing MHA may cause liver damage

http://www.staradvertiser.com/s?action=login&f=y&id=222464191&id=222464191

UKAD has Win Clean education program at Pruhealth World Triathlon Grand Final in London September 11-15

http://wincleanuk.com/news/article/win-clean-at-the-pruhealth-world-triathlon-grand-final

Tokyo 2020 bid team uses clean doping record as a selling point in selection contest for Games host

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/OLY_2020_BIDS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-09-05-12-25-22

Istanbul says the raft of doping positives shows that Turkey is getting better at handling its doping issues and that this is a positive, not a negative in their bid for the 2020 Games

http://en.europeonline-magazine.eu/istanbul-says-positive-doping-results-prove-it-should-host-olympics_295626.html

College basketball player tests positive for pot

http://www.herald-dispatch.com/sports/x1988589659/MU-basketball-player-s-court-hearing-reveals-positive-drug-test-officials-say