Nikki Haskell’s famous line reads: “If I can’t do it in high heels, I’m not interested”.

The question is will she be wearing high heels when she faces possibly multiple lawsuits NFL players might heap on her dainty feet because definitely she should be interested with the suits.

New Orleans Saints’ offensive lineman Jamar Nesbit filed a lawsuit Tuesday in a New Jersey federal district court against StarCaps, a company founded by Haskell.

Nesbit’s camp alleged that the product was ‘improperly stacked with a diuretic’, a compound which is included in the NFL’s list of prohibited substance. Said diuretic is bumetanide prescribed for individuals suffering from edema associated with congestive heart failure, hepatic and renal disease, including the nephrotic syndrome.

According to Nesbit’s lawyer Brian Malloy, the Saints player is seeking $235,000 to recoup his salary lost due his four-game suspension in September when he tested positive for said diuretic. Nesbit has just returned to his team’s active roster late last month from his suspension.

Diuretics are prohibited by most major sports organizations because they are often used to facilitate weight loss via their ability to enhance rapid water loss through urine excretion. They are also utilized as masking agents, i.e. they are used to purposely block or hide the presence of illicit compounds in the system. They do this by rapidly diluting urine by increasing renal flow. The result is lowered levels of the banned substance being excreted from the body.

StarCaps has suspended the sale of its weight loss product which has been alleged to contain bumetanide. Bumetanide is a loop diuretic and is included in the NFL’s list of prohibited compounds.

The company issued this emailed statement: “We’ve received notice of the problem with the NFL. We have referred the matter to our counsels and are taking all necessary steps to ensure that our customers receive product that is safe and effective. We have temporarily suspended shipping pending the result of our investigation.”

The company faces a lawsuit from Saints’ player Jamar Nesbit. Nesbit was slapped with a four-game suspension in September for violating the NFL’s policy on anabolic steroids and related substances. According to reports, the Saints’s offensive lineman tested positive for bumetanide and he blamed the StarCaps product for the positive test.

Nesbit’s attorney, Brian Malloy, said the product was tainted with the said diuretic. Nesbit is seeking $235,000 in lost salary from his suspension and additional damages to compensate for harm done to his reputation and for the alleged intentional, undisclosed spiking of the product with bumetanide.

StarCaps was founded by socialite and diet guru Nikki Haskell. The StarCaps dietary supplement is advertised as an ‘all-natural dietary supplement’ containing ‘a rare blend of papaya and garlic’.

Several players, prominently from the New Orleans Saints and Minnesota Vikings, are currently under investigation for testing positive for bumetanide. Among the players are Vikings Pat Williams and Kevin Williams and Saints running back Deuce McAllister and defensive ends Will Smith and Charles Grant.

Marion Jones appeared on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” and talked about her journey with anabolic steroids.

It was the Olympic sprint athlete’s first interview since her release from a federal prison in Texas a month ago. Jones had served a six-month sentence for lying about steroid use and her role in a check-fraud scam.

The 33-year-old had consistently denied her use of steroids until her testimony in a federal court last year when she admitted that she had used the designer steroid known as ‘The Clear’ from September 2000 to July 2001. She had been stripped of all the five medals she won at the Sydney Olympics in 2000 – 3 golds, 2 bronzes – after her admission.

“I made the decision I was going to lie and try to cover it up,” Marion Jones told the Queen of Talk Show about lying to prosecutors when they showed her a vial of “The Clear”, a designer steroid. “I knew that all of my performances would be questioned.”

“The Clear” was the design of the now defunct Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative of the anabolic steroid tetrahydrogestrinone, also known as THG. BALCO was reportedly the source of performance-enhancing drugs of many elite athletes including Jones.

Jones’ teammates in the relay teams were also stripped of their medals, and she apologized to her teammates for doing what she did.

“When I stepped on that track, I thought everybody was drug-free, including myself,” Jones said. “I apologize for having to put everybody through all of this.

“I’m trying to move on. I hope that everybody else can move on, too.”

Jones’ U.S. teammates in the 400-meter and 1,600-meter relays were also disqualified by the International Olympic Committee due to Jones’ doping violation and have filed an appeal in the Court of Sports Arbitration.

Jones said to Oprah that she will never run again and instead wants to inspire young people to do things the right way.

“I don’t have athletics anymore to hide behind,” Jones said. “In the past, it was Marion Jones, the athlete. … I don’t have that cover anymore. I have really had to find out who I am and why I make certain choices.”

In the end, There were rumors Marion Jones was going to buy steroids directly from BALCO, but decided to buy steroids thru her Olympic coach.  This is what caused her downfall in the Olympic world.  She started a cycle of steroid abuse, backed by her great Olympic performances.

It was considered as the biggest doping scandal ever in Sweden.

The crackdown took place last week when Swedish authorities swooped down on suspected drug dealers in a series of pre-dawn raids across the country. The investigation resulted to the arrest of 40 individuals and seizure of anabolic steroids, weapons and ammunition. Persons of interest were also brought in for interrogation.

According to reports, the incident on August 13 in Malmö which has resulted to the arrest of a 25-year-old man triggered the investigation. The man reportedly tried to flee the country with a bag full of cash.

Police were able to get from the suspect the name and address of a 51-year-old Gavle resident. The 51-year-old man was later arrested along with his girlfriend for doping offenses.

“We found large quantities of doping drugs and we received signals that his sales basically encompassed the whole of Sweden and took place over the internet,” said Pär Langer of the Gävleborg police department.
Police were able to retrieve data from the 51-year-old suspect’s computer that led to subsequent raids and interrogations of persons of interest.

“There’s much to suggest that this is the biggest doping scandal to have ever taken place in Sweden,” said Langer.

According to police, majority of drug sales took place at the Stockholm area and most of the buyers of anabolic steroids had associations with fitness and bodybuilding establishments in the area.

Bumetanide is now the buzz word in the National Football League.

According to Fox 31 television channel in Denver, there are six to 10 positive tests of Bumetanide among NFL’s rosters. Another news organization, ESPN.com, provided a bigger number “more than 10 and may exceed 15” it said in its report. Only two athletes have been named so far, and they are New Orleans Saints’ Deuce McAllister and Will Smith.

The sports organization is yet to release official statement on the issue. Similarly, David Cornwell, who has been hired by several of the involved parties, refused to divulge the identity of his clients or the actual number of the athletes involved. Cornwell, however, aired his views regarding how the information was reported by the media.

“These men are entitled to confidentiality and entitled to go through an appeal process, so the (Fox 31) report … is completely unfair,” Cornwell said. “The cornerstone of any workplace testing program, especially one in professional sports with high-profile people, is confidentiality.

“The recent reports about pending appeals by players who are alleged to have used weight loss supplements reflect the most egregious violation of the NFL steroids policy. The foundation of the policy is both a player’s right to appeal and an absolute right to confidentiality. By leaking this story, the ’source’ is clearly attempting to put their thumb on the scale of justice and harm these men.”

Bumetanide is loop diuretic, which means it acts on the ascending loop of Henle in the kidney. Loop diuretics are mainly used to treat hypertension and edema caused by congestive heart or renal insufficiency. Diuretics, such as Bumetanide, are often used as masking agents by some athletes. Masking agents are drugs or compounds that are taken purposely to ‘mask’ or hide steroids and other prohibited substances. This is the reason why diuretics are also tested for in doping controls. So this means that the NFL players who tested positive for Bumetanide have a whole lotta explaining to do.

The Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office in Florida finally arrested Christopher Edward Abate for several crimes. It was the culmination of their five-month investigation into the illegal activity of 44-year-old Deep Creek resident.

When authorities conducted the search of Abate’s house at 2511 Mauritania Road, they were able to seize more than 3,000 pills, steroid drugs, counterfeit identification and nearly $500,000 in cash.

They also recovered other evidence on the scene including vials and bottles of steroids with handwritten labels, equipment used to fill up and seal drug containers, and blank doctor’s prescription pads. Deputies also found several blank cards used for making counterfeit driver’s licenses and identification cards.

Further, authorities discovered that Abate had six different licenses that contained his photograph and three different names, according to the sheriff’s office report. Among the documents found was Abate’s release from Federal Probation relating to a prior prescription fraud charge.

The 44-year-old Abate was charged with five felony counts of possession of controlled substance for methadone, oxandrolone (anavar), fluoxymesterone, and oxymetholone (Anadrol). He was also charged with possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute of anavar, 42 counts of possession of prescription forms, and misdemeanor charges of possession of marijuana less than 20 grams and possession of paraphernalia.

He was later booked into the Charlotte County Jail on the drug and counterfeit-making equipment charges on a $52,100 bond.

James Nigel Stephens is one of the reasons why the public has this negative perception of anabolic steroids. You see, this guy committed a despicable act and blame it on anabolic steroids! These criminals would blame everything else, except themselves, to avoid prison time.

Stephens, from Fairfield in southwest Sydney, pleaded guilty to three counts of aggravated sexual assault and aggravated detention of a person for advantage over the incident at Waterloo, in Sydney.

Stephens got 14 years for what Australian media call “rampage of rape’ on a topless waitress on January 14, 2007. It was reported that Stephens attended a bucks’ party where the 22-year-old victim had worked. Stephens, then 18-year-old, stole her keys and later let himself into the car’s boot.

During sentencing submissions last month, Stephens’ attorney had declared his client had probably been under the influence of a “very, very nasty cocktail” of alcohol and steroids. Judge Michael Finnane of the New South Wales District Court, however, did not accept that as evidence.

“I must emphasize that I have no acceptable evidence that he drank to excess or that he consumed anabolic steroids,” the judge said.

The judge described to the court the nature of Stephens’ crime.

“What he did was horrifying in its cruelty,” he said.

“It was planned and calculated.

“He hid himself in the boot of her car and when she was alone, emerged suddenly, grabbed her from behind, threatening her with a plastic fork pressed to her neck, causing her to scream with fear.”

The teenager then forced the woman to pull over and raped her several times.

“Some of the offences had a sadistic quality to them and he showed, during the time of committing these offences, an attitude of contempt for the complainant and utter indifference to her suffering,” he said.

Stephens recorded parts of his assault on the victim.

No doubt about it, Jose Canseco can grab the spotlight without even trying.

The former Major League Baseball player was arraigned Tuesday in U.S. District Court in San Diego after trying to smuggle the female fertility drug human chorionic gonadotropin from Mexico last Thursday. HCG is classified as Schedule III compound under California laws. HCG is a prohibited by the World Anti-Doping Agency for use in males. The drug helps restore production of testosterone lost during steroid use.

Canseco, also known as “The Godfather of Steroids”, was charged Introduction into Interstate Commerce of a Misbranded Drug, a misdemeanor which has the maximum penalty of one year in prison and a $1000 fine.

According to reports, Canseco, along with two female companions, was entering California at the San Ysidro checkpoint when their vehicle was stopped and searched by Customs and Border Protection agents. In the center armrest compartment, six vials of HCG and ten syringes were discovered. Canseco was later detained by authorities and released a few hours later.

Canseco’s next court date is scheduled Nov. 4 at 9 a.m.

Canseco, who played with the New York Yankees and the Chicago White Sox, has written two tell-all books on the widespread use of anabolic steroids in the major league. He claimed that 85% of major league players used anabolic steroids.

Jose Canseco, the self-proclaimed “Godfather of Steroids”, is in a ditch again. Deep, deep legal ditch by all accounts.

The former slugger and now author of two tell-all books on steroids use in the Major League could be behind bars for a year and fined $1000 if he would be proven guilty of misdemeanor with Introduction into Interstate Commerce of a Misbranded Drug.

He was arraigned Tuesday in U.S. District Court in San Diego appearing before Hon. Magistrate Judge Ruben B. Brooks. His next court appearance is Nov. 4 at 9 a.m.

It was last Thursday when Canseco’s vehicle was inspected by Customs and Border Protection agents who found six vials of the human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) and ten syringes in the vehicle’s center armrest compartment. Canseco, accompanied by two female companions, was entering California via the San Ysidro checkpoint. He was subsequently detained by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and was released 10 hours later.

In 2005, the Cuban-born Canseco admitted to using anabolic steroids in his initial tell-all book entitled Juiced: Wild Times,  Rampant ‘Roids, Smash Hits & How Baseball Got Big. Not many were happy with his revelations in the book. He implicated big names in the Major League, including his former teammates Mark McGwire and Jason Giambi.

In his sequel to Juiced, Vindicated: Big Names, Big Liars, and the Battle to Save Baseball’, Canseco linked such big names like Alex Rodriguez to anabolic steroid use. Here’s an excerpt from his second book:

When someone gets around to writing the real history of baseball, I’m going to be remembered as the guy who did more to change the game than any other player. And I did it twice. I fundamentally changed the way the sport is played. The first time was when I introduced my fellow players to steroids, launching the Steroid Era, a decade that saw superhuman athletes breaking all of baseball’s storied records. And the second time was when I saw that things were getting out of control, and that I had to tell the truth about what was going on.

Australian police is probably the least busy police in the world. It turns out that in AU, the police have to produce results or they are fired. Due to the low crime rate, Australian police have to target everything and everyone possible to get their arrest “quota.” Thus, they are targeting anabolic steroid users because most of them are easy to catch, and they are not like the real gangsters with AK-47 that will shoot out with them.

Thus, they raid health food stores, and health supplement shops, looking for steroid dealers. One such instance is just recent, where an alleged steroid dealer was selling steroids thru his little vitamin shop. They raided the place and arrested him for distribution of anabolic steroids, but now it turns out the man they arrested didn’t do much wrong. He was selling M1T, basically a prohormone that was legal over the counter for years in western nations, such as USA and EU. Somehow, the AU police thing pro-hormones are going to kill people, or are they just filling that hard to catch arrest “quota”???

Victoria police have seized several types of steroids and other products following a lengthy investigation into activities at Your Vitamin Store in the Mayfair Shopping Centre.

Undercover officers made numerous purchases of anabolic steroids at the store, police said.

The steroids were called M1Ts and were sold in bottles of 80 capsules costing $109.95.

Police said the product contains a controlled substance, as defined by the Controlled Drug and Substances Act of Canada.

Police later executed a search warrant at the store and have forwarded details of what was seized to Health Canada as part of the investigation.

A 33-year-old Victoria man is facing six counts of trafficking in a controlled substance, as well as one count of possession for the purpose of trafficking.

This high school wrestling coach is a real scum-bag.  He gave regular drugs, like methamphetamine and cocaine to students, and molested them.  It’s a shame he also gave his wrestling students steroids, which makes the whole steroid community look like nutjobs.  This particular idiot was just a maniac caught in the wrong situation.  he was always abusive to his students, and then he decided to show them how to abuse drugs and abuse steroids.  He’s a scumbag that should be put in jail.

On the other hand, maybe we do not know the whole story? did he really have sex with high school boys and beat them? or did they claim this just to get him arrested.  Did he give out drugs and anabolic steroids to students or no? it’s impossible to tell at this point.  There was talk that he was providing them with Dianabol and Clenbuterol, along with the other drugs, but this was never proven.

From Arizona Republic:

A man sought by authorities in Virginia on charges that he gave steroids to a high-school wrestler and then molested him has been arrested in Phoenix.

U.S. Marshals Service spokesman Matt Hershey said Saturday that a child predator task force arrested 41-year-old Ben Hunter on Friday.

Hershey says Hunter was wanted by Virginia State Police and authorities in Lancaster County on numerous charges ranging from child abuse to distribution of a controlled substance. He’s accused of giving steroids to the boy and assaulting him on overnight trips while he was a volunteer coach.

Hunter was arrested in 2004, but posted bond and fled. The case was featured on America’s Most Wanted several times.

Hershey didn’t know whether Hunter had retained a lawyer.

Why steroids should be illegal

Anabolic steroids, or simply steroids or ‘roids, are synthetic hormones related to the male hormone testosterone. Steroids do have legitimate medical uses.

Steroids are used to treat diverse medical conditions, such as bone marrow stimulation to help treat certain forms of anemia as well as growth stimulation in children suffering from growth failure. Some steroids are used for the stimulation of appetite and preservation of muscle mass; muscle loss can occur when a patient is suffering from chronic wasting conditions, such as AIDS and cancer.

Yet, steroids are now more in demand by non-medical users. And by non-medical users we mean healthy individuals who obtain steroids for their anabolic effects solely to improve their physique or athletic performance. It is because of these individuals that steroids should be illegal on several grounds.

Steroids should be illegal because they are detrimental to health

Steroids should be illegal because they pose health risks to the group of individuals who tend to abuse these compounds. Steroid abuse can cause severe risks to the well-being of the users, which sometimes can be fatal. It is for this reason why in many countries of the world, including the United States, steroids are considered illegal.

Time and again, non-medical users of steroids are forewarned about the health risks involved when taking these illegal substances. The following are some of the common side effects of steroid abuse.

Both clinical and anecdotal reports suggest that use of illegal steroids can result to psychiatric dysfunction. Abuse of illegal steroids can lead to aggression, delusions, paranoia, depression, extreme mood swings, and the so-called roid rage. The have been some suicide and homicide cases wherein use illegal steroids was said to be a contributing factor.

Other health risks include liver damage, infertility, high blood pressure, cardiovascular effects, and increase in LDL levels and/or decrease in HDL levels. There are also the gender-specific side effects, such as gynecomastia and testicular shrinkage in males, and hirsutism and clitoral enlargement in females.

Because of the aforementioned negative effects, it is for the safety of people why steroids should be illegal.

Steroids should be illegal because they have addictive potential

In animal studies it have been found out that steroids exhibit reinforcing effect; meaning, subjects tend to self-administer these drugs if given the opportunity. In humans, this effect is illustrated when users of illegal steroids insist on using them despite the occurrence of health problems and negative impact on social dealings.

In addition, withdrawal symptoms can occur when users stop taking illegal steroids. These symptoms are similar to those experienced from other substance addiction withdrawal, such as insomnia, fatigue, depression, loss of appetite, and substance cravings.

Steroids should be illegal because they give unfair advantage for the users

Steroids are used by some athletes to boost their performance, and thus, in essence, use of steroids in sports is tantamount to cheating.

Steroids are known to increase the strength and endurance of athletes who use them through several biological processes, including protein synthesis, erythropoietin, and glycolysis.

Anecdotal and clinical reports show that steroids make one bigger, faster, and stronger. This is why steroid use has taken an ethical caption as it fractures the tacit social contract between and among athletes, which is an agreement of fair play.

Steroids should be illegal because they send the wrong message to youths

How does steroid use send wrong message to kids?

A U.S. legislator puts it effectively with just a few words?”If our professional athletes aren’t clean, and if the perception they give is that you can cheat and make the Super Bowl, it trickles down, and the effect is huge.”

Considering all the aforementioned issues – steroids causing health risks, addiction, and moral and ethical concerns – it is clear why steroids should be illegal. Their classification as illegal compounds could get the message across to kids that it is not okay to see an athlete using them to run faster because steroids are illegal.

Is Buying steroids illegal?

When you buy steroids, you risk the chance of breaking the law, depending on what country you live in.  If you buy steroids in certain countries, you can face some serious legal action.  Many countries set high criminal penalties for purchasing and distributing steroids, while in other countries steroids are over the counter.  The countries where steroids are easily available are: Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Austria, Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos, Ecuador, Mexico and Moldova.