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The Dugout: A Whole Thing of Steroids

By Brandon StroudNov 15th 2010 – 5:15PM

Eventually I'm going to be able to do offseason Dugouts about things other than the teams in the World Series and the Yankees, but for right now we have a silent holocaust to deal with: San Francisco Giants players using drugs. Jose Guillen arranged to have HGH shipped in from the Dominican Republic, Tim Lincecum smokes...

Chinese Company to Plead Guilty in HGH Probe

By FanHouse StaffOct 6th 2010 – 1:22PM

Genescience Pharmaceutical Co. and its chief executive, Lei Jin, planned to plead guilty Wednesday to federal charges of illegally selling human growth hormone and to pay $7.5 million, court documents show. They were scheduled to enter a plea change and be sentenced in U.S. District Court in Providence. The company...

Roger Clemens Denies Charges on Twitter; Twitter Responds

By Carl FranzenAug 19th 2010 – 7:49PM

(Aug. 19) -- How the mighty have fallen, only to be picked up by their Twitter followers. On Thursday, legendary pro-baseball pitcher Roger Clemens, aka "Rocket," former MVP (with the Boston Red Sox) and two-time MLB World Series champion (with the New York Yankees), was indicted by a federal grand jury on six counts,...

Redskins' Santana Moss Could Face Suspension Over HGH

By Dan GrazianoMay 20th 2010 – 11:50AM

Santana Moss has nothing to fear from federal prosecutors, even in light of Thursday morning's Buffalo News report that the Redskins WR was one of the athletes who allegedly received treatment from Toronto physician Anthony Galea, who is accused of smuggling illegal muscle-building drugs such as human growth hormone into...

Canadian Doctor Galea Charged With Providing HGH to NFL Players

By A.J. PerezMay 18th 2010 – 3:00PM

A Toronto doctor whose clients included several elite athletes was charged with unlawfully treating at least one NFL player with human growth hormone, according to an indictment unsealed at a federal court in Buffalo, N.Y., on Tuesday. Anthony Galea's client list included NFL, PGA and Major League Baseball players,...

Background on HGH

Growth hormone (GH) is a peptide hormone that stimulates growth, cell reproduction and regeneration in humans and other animals.

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