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        <title><![CDATA[ Bonds Hit  With New Indictment]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[The feds filed a new indictment against Barry Bonds today, charging him with 14 counts of perjury for allegedly lying when he told a grand jury that he never used performance-enhancing drugs and one count of obstructing the government's investigation, ESPN reports. The charges are essentially the same ones lodged against baseball's home-run king in November, before a judge ordered prosecutors to rewrite the original five-count indictment.]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Tue, 13 May 2008 21:25:21 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ Olympian Indicted for Dealing Heroin]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Olympic gold-medalist Tim Montgomery has been indicted for dealing heroin, the Virginian-Pilot reports. &ldquo;They said I sold 100 grams of heroin to an informant,&rdquo; Montgomery told the paper in a jailhouse interview, noting that he has &ldquo;no idea&rdquo; why he&rsquo;s been charged. The sprinter, now 33, was banned from track for doping and faces sentencing next month in a $5-million check-kiting case.]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Fri, 02 May 2008 10:00:04 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ Missing Genes Can Thwart Doping Tests]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Testosterone injections are among the most common performance-enhancing drugs detected in athlete screenings, but some lucky competitors can take them without fear of exposure, the New York Times reports. Of 55 men given testosterone in a recent study, 17 came up clean on a drug test because they're missing the pair of genes that cause testosterone to dissolve in urine.]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:09:47 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ Trainer Refutes Canseco, Says A-Rod's No Juicer]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[A personal trainer says he's the man portrayed in Jose Canseco&rsquo;s latest tell-all as pushing steroids on Alex Rodriguez; but Joseph Dion&mdash;called &quot;Max&quot; in Vindicated&mdash;denies any juicing ever happened and says he&rsquo;s &ldquo;hurt in every way&rdquo; by the insinuation. The trainer maintains that throughout their relationship, he and A-Rod were both decidedly anti-steroids, Sports Illustrated reports.]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:34:00 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ Track Doping Witness Will Give 2 Dozen Names]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Angel Guillermo Heredia, the main witness for the federal case against elite track coach Trevor Graham, is prepared to give the names of about two dozen athletes to whom he supplied performance-enhancing drugs. Among the 12 Olympians on the list is Maurice Greene, a two-time gold medalist who has never failed a drug test, reports the New York Times.]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Sun, 13 Apr 2008 11:35:07 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ Baseball Owners, Players Toughen Drug Policy]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Clubs and players agreed yesterday to toughen Major League Baseball's anti-doping policy, the AP reports. Players will be tested more frequently without notice, and the game's outside administrator&mdash;a position created in 2005 to oversee testing&mdash;will get more authority. As part of the deal, all of the players named in the Mitchell Report have been given amnesty.]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Sat, 12 Apr 2008 08:54:37 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ Player Agents Referred Clients to Steroid Doc]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Federal authorities unsealed an indictment yesterday that charges Dr. Ramon Scruggs and two associates with illegally prescribing performance-enhancing drugs to MLB players. One assertion made in the indictment is that players&rsquo; agents referred them to Scruggs, though no agents are named. The doctor, along with associates Allan Danto and Heidi Macpherson, faces 11 charges relating to the illegal distribution of the drugs.]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:14:27 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ Marion Jones' Teammates  Paying for Her Crime]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[The consequences of Marion Jones&rsquo; doping offenses reached further yesterday when the International Olympic Committee laid down the law and stripped her former relay teammates of their medals&mdash;this after Jones&rsquo; was stripped of hers late last year. The runners, with Jones, won gold in the 4x400-meter relay and bronze in the 400 relay at the 2000 Olympic Games.]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:42:15 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ Mosley Knew  He Was Doping:  BALCO Chief ]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Shane Mosley was perfectly aware he had taken steroids before defeating Oscar de la Hoya in 2003, claims convicted steroid dealer Victor Conte. &quot;He knew what he was taking and I told him that before he took it,&quot; BALCO founder Conte said. The prizefighter says he never knowingly took steroids and is suing for libel, the LA Times reports.
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        <pubDate> Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:03:00 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[  McNamee Selling Clemens   Mementos on eBay]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[If Roger Clemens wants to get any of his stuff back from ex-trainer Brian McNamee, all he has to do is log on to eBay. McNamee, who split with Clemens in the great steroids war, is putting up everything from autographed baseballs to hats to photographs of &quot;all the steroid guys&quot;&mdash;Clemens, Canseco, and Pettitte, the AP reports. He's donating the proceeds to his juvenile diabetes charity.]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:01:21 CDT  </pubDate>
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