Barry Lamar Bonds (born July 24 1964 in Riverside, California) is a Major League Baseball player with the San Francisco Giants. He is the son of former Major League All-Star Bobby Bonds, cousin of Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson, and the godson of Hall of Famer Willie Mays. Bonds holds the single season major league records for home runs (73), on base percentage (.609), slugging percentage (.863), and walks (232).

Mohammad Asif (Urdu: محمد آصف is a Pakistani cricketer. He is primarily a right-arm fast-medium bowler. Asif has played for Khan Research Labs, the National Bank Quetta, Sheikhupura, Sialkot and Leicestershire. He made his Test match debut against Australia in January 2005. In 2006 there was controversy over Asif after he originally tested positive for a banned anabolic steroid, Nandralone, before having a ban imposed on him overturned on appeal.

Stephen Paul "Steve" Courson (October 1, 1955 - November 10, 2005) was an American football player, playing lineman for the NFL's Pittsburgh Steelers. Courson was originally from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He played for the Steelers from 1978-1983 and retired in 1985 after two seasons with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. In 1991, his book "False Glory: The Steve Courson Story", about his life in football when he used steroids, was published.

Gregg Valentino (born August 5, 1960) in Bronx, New York is a controversial Italian-American bodybuilder who is thought to have the largest arms in the world. He resides in Yorktown, New York. As a young man, Valentino was an active bodybuilder, but was never satisfied with his size. As a result, he quickly turned to substances such as testosterone, Boldenone (an anabolic steroid) and occasionally enanthate to enhance his muscle mass, …

Eric Randolph "Randy" Barnes (born June 16, 1966) is an American shot putter who holds outdoor and indoor distance records. He won silver at the 1988 Olympics and gold at the 1996 Olympics. Barnes was born in Charleston, West Virginia and began throwing the shot put in high school. In 1985, he threw an impressive 66 ' 9.5" (20.36 m) with the prep shot of 12 lb (5.44 kg). After graduating from St. Albans High School near Charleston in 1985, …

Vita Pavlysh is a former athlete who specialised in the shot put. Pavlysh was stripped of her 1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships gold medal after she had tested positive for anabolic steroid Stanozolol at the event in Maebashi, Japan. She claimed that she may have taken the drug to aid her recovery from injury. For this offence she received a two year ban. 5 years on at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Budapest, …

Richard "Rick" Paul Reilly (born February 3, 1958 in Boulder, Colorado) is the "back-page" sportswriter for "Sports Illustrated". He has won the Sportswriter of the Year award 11 times.

Wu Yanyan is a Chinese swimmer who is the current world record holder of the women's 200 metres individual medley. Wu set the world record in a time of 2:09.79 in Shanghai at China's National Games in October 1997. She went on to win in the event at the World Championships in January 1998. After the win, her times dropped off only to improve suddenly at the national championships in May, leading to growing suspicions that she was involved in doping.

Anastasiya Kapachinskaya (born: November 20, 1979 in Moscow, Russia) is a sprint athlete. At the IAAF World Indoor Championships in 2004 she won the 200 m, but was stripped of the title after testing positive for the banned anabolic steroid stanozolol. She denied all knowledge of how it had happened and during the two year ban that she has received has vowed to work with the World Anti-Doping Agency promoting sports without drugs, …

King Kaufman is the daily sports columnist for Salon.com. Kaufman grew up in Los Angeles, lived for six years in St. Louis, and is moving back to San Francisco in the summer of 2007. In addition to covering the major American sports leagues and international events such as the Olympics and the World Cup, Kaufman's columns often deal with issues related to the state of American sports. Some specific concerns of Kaufman include the role of race in sports and American culture, …

Svetlana Vladimirovna Krivelyova ("Russian": Светлана Владимировна Кривелёва; born: June 13, 1969 in Bryansk, Russia) is an athlete who specialises in the shot put. In a long and distinguished career Krivelyova's highlights were the Summer Olympics gold medal in 1992 whilst representing the Unified Team where she beat the reigning world champion Huang Zhihong of China and her World Championship victory in 2003.

Troy Douglas (born November 30, 1962 in Paget, Bermuda) is a Dutch sprinter. Originally competing for Bermuda, he finished second at the 1995 IAAF World Indoor Championships in the 200 metres event, but he changed nationality to the Netherlands some time after. Forr Bermuda he participated at the 1998, 1992 and 1996 Summer Olympics, reaching the semi finals on the 200 metres in 1998 as well as the semi finals on the 400 metres in 1992 and 1996.

Arthur Zwane (born September 20 1973 in Soweto, Gauteng) is a South African football (soccer) midfielder for Kaizer Chiefs and South Africa. Arthur's younger brother Ivan Zwane is also a well known soccer player. He is currently playing for Dynamos a limpopo based soccer team. In 2004, he was banned for 2 years after testing positive for Methyltestosterone, an anabolic steroid. The ban was later reduced to six months.

Reginald (Reggie) Jamaal Evans (born May 18 1980, in Pensacola, Florida) is an American professional basketball player currently with the NBA's Denver Nuggets. He was undrafted despite an impressive career at the University of Iowa. In 2001, Evans led the nation in free throws attempted, free throws made, and double-doubles. He led the Big Ten Conference in rebounding in 2001 and 2002, and was named Big Ten Tournament MVP in 2001 and Second Team All-Big Ten in 2002.

Natalya Sadova, née Koptyukh is a Russian discus thrower. She won the gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics held in Athens, Greece in 2004, as well as a silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. She originally won the gold medal at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics, but lost it due to a positive drugs test for caffeine. She was later cleared and let off a suspension, …

Uwe Beyer (April 14 1945 - April 15 1993) was a West German hammer thrower. Beyer was born in in Timmendorf near Kiel and represented the sports clubs Holstein Kiel, Bayer Leverkusen and USC Mainz. Beyer won the bronze medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, representing the United Team of Germany, and later finished fourth at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich representing West Germany.

Kjell Ove Hauge (born on 20 February 1969) is a retired Norwegian shot putter and discus thrower. He represented Gloppen FIL. He finished eleventh at the 1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships. In addition he competed at the 1994 European Championships and the 1997 World Championships without reaching the final round. He became Norwegian shot put champion in 1993, 1994, 1996 and 1997 His personal best in shot put was 20.39 metres, achieved in May 1998 in Eugene.

Donald James MacLean (born January 16 1970 in Palo Alto, California) is a former professional basketball player in the NBA, as well as holding the distinction of being the all-time scoring leader at UCLA. He was selected by the Detroit Pistons in the 1992 NBA Draft but was traded to the Los Angeles Clippers who in turn traded him to the Washington Bullets. After graduating from Simi Valley High School in Simi Valley, California where he was an All-American, …

Dan Sileo (born March 1, 1966 in Stamford, Connecticut) is a sports radio personality. Before his current career, he was an American football defensive lineman in the National Football League for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Detroit Lions and briefly with the Dallas Cowboys. The latter two teams saw him participate only in preseason games. Sileo transferred many times during his college career starting at Maryland, then Cincinnati and finally to University of Miami Hurricanes.

Renate Stecher is a German (former East German) athlete and a triple Olympic champion. Born as Renate Meißner, she was a very talented athlete, also competing in the high jump and pentathlon. She debuted internationally at the 1969 European Championships, where she - as a last minute substitute - won a silver medal in the 200 m and a gold in the 4 x 100 m relay.

Frank Benjamin Colton (March 3, 1923 - November 25, 2003), American chemist who first synthesized norethynodrel, the progestin used in Enovid, the first oral contraceptive, at G. D. Searle & Company in Skokie, Illinois in 1952. Frank B. Colton was born in Poland and immigrated to the United States in 1934. He earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in chemistry from Northwestern University in 1945 and 1946 and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1950.

Pat Malloy took over as goalkeeper for the Limerick 37 after Ryan Sanderson's career-ending injury. Controversy ensued after Malloy was accused of using anabolic steroids. The scandal arose just before the championship game, and the team was forced to forfeit. Later, it was found that Malloy was innocent of the accusations.

David Schultz is a retired professional wrestler, who billed himself as Dr. D. He gained his biggest notoriety in 1984 after assaulting "20/20" reporter John Stossel.