- Rafael Palmeiro
Rafael Palmeiro Corrales (born September 24, 1964 in Havana, Cuba) is a Major League Baseball player with a career spanning 20 years, 1986 to 2005. Though technically not retired, Palmeiro has not played since 2005. Palmeiro was an All-American at Mississippi State University before being drafted by the Chicago Cubs in 1985. His major league debut came on September 8, 1986 with the Cubs. He played three seasons with the Cubs (1986-1988), … - Dan Duchaine
Daniel "Dan" Duchaine (1952 - January 12 2000) was a former American bodybuilder, author, two time convicted felon and philosopher. Nicknamed "The Steroid Guru", Duchaine gained worldwide notoriety due to his outspoken opinions on the use of performance enhancing drugs, and made numerous television appearances discussing the subject on shows such as 20/20, Geraldo and 60 Minutes. - Rick Reilly
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. - Ryan Franklin
Ryan Ray Franklin (born March 5, 1973) is a Major League Baseball player. Franklin is a right-handed pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals. On August 2, 2005, Franklin became the eighth Major League player, and second Mariner, to test positive for steroid use. He received a ten day suspension. Franklin was a member of the gold medal winning US baseball team at the 2000 Olympics, where he had a 3-0 pitching record in 4 appearances. - Rafael Betancourt
Rafael José Betancourt is a Major League Baseball right-handed relief pitcher who has pitched with the Cleveland Indians since 2003. He was originally signed as an amateur free agent by the Boston Red Sox in September 1993. The Red Sox released him following the 1999 season and then resigned him as a free agent in December 2000. He was granted free agency again in October 2001 and signed with the Indians in January 2003. - Phil Mushnick
Phil Mushnick is a sportswriter who writes a sports media column for the "New York Post". Mushnick's articles criticize the world of sports as portrayed in the media. Frequently criticized subjects include sexuality/obscenity in sports broadcasting, steroid abuse in professional wrestling, and the general lack of moral behavior permeating the world of sports. - David Jenkins
David Jenkins (born 25 May,1952) was a Scottish athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres. He was later convicted of drug offences. Jenkins was educated at Edinburgh Academy, where he excelled at sport. In 1971, aged only nineteen, Jenkins won the 400 meters at the European Athletics Championships in Helsinki. He competed for Great Britain in the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich, … - Reggie Evans
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. - Steve Michalik
Steve Michalik is a bodybuilder most active during the 1970's and 80's. He won a number of titles including Mr. America in 1972 and Mr. Universe in 1975. After a near-death experience due to steroid over-use, he now teaches young teenagers the dangers of steroids and encourages healthy methods of packing on muscle. - Pyrros Dimas
Pyrros Dimas ; Albanian: Pirro Dhima; born October 13, 1971), is a Greek weightlifter and three-time Olympic champion for Greece. Dimas was born in Himara, Albania (Northern Epirus) of Greek descent, and emigrated to Greece in 1991. He first competed for Greece in the 1992 Summer Olympics, winning the gold medal in the 82.5 kg class. His birthplace gave rise to his nickname "The Lion of Himara". - Nan Aye Khine
Nan Aye Khine (born 19 September 1976) is a Myanmar weightlifter who competed in the women's 48 kg at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She originally finished fourth, but tested positive for a steroid and was disqualified. - Nathan Baggaley
Nathan Baggaley (born December 6, 1975 in Byron Bay, New South Wales) is an Australian flatwater canoer and surfski champion. He is a three-times world champion in the individual kayak (K1) 500m event and has also won two Olympic silver medals. He made his international debut for Australia in 1997, initially competing in the K2. In 1999 he switched to the K1 and reached the 500m semi-finals at the Sydney Olympics in 2000. - Lyubov Ivanova
Lyubov Ivanova (born March 2 1981) is a Russian long-distance runner who specializes in the 3000 metres steeplechase. She finished fourth at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg. She then finished fourth at the 2006 IAAF World Athletics Final, but tested positive for a steroid and received a two-year doping ban. - Elwood V. Jensen
Elwood V. Jensen, PhD, is the John and Gladys Strauss Professor of Cancer Research at University of Cincinnati Medical Center's Vontz Center for Molecular Studies. In 2004 he received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research for his research on estrogen receptors. Jensen was born in Springfield, Ohio, in the United States, received his bachelor's degree from Wittenberg University in 1940 and PhD in organic chemistry from the University of Chicago in 1944. - Luis Ugueto
Luis Enrique Ugueto [oo-ge-to] (born February 15, 1979) is a Major League Baseball second baseman and switch-hitter batter who played for the Seattle Mariners. Ugueto was born in Caracas, Venezuela. Originally signed by the Florida Marlins as an amateur free agent in 1996, he was drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates from Florida in the 2001 rule 5 draft. Finally, he made his debut with the Mariners on April 3, 2002. - Félix Heredia
Félix Heredia Perez is a Major League Baseball pitcher who was born on June 18, 1975 in Santa Cruz de Barahona, Dominican Republic free agent. On October 18, 2005 he became the 11th MLB player to be suspended for testing positive for steroids. He is also known as "El Gato Flaco" (jokingly referred to as "Run Fairy"). On December 16, 2006 the Tigers signed him to a minor league deal. Heredia attended Escuela Dominical in Barahona. - Louis Fieser
Louis F. Fieser (April 7, 1899 - July 25, 1977) was an organic chemist, professor, and in 1968, professor emeritus at Harvard University. He was renowned as the inventor, in 1943, of a militarily effective form of napalm. His award-winning research included work on blood-clotting agents including the first synthesis of vitamin K, synthesis and screening of quinones as antimalarial drugs, work with steroids leading to the synthesis of cortisone, … - Russell Earl Marker
Russell Earl Marker (March 12, 1902 - March 23, 1995) was an eccentric American chemist who invented the octane rating system when he was working at the Ethyl Corporation. Later in his career he went on to found a steroid industry in Mexico when he successfully made synthetic progesterone from a Mexican yam in a process known as Marker degradation, which eventually led to the development of the birth control pill and a cheap, ample supply of cortisone at Syntex. - Israel Hanukoglu
Israel Hanukoglu - Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Former Science and Technology Adviser to the Prime Minister of Israel (1996-1999). Founder of Israel Science and Technology Homepage. Hanukoglu was awarded Hans Lindner Prize (1988), and Lubell Award (1991) for his elucidation of the structures of NAD/NADP coenzyme binding enzyme families, … - William Summer Johnson
William Summer Johnson (February 24, 1913- August 19, 1995) was an American chemist and teacher. For many years Dr. Johnson was a professor at Stanford University in California. He did important research in the artificial production of steroids and was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1989. - Clayton Heathcock
Clayton H. Heathcock , Ph.D., is a former Dean of the College of Chemistry and the Gilbert Newton Lewis Professor of Chemistry at UC Berkeley. He chaired the Department of Chemistry from 1986-89 and has served as dean since 1999. Since he began his research career at UC Berkeley in 1964, Heathcock has published more than 270 papers in the field of organic synthesis. - Gideon Rodan
Dr. Gideon Alfred Rodan (born June 14, 1934 in Bucharest, Romania; died January 1 2006 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania) was an American biochemist and osteopath. Rodan studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and at the Weizmann Institute for Sciences in Rehovot, Israel. He researched the deformation of bone cells. His most notable work was about Osteoporosis. Rodan researched the connection between osteoblasts and osteoclasts and helped to analyse and describe the two. - Ermal Kurtoğlu
Ermal Kuqo, born on February 12, 1980 in Korca, Albania, is an Albanian basketball player. Currently he plays for Efes Pilsen S.K. in Istanbul, Turkey. He played college basketball at Seminole College in Seminole, Oklahoma, USA. He entered the NBA Draft in 2003 but was not selected. If he would have been drafted he would have been the first Albanian in the NBA. He was suspended 6 months from official basketball due to a steroid violation, although no steroid was found, … - Arthur John Birch
Arthur John Birch AC (August 3, 1915 - December 8 1995) was an organic chemist from Australia. Birch developed the "Birch reduction" of aromatic rings which is widely used in synthetic organic chemistry. The Birch Reduction enables the modification of steroids. In 1948 Birch made the first total synthesis of a male sex hormone (19-nortestosterone), as the first member of a new structural series. This series later comprised the first oral contraceptive pill, … - Terence Donovan
Terence Donovan, was a celebrated photographer and film director, perhaps best remembered for his fashion photography of the 1960s, or for the music video to Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love". He was born in Stepney in the East End of London, and took his first photo at the age of 15. The bomb-damaged industrial landscape of his home town became the backdrop of much of his fashion photography, … - Roger Clemens
William Roger Clemens (born August 4, 1962, in Dayton, Ohio), nicknamed "The Rocket", is a starting pitcher for the New York Yankees, and is one of the preeminent Major League baseball pitchers of the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s. In 2006, a poll of 32 ESPN analysts named Clemens the greatest living pitcher. He has won seven Cy Young Awards, two more than any other pitcher. He throws and bats right-handed. - Andy Pettitte
Andrew Eugene Pettitte (pronounced "PET-it"), born June 15, 1972 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is an American left-handed starting pitcher for the New York Yankees. In his major league career, he played for the New York Yankees from 1995-2003. He then signed with the Houston Astros, playing from 2004 through 2006. In 2007, Pettitte rejoined the Yankees. He won four championships as a Yankee and made the playoffs every year except for 2006. - Eric Gagné
Eric Serge Gagné, is a right-handed relief pitcher for the Texas Rangers. Signing with the Los Angeles Dodgers as a free agent in 1995, Gagné started his career as a starting pitcher. After stuggling in that role, the Dodgers converted Gagné from a starter to a reliever where for three years (2002-2004), he was statistically the most outstanding closer in the game, winning the Cy Young Award in 2003. - Gary Sheffield
Gary Antonian Sheffield (born November 18, 1968 in Tampa, Florida) is a Major League Baseball designated hitter and outfielder for the Detroit Tigers. Sheffield has primarily played right field, though he has also played left field, third base, shortstop, and a handful of games at first base. He previously played for the Milwaukee Brewers, San Diego Padres, Florida Marlins, Los Angeles Dodgers, Atlanta Braves, and New York Yankees. - David Justice
David Christopher Justice (born April 14 1966 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a former right fielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Atlanta Braves (1989-96), Cleveland Indians (1997-2000), New York Yankees (2000-01), and Oakland Athletics (2002). - Matt Williams
Matthew Derrick "Matt" Williams (born November 28, 1965 in Bishop, California) is a former Major League Baseball third baseman and right-handed batter who played for the San Francisco Giants (1987-96), Cleveland Indians (1997) and Arizona Diamondbacks (1998-2003). Williams was originally selected by the New York Mets out of high school but he did not sign. The Giants later drafted him out of college in the first round (3rd pick) of the 1986 amateur draft. - Mark McGwire
Mark David McGwire (born October 1, 1963 in Pomona, California) is a former professional baseball player who played his major league career with the Oakland Athletics and St. Louis Cardinals. McGwire was a prolific "power hitter" during the 1990s. In the 1998 season, McGwire broke the single-season home run record by hitting 70, which remains the second-highest home run total in one season behind Barry Bonds's 73 in 2001. - Jack Cust
John Joseph Cust III (born January 16, 1979, in Readington, New Jersey), is a Major League Baseball player who plays with the Oakland Athletics. He previously played with the Arizona Diamondbacks (2001), Colorado Rockies (2002), Baltimore Orioles (2003-2004) and San Diego Padres (2006). Cust attended Immaculata High School (Somerville, New Jersey). In 1997 he was 1st team High School All-American at first base. - Larry Bigbie
Larry Robert Bigbie (b. November 4, 1977, in Hobart, Indiana) is a Major League Baseball left fielder who is currently a minor-league player for the Richmond Braves the triple A affiliate for the Atlanta Braves organization. He attended Ball State University. - Denny Neagle
Dennis Edward Neagle Jr. (Born September 13, 1968 in Gambrills, Maryland) is a Major League Baseball player, presently a free agent. He was last under contract with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays during the 2005 season, but he did not play due to injury. During the 1990s, he was one of the top pitchers in baseball, but his career, and personal life, deteriorated in the early 2000s. - Manny Alexander
Manuel de Jesús (Manny) Alexander is a professional baseball infielder who currently plays for the Columbus Clippers. He has played for the Baltimore Orioles (1992-93, 1995-96), New York Mets (1997), Chicago Cubs (1997-99), Boston Red Sox (2000), Texas Rangers (2004) and San Diego Padres (2005-2006). He is a switch-hitter and throws right handed. In an eleven-season career, Alexander posted a .231 batting average with 15 home runs and 115 RBI in 594 games played. - John Rocker
John Loy Rocker (born October 17 1974) is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher who played 3 1/2 seasons with the Atlanta Braves. He is a native of Macon, Georgia. John is single and currently resides in Atlanta. - Glenallen Hill
Glenallen Hill (born March 22, 1965 in Santa Cruz, California) is a former outfielder in Major League Baseball who played for 13 seasons. Hill played with the Toronto Blue Jays (1989-1991), Cleveland Indians (1991-1993), Chicago Cubs (1993-1994, 1998-2000) San Francisco Giants (1995-1997), Seattle Mariners (1998), New York Yankees (2000), and Anaheim Angels (2001). Hill batted and threw right-handed. Currently he is the First Base Coach for the Colorado Rockies - David Bell
David Michael Bell (born September 14, 1972 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a Major League Baseball third baseman who is presently a free agent. A member of one of the major leagues' three-generation families, he is the brother of Mike Bell, the son of Buddy Bell, and the grandson of Gus Bell. On April 15, 1998, he hit the first inside-the-park home run in Jacobs Field history, and the first for the Indians since 1989. As a junior at Moeller High School in Cincinnati, … - Rondell White
Rondell Bernard White (born February 23, 1972 in Milledgeville, Georgia) is an outfielder and designated hitter in Major League Baseball and currently is on the Minnesota Twins. His career batting average is .286 and his career slugging percentage is .465.
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