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Suspect claims selling steroids to Caps
A massive drug bust in a small town in central Florida entangled the Washington Nationals and Capitals late Tuesday when a man found with $200,000 worth of steroids and other drugs in his home named those teams, and no others, when police inquired whether any professional athletes were among his clients. But the sheriff handling the case in Polk County said detectives had no evidence other than the claims of the man, Richard Thomas, 35, who bragged while in detention that he had sold performance-enhancing drugs to players in a variety of pro sports without providing names, numbers of clients, time frames or validating documentation.
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Perhaps a loser trying to get his 15 min of Fame?
Domi28
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Here we go, hopefully this ain't gonna destroy NHLs rep. Although there is no evidence thus far, a spark is all you need.
Hf4life says lets go…
Latrobe , PA
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Ha there are a lot of crude jokes I could make about this story, but i hope it isn't true. If the Caps were taking performance-enhancing drugs during the playoffs, their supply must have ran out about a day before Game 7.
shafnutz05
Paoli, PA
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I sincerely hope it isn't true.
PensFan-DWI
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I would also argue that if he indeed did sell PEDs to the Washington Nationals, they appear to have been a fairly useless product.
The reality is that PEDs are used in every major professional league. Mind you, I'm not talking about heavy hitters like anabolic steroids and HGH, necessarily. Stimulants and cortizone shots can be classified the same way too, I've always felt.
eightyeight
Annapolis , MD
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you think?
Spiny Norman
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Haha very good point. If he sold to the Nationals, why the heck would he ever admit it????
jjo
Mays Landing , NJ
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Paleeze. This doochebag gets busted and then "names" a couple sports teams, yet has no evidence other than his word? Is he going to try to sell us some swampland next?
LGP: Stanley Cup…
Six Burgh, PA
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Obviously by the way the Capitals performed in game 7, any allocations of steroid use or performance enhancing drugs is pure fabrication. This guys just some low life drug dealer looking for attention.
Bobs your Uncle
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I could definitely see Huggy Bear/Brasear juicing.
OtherOne81
Red Dawn, CT
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I'm not so certain hockey is squeaky clean. We'd like to think it is but the same motivations prevail in hockey as in other sports. Injury recovery, getting drafted, making it in the bigs, getting from minors to bigs, putting on those extra pounds of muscle, etc. I'd bet the farm a lot of knuckle draggers use them.
No offense but Shrek Malkin looks like an experiment gone bad.
Hank Kingsley
Port Alberni, BC
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You might have a point there.
Bobs your Uncle
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Malkin looks like Bob Geldorf in a weight room
Ovechkin is just a good player.
I really don't see a whole lot of evidence of PEDs (roids anyway) in hockey. I don't believe it would be terribly helpful to begin with. This is a different kind of game, like futbol is. It's constant motion. If you notice, it's really only the stop and start snoozefests that use those things
Spiny Norman
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If the movies have taught us anything is that Russians don't win when they take steroids.
DurkDiggler
Iron City, PA
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Now that's funny.
LGP: Stanley Cup…
Six Burgh, PA
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Selling roids to the Natinals? Don't think it's working...
The Duke of Awesome
East Aurora , NY
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Ovechkin is uglier. I agree. But Shrek's face seems out of whack. Large jaw, etc. I'm not saying he is truly the result of anything, it just looks that way.
And for sure hired goons are using the juice. John Kordic did. Hard to get a body like that without it. Bobby Hull back in the day pitched hay all summer. Many take the easier route today.
I don't think it's rampant in hockey but it's there. To say otherwise is just being in denial.
Hank Kingsley
Port Alberni, BC
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Look, if Chernobyl happened in your backyard, you wouldn't be too pretty either. Cut them both a break. I am sure neither one has a problem getting tail. :)
PensFan-DWI
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Best thing about the Eastern Bloc guys is their grilles are so freakin' bad they make the English feel good about themselves....
Hank Kingsley
Port Alberni, BC
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Then again....
Chernobyl happened RIGHT in the backyard (not literally - Ukraine) of Ruslan Fedotenko and that boy is darn pretty.
So, there goes my theory.
PensFan-DWI
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