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Suspect claims selling steroids to Caps

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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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May 28, 2009  07:53 AM ET

Perhaps a loser trying to get his 15 min of Fame?

May 28, 2009  08:05 AM ET

Here we go, hopefully this ain't gonna destroy NHLs rep. Although there is no evidence thus far, a spark is all you need.

May 28, 2009  08:36 AM ET

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.

May 28, 2009  08:46 AM ET

I sincerely hope it isn't true.

May 28, 2009  09:39 AM ET

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.

May 28, 2009  09:54 AM ET
QUOTE(#1):

Perhaps a loser trying to get his 15 min of Fame?

you think?

May 28, 2009  10:12 AM ET
QUOTE(#5):

I would also argue that if he indeed did sell PEDs to the Washington Nationals, they appear to have been a fairly useless product.

Haha very good point. If he sold to the Nationals, why the heck would he ever admit it????

May 28, 2009  10:19 AM ET

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?

May 28, 2009  10:51 AM ET

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.

May 28, 2009  10:53 AM ET

I could definitely see Huggy Bear/Brasear juicing.

May 28, 2009  10:53 AM ET

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.

May 28, 2009  11:06 AM ET
QUOTE(#10):

I could definitely see Huggy Bear/Brasear juicing.

You might have a point there.

May 28, 2009  11:39 AM ET
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He is just an ugly Russian. Ovechkin is uglier than Malkin though.So maybe steroids are the reason Ovechkin shoots so hard.......

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

May 28, 2009  11:40 AM ET

If the movies have taught us anything is that Russians don't win when they take steroids.

May 28, 2009  11:46 AM ET
QUOTE(#15):

If the movies have taught us anything is that Russians don't win when they take steroids.

Now that's funny.

May 28, 2009  11:46 AM ET

Selling roids to the Natinals? Don't think it's working...

May 28, 2009  12:03 PM ET
QUOTE:

He is just an ugly Russian. Ovechkin is uglier than Malkin though.So maybe steroids are the reason Ovechkin shoots so hard.......

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.

May 28, 2009  12:09 PM ET
QUOTE(#20):

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.

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. :)

May 28, 2009  12:14 PM ET
QUOTE(#21):

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. :)

Best thing about the Eastern Bloc guys is their grilles are so freakin' bad they make the English feel good about themselves....

 
May 28, 2009  12:15 PM ET

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.

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