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Heavyweight Championsnew

A Pittsburgh doctor and a lawyer may be World Wrestling Entertainment's real champions. But why do some people think the fix is in?

Pittsburgh City Paper | Charlie Deitch | 12-02-2010 | Sports

Tags: Wrestling, Steroids, Vince McMahon, WWE

Sportswriters Can't Decide Whether Steroids is a Black Mark or a Gray Areanew

Baseball scribes would rather moralize about performance-enhancing drugs than make hard decisions about whether their use should keep players out of the Hall of Fame.

Chicago Reader | Michael Miner | 07-27-2009 | Sports

Tags: Hall of Fame, Mark McGuire, performance enhancing drugs, sportswriters, media, baseball, MLB, steroids

Questioning Post-Roid Baseballnew

Steroids continue to plague the sport's image. The economy, too, has been as kind to the game as a screaming Big Papi foul ball is to a slow-reacting fan's unprotected mug. Here are nine questions worth mulling over for the game we love.

Boston Phoenix | Mike Miliard | 04-02-2009 | Sports

Tags: sports, baseball, steroids, economic issues

'Bigger, Stronger, Faster' Explores Steroid Culturenew

Our cultural obsession with hulking heroes explains widespread steroid use, according to filmmaker Chris Bell.

East Bay Express | Kelly Vance | 06-04-2008 | Reviews

Tags: steroids, Bigger, Stronger, Faster, Chris Bell, Bell brothers

Intelligent Steroid Doc Sees Both Sides of the Issuenew

Without endorsing use of the drug, Chris Bell, who's a bodybuilder himself, dives into the heated debates surrounding the maligned practice and finds something pretty damn close to an even-handed portrait, if not a fair and balanced one.

New York Press | Eric Kohn | 05-29-2008 | Reviews

Tags: Drugs, documentary, steroids, Bigger, Stronger, Faster, body building, Chris Bell