Steroid Nation: Adjusting A-Rod
Shaun Assael...positive test for steroids in 2003 may not put him in legal jeopardy. In fact, unlike Barry Bonds or Roger Clemens, he never technically lied under oath. (Just to CBS, and everyone seems to...
Blog Entry | Conversation | February 10, 2009Steroid Nation: Wait and Switch
Shaun Assael...the chemical shell game that supplement makers play with the feds. The big winner could be Barry Bonds. The dirty little secret of the supplement industry is that anyone can sell steroids. Imagine you...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 22, 2009STEROID NATION: TRACKING THE REVIVAL OF REPUTATIONS
Shaun Assael...most common and least effective tactic. Of 300 newspaper stories that Haigh reviewed on the man, Barry Bonds' denials were mentioned in 90 of them. "Yet all the stories had a negative tone," she...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 16, 2008Business As Usual
Shaun AssaelAt the world's biggest bodybuilding bazaar, fans weren't concerned about who got busted. They just wanted to know how to bulk up
Story | Conversation | October 07, 2008Implications of sentence extend beyond Marion Jones
Shaun Assael, ESPN The MagazineThe judge was speaking to Marion Jones in White Plains, N.Y, when he handed down that six-month sentence on Friday, but he could be heard in Houston and San Francisco, too, writes ESPN The Magazine's Shaun Assael.
Story | Conversation | January 11, 2008With taped phone call, Clemens throws up and in at McNamee
Shaun Assael, ESPN The MagazineRoger Clemens didn't just attack Brian McNamee's credibility at his news conference late Monday afternoon. He got personal when he played that taped phone conversation, writes ESPN The Magazine's Shaun Assael.
Story | Conversation | January 07, 2008Only the truly naive will believe this version of Jones' story
Shaun Assael, ESPN The MagazineMarion Jones pleaded guilty on Friday, but her story still has plenty of holes, writes ESPN The Magazine's Shaun Assael.
Story | Conversation | October 05, 2007Is millions in charity a fair price for forgiveness?
Shaun Assael, ESPN The MagazineSay Lance Armstrong did cheat. Is $63 million in charity a fair price for forgiveness?
Story | Conversation | August 02, 2007Conte indicates that Bonds knew about steroids
Shaun Assael, ESPN The MagazineVictor Conte has allegedly bragged to an associate that Barry Bonds had intimate knowledge of the steroids he received from BALCO.
Story | Conversation | September 15, 2006Did Bonds beat McGwire to the andro punch?
Shaun Assael, ESPN The MagazineBarry Bonds allegedly used androstenedione as far back as the spring of 1997, according to a man who says he sold it to the slugger.
Story | Conversation | March 07, 2006Analysis: Scorecard on BALCO case
Shaun Assael, ESPN The MagazineWhere do we stand with the BALCO case, which started 681 days ago? Here's a quick scorecard.
Story | Conversation | July 15, 2005Conte says Jones used HGH
Shaun Assael, ESPN The MagazineVictor Conte, the man at the center of the BALCO doping scandal, says he gave performance-enhancing hormones to Olympian Marion Jones.
Story | Conversation | December 02, 2004
Play Balco
Shaun AssaelWhat's on deck? It all depends on what Vicotor Conte knows – and is willing to tell.
Story | October 12, 2004
BALCO owner to file for dismissal
Shaun Assael, ESPN the MagazineBALCO owner Victor Conte, the man at the center of the government's investigation into the sale and distribution of illegal steroids, says that he was held at gunpoint and not read his rights when the IRS raided his office on Sept. 3, 2003.
Story | Conversation | October 07, 2004Nowhere to run
Shaun AssaelHe's the world's fastest man, but Tim Montgomery can't run away from the BALCO scandal.
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