the yankees alex rodriguez, and another former mvp ryan braun. players used a miami clinic that provided drugs which baseball bans as performance enhancers, testosterone and human growth hormone. major league baseball calls it an active investigation. rodriguez says it s not the time to comment. braun seays he s done talking. in the past, he s denied using performance enhancers, and rodriguez says he s been clean for a decade. joining me is dr. don catlin, an anti-doping scientist and one of the founders of modern drug testing in sports. thanks for having me. we ve been hearing a lot about this. baseded on reports, the players were getting testosterone and human growth hormone. just to get the terms straight, when they say tesstosterone, its an anabolic steroid, correct? it is an anabolic steroid but
rodriguez says it is not the time to comment. brawn said he s done talking. in the past he denied using performance enhancers. rodriguez said he s been clean for a decade. joining me now is dr. don catlynn, an anti-doping scientist and one of the founders of modern drug testing in sports. thanks for joining us. happy to be here. thanks for having me. we have been hearing a lot about this lately. based on the reports the players were getting testosterone and human growth hormone. to get the terms straight when they say testosterone, that s an anabolic steroid, correct? it is. it s also a natural hormone. we all have it. all men and women actually, have a normal amount. a lot of people use testosterone. i saw a stat that said the number of men taking it tripled over the past several years. what do you make of that? it s a huge money-maker for the industry. you can t turn on tv for more
sunscreen. turns out it does more than prevent burns and cancer and the pictures we are about to show you are something you will never forget. i will tell you exactly what you need to know. dr. phil mcgraw will stop by to talk about getting rid of toxic people in your life. also how to negotiate win-win solutions with your friends, family and the people oh you work with. first a crack down on drug cheats in baseball. let s start by asking this question what makes players so different from the rest of us? espn reported that major league baseball is laying the ground work to dissend some 20 players including stars like the yankees alex rodriguez and ryan brawn. espn and the miami new times say the players used a miami clinic that provided drugs which baseball bans as performance enhancers. testosterone and human growth hormone. major league baseball calls it an active investigation.
for example, fran tarkington. these drugs are in high school, college, profootball and nobody is talking about them. when you talk about the safety of football, when you have these drugs in your body you re putting on 50, 60, 70 pounds. the collisions are more intense because of the size and speed of the players. therefore, you re going to have more injury, more concussions, more brain damage than we ve ever seen before. and lord knows we ve seen enough of it. brian: are we really turning a blind eye when it comes to drugs in profootball? when you talk about safety, if we don t talk about performance enhancers are we addressing it? turning to two guys who lived it. harry carson, super bowl champion and still a captain today. a privilege to have you. marcus allen. no super bowl would be complete if we don t do a marcus allen interview. super bowl m.v.p. and hall of famers both of you. safety, harry, you were the
we finally hear it in his own words. lance armstrong s long-awaited admission he used performance enhancing drugs. the disgraced cyclist coming clean with a one-on one interview with oprah winfrey. yes or no. in all 7 of your tour defrance victories did you ever take banned substances or blood dope? yes. this issue of performance enhancers, again to me that was we are going to pump up our tires put water in our tires that, too, is going to happen. that was it. so it was it a big deal to you? did it feel wrong? at the time no. it did not even feel wrong? no. scary. did you feel bad about it?