Sad End to a Football Career

Tight End Brian Mandeville’s career has already come to an end. He hails from Northwestern University (which also produced Dan Ross and Sean Jones). It is a rare occurrence for someone from Northwestern to be called up to the combine to continue their football career, being that the Huskies have not had a winning season in 5 years. Unfortunately, for Brian, when the time came for him to show what he had the doctors told him it was time for him to retire. The reason being an issue with a heart valve that will pretty much ensure his career is over.

A-Rod’s Steroid Yarn Continues

In 2003 Alex Rodriguez tested positive for the anabolic steroid Primobolan. Recently, he admitted to this but his story has changed twice in the last week. On Tuesday A-Rod spoke at Steinbrenner field to his teammates, the media and Hank Steinbrenner about why he “unknowingly” used steroids in 2003. In short his excuse is that he was young and stupid. He was persuaded by an unnamed cousin to receive injections twice a month for three years to boost his energy. Neither A-Rod nor his cousin knew what the substance was. All they knew was that it was sold over the counter in the Dominican Republic and goes by the street name “boli” or “bolan”. A-Rod also said he didn’t know how it affected his performance and that the added energy he experience may have all been in his head.
A-Rod also made the claim that had he attended college he may have been smarter about steroids. Unfortunately, other steroid users that did attend college such as Roger Clemens, Mark McGwire and Barry Bonds and they never received extra credit for being more intelligent.
A-Rod also claimed he was naïve because he was young, even though in 2001 when the steroid use began he had already been in the big leagues for seven years.
Rodriguez stopped the steroid injections in 2003 because of a spring training neck injury.
A bright note in all of this is that A-Rod agreed to advance the cause of steroid education at the request of Don Hooton whose high school son committed suicide with using steroids.