1.  'WADA' scientists working on HGH urine test.  Pisses off some.  (USA Today) 2.  The Italian Olympic authority will schedule a hearing for Ricco and Piepoli (Canadian Press) 3.  Why do cyclists dope?  Maybe to win?  (AP) 4.  Mark Spitz was not on steroids.  (USA Today)...

Shhhhhhhhhhhhh, WADA is lips sealed on this, but leaks say that Tour de France EPO drug cheat Riccardo Ricco fell to a stealth molecule attached to the drug by the manufacturer (Roche).  The new EPO preparation  -- CERA, a pegylated version of EPO  -- appears to have a trojan horse embedded somewhere that can be detected in WADA labs.  And WADA isn't telling what or how -- and w...

1.  Doped up Ricco tried to flee dope testers. (Can you blame him?)  (SI) 2.  University of Utah improves testosterone dope testing.  (Daily Utah Chronicle) 3.  Arizona might not let you dope up your greyhounds.  (KOLD) 4.  On-going task of finding the golden witness in the Roger Clemens investigation.  (NY Times) 5.  Big stash of drugs uncovered in Bake...

Marion Jones, tacked away snuggly  in a Texas federal prison, wrote to President Bush asking for a pardon.  The head of the track federation who witnessed her drug-cheating drew up a counter-proposal: DON'T. Doug Logan -- cheif executive of US Track and Field -- wrote an open letter to President Bush exhorting him not to wipe off Marion Jones's fast sins.  The New York Times elaborat...

Several weeks after many Texas newspapers decried high school steroids testing, Louisiana law enforcement uncovered a huge distribution ring including several high school athletes.  (To the Daily Advertiser) News of a St. Landry Parish Sheriff's Department bust of an alleged steroids ring that identified approximately 100 users - including several high school football players - caught area coa...