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Friday, February 20, 2004

What’s Shef Cooking?

The Smoking Gun released this document connecting Yankee’s slugger Gary Sheffield with BALCO, the San Francisco “supplements” lab at the center of the growing steroids controversy. The link stems from a package Sheffield sent to BALCO’s offices in 2003. Of course Sheffield denied ever taking steroids, claiming that the package contained blood and urine samples so the lab could create personalized vitamins for him.

Now Shef has offered to take a drug test to prove his innocence. You’ve got to think that someone who’s willing to take a drug test has nothing to hide. I wish Sheffield luck if he is indeed innocent. It’s certainly unfair that his name was the only one released dispite the fact that “numerous professional athletes” were also linked to the labs, but went unnamed.