Major League Baseball (MLB) has issued a warning to major and minor league players last week for stop ingesting deer antler spray.

It is being thought that some baseball players used to felt safe using a deer antler spray as an alternative to steroids with almost no risk of flunking a drug test.

From Sportsillustrated.cnn.com:

Deer antlers? Yes, chemists have figured out that the velvet from immature deer antlers includes insulin-like growth factor, or IGF-1, which mediates the level of human growth hormone in the body, and is also banned by MLB and the World Anti-Doping Agency, among others, for its muscle-building and fat-cutting effects.

The antlers are harvested from young deer, ground up and packaged into spray form. The substance is sprayed under the tongue. One manufacturer touts among its benefits “anabolic or growth stimulation,” “athletic performance” and “muscular strength and endurance.”

IGF-1, like HGH, cannot be detected in the urine tests used by baseball. Under the right circumstances, it could be detected in a blood test, but the players association has not agreed to blood testing.

The deer antler sprat was added by MLB to its list of “potentially contaminated nutritional supplements.”

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In January 2008, Roger Clemens initially filed a case against his former personal trainer, Brian McNamee in Texas. The pitcher claimed that McNamee’s statements, which he made in the Mitchell report and in Sports Illustrated’s website, were untrue and defamatory.

Last August 28, 2009, US District Judge Keith P. Ellison dismissed the remainder of the case. Aside from this, Clemens cannot refile his case in the state of Texas. However, he plans to make an appeal in the US 5^th Circuit Court of Appeals to review the judge’s decision.

Brian McNamee filed a defamation suit in July 31 in defense of Clemens’ allegations. According to McNamee, Clemens’ refusal of his statement was an intense and coordinated public relations offensive.

Clemens appeared on “60 minutes” to hold a nationally televised news conference against McNamee.

McNamee’s statement claimed that he injected Clemens with anabolic steroids and human growth hormone at least 16 times in 1998, 2000 and 2001.

McNamee’s lawyer, Richard Emery, thinks that the move of their legal battle from Texas to New York would prove to be an advantage on their part.

Emery added that the most important battle is still in Washington, DC where the Justice Department was asked by the congressional committee to launch a probe as to whether Clemens lied.

From Google Hosted News:

NEW YORK — The remainder of Roger Clemens’ defamation suit against Brian McNamee in Texas has been dismissed, leaving the pair to fight their legal battle in New York.

Tags:  Anabolic steroids, Brian McNamee, human growth hormone, Mitchell report, MLB, Roger Clemens

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