eja117, i'm curious why you selected some of these guys. most don't have the physical appearance of a steroid user in my opinion. do you mean maybe beause ceratin guys have bad tempers or something? or do you mean a kind of roid that lance armstrong was accused of?
Good questions. I wouldn't say I am exactly accusing these athletes. More like I wouldn't be even a little surprised. In fact I'd be surprised if out of this whole list nobody used. There are some on the list I don't remember why I put them on. Like Lamar Odom. But the rest I looked at these factors.
Did the guy go from not so good to unbelievably good out of absolutely nowhere and stay pretty good at an advanced age? Steve Nash
Did the guy make some sort of miracle recovery or have a situation where he would definitely want it? many guys
Did the guy appear to be by far one of the strongest players ever and did it have to do with just good exercise and diet (yeah right). Karl Malone? Roger Clemens
Was the size and/or physical ability of the player out of this world at a young age? Shaq, Lebron, Greg Oden, D Howard
Did something appear weird or physically awkward about the player and unnatural? Oden. Lebron. Scottie Pippen's cartoonish nose.
Does the player look jacked for no real reason or really sculpt his body (Perk, Rondo)
Is the player faster than Speedy Gonzalez on speed (Rondo, Iverson, Marcus Banks)
Yes I looked at demeanor. If the dude has problems that could point out something to me. Spree and Artest
If the player seems excellent at two positions where he is strong enough to play against bigger guys but fast enough to play with smaller guys and excell at both positions I looked at that (Hakkim Warrick, Ron Artest)
I thought the Nate Robinson point was a good one.
And lastly as sad as it is if a player seems above reproach or claims to be then that to me is a prime suspect. (Lance Armstrong, Clemens, A-Rod, Rafael Palmeiro)
I'm tired of believing things that are unbelievable in sports. I don't believe that at the age of 40 Jerry Rice came back naturally from a snapped ACL within the same season. I'm not sure how much I beleive Cal Ripken was all natural. I'm not sure I beleive Nolan Ryan threw no hitters in his 40s all natural. I'm not so sure I think Mike Vick was just really fast. When Deion Sanders showed up at the combine and ran a 4.21, then ran a 4.6 backwards and left, I'm not so sure he was just really talented. When Mike Mamula an a linebacker was the strongest guy at the combine and also faster than the wide receivers and was a junior....well if you guys want to believe all that fine by me, but I'd like to try to sell you the Brooklyn Bridge and some magic beans.
Also I can definitely tell you from experience that performance enhancers work just fine in basketball.
If I felt this way I wouldn't watch ANY sports. Most of the reason I do is to see people do amazing things that I know I could NEVER do without first the talent and second a lifetime of hard work and dedication. I dont want to discount your opinion because you are entitled to think whatever you want, but I feel bad that you cannot see amazing sporting achievements without automaticall thinking the athlete cheated.
I feel bad thinking these things, but when a player's union fights tooth and nail against steroid testing and almost no players will publicly disagree and then an entire generation of the best athletes get caught using something that there was testing for you suddenly realize that in terms of enhancers that they can't test for (HGH) you realize that the number of guys taking it is the number of guys that want to take it.
When Jose Canseco becomes the face of honesty in a sport and the defensive player of the year in football (Merriman) gets caught and nobody bats an eye and then you yourself use stuff just working out you realize what you are looking at.
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