SI Article on Caps Steroid Coverup

[Money99]

http://www.truthandrumours.net/2010/...up-drug-probe/

Quote:

Upon having more than $200,000 worth of pills, bottles and syringes—some containing steroids—seized from his Polk County (Fla.) home in May 2009, former bodybuilder Richard Thomas pointed to the Washington Capitals as one of the teams he had supplied for.

Interesting tidbit:

Quote:

Unlike MLB or the NFL, the NHL does not test during the off-season, nor once the playoffs have started. (This week the Capitals are facing the Canadiens in an Eastern Conference quarterfinal series.) Polk County officials noticed that of the 10 FedEx and U.S. Postal Service labels for packages mailed in 2008 and ’09 between Thomas and Nagel that law enforcement officials obtained in their investigation, eight are dated during the period when the Capitals were either in the playoffs or out of season, and one was dated the day before the end of the 2007–08 season.

Thoughts?

[DrJones]

I've worked on sports video games for a decade, dealt with the MLBPA and NHLPA, met players, talked with broadcasters and other media types, plus heard inside stories aplenty about the NBA and European soccer. There are three universal truths about pro sports:

1. Virtually everyone breaks the rules/uses PED's if they think they can get away with it (and most do).
2. Virtually everyone cheats on their wives/girlfriends if they think they can get away with it (and most do).
3. Fans don't care about #1 or #2 unless it involves players/teams that they don't like personally.

[tyler289]

This is old news (as in a few months old) and has pretty much no legitimacy. The Caps have been tested this year like everyone else (and years prior) with no positive tests.

One of the guys tried to make a connection to the team with his practice but the team said there was nothing there. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't see anything here. The Caps had multiple players tested just in February for the Olympics with no positive tests.

[metallicatz]

If it were the Pens you'd be all over it.

That said, i agree with Dr.Jones on this.