Today is Wednesday, March 10, 2010

• Australian Football League Adds Tests for Growth Hormone, EPO (Bloomberg)
  March 9 (Bloomberg) -- The Australian Football League said it expanded its anti-doping program to include tests for human growth hormone, the blood-boosting agent erythropoietin and its CERA derivative.
• AFL leads on hormone tests (The Australian)
  THE AFL has been applauded for becoming the first sporting code in Australia to test for human growth hormone but the NRL wants more evidence.
• A-Rod 'at ease' with relationship with Canadian doc (Sports Illustrated)
  TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Alex Rodriguez says he is "at ease, no matter what" with his relationship with a Canadian sports doctor embroiled in a cross-border drug smuggling investigation involving human growth hormone and another drug.
• APNewsBreak: Canadian doctor says HGH was for him (AP via Yahoo! Sports)
  A sports doctor at the center of drug investigations in Canada and the United States said Monday he treated Alex Rodriguez after the Yankees slugger had hip surgery last year and prescribed anti-inflammatories but not human growth hormone. Dr. Anthony Galea also told The Associated Press an assistant who was stopped at the U.S.-Canadian border in Buffalo, N.Y., last year was carrying only a...
• APNewsBreak: Canadian doctor says HGH was for him (AP via Yahoo! News)
  A sports doctor at the center of drug investigations in Canada and the United States said Monday he treated Alex Rodriguez after the Yankees slugger had hip surgery last year and prescribed anti-inflammatories but not human growth hormone.
• Hal: no extensions, no exceptions (New York Post)
  Hal Steinbrenner stayed true to his nature, and contrary to his father’s, yesterday when asked about the news that Alex Rodriguez had been treated by Dr. Anthony Galea, the Canadian doctor who has admitted administering human growth hormone. “There’s nothing more to say than we said last week...
• Baseball's Bud Selig: Too soon to determine if HGH test valid (USA Today)
  Baseball commissioner Bud Selig says it's too soon to determine whether a blood test for human growth hormone can be used for minor leaguers.
• Alex Rodriguez 'at ease' with Canadian doctor (MSNBC)
  TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -Alex Rodriguez says he is "at ease, no matter what'' with his relationship with a Canadian sports doctor embroiled in a cross-border drug smuggling investigation involving human growth hormone and another drug.
• Selig: Blood testing in minors premature (USA Today)
  Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig said it's too soon to determine whether a blood test for human growth hormone can be used for minor leaguers.
• Selig: Too soon to determine if HGH test reliable (Sports Illustrated)
  NEW YORK (AP) -- Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig says it's too soon to determine whether a blood test for human growth hormone can be used for minor leaguers.