Thursday
Jan312013
Vijay WD's To Spend More Time WIth His Lawyer
AP's John Nicholson reports, though it's light on details. Not that anyone really is shocked following the admission that he violated the PGA Tour's doping policy.
Update on Thursday, January 31, 2013 at 08:01 AM by
Geoff
Geoff
**Steve Elkington's latest editorial cartoon. The Vijay edition.
Update on Thursday, January 31, 2013 at 08:05 AM by
Geoff
Geoff
**The official reason for the WD is "back soreness." Oy vey.
Reader Comments (26)
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That is a mistake. Virtually all team sports have taken an image hit in recent years as a result of negative headlines. The most effective action the PGA Tour can take to protect the mostly pristine image of its players -- and to protect its title sponsors and player endorsement partners -- is to penalize inappropriate behavior and make those penalties public.
The Tim Finchem shell game continues.....
Has any player on the Champions Tour actually been tested since testing began?
Votaw speaks for Tim?
The German SS was after Doug Barron.
When is the money laundering investigation going to begin? It would be interesting to see what kind of penalties and possible suspensions Commissioner Finchem would consider imposing on himself. Finchem, "golf is a sport where there are no umpires, players call penalties on themselves." Does one think Mr. Tim would call a penalty on himself?
Here is a question; I know there is no ''player's union'', but where were the players when Doug Barron got thrown under the bus?
Stated previously, but VJ's trainer should have been aware of any meds/supplements/treatments and researched such. While VJ is where the buck stops (''buck''-get it?), the trainer needs to be a part of the story IMO.
Anyway, again- golf, broke a rule, penalty-3 to 6 months. I don't see any indicator of an effort to cheat- he would not have stated he takes it in an article. Like a 2 stroke penalty in round 3, serve it, anf go play round 4.
Within herbal potions including common teas, there are a lot of chemical compounds that cannot be determined by reading the ingrediants.
If the banned substance was not on the ingrediant list, how did he "cheat?"
Vijay is going on a forced vacation for doing something that cannot work as used. Irony is not dead after all.
Many meds that were animal scrips are now used on people- DMSO comes to mind, and I was told about it, and used it wayyy back when, and it is bizarre- with VERY clean skin, you rubbed DMSO and the actual med you were taking onto the skin, and it is ABSORBED thru the body right into the blood stream - normally this was for a muscle soreness treatment- you can taste an ''oyster like'' flavor in your mouth ,and if you have not adequately washed/cleaned you skin DAM!- the salt from sweat burns like heck, it is ''soaked'' right thru your skin, muscles and right in to your blood!
DMSO is ''horse linament''--
doctors were barbers, and leaches were medicine not so very long ago.
Grandma knew how to make a poultice and chicken noodle soup helps.
The deer antler ''idea''- WTF is the chemical that makes deer horns grow so quickly- is a sound starting point, but the oriental practice of ground up horns is not what VJ was taking in a spray, to squirt under the tongue ---if I understand correctly- he was taking the chemical that these guys believe is the active ingredient in creating fast growth in deer antlers, actually a good idea if it is truly the correct formula, AND if it could be absorbed under the tongue. My point to the DMSO story-- if it were sprayed on clean skin, and then DMSO applied, bunko!
I made a joke about VJ and buying every gimmick on late nite infomercials, but I applaud him for wanting to be as good as he can be- and he was dumb to not know that, while he may not have found the ''ingredient'' of the stuff listed on the DAS to be on the banned list--- well, duh- Deer antler spray--BY NAME- is on the list.
Like, duh.
My point is this: If I go to a supplement or herbal store, most products that will list the ingrediants. BUT, those ingrediants are not necessarily specific as to the chemical compounds are part of the main ingrediatiants.
For example, let's assume that pot was not illegal to purchase:
1) I go to the store to purchase tea. I ask whats in the bag. The clerk says "green tea." It helps joints feel better. The label says 100% Green Tea.
2) I might not know that Green Tea contains a compound that is banned.
If Vijay was knowingly taking a banned substance, I don't know why he would come out and admit it over such a long period of time. Typically, athletes caught cheating admit to doing it for a limited period of time - see A-Rod. They don't admit to doing it for years unless they are forced to.
When I was a youngster, I had a US Cycling license. When it arrived, it included an enormous list of banned substances that I was not allowed to take. In addition to common drugs like ephedrine, it included complex cemical compounds that I had never heard of. If any of those common substances were in common OTC remedies, I probably took one w/o knowing it.
Why should Vijay suffer a different fate than Calc?
Bwahahahahaahahahahaaaaaa!!!
Does the deer antler spray make your horns hard??
Speaking of flimsy withdrawals, ol" Jet Ski wins the Windy HIlls Open, gives an interview the next day about how he feels fine, and then WD's mid-round on Friday with the "flu". Problem is the Hockey Heiress has an insatiable Instagram habit and sent out pics of Jet Ski and hereslf all about town over the weekend...
...heck, he shoulda just said his back went out ;)
Because Timmy plays favorites?
Having said that, I don't remember Calc ever being a fav in Ponte Vedra.
Like Vijay, they did not know it could be on banned list.
Players were informed NOT to use it.
Vijay either puleed a Dustin Johnson and didn't read the notice,
or he ignored it.
Don't know if it works, but if iti is on banned list......