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SI.com: Jon Wertheim: What motivated Agassi to reveal meth use?

A few thoughts from the tennis world ...

SI.com: Jon Wertheim: As Gasquet returns, ITF should consider revisiting Hingis case

While the 16 remaining players in the men's draw competed at Wimbledon on June 29, Richard Gasquet was a few miles from the All England Club, fighting for his career at a tribunal hearing. Three months earlier, the French player had tested positive for cocaine, triggering a two-year ban under the World Anti-Doping Agency code. In a sport with no guaranteed contracts and a short career shelf life, this was, potentially, akin to a professional death sentence.

SI.com: Gabriele Marcotti: WADA's drug-testing code for soccer is inconsistent

FIFA and UEFA did something this week that not only was right and just but also took a fair amount of guts. They stood up to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and rejected its out-of-competition drug-testing rules.

Sports attorney: Phelps could lose endorsements

Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps has acknowledged he engaged in "regrettable" behavior and "demonstrated bad judgment," after a British newspaper published a photograph of the swimmer smoking from a bong.

SI.com: David Epstein: No positive tests for human growth hormone yet

BEIJING -- Over the course of the 2008 Olympics, the International Olympic Committee carried out the most extensive testing program for human-growth hormone to date. In the final days of competition, the IOC was on pace for more than 500 blood tests for HGH.

SI.com: Steroids In America: The ABC's of HGH

Testosterone: Like other hormones, testosterone is produced by both men (primarily in the testes) and women (in the ovaries) -- though the average man produces 10 times more than the average woman. Testosterone is classified as an androgen, or male sex hormone, because it promotes the development of masculine characteristics, such as body hair and a deep voice. It also has anabolic, or building, effects that can increase bone density and muscle mass.

Time.com: Baseball Union Could OK HGH Test

Players' union leader Donald Fehr would consider approving blood testing for the human growth hormone if there was a valid, efficient procedure for determining its use over an extended period

Lab founder: Sports need to close drug loopholes

The man whose lab distributed performance-enhancing drugs to athletes says the policies of American professional baseball and football leagues encourage their use.

Time.com: Landis Must Forfeit Cycling Title

Floyd Landis lost his expensive and explosive doping case Thursday when the arbitrators upheld the results of a test that showed the 2006 Tour de France champion used synthetic testosterone to fuel his spectacular comeback victory

SI.com: LPGA releases list of banned substances

SUPERSTITION MOUNTAIN, Ariz.(AP) -- The LPGA Tour released the list of substances it will ban when it begins drug testing next year.

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