Casting a light where the sun don’t shine
A federal judge sentenced disgraced track coach Trevor Graham to a year of home confinement on Tuesday for lying to federal investigators. A jury convicted Graham of one felony count of making false statements in May after a parade of Graham’s former athletes testified that the track coach had set them up with steroids obtained [...]
China’s national ping pong table tennis team will give Olympic silver medalist Wang Hao counseling after he reportedly got into a fight with a security guard trying to stop him from urinating outside a karaoke club. Dark Side’s Chinese interpreters have confirmed, however, that the Chinese word for “counseling” does not have an exact English [...]
The International Olympic Committee announced on Wednesday that it will retest all doping samples from the Beijing Games to check for traces of a new blood-boosting drug. The IOC will search for the new drug which was recently discovered during the retesting of samples from this year’s Tour de France.
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New York Football fans and Jewish groups are outraged over the prospect of the new Giants and Jets stadium being named after German insurer Allianz due to the company’s World War II Nazi ties.
Dark Side news bits and bites from the weekend.
Virginia QB violates alcohol probation
Virginia starting quarterback Peter Lalich, who has been serving a one-year probation since being arrested for underage possession of alcohol in July, is being charged for violating the terms of that probation after admitting to court officials that he has used alcohol and [...]
Okay, maybe, not redemption, but at least liberation. A handful of athletes have paid their debts to society and are back in the saddle:
Michigan running back Kevin Grady has served a one-game suspension for absolutely plowed driving and will play in Michigan’s game against Miami of Ohio this weekend. Grady was arrested on [...]
The International Olympic Committee is investigating the Belarus silver and bronze medalists in the men’s hammer throw for doping offenses after samples provided by both men on the final day of competition tested positive for traces of testosterone.
Sports Illustrated is reporting that two members of the 2008 Jamaican Olympic track team received shipments of performance-enhancing drugs through an Internet distribution network.
Fidel Castro issued a statement on Monday defending Cuban taewkondo athlete Angel Matos’ assault of the referee who disqualified him from an Olympic bronze-medal match.
The Beijing games have wrapped up with only the closing ceremonies, the grandeur of which could only be accomplished in a complete vacuum of human rights, left to go. Dark Side has collected the best of the worst from the Beijing games, which has set a very low bar for London to get under in [...]