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by Erin Darling [10 Feb 2009 | No Comment | 15,722 views]
A-Rod, Athletes and Performance Enhancing Drugs

One of the best and most recognizable baseball players of current times, Alex Rodriguez, admitted to using performance enhancing drugs. The Yankee slugger told ESPN that he used them during the years of 2001-2003. Rodriguez said, “I did take a banned substance. And for that, I am very sorry and deeply regretful.” A-Rod’s confession came two days after being outed by Sports Illustrated magazine as one of 104 baseball players that tested positive for illegal performance enhancing drugs in 2003. However, his story is all too familiar. With easy access to PEDs, athletes have had to answer to the media, and even to the government, about this kind of controversial drug use.

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by Chau Tu [10 Feb 2009 | 9 Comments | 3,689 views]
THE SCOOP: Ryan Gosling + Rachel McAdams

*Click**Flash* *Cha-ching!* Ah…the life of the paparazzo in the City of Angels. Always clicking, constantly stalking, unceasing in their obsession to prowl on the Hollywood meek. But who needs those burly, aggressive, sweaty men with overly pompous cameras? Not us. We’ve got THE SCOOP, thank you very much, a new section for readers to submit their own info on their own terms. Have a pic you took of/with a celebrity? Do you have a scoop that everyone must know? Are you just itching to tell a secret that you shouldn’t tell but will anyway? Well, stop hesitating! Send them over to: THEPOPFIX@gmail.com and tell those paps to geddada here!