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The players all would have had to know that the NFL was not testing for bumetanide (at least not up until a few weeks ago) as well as how to use bumetanide to mask their steroid use. It sounds like bumetanide was rarely used as a masking agent anymore, so perhaps the NFL had not tested for it for several years. Once they started testing for it, it could have caught players off-guard leading to a string of positive bumetanide test.
This could potentially be the football equivalent to the surprise CERA testing at the 2008 Tour de France.
But I still think there is a potential for a contaminated supplement linking the athletes. At least one dietary supplement (StarCaps) was reported to be contaminated with near-therapeutic levels of bumetanide.
Let's just see if attorney David Cornwell can produce samples of the dietary supplement responsible for the incriminating bumetanide test results.
I am a college student at Pima Community College in Tuscon, Arizona. I was asked by my writing teacher to take a position on the use of anabolic steroids in sports. I feel that steroids should be allowed but here is why, Steroids dont make you a better athlete it only gives you more of an opportunity to be that better athlete. The drug does not give a player devine powers becasue in reality, it does take some kind of talent to become good at a sport or an individual has to have some sort of athletic ability. These NFL are being wrongfully suspeneded. I do understand that rules are meant to be followed but maybe the drug was to lose some wait. After all, it does draw out and flush away a lot of the body's water. They were wrong for breaking such understandable and respected rules, but the punishment is unfair. Reserve Defense of tackle For the Tennesse Titans, Kevin Vickerson was suspeneded for 4 games with no pay. I feel this punishment does not suit the charge that he was sentenced with. Understand that enhancement is all around us whether it be modern technology right down to surgery. Enhancement is a big part of life. Bumetanide may cover up steroids just like make up may be used for a cover up of acne or simply ones imgination that them as an individual is non attractive. Millard Baker does make a good arguement when he says that the nfl players were caught of guard when the banning of bumetanide was set in stone which resulted in a stream of nfl players testing positive for bumetanide, however bumetanide was not banned from the nfl up until a couple months ago, and had not been used for over twenty years. Why now? is it really that serious? Traces of bumetanide are also found in diet pills, who is too say that the athletes were taking this banned substance instead of bumetanide. The punishment does not suit the charge and this whole issue is just a waist of time. I honestly feel that the system is flawed. As millard Baker states (and i have to agree) lets just see if attorney David Cornwell "can produce samples of dietary supplement responsible for the incriminating bumetanide test result."
i was typing sort of fast. i meant to say on the botom lines that "WHOS IS TO SAY THAT THE NFL PLAYERS WERE TAKING BUMETANIDE INSTEAD OF DIET PILLS"