In brief: More implicated in steroid scandal
Two more people linked to a nationwide investigation into the illegal sale of steroids were arraigned Tuesday on drug-related charges as a published report implicated more athletes, including the winner of the Ohio bodybuilding competition named for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Steven and Karen Lampert of Anti-Aging Centers in Nanuet pleaded not guilty in an Albany County, N.Y., courtroom and were released without bail. They are charged with submitting prescriptions to a Florida pharmacy – some “obviously forged” according to the district attorney – for drugs totaling more than $50,000 for people without a medical need.
Albany County District Attorney David Soares Soares acknowledged that bodybuilder Victor Martinez was an “unindicted co-conspirator” in the case and is linked to the Lamperts’ Anti-Aging Centers. Martinez won the Arnold Classic bodybuilding competition Saturday in Ohio.
Martinez told The New York Times he bought testosterone from the Lamperts after their clinic told him he had low levels of the hormone.
Also, SI.com reported that former star relief pitcher John Rocker, 1996 Olympic wrestling gold-medalist Kurt Angle and major leaguer David Bell all showed up on a client list of Applied Pharmacy, a Mobile, Ala., company raided in connection with the investigation.
Dog sled racing
Mackey leads Iditarod
Lance Mackey pulled into Nikolai, Alaska, with a full team of 16 dogs, a grin on his face and a busted runner on his sled.
Mackey, who’s trying to become the third member of his family to win the 1,100-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, was the first musher to arrive in the village on the Kuskokwim River, about 770 miles from the finish line in Nome.
Paul Gebhardt, 50, of Kasilof, Alaska, who finished third last year and was runner-up in 2000, was second into Nikolai. Defending champion Jeff King was far behind.
Mackey, who just won the 1,000-mile Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race, said most of the 16 dogs in his team ran in the Quest.
Miscellany
Carroll elected to Hall
Frank Carroll, who coached Michelle Kwan and Linda Fratianne and works with U.S. men’s champion Evan Lysacek, has been elected to the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame.
Already a member of the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame, Carroll will be inducted into the world hall later this month at the world championships in Tokyo.
“The United States will play Guatemala, Trinidad and Tobago, and El Salvador in the first round of this year’s CONCACAF Gold Cup, soccer’s championship of North and Central America and the Caribbean.
“Alan Greenberg, a longtime sports writer for the Hartford Courant whose latest assignment was covering the New England Patriots, died of an apparent heart attack near his home in Sudbury, Mass. He was 55.
“South Carolina quarterback Stephen Garcia, arrested twice in recent weeks, won’t partake in spring practice when it begins in March.
“Michigan women’s basketball coach Cheryl Burnett retired.