The public may not care, but the issue of performance-enhancing drugs in sports will not go away. As this is an Olympic year and the World Anti-Doping Agency and governing boards of sport – along with law enforcement – have decided to crack down on drug cheats, this news will continue to dominate. Of course there will be other newsworthy stories, but ever since BALCO the PEDs in sports story has continued to evolve, and what we are learning in April of 2008 can all be tied to what came out of BALCO almost 6 years ago.

Smaller Baseball Players and Baggy Uniforms: I’m not talking about Little League here; I’m talking about the big boys in Major League Baseball. Is it a coincidence that baggy unis have become popular at the exact same time that MLB is cracking down – allegedly – on performance-enhancing drug (PEDs) use and that federal investigators are all over any human growth hormone (HGH) transaction? Have so many power players decided to slim down this year because it’s “the look,” or has all of this attention to PEDs become a deterrent to the drug cheats? I watched a couple of games this week and I thought I was in the ESPN Classic Zone or that it was “Throwback Sunday” and teams were wearing uniforms from the 1950s. There’s no need to mention any sluggers’ names yet; I’ll wait until we get close to the All-Star Break and see if the lack of power numbers match up with the lack of size.

Beware of Greeks Bearing Anabolics: Eleven of the 14 members of Greece’s Olympic Weightlifting team failed out of competition drug tests that were administered by the World Anti-Doping Agency. Which means that three Greek weightlifters haven't been trying hard enough. C’mon, is there anyone left who really thinks that Olympic weightlifting is clean? But seriously, does WADA’s successful out of competition testing incident indicate that their HGH testing protocol works? If we find out that the Greeks failed for HGH there will be a lot of nervous athletes out there waiting for their turn to be revealed. I wonder if we’ll get any of the usual lame excuses that have been used by drug cheats over the years. Will the Greeks claim they ate tainted feta cheese or that someone dosed their Ouzo? One former member of Greece’s Olympic weightlifting program accused the coach of pushing banned substances 10 years ago, and is now repeating his allegation. Greece probably won’t field a weightlifting team in Beijing as a result of this scandal, but perhaps they can gain a measure of cover if they say they plan on boycotting the Olympics because of the situation in Tibet, before their “B” samples results are reported.