You’ve probably never heard of the Office of Criminal Investigations – the guys behind Operation Raw Deal. OCI is a very small branch of the Food and Drug Administration, created in 1992 to police criminal violations of Food Drug and Cosmetics Act, including prescription drug counterfeiting,...

On June 19th, of 2009, Chris Bell, the director of Bigger Stronger Faster*, announced on FaceBook that he was “super-excited to start writing a great new script that people who liked Bigger Stronger Faster* will love…” Given that his first movie was a documentary, starring himself,...

The nutritional company Proviant Technologies, which was formerly owned in part by BALCO chemist Patrick Arnold, has shut their doors for good and is auctioning off their manufacturing equipment. ErgoPharm, Patrick Arnold’s other company was sold last year, just prior to the facilities of both...

Over the past twelve-ish hours I have had approximately 82,345 conversations about the Michael Jackson being recently dead. I even went on a podcast and talked about him – and, because I had been drinking, inadvertently identified Slash (instead of Eddie Van Halen) as having played guitar on the...

If you’re not a fan of the steroid-laden world of physique competitions, you probably don’t know much, if anything, about that particular world. In short, there are two major federations that people compete in, one professional (the IFBB) and one amateur (the NPC). These two groups represent...

When you know the steroid industry as well as I do, you get pretty good at predicting certain things. One of those easily predictable things happens to be BALCO chemist Patrick Arnold. The few interactions I’ve had with Mr. Arnold range from him claiming to not know who I am, confusing me with...

One of the recurring nightmares I have is that I’m part of that rugby team that got stranded in the Andes and had to start eating their own dead. In this dream, I’m playing hooker for the Uruguayan team. The nightmare isn’t the fact that I’m eating dead people, the nightmare is...

Recently, Nelson Montana, author of The Bodybuilding Truth, and Bottom Line Bodybuilding, was given a complimentary membership to TheSourceCheck.com. As a result, he posted his thoughts about it on EliteFitness.com – where TheSourceCheck.com is a paid sponsor (a “sourcecheck” in a term...

Over the past few weeks, we’ve watched some very damaging information surface about the NPC and IFBB. We’ve seen a natural bodybuilding contest promoter arrested for steroids, we’ve seen an IFBB/NPC official indicted on federal charges, and we’ve seen Jim Manion, his son, J.M....

My buddies Aaron Singerman and Carl Lanore recently had the now-infamous Millard Baker on their show, Off Topic. It’s well worth a listen, as Millard goes on the offensive and attacks Jim Manion, the NPC, and the IFBB, and made this the one Off Topic show that was too controversial for many sites,...