Page 6 The Behrend Beacon Behrend Athletic Events Friday, Aug. 30 Women's Volleyball @ Oberlin Tournament 4:00/7:00 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 31 Women's Volleyball CO Oberlin Tournament 8:30 p.m Men's Soccer Herb Lauffer Tournament vs. Lebanon Valley 10:00 a.m. Women's Soccer Herb Lauffer Tournament vs. Ohio Northern 2:00 p.m. Men's & Women's Cross Country @ Westminster Invitational 10:00/10:45 a.m. Sunday, Sep. 1 Men's Soccer Herb Lauffer Invitational Consolation Game 10:00 a.m. Championship, Noon Women's Soccer Herb Lauffer Invitational Consolation Game, 2:00 p.m. Championship, 4:00 p.m Tuesday, Sept. - a Women's Volleyball @Thiel, 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 4 Women's Soccer vs. John Carroll, 4:00 p.m Intramurais Schedule Tennis Men's, Women's, & COED Entries Due Friday, Sept. 6 Schedules Posted By 9-10 Slow Pitch Softball Men's, Women's, & COED Entries Due Friday, Sept. 6 Games Begin 9-10 Sand Volleyball Men's, Women's, & COED Entries Due Friday, Sept. 6 Games Begin 9-10 Golf Men's, Women's, & COED Entries Due Friday, Sept. 6 Event on 9-15 Cross Country Men's, Women's, & COED Entries due Friday, Sept. 27 Includes Individual and Team Competition Races begin at 6 p.m. on Monday, September 30 Flag Football Men's, Women's, & COED Entries due Friday, Oct. 4 Games begin Oct. 8 5 reasons why... the Pittsburgh Steelers should go all the way 1. The New AFC North Any division where the Cleveland Brown are predicted to finish second would be Heaven to any good franchise. The Ravens were decimated by the "Salary-Cap Monster" over the off season and are a shell of their former selves. The Bengals could have an explosive offense this season with Peter Warrick, Michael Westbrook, Scott Soltis Corey Dillon, Yeah, Gus Frerotte. Looks like it will be the Bungles again this year. 2. D-E-F-E-N-S-E. The Steelers ranked first in the National Football League total defense last year and will continue this trend in the 2002 season. They should be even better this year with only three possible offensive powerhouses on the schedule. The Indianapolis Colts, Tennessee Titans, and Tampa Bay Buccaneers would be the only non-surprising losses. 3. Bill Cowher. The man with the jaw is back in the 'Burgh for another year of football. Cowher is one of the most consistent good coaches in the NFL. Cowher is arguably the best coach in the league this year. Gruden and Dungy both have similar credentials but they are in new towns, so Cowher gets the honors. Cowher has also assembled a crack staff of assistants and coordinators that meshes well with his players. It doesn't take a genius to pass a steroids test by Dave Kindred The Sporting News Naturally, athletes were eager to pay for advice from Charles E. Yesalis. The Penn State professor knows steroids. He has written three books on the subject. He has testified to Congress. He has worked with the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, the FBI, the American Medical Associa tion, the NFL Players Association, the U.S. Olympic Committee and the NCAA. So athletes sought him out. Not for help in getting the drugs that are le gally obtained only by prescription; anybody smart enough to buy Milk Duds can score steroids. Nor were athletes concerned about health risks; who sweats the small stuff when you believe you're bullet-proof? They came to Yesalis in hopes of covering up the crime. "They wanted to hire me as a con sultant to make sure they don't get caught," he says. He says he turned down the re quests, once prompting an athlete to say, "Well, Chuck, I figured you were going to say that. But, you know, I would even take it off my income tax as a business expense." They shared a laugh there. . Such a world we've made. Steroids as business tools. Every home run hitter a suspect Now we hear Major League Base ball making noises about a steroids testing program. Though any testing is better than no testing, Yesalis says PORTS Friday, August 30, 2002 Most notable are offensive coordinator Mike Mularkey and quarterbacks ooach Tom Clements, who have made Pittsburgh a premier offense. 4. No More Kris Brown! He's the Texans' problem now. While in Pittsburgh, Brown had an uncanny knack for costing games by missing 14 field goals last season. Former Kansas City Chief Todd Peterson replaces him. Peterson is an eight-year veteran who had a respectable 2001, making 27 of his 35 field goal-attempts. The question is will he be intimidated by Heinz Field's open-air end and its very , p() elitor unforgiving fans? 5. The Running Game. Bettis, Amos, Fu, and Kordell made for hands down the most dominating ground attack of 2001. Bettis returns but will likely miss three or four games before the seaeon is over. His weight may be down but his age is still going up, and those hits get harder and harder. However, Amos Zereoue averaged 5.2 yards per carry last year and Chris Fuamatu-Ma'afala has the size and strength to pound it out for the three yards and a cloud of dust football that Pittsburgh loves. Oh, and by the way, that Stewart guy ran for more than 500 yards and five TD's last year, too. No Bettis, no problem. With all that the Pittsburgh Steelers have going for them in 2002, there is one team that has a great chance of ruining their hopes. The Steelers have to be cautious not to beat themselves . With Stewart running the offense, this may be a challenge the team may not overcome. the hard truth is that not even the most stringent program, let alone the namby-pamby deal likely to come from current talks, will eliminate ste roids in baseball. "With drug testing in place in the NFL, NBA, and every major Olym pic sport, there's still a steroids prob lem in those leagues and federations," he says. "It would be naive to think that if baseball had a steroids-testing program, they're still not going to have a huge problem." The problem will persist because world-class athletes and chemists gen erally stay a step ahead of the science posse. Or, as Yesalis has come to be lieve after 23 years of research: "Drug tests catch only stupid, care less and foolish people." There are, as we know, locker rooms filled with the stupid, careless and foolish. But Yesalis draws a dis tinction that applies to baseball's mil lionaires. "If you're talking about an elite, wealthy athlete," he says, "they'll go to people like me to make sure they don't flunk drug tests." For Yesalis, a test by eyesight is enough: "When you see mature men who have already strength-trained for years, and all of a sudden they gain 30 pounds of lean mass, I am tremen dously suspicious because that doesn't happen naturally. You don't need to be a steroid scientist to know that is incomprehensible." Barry Bonds and Sammy Sosa, two suddenly bulky strongmen, have de nied using steroids and pledged to The 'off-season' of country a cross runner by Scott Soltis sports editor The Penn State Behrend cross country team was stellar last season and looks to be evenbetter this fall. The two major strengths it has is youth and determination. The team is young with several freshmen, a talented group of sophomores, and some older veterans. The young core of the team is back and ready to go. The Lions are determined to succeed, which is evidenced by their off-season work ethic. Their training regimen called for nine-day cycles with one day off. The team alternated hard days and easy days over this cycle but the word easy a bit misleading. A typical week in cycle two would go as follows: Day One Long threshold run (10 miles) Day Two: Easy (6 miles) Day Three: 2 mile warm-up, 8 400 meter runs, 2 mile cool-down Day Four: Easy (6 miles) Day Five: 2 mile warm-up, 16 Hills, 2 mile cool-down Day Six: Easy (6 miles) Day Seven: 10 min. warm-up, 25 min. alternating between 1:30 at race pace and 3:30 at normal pace, then 10 min. cool-down Day Eight: Rest Day Nine: Easy (6 miles) abide by any testing program players help devise. Many people, including borderline omniscient sports writers, have insisted that Bonds and Sosa pass a test because a simple test would end the suspicion. No, it would not. Passing such a test can mean ... 1) The athlete doesn't use steroids. 2) He uses steroids daily but with a masking agent. 3) He uses steroids, but all traces are flushed out of his system within two or three days. 4) He uses a steroid recipe fash ioned by a designer famous for unde tectable potions. 5) He used steroids as training aids two years ago, bulked up, kept buff with madman workouts and now needs a juice refill only every Janu ary. 6) He uses human growth hormone, or insulin-like growth factor I. These replicate steroid enhancement, but no test exists for them. The question: "So a negative ste roid test really proves nothing?" Yesalis: "You are absolutely and to tally correct." As for the positive result that iden tifies a user, it can happen. Inexpli cable things happen. Julia Roberts married Lyle Lovett. But Yesalis' ex perience suggests Gwyneth Paltrow will marry Britney Spears and Lil' Bow Wow in a three-way ceremony beforeSonds or Sosa tests positive. Beyond the athlete's ability to fi nesse the test, Yesalis cites circum stantial evidence that a multibillion- Sophomore runner Tim Schultheis at the Annual Rolling Rock 5 Mile Run. Yesalis even wonders if fans care. "Oh, yes, a lot of fans say they're bothered. I'm bothered by the fact these chemically enhanced athletes are breaking records of my idol, Mickey Mantle, where my strong be lief is these clowns couldn't carry Mantle's jockstrap. "But the important question is, 'Mr. and Mrs. Fan, are you bothered enough to turn off your television? Or not pay $2OO for an evening at Camden Yards?' I think we know fans are not bothered much. If anything, given the fans' love of watching the ball go over the wall, steroids have been very, very good for baseball." Yikes. The excellent conditioning was apparent throughout the summer as Behrend runners ran many road races that range from 5K (3.2 Miles) to 5 Mile runs. On June 30, 2002 The 16th Annual Rolling Rock 5 Mile Run was held in Latrobe, PA. The race featured runners from Behrend's Men's and Women's Teams. Clayton Kirschner, Tim Schultheis, Brian Wheeler, and Dan Croft from the men's team all competed while Suzie Szafran and Jessica Knapp of the women's team ran This was a highly contested race with more than 650 runners competing. Tim Schultheis ran a blazing 27:42 in his hometown to capture 12th overall and take third in the men ages 16-19 bracket. Clayton Kirschner finished the Runners continued on page 7 dollar industry might not identify all its cheaters: 'What franchise-making NFL su perstar has ever been caught in their drug screening for performance-en hancing drugs? None. Who is the last world-famous Olympic athlete caught? Ben Johnson, 1988. ... Even with drug-testing, I believe the NFL, the NHL, the NBA and the majority of Olympic sports have the same level of drug use as is attributed to base ball." As if to buttress Yesalis' belief, Dr. Wade Exum, for nine years the direc tor of the U.S. Olympic Committee's drug control program, has charged in a lawsuit that the USOC has not iden tified or sanctioned several U.S. medal winners who tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs. The USOC denies it. In fact, double yikes
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