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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