McNair to NFL: Overturn Cushing suspension

[Joe Joe]

Is hCG a masking agent? I thought it was used with steroids to prevent the testicles from shrinking by helping with natural testosterone production post steroid use. I guess it depends on what a steroid test actually tests.

[Arky]

Originally Posted by Joe Joe

Is hCG a masking agent? I thought it was used with steroids to prevent the testicles from shrinking by helping with natural testosterone production post steroid use. I guess it depends on what a steroid test actually tests.

I think the word "masking" has been misused a lot lately. hCG is more like an "adjuster". It's meant to make the levels "normal" after a cycle of taking steroids. So, yeah, it is indirectly "masking" but it is a real stretch to think of it that way..... The way I understand it, your body would eventually come around (weeks? months?) and normalize after a cycle of taking steroids but the hCG just speeds the process up....

Still a lot of things about this situation that don't make sense or add up - #1 being, why take anything that will get you busted in a banned substance test? Too many particulars being kept from the public right now... For example, what is Mr McNair's evidence? Perhaps we will never know...

I think public opinion thinks he's a guy who tried to beat the system and failed a drug test. I tend to give him the benefit of the doubt - perhaps he's a victim of the system - a hard-training, heavy supplement user whose body betrayed him....

At this point, I think he's just gotta keep his mouth shut and serve the 4 game suspension. Whatever caused him to fail the drug test I don't think happens again....

[kravix]

Although the league may not overturn this suspension, all of the work and evidence brought forward in this instance may save Cushing a one year suspension next season if he pops again.

If there is a rare legit medical reason why Cush is making extra female hormones in his body it is much better to do some of the leg work now rather than wait till he is sitting out for a year.

Hindsight is 20/20, but I would rather sit here and shake my head at something that seems perposterous now rather than shake my fist and wonder why they didnt do everything possible to ensure a legitimate issue was addressed when it first came up.

[Mike]

No reduction of the suspension.

http://www.houstontexans.com/news/St...?story_id=6292

[Nconroe]

Well, I was hoping they had some really convincing medical evidence. Too bad. Not much else to say.

It seems we have some young LB who should do ok during the interim, atleast I hope so.

[HPF Bob]

It was a longshot. I hope this doesn't stick to McNair for a long time.

[NBT]

If, as Cushing affirms, the rebuttal to the commish's decision took months to formulate, then the decision to NOT overturn or reduce, sure came back in a hurry. Doesn't seem like due deliberation was given.