Two Red Bulls Suspended over Drug Use

With the Red Bulls vying for one of two wild-card spots in the MLS playoffs, the last thing they wanted to hear is that two of their players got suspended for using performance-enhancing drugs. Jon Conway, their starting goalkeeper and the man who has played every minute of the season so far, will join defender Jeff Parke in forfeiting 10 percent of his salary and sitting out 10 games, including the playoffs, should the Red Bulls qualify. The drugs they took (androstatriendione and boldenone metabolites) are both over-the-counter. For what it's worth, the players say they unknowingly ingested them.

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By Tom Boorstein in News on October 17, 2008 2:53 PM

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NannyState

All these athletes keep ingesting performance enhancing drugs "unknowingly". Someone should call the FDA so they can investigate each of these accidents. It could be space aliens attempting to communicate to us humans via anabolic ingestions. Or maybe we really are in a new Cold War and Vladimir Putin has a devious plot to undermine sports in America. Or maybe these fucking second-rate cheats are just too goddamn stupid to come up with fresher bullshit.

openheads

The new stadium in Harrison should bring people to & from the games easier (a few blocks from a PATH stop).

That doesn't really help with the product on the field, but should allow exposure to a greater number of people. You have to start somewhere.

Spiny

openheads, in the past few months, almost all of my friends have expressed surprise at learning that New York even has a soccer team. It's not provincialism. If New York gets a second team, I won't care if it's in the five boroughs, New Jersey, or Connecticut, as long as it does SOMETHING to attract people to games, SOMETHING to get the fan base energized, and something to -- you know -- make people aware of its very existence.

Also, something to not suck.

Go Metrostars.

openheads

"I second the notion that there should be a team actually in the 5 boroughs - one that embraces the local community."

Provincialism. Simple as that. Yap all you want, but that's what it is.

The Jets & Giants don't "embrace" the community then, right????

Get over your self & go to a game. If you wish to continue your provincial ways & not go, well, that's on you. But stop using their location as some sort of justification based in reality.

How about the 5 boroughs gets a soccer team & the Jets & Giants change their name to the NJ Giants/Jets. That fits perfectly into your narrow minded view of things, no?

Absolute madness.

Snoopy

What was the name of those drugs again? Can they get their money back for lack of performance enhancing?

They need to build a soccer stadium in the Bronx so we can have typical soccer riots without interrupting traffic in Manhattan.

Guest

How can you be charged with using performance enhancing drugs when your team is named after performance enhancing drugs?

whitecastlerock

Who goes to these games anyway?

smokedgouda

Wow...must be a really crazy culture there at RBNY. I second the notion that there should be a team actually in the 5 boroughs - one that embraces the local community.

Wza

My bad...read the title and tried to make a joke without reading the rest of the story. Nevermind...my joke bombed.

ganghiscon

"Supsended"

Wza

Looks like they needed something other than wings to make em feel high.

Spiny

All the more reason to pray that MLS brings New York a second team.

Maybe one which would actually make its presence known to the community?

Kojak

"The suspension was lifted however when a board of inquiry came to the conclusion that no one cares. The players are to be reimbursed of their minimum wage MLS salaries and given a formal apology. "