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As the cross-over between MMA and football expands, so does the media scrutiny on training and drug usage
By Zach Arnold | May 7, 2010
On Friday, the National Football League suspended Brian Cushing for four games due to violating a drug test for performance-enhancing drugs. Cushing, who plays for the Houston Texans and was the 2010 NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year, was a big star at USC during his college football days.
Cushing also is one of many NFL players involved in “MMA training” with Jay Glazer and Randy Couture. Glazer released a statement on Friday night about the matter. On Twitter, Glazer put it this way:
I’m waiting to hear from him but as u can imagine I’m absolutely furious. I wanna hear his side b4 I say anything. Right now tho I’m livid.
RT @wondo425: @Jay_Glazer steroids MUST be eradicated from all levels of competitive sport! Put Cushing in his place.> Agreed!!!
Yes, livid about Cushing. Randy Couture and I have a pretty strict policy against cheaters. I need to hear from Brian b4 we make judgment.
RT @bgibbs10: @Jay_Glazer Do you have a policy in place for people within your group that take PEDs?>Yup, we don’t train em.
I guess Brian wasn’t using the 11-minute Randy Couture workout video on his new Body by Jake indoor gym system. Let’s go, princess.
Jay Hieron, who trains at Xtreme Couture in Las Vegas, is currently in St. Louis working out and training some of the Rams football players. There are more MMA fighters who are finding work on the side training football players.
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Please, the sports media has been turning it’s back on the abuse of drugs in the NFL for decades now. They will go crazy whenever someone in baseball uses steroids but somehow whenever a guy test positive in the NFL the indignation isn’t quite there. That’s part of the reason why I stopped taking the supposed steriod controversy in baseball seriously, how can you rail against hitters taking banned substances yet buy the NFL line about their harsh testing which everyone knows is a joke. I just wish for once the media actually treated the NFL and their clear drug culture half as serious as they do the MLB one and then I could take buy what they’re selling but I don’t.
I guess Glazer wasn’t aware of Cushing failing a PED test at this year’s combine. This guy has been allegedly linked to steroids at every level including HS.
Baseball got in trouble because they completely ignored the problem. As long as terr is testing, even if it us bad…. The sports leagues will get a free pass from the media.
I think its hilarious that Glazer claims that Randy would never train anyone who does PEDs.
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