Marion Jones
Background
Marion Lois Jones, also known as Marion Jones-Thompson (born October 12, 1975 in Los Angeles, California), is a former world champion American track and field athlete of Belizean descent. She won five medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia but has since been stripped of every medal dating back to September 2000 after admitting that she took performance-enhancing drugs.
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...During congressional hearings involving Clemens and steroids use. Absurd because: Burton promptly grilled witness Brian McNamee in grandstanding, where's-the-camera? fashion, highlighted by Col. Jessep-esque blurt of, "I know one thing I don't believe -- that's...
7 days ago from
ESPN
...any famous Houstonians will be celebrating clemency along with the new year. Two Houstonians — former Enron executive Jeff Skilling and former Astros pitcher Roger Clemens — are on a watch list kept by P.S. Ruckman Jr., a political science professor in Illinois...
5 days ago from
Houston Chronicle
...drugs only after lying about it when first questioned. And just last month Minnesota Vikings defensive tackles Pat Williams and Kevin Williams were investigated for using drugs banned from the NFL. Perhaps big business holds some role models. Forget it. Ethics...
7 days ago from
St. Cloud Times
A lawyer for ex-Enron Chief Executive Jeff Skilling says no pardon request is being made on behalf of Skilling, who is in prison.
HOUSTON — It's the season to watch for pardons coming from the White House and it doesn't seem likely any famous Texan
5 days ago from
San Antonio Express
...me. Maybe I grew up with some type of concept of fair sportsmanship ideals. How about you? What do you think when you hear of John Wooden and his UCLA Bruins, or Michigan and its fab five. I can tell you I think of the best teams that money could buy. I was...
6 days ago from
Sports Blogs
...already rewriting history. You thought Dick Cheney secretly ran US foreign policy, at least in Bush's first term? "Hooey," Stephen Hadley, the meek and mild National Security Adviser, told The Washington Post last week. You thought the 43rd President was an...
4 days ago from
The Independent
Last Month - About Marion Jones
...in the case that allowed the five players Pat Williams and Kevin Williams of the Minnesota Vikings, and Charles Grant, Deuce McAllister and Will Smith of the New Orleans Saints to continue competing. (The sixth player, Bryan Pittman of the Houston Texans,...
29 days ago from
The New York Times
...to the authority of WADA and its U.S. affiliate USADA. To date, none of them have succeeded, though. Track sprinter Marion Jones threatened to sue USADA on the grounds that her due process rights had been violated when an arbitration panel found her guilty...
28 days ago from
VeloNews
...303… [Related +/-] From Superstar Branding to Marion Jones Interviews Living branding legend Oprah Winfrey has interviewed Marion Jones for one more broadcast feather in her cap. She’s created a successful talk show, launched two magazines, authored a number...
28 days ago from
Trend Hunter
...YORK (Reuters) - Disgraced Olympic sprinter Marion Jones awaits sentencing on Friday, facing possible jail time for lying to U.S. authorities about her use of steroids. Jones, 32, is scheduled to appear in federal court in White Plains, north of New York City,...
28 days ago from
Reuters
...wrote that only two black female nonmodels besides Michelle Obama had ever appeared on the cover of Vogue: Oprah Winfrey and Jennifer Hudson. The post neglected to mention Marion Jones, who appeared on the January 2001 Vogue cover. If you believe you have...
26 days ago from
Slate
...or Middlesex dressing room cradling a cigarette. During the 1996/97 tour of New Zealand he was accused of smoking cannabis in a Christchurch bar, but cleared by the England management. Later in 1997 he was given an 18-months suspended ban and a £1,000 fine...
26 days ago from
Mirror.co.uk
...friend's boyfriend; a man sleeps with his girlfriend's best friend. 10 a.m. Rachael Ray: Actress Jamie Lee Curtis; actor Jerry O'Connell searches for the perfect names for his twins; Pomento dip meets macaroni and cheese. 10 a.m. The Steve Wilkos Show: A...
26 days ago from
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
...son Max's wee around my fists. Baby wee is good because it's pure, doesn't contain toxins and doesn't smell" -- Vitali Klitschko reveals how he stops his fists swelling up. "I've lived a wild and strange life. I've used drugs, I've had physical altercations...
23 days ago from
FourFourTwo.com
...facing professional sport. Some of the highest profile cases, like those of Marco Pantani, Floyd Landis, Tyler Hamilton and Marion Jones have never been accepted – Pantani, for example, protested his innocence until the very end; Marion Jones admitted to using...
23 days ago from
The Science of Sport
...in Beijing, China in this August, 2008 file photo. Tiger Woods is seen reacting after forcing a playoff against Rocco Mediate during the fourth round of the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines Golf Course in San Diego, California in this June, 2008 file photo.. ...
22 days ago from
eTaiwan News