If cheating doesn’t help you win, is it still cheating? Probably. But, if cheating doesn’t help you win, should anybody care? The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) announced this week that it has purchased thousands of kits to blood test athletes for HGH in advance of and during the Beijing Olympics. Yippee? Not so much. While major news organizations have been hailing the breakthrough, they've also been ignoring an article published online in the Annals of Internal Medicine that suggests HGH doesn’t actually help cheaters win. The article reviewed 27 studies over the past 40 years and found nothing but a cosmetic enhancement as a result of HGH. The research is consistent with testimony to Congress from a panel of experts, including Dr. Richard Perls with whom we spoke in February.

The Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue is on stands once again this year, and controversy's a-brewing. The firestorm isn’t over body paint or a potential ‘slip,’ but a photograph from five years ago. While Roger Clemens and former trainer Brian McNamee can’t agree on how to spell HGH, there is consensus that Clemens’ wife Debbie was injected with the human growth hormone by McNamee prior to her photo shoot for the 2003 swimsuit edition (though they disagree on the details).