{"id":2760,"date":"2004-12-16T11:18:10","date_gmt":"2004-12-16T15:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/12\/16\/steroid-jones\/"},"modified":"2004-12-16T11:18:10","modified_gmt":"2004-12-16T15:18:10","slug":"steroid-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/12\/16\/steroid-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Steroid Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a4310'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p align=\"justify\">   <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/steroidsjones.jpg\" width=\"293\" height=\"409\" align=\"left\">Sprinter Marion Jones is<br \/>\n          in the news again, after <a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/news\/archive\/2004\/12\/16\/sports0602EST0183.DTL\">suing Victor Conte<\/a>, the CEO of Balco Juice<br \/>\n          Co. who has testified under oath that he gave illegal drugs to Jones<br \/>\n          and then watched while she shot them up. <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Jones, of course, maintains<br \/>\n            that she has never taken either illegal drugs or any other performance<br \/>\n            enhancing coverage.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">In a subtle editorial comment, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\">Boston Globe<\/a><br \/>\n          and several other major newspapers chose to illustrate this story with<br \/>\n          a 6-month-old file photo which clearly shows Jones with a well defined<br \/>\n          goatee and moustache (shown here, unaltered). <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Expect more Jones suits<br \/>\n          to follow. Asked for a comment, the irascible Jones grunted a gruff<br \/>\n    &quot;Quit bustin&#8217; my balls.&quot;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">from <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;u=\/041215\/483\/fx10212152034\">AP<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sprinter Marion Jones is in the news again, after suing Victor Conte, the CEO of Balco Juice Co. who has testified under oath that he gave illegal drugs to Jones and then watched while she shot them up. Jones, of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/12\/16\/steroid-jones\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[576],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wacky-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}