Matt Hardy, the former WWE and TNA wrestling star, has been sent back to jail. The ex-wrestler was arrested early Saturday morning after he was reportedly booted from a rehabilitation center after failing a Breathalyzer test.

Hardy was booked into the jail at 1:40 a.m. on Saturday. His brother, Jeff Hardy, is however back in TNA Wrestling after receiving 10 days in jail, 30 days probation, and a fine of $100,000 in a September plea bargain that stemmed from his 2009 arrest on drug charges.

From Thepilot.com:

Multiple wrestling websites are reporting that Hardy was expelled from the rehab program on Nov. 18 after he failed a Breatha-lyzer test. Members of the rehabilitation center staff administered the test after they became suspicious of Hardy’s behavior, according to TMZ.com.

Hardy said he wasn’t drinking and had failed the test because he’d just used mouthwash, TMZ reported.

“I’m reading a lot of ridiculous things on the ‘dirtsheets’ tonight,” Hardy’s girlfriend, Reby Sky, said on Formspring. “So to clear things up: I could have bailed him out and did not. He’s still in jail. Have fun with that.”

UK Athletics has been accused of encouraging the British discus thrower, Brett Morse, to work with a coach who was banned for taking anabolic steroids.

A former discus thrower, Vesteinn Hafsteinsson, tested positive for the steroid nandrolone during the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and was suspended for two years.

From Telegraph.co.uk:

UK Athletics says it was Morse’s personal decision to change coaches and insists it is not paying Hafsteinsson for his services.

But Bevan, who competed for Britain in the javelin at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, claims the move to Hafsteinsson was orchestrated by UK Athletics. He cites an email, seen by Telegraph Sport, which was sent to him by UK Athletics head coach Charles van Commenee on Oct 16, 2010.

“We identified a need for greater technical input into Brett’s training and a person who could deliver that to the athlete and his coach in a controlled and monitored environment. The athlete has now chosen to work with this coach,” a spokeswoman for UK Athletics said.

One Pennsylvania columnist thinks he has figured out why Alex Ovechkin hasn’t been the dynamic player he has been in years past, as the Capitals continue to find their footing after recent changes to the coaching staff.

A long time Pittsburgh sports scribe, the Capitals center isn’t what he used to be because he is off the juice, according to the Pennsylvania Observer-Reporter’s John Steigerwald.

From Wtop.com:

The guy was superhuman when he first came into the league. He had the hardest shot anybody had seen in years. Goalies around the league talked about how it was different from everybody else’s shot.

He’s taking about half as many shots as he used to.

Is any of this proof that Ovechkin’s performance was enhanced before, and now it’s not? No. But, you combine it with the fact that his doctor was charged with bringing PEDs over the border from Canada, and it gives you the right to be suspicious.

Add to that the fact a Washington D.C. chiropractor was investigated after he bragged about supplying steroids to members of the Capitals and Washington Nationals.

The chiropractor Stigerwald refers to is Douglas Nagel, who was arrested in 2010 for buying anabolic steroids from a Florida dealer.

For his part in a Fredericton-based anabolic steroid trafficking conspiracy, Perry Gustav Moore, 45, of Glace Bay, N.S., was sentenced to seven months of house arrest and fined $5,000.

Moore was one of twenty people who were charged in connection with Operation Jellybean, a two-year, joint-forces drug investigation focused in Fredericton.

From Dailygleaner.canadaeast.com:

The goal of Jellybean, which began in 2005, was to disrupt the sale of cocaine, marijuana, prescription drugs and anabolic steroids in New Brunswick.

Defence lawyer Howard Peters said Friday his client, who pleaded guilty, was only involved in selling anabolic steroids and was at the lower end of the scale in the conspiracy.

Peters said Moore was buying steroids for personal use and for sale in his gym in Glace Bay, N.S., and wasn’t selling in his community in general.

Crown prosecutor William Lebans painted a similar picture about Moore.

Moore was ordered to pay a $750 victim-fine surcharge in addition to the $5,000 fine.

A new study has found that adolescent football players may be at a higher risk of suffering from stroke.

Various case studies of football players in their teens that suffered a stroke and found some potential causes for strokes in young football athletes were evaluated by Jared R. Brosch and Meredith R. Golomb.

From News.bioscholar.com:

They found that some of the potential risks include an increase of hyperventilation, repeated neurological injury, use of anabolic steroids, use of highly caffeinated energy drinks and an increase in obesity of young players.

The authors point out the increase in obesity presents a two-fold risk as it not only increases the force of impacts among the players, but also the likelihood for other stroke risk factors such as hypertension.

“Two of our subjects had mild hypertension, but were too young to have had the many years of exposure that would lead to chronic vascular injury,” the researchers said.

The study has been published in the Journal of Child Neurology (JCN).

Ryan Braun, who joined the Milwaukee Brewers in 2007, does not fit the image fans conjure up when they hear that a baseball slugger has been accused of using performance enhancing drugs.

Braun helped drive the Brewers to the playoffs and was voted the NFL’s Most Valuable Player.

From Greenbaypressgazette.com:

A spokesman for Braun said in a statement issued to ESPN and The Associated Press that there are “highly unusual circumstances surrounding this case which will support Ryan’s complete innocence.”

ESPN cited two sources Saturday in first reporting the result, saying Braun tested positive for elevated levels of testosterone, adding that a later test by the World Anti-Doping Agency lab in Montreal determined the testosterone was synthetic. Braun is appealing, according to people familiar with the case.

“One theory is that anabolic steroids hasten the repair of those muscle fibers, and allow you to work out harder,” Norman Fost, a professor of pediatrics and director of the bioethics program at the University of Wisconsin, said.

A couple living lavish lifestyles while operating a multi-million pound racket to import and supply anabolic steroids have been stripped of assets worth more than £1.3m, under the Proceeds of Crime Act.

In December 2010, Patrick Hyland and his estranged wife Hyacinth were both jailed at Chelmsford Crown Court.

From Chelmsfordweeklynews.co.uk:

During the trial Patrick Hyland was described as the chief executive of the smuggling operation, while his wife was involved in the organisation when he was abroad sourcing and buying anabolic steroids.

Patrick Hyland was sentenced to 54 months and Hyacinth Hyland, of Little Waltham, near Chelmsford, was handed a two year sentence.

At a Proceeds of Crime Confiscation hearing at Chelmsford Crown Court this week (December 6 and 7) Patrick Hyland, 49, of Great Saling, was found to have accrued a criminal benefit of £5,142,110.

“The defendants will have to make considerable payments in line with the confiscation orders and if not they face additional time in custody, this clearly highlights to those involved criminality that crime really does not pay and we will continue to use this dynamic legislation to hammer home that principle,” Det Chief Insp Keith Davies, head of the Kent and Essex Police serious economic crime unit, said.

A major scandal threatened to engulf the Royal Australian Navy after revelations that sailors from a Sydney Harbour base may have been selling drugs to foreign backpackers.

The Australian Defence Force (ADF) and New South Wales police confirmed that they are investigating an alleged drug-dealing ring operating out of Garden Island, the Navy’s main base in eastern Australia.

From Nzherald.co.nz:

Defence authorities said “a range of substances”, including steroids, had been seized during a raid.

Dozens of sailors may have been involved in the trafficking ring, according to the Australian, which quoted an unnamed source as saying that drugs had been sold to young tourists.

Garden Island – used for naval activities for more than 200 years – lies just north of Kings Cross, Sydney’s main nightlife district and the site of numerous backpacker hostels.

The allegations are the latest blow to the image of the Australian military, which revealed in June that nearly 600 personnel have tested positive for steroids and other illegal drugs in the past five years.

Brendan O’Connor, the federal Home Affairs Minister, said that the allegations were being “taken very seriously”.

According to a renowned anti-corruption expert, World football’s tainted governing body, FIFA, must institute radical changes to help avoid future scandals.

The world body has been mired in corruption allegations surrounding the appointment of World Cup host countries and the election of Joseph “Sepp” Blatter for a fourth presidential term.

From Swissinfo.ch:

Many of the corruption allegations concern the distribution of Fifa money to the 208 national football associations that make up its membership base.

“The members are the owners and supervisors of Fifa and at the same time they are the beneficiaries,” Pieth told swissinfo.ch. “Since there is so much money going out to the members, there is a risk that some of this money will directly benefit individuals who are taking decisions.”

One way to reduce the risk of such corruption would be to appoint external directors – perhaps from the business community – from outside the organisation to cast an independent eye over decisions and to “break up this insiders’ club”.

Another way of combatting the actions of dishonest individuals would be to make Fifa’s ethics committee more independent and allow it to weed out unsavoury characters from positions of influence.

Mark Pieth – an experienced Swiss anti-corruption expert and recently appointed chairman – released his initial findings uncovering a series of weaknesses in the way FIFA is governed that leave the organization open to corruption.

Double Olympian Liza Hunter-Galvan would not try to qualify for the London Olympics despite an international court ruling clearing the way for those who have served doping bans.

“I’m not sure if I have good or bad feelings about the ruling, because I don’t care any more,” the marathon runner said.

From Nzherald.co.nz:

The 42-year-old won the Christchurch Marathon in June after a two-year ban for taking the blood-booster erythropoietin (EPO) in 2009 but suspects she would not be welcome if she did qualify.

“In a nutshell how do you chase a spot that isn’t there?” Hunter-Galvan said. “Whether the ban was lifted or not I realise that the biggest hurdle I face is not my age, desire, commitment, injuries, qualifying standard, financial burden, or [the] poor choice I made. Rather it lies in being accepted.

“I have no interest in going through another legal battle, they take a toll on your soul,” the runner said, a reference to the Beijing Olympics where she placed 35th after appealing her earlier non-selection to the Sports Tribunal.

Hunter-Galvan is the only New Zealander to have tested positive to EPO, which is abused in sport for stimulating the production of red blood cells that boosts the amount of oxygen delivered to the muscles.