From baseball to football to soccer to cycling, a proverbial Direct TV sports package in terms of extensive scope, it seems as if no realm of athletics is above the influence of performance enhancing drugs. The depths to which steroid use has penetrated the culture of sport in this country still may not be fully grasped by the average fans, despite the best tell-all efforts of renowned authors and journalists such as Jose Canseco. Though perhaps in retrospect, we should remove the sarcasm from the previous sentence, as in the wake of muscle-bound madness perhaps Canseco is actually one of the few ahead of his time minds who truly understands the permeation of drug culture in professional sports.The recent news of Phoenix Mercury star Diana Taurasi testing positive for a banned substance while playing in Turkey’s Fenerbahnce basketball league, brings into question whether anyone is truly within the perceived limits of fair play. While Taurasi tested positive Modafinil, which for the record is neither a recreational drug nor a steroid, the stimulant has come under harsh scrutiny by regulatory doping agencies, famously resulting in US sprinter Kelli White being stripped of her 2003 World Championship medals and more recently American cyclist’s two year suspension from competition earlier this year. When prescribed, Modafinil is used to treat narcolepsy, but it can be used as an exercise prolonging stimulant, giving users the feeling they are exerting less energy while sustaining high-energy results. Continue Reading…