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    Mayweather, Mosley embrace Olympic-style drug test

    NEW YORK (AP)—Floyd Mayweather Jr. and welterweight champion Shane Mosley willundergo Olympic-style drug testing for their may 1 fight in Las Vegas, whichthey hope will set a new standard for boxing.

    Representatives of the two fighters joined Travis Tygart of the U.S.Anti-Doping Agency on a conference call Thursday to discuss the program, whichis more extensive than the testing that currently falls under the jurisdictionof state athletic commissions.

    “This is one of the biggest events I’ve seen in the sport of boxing, and ifthis introduces Olympic-style testing to boxing, we not only have delivered agreat fight but also leveled the field for athletes,” Richard Schaefer ofGolden Boy Promotions said.

    Mayweather and Mosley will be subjected to an unlimited number ofunannounced blood and urine tests before and after the fight, and the resultswill be stored so USADA can test them in the future. The samples are screenedfor all drugs currently banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency, including humangrowth hormone and designer steroids such as THG.

    Most state athletic commissions test only urine samples, which Tygart saidcannot detect several performance-enhancing substances, including HGH.

    “For the first time, you have professional athletes in the sport of boxingapproaching us to implement an anti-doping program,” Tygart said. “Theseathletes are courageous in their position and their desire to be held to themost stringent anti-doping standard.”

    Mayweather’s insistence on Olympic-style testing is the primary reasonnegotiations fell through in January for a fight against pound-for-pound kingManny Pacquiao. Mayweather wanted blood tests up to 14 days before the fight,while Pacquiao claims he feels weak after drawing blood and would not agree totesting within 24 days.

    Pacquiao promoter Bob Arum accused Mayweather of trying to get into hisfighter’s head by alleging that he used steroids. The negotiations quicklydeteriorated, and Pacquiao signed to fight Joshua Clottey while Mayweatherturned his attention to Mosley.

    “With Floyd being the face of boxing, this is something that he has wantedto put forth,” said Mayweather’s adviser, Leonard Ellerbe. “Every fight fromthis point on that anybody steps into the ring with him will be subjected tothis.”

    That begins with Mosley, who has acknowledged using steroids before avictory over Oscar de La Hoya in 2003. The four-time world champion claims hedid so inadvertently through a strength and conditioning coach with connectionsto BALCO, the center of the scandal that enmeshed Barry Bonds and several otherhigh-profile athletes.

    Mosley filed a defamation lawsuit against Victor Conte after the BALCOfounder said the boxer knowingly took performance-enhancing drugs.

    “I want to be clear that Shane would not be doing this if there were anydoubt in his mind that he’s a clean athlete,” said Mosley’s lawyer, JuddBurstein. “Shane has never denied, right from the start, he made a mistake withrespect to trusting Victor Conte.

    “Shane is doing this, and Floyd is to be congratulated for being on theforefront here, but Shane didn’t hesitate because he knows he’s a cleanathlete.”

    Tygart said USADA, which has been involved in the BALCO investigation,discussed the Mosley case before agreeing to implement its drug-testing program.

    “You have to remember that professional boxing entities that hadjurisdiction over him at the time did not bring any discipline over thoseallegations or any others,” Tygart said. “If those allegations were everproven to be true and he was sanctioned, he would have served his time by thispoint and would be eligible to compete.”

    While the two fighters have agreed to the more rigorous testing for theirbout at the MGM Grand, it will ultimately come down to whether sanctioningbodies and state athletic commissions choose to recognize punishments that USADAmight impose.

    That could include a two-year ban for a failed test.

    “At the end of the day, USADA has no jurisdiction,” Keith Kizer, executivedirector of the Nevada Athletic Commission, told The Associated Press. “Likeany medical test, if a fighter wants to do anything more than what we require,more power to them.”

    Kizer said fighters can petition the commission to change its drug testingprotocol, and Arum was open to doing that in December, before negotiations forPacquiao-Mayweather unraveled.

    Schaefer took that option to Mayweather’s team, but Kizer said they neverresponded.

    “At the end of the day, this is about Pacquiao-Mayweather, and we’re notgoing to change our policies to help one fighter get a mind-game edge or anotheredge over another fighter,” Kizer said. “That being said, we have over theyears revised and expanded our policy. We added steroid testing about nine yearsago, out of competition testing a few years back.

    “More drug testing is better, everyone would agree to that, but there is alimit.”

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    Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by - March 19, 2010 at 7:00 pm

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    News Analysis As An Effective Tool For Internet Promotions

    News analysis is no longer the authority of the conventional media of print, television or radio. Today news analysis has gained newer dimensions and scaled new heights. It is now widely recognized as one of the most effective means for promotional activities on the internet and is being increasingly used for the purpose.

    It is beyond doubt that internet is the most effective means of mass communication and is being used in almost all spheres of life and business. More and more companies and organizations want to promote their products and ideas through the internet. Internet marketing and web-based promotional activities have acquired added importance and are showing immense signs of innovation and improvement in their applications and tools.

    However, Web 2.0 has begun with revolutionary ideas of promotions which promise to deliver better information and develop better networking for the future that lies in the Web. Paid advertisements and SEO is slowly giving way to organic promotions which make a site popular more due to quality content than the number of keywords or phrases or through paid banners or links. Article, blogs, forums are all part of this new age phenomenon.

    One of the latest and most popular promotion tools is news analysis. It is being regularly used in net promotions and is gaining wider acceptance throughout the global market. News analysis is not just related to the major happenings around the world, but are also an in-depth study linking the major global events into a holistic screen. It tends to seek the root cause of the change and the after-effect of this kind of phenomenon rather than to just inform the surfers about the latest news.

    The people who generally log on to a particular site to get access to any kind of information on a particular topic are captivated by such analysis since it reflects and validates some points which they might not have thought about. Users find it very interesting and tend to bookmark such sites for future reference. News analysis invariably diverts the traffic to the website leading to higher revenue.

    News analysis should be given as much importance to as search engine optimization or web content. The world of internet is fast changing and you have to continually innovate and improve your site as well as your promotion activities to keep abreast of the flux.

    One needs to go beyond what is written in the rule book, one has to make new innovations and this is where news analysis has scored over all its contemporaries in the internet promotion field. It scores high in Google or Yahoo ranking for the generic yet quality content on contemporary issues which attract a large number of users without having any information of direct relevance to them.

    News analysis has proved its mettle as an effective tool for marketing strategy leading to higher target driven traffic for websites.

    Jeff Burdic is a highly successful Internet Marketer. His concepts and ideas are extremely innovative and easily implementable. He has shown hundreds of people how to earn a living online. To take the next step, after reading this article visit:

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