But he said the real-life practice of combining two or more anabolic steroids — called stacking — was not out of the ordinary among those who use performance-enhancers illegally.
Tiger Asia's second violation, the S.E.C. said, was amplifying its monthly performance numbers by illegally manipulating the prices of the Chinese bank stocks.
Then late in the game Mullins would cap a memorable personal performance when his illegally blocked shot earned New England what turned out to be the winning penalty for Nguyen, with just under ten minutes left on the game clock.
They are mostly artists and musicians, including Gronk, the painter and performance artist who illegally graffiti-tagged the exterior of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art as a young man and later joined one of its exhibits.
Furthermore, it seemed to me that his public admission of using performance enhancing drugs illegally was more about self-justification than true confession -- just another fallen hero trying to restore his public image.
Whenever that YouTube clip is an unauthorized, bootlegged live performance or an illegally copied CD, doing this arguably has a small, but cumulative, negative effect on the livelihood of the musician.
Several high-profile players are caught in the cross-fire as the debate intensifies over whether long putters anchored against the body illegally enhance performance or represent a technological advancement that is part of golf's evolution.
Anderson was one of four men charged with illegally distributing performance-enhancing drugs.
His trainer, Greg Anderson, and his nutritionist, Victor Conte Jr., are among four men indicted on charges of illegally supplying performance-enhancing drugs from the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative.
The directive was issued after the indictment last month of Barry Bonds's personal trainer, Greg Anderson, by a federal grand jury on charges of illegally distributing performance-enhancing drugs.
