How Vince and Linda McMahon’s WWE Beat the 1990s Steroid Charges: A Resource Guide
November 30, 2010Not Yet Clear Whether Connecticut Investigation of WWE Is Wide-Ranging and Significant
December 3, 2010
The cover story in the current Pittsburgh City Paper on the World Wrestling Entertainment wellness policy is very poor, possibly the least informative and coherent article of that length yet published on this subject. Writer Charlie Deitch lays out the company line while omitting huge swaths of pertinent history – such as the elimination of steroid testing for ten years, the non-suspension of star Randy Orton after he appeared on the Signature Pharmacy customer list, the hole-riddled testimony of the McMahon family to the staff of the Waxman Committee, and the full background stories of very recent dead wrestlers Umaga and Lance Cade.
Really, a line-by-line critique would give City Paper’s effort here more attention than it deserves. Those of you who would like to read it for yourselves can go to http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A88609.
Those of you interested in hard reporting on the Pittsburgh doctors who administer for profit, while arguably somewhat ameliorating, the WWE death mill, see the links below from this blog over the last year.
Irv Muchnick
December 14, 2009
EXCLUSIVE: LINDA McMAHON’S WWE MEDICAL DIRECTOR MET WITH CHRIS BENOIT BRAIN EXPERTS IN 2008
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December 30, 2009
PAGING DR. JOSEPH MAROON, MEDICAL DIRECTOR FOR SENATE CANDIDATE LINDA McMAHON’S WWE
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March 18, 2010
WHERE DOES WWE MEDICAL DIRECTOR FIT IN SHAKEUP OF NFL’S CONCUSSION COMMITTEE?
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March 18, 2010
EDDIE “UMAGA” FATU AUTOPSY: 406 POUNDS, ENLARGED HEART
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March 19, 2010
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March 19, 2010
HOW NOT TO GET A GIG WITH WWE’S CRACK MEDICAL TEAM
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March 30, 2010
UMAGA AUTOPSY TURNS FOCUS TO LINDA McMAHON’S WWE CARDIO PROGRAM AND DOCS
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March 31, 2010
WWE DOCS GOVERNED BY “PRIVATE” PITT MED CENTER ETHICS POLICY
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March 31, 2010
WWE MEDICAL TEAM BIOS – 5 OUT OF 8 ARE FROM PITT MED CENTER
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April 6, 2010
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June 20, 2010
DR. JOSEPH MAROON SIGHTING IN EXCELLENT NEW HAVEN REGISTER ARTICLE ON WWE AND STEROIDS
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June 28, 2010
BRAIN INJURIES IN LINDA McMAHON’S WWE AND THE NFL – WHERE SPORTS AND “SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT” OVERLAP
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July 7, 2010
NFL EXPLAINS: MAROON STILL ON COMMITTEE, ONLY CONCUSSION “LEADERSHIP” HAS CHANGED
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August 18, 2010
TREATMENT OF WWE PERFORMER CHARLIE HAAS IS A STUDY OF LINDA McMAHON’S CHARACTER
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September 9, 2010
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October 14, 2010
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October 14, 2010
WRESTLING JOURNALIST MELTZER: WWE MEDICAL DIRECTOR’S QUOTE IS “MIND-BOGGLING”
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October 16, 2010
WWE MEDICAL DIRECTOR “DISHONEST,” SAY 76% IN WRESTLING OBSERVER READER POLL
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November 8, 2010
ROAD MAP TO NEW GOVERNMENT INVESTIGATIONS OF PRO WRESTLING
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November 20, 2010
CONCUSSION ISSUE REACHES CRITICAL MASS IN AMERICAN CULTURE AND POLITICS
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“Medical examiners ruled that Guerrero died a natural death due to arteriosclerotic heart disease — a hardening of the arteries. However, according to the Associated Press, officials said that past anabolic steroid use enlarged Guerrero’s heart and other organs, contributing to his death.”
If Eddie Guerrero died a “natural” death, then why did WWE have his widow seal his death certificate, so reporters like Charlie Deitch have to rely on second hand sources like the Associated Press?
It’s also always nice to see William Regal wheeled out as the poster child of the Wellness Policy and another reporter failing to mention that he was caught up in the Signature Pharmacy scandal and later failed a company drug test.
I also found it funny that Deitch gave McDevitt credit for helping “establish a medical-testing program to protect the wrestlers’ health”.