SI.com (the Sports Illustrated website) has an article up where they
interview Luis Fernando Llosa and L. Jon Wertheim, the writers
responsible for breaking the February story about a Florida steroid
ring. In the February article, Kurt Angle's name was linked to the
ring.

In today's interview, the writers name several WWE wrestlers
including Edge, Rey Mysterio, Eddie Guerrero, and Randy Orton as
being linked to the same steroid ring, claiming the wrestlers have
purchased steroids and HGH (human growth hormone).

Here are some highlights from the article.

"According to the official documents we reviewed, (Arizona Dr.
David) Wilbirt was billed for HCG and the steroid stanozolol that
were sent to WWE star Eddie Guerrero in early 2005. (Guerrero died
on Nov. 13, 2005, in a Minneapolis hotel room due to what a coroner
later ruled as heart disease, complicated by an enlarged heart
resulting from a history of anabolic steroid use.) Wilbirt also
allegedly issued prescriptions for the steroids nandrolone and
stanozolol to Oscar Gutierrez, whose stage name is Rey Mysterio.
(Through the WWE, Gutierrez declined comment.)"

"In total, there were 11 professional wrestlers listed in the
documents that we saw. Some of these wrestlers are working as
independents; some are out of the business entirely; others are
first-tier stars. Consider Randy Orton, who allegedly received eight
prescriptions for six different drugs -- stanozolol, nandrolone,
anastrozole, Clomiphene citrate, oxandrolone and testosterone --
between March 2004 and August 2004. (Through the WWE, Orton declined
comment.) Interestingly, according to the documents, Orton's
prescriptions came from the same two doctors whose names appeared on
the prescriptions in major league outfielder Gary Matthews Jr.'s
file."

"The skill-set required for pro wrestling is obviously different
from that of most other competitive sports. According to the
documents two prominent wrestlers, Adam Copeland, a.k.a. Edge, and
Shane Helms, a.k.a. The Hurricane, received HGH. (Through the WWE,
Copeland and Helms didn't respond to a request for comment.) But
virtually all the others allegedly received a wide variety of
anabolic steroids. In each case these were supplied by Applied, the
Mobile, Ala., compounding pharmacy that was raided last fall."