Get Pumped About 'Bigger, Stronger, Faster*' Trailer

Some of the most compelling television of the year has been the heated denials of Roger Clemens. One a shoo-in for baseball's Hall of Fame, Clemens has had the best half of his career questioned by allegations that he began using steroids and HGH no later than 1998. The aftershocks of The Rocket's name winding up in MLB's Mitchell Report have led to an angry 60 Minutes interview, the soap opera of Clemens' friend Andy Pettitte turning his back on Roger in the name of the truth, and Clemens testifying in front of Congress that Pettitte "misremembered" conversations they allegedly had about steroids and that he'd never heard of HGH until a couple of years ago...when his wife started using it. So now Clemens may not get into Cooperstown. And it took steroids out of the discussion about hitting more home runs and into the discussion about how the problem is more widespread than we think. Some users, like Gregg Valentino (pictured below), are pretty obvious. Others are more careful, particularly in professional sports, knowing the pitfalls of being caught, which somehow outweigh the pitfalls of using them in the first place. The new documentary, Bigger, Stronger, Faster*, is here at just the right time. It seeks to investigate why athletes, fully aware of the health and professional risks, still pursue steroids to get themselves ahead. And it looks at steroids from the everyman perspective, too. Because ultimately, that's where the danger is. Bigger, Stronger, Faster* gets limited release this Friday, May 30th. And then it'll expand like a 14-year-old on the juice.