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A Montbello mother says her 9-year-old son's death from severe asthma could have been prevented had Denver Human Services resolved problems with his Medicaid pharmacy benefits. Zuton Lucero said she called Human Services every three days for months last year when she was suddenly unable to get prescription drugs for her son, Zumante. The boy's health deteriorated without the medication, his doctor said, and he died at Children's Hospital in July after losing consciousness at his house after an attack. "I don't want anyone else to be sitting where I'm sitting," Lucero said. Advocacy lawyers who met Wednesday with the...

Here is a video report on the news that Major League Baseball star Mark McGwire has now admitted that he used steroids for the second half of his baseball career. McGwire admitted to using Human Growth Hormone and other steroids, which nearly doubled his homerun output during the second half of his career. That included his record-breaking year when he hit 70 homeruns, shattering the record held at that time by Roger Maris with 62. Below is video of Mark McGwire's emotional admission of steroid use in an interview with Bob Costas . . . . . McGwire said he...

NEW YORK -- Mark McGwire finally came clean Monday, admitting he used steroids when he broke baseball's home run record in 1998. McGwire said in a statement sent to The Associated Press on Monday that he used steroids on and off for nearly a decade. "I wish I had never touched steroids," McGwire said in a statement. "It was foolish and it was a mistake. I truly apologize. Looking back, I wish I had never played during the steroid era." McGwire also used human growth hormone, a person close to McGwire said, speaking on condition of anonymity because McGwire didn't...

Did his father's tangled sex life make Tiger Woods a love cheat? By Andrew Malone and David Gardner Relaxing with a glass of rum in one hand and a cigarette in the other, Earl Woods liked to tell how his son was named after a Vietnamese colonel called Tiger Phong. While on patrol in a paddy field, Woods and Phong were pinned down by enemy fire. Woods was convinced he was about to die. But Tiger remained calm and pulled the stricken American to safety - moments before sniper bullets raked the very spot where he had lain. Years later,...

TIGER Woods is close to "cracking up" after spending days alone watching CARTOONS and eating cereal. Close friends fear the golf superstar, 33, can't cope in the wake of his sex scandal. He changed his mobile phone number the day after his late-night car crash which sparked a stream of revelations - so friends can no longer contact him.

People magazine is reporting that Elin Nordegren plans to divorce Tiger Woods. In its issue that arrives at newsstands on Friday, the magazine quotes a source close to Nordegren as saying, "She plans to leave Tiger." It cites another source a saying, "She's made up her mind. There's nothing to think about: he's never going to change." More here from People magazine Meanwhile, Nordegren has been photographed around Orlando this week without her engagement or wedding rings. MSNBC.com reports that she was sending a message. "She knew what she was doing when she stepped out and pumped gas without her...

Two years ago, after following Tiger Woods down the fairway for a couple of days at the U.S Open at Oakmont, I confided to friends an observation that seemed too absurd for public consumption. From the back, the dude looked like Barry Bonds. His neck was oddly wide. His shoulders were absurdly broad. His biceps were busting out of a tight shirt. For the first time, he wasn't just better than everyone else, he was also bigger. He looked not like a technician lining up a tee shot, but a slugger getting loose for batting practice. He looked weird. He...

Galea and Mark Lindsay, a Canadian chiropractor who treated Woods and managed Rodriguez's rehabilitation this summer from hip surgery, are principals at a Toronto clinic called Affinity Health. Lindsay also treated ex-Yankee pitcher Chien-Ming Wang, who was recovering from a hip injury, this year. Lindsay's clients have included former NFL star Bill Romanowski, and sprinters Tim Montgomery and Marion Jones, who all testified in front of the grand jury that investigated the Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative's dealings with steroids. Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/more_sports/2009/12/14/2009-12-14_tigers_doc_linked_to_hgh.html#ixzz0Zrx5zWSH

The golf great's credibility, already eroded by marital infidelity, could evaporate entirely if there's fire to go along with the smoke generated by his reported link to a doctor who promotes HGH.

We thought the worst for Tiger was behind him, or, at the very least, that no closet was big enough to hold any more skeletons. Looks like we were wrong—remember, Tiger owns more than a few houses, and more than a few closets. Behind door number—which one are we on now?—is the revelation that the doctor who treated Woods after his knee injury has been indicted in a doping scandal by the FBI, and is accused of treating athletes with steroids.

Tiger Woods’ agent is distancing himself from his client, following a report that a doctor who treated the golfer is under investigation for trafficking in performance enhancing drugs. The Tiger Woods saga took a new turn today when The New York Times reported FBI and Canadian authorities were investigating Dr. Anthony Galea, a sports medicine specialist who has treated hundreds of top pro athletes in many sports—including Woods—for possible trafficking in human growth hormone and other banned substances. Galea was arrested in Canada in October, and the Times says that he treated Tiger Woods in 2008 to use a platelet-rich...

Ian Baker-Finch -- former PGA golfer-turned-announcer -- told the Sydney Morning Herald yesterday, "Mate, if I say one word about Tiger, I will get fired."

The Canadian doctor who performed a controversial medical procedure on Tiger Woods is under criminal investigation for drug violations on both sides of the border, bringing scrutiny to his colleagues, including one who worked closely with BALCO athletes and Yankee superstar Alex Rodriguez. Dr. Tony Galea was arrested in October and his Toronto clinic was raided by Canadian authorities after his assistant was detained at the U.S.-Canadian border and reportedly found to be in possession of illegal drugs, including human growth hormone (hGH) and Actovegin - a drug extracted from calf's blood that has been banned by the World Anti-Doping...

Despite claims that Tiger Woods was cheap when it came to spending money on the women with whom he had relationships, some did benefit financially and continue to do so

Global consulting and outsourcing firm Accenture is ending its sponsorship of Tiger Woods, saying the golfer is "no longer the right representative" after the "circumstances of the last two weeks."

SEXY socialite and Tiger Woods mistress Rachel Uchitel plans to be screened for sexually transmitted diseases, it was claimed last night. Curvy Rachel told pals she would undergo tests after a string of girls — including TWO porn stars — said they had also slept with the superstar golfer.

A Canadian doctor who used a pioneering 'blood-spinning’ technique to help Tiger Woods recover from his knee surgery will be questioned in court after being charged with three counts of illegally importing and selling drugs.

PORNSTAR Holly Sampson last night became the seventh woman to be named as a mistress of golf star Tiger Woods. The 36-year-old from Los Angeles is the star of such films as "OMG, Stop Tickling Me" and "Flying Solo 2". She has not yet spoken about her involvement with Tiger, 33. It follows the emergence of 'mistress number six' Cori Rist, 31, who is said to have met Tiger, 33, in a New York club last year.

Three more women say they have played a round with Tiger. Two more blonds and a brunette were added to Tiger Woods' sultry scorecard Saturday - bringing the married father of two to six over par on his betrayed supermodel wife. Sources told the Daily News that Manhattan clubgoer Cori Rist, 31, is yet another blond beauty who has hit the sheets with Tiger. A Las Vegas cocktail waitress and aspiring model - Jamie Jungers - became the fifth woman linked to the golf pro Saturday.

Suddenly Cori Rist looks like a 5th Tiger Woods mistress. The rumor of a 5th Tiger Woods mistress being Cori Rist has been floated by the New York Daily News where they are citing a source that claims one of Tiger Woods "favorite traveling companions was a delicious blond named Cori Rist." This is just more bad news for Tiger Woods and his supporters, and is tossing even more fuel on the fire that is burning down his public image. It starting to seem like daily there is another woman coming forward with claims about what Tiger Woods has been...