Sports Illustrated links Troy Glaus to the Signature steroid scandal, providing me with a great headline. River Ave. Blues take is here.

A source in Florida with knowledge of the client list of Signature Pharmacy, an Orlando-based compound pharmacy, alleges that between September 2003 and May 2004, multiple shipments of nandrolone and testosterone were sent to Glaus at a Corona, Calif., address that traces to the player. Though the information only pertains to receipt and not actual use of steroids, both nandrolone and testosterone were on Major League Baseball's banned list at the time.

Glaus, then with the Angels, missed much of the 2003 season with a tear in his right rotator cuff and frayed labrum and underwent season-ending shoulder surgery after attempting a comeback in 2004.

The prescriptions, written in Glaus' name, were obtained through New Hope Health Center, a California-based anti-aging clinic that advertises the sale of anabolic steroids and human growth hormones on its Web site. The prescription was processed by Signature. The prescribing physician was Ramon Scruggs, M.D. According to the Medical Board of California, as of March 2007, Scruggs has been on probation and is prohibited from prescribing drugs over the internet. He also was reportedly involved in a lawsuit with Mobile-based Applied Pharmacy, which, ironically, was the subject of a previous multi-agency raid. (Contacted through New Hope and given the chance to comment on Friday, Scruggs responded with expletives and ended the conversation abruptly.)

I'm guessing that with the Daily News breaking the Ankiel story this morning, all the other rumors that reporters are sitting on will come out. My question is, how long has Selig had this information, and will he or the union take any action?

Update: Looking at Troy's pro career, you wonder where the juicing might have started. After being a first-team All-American in college, he tore up AA so thoroughly in 1998, that was the only time he spent in the minors apart from rehab assignments. He took until 2000 to adjust to the majors, and took off at age 24. Was he that good then, and tried the drugs to come back from an injury? Did he start in college? We'll see if he answers any questions today. I doubt it.