beefyheavyweight,
instead of starting a thread requesting a story, i'll ask here if you got any dirt on bill phillips or any of his EAS cronies
On a free DVD I got some time ago, there was a Bill Phillips/EAS challenge. He got a group of 7 or 8 people, all guys and one woman. Picked them out of thousands of entrants, based on who had the most inspirational transformation from X to X (usually out of shape to in shape.) It was around 1998 or so.
In the documentary/docudrama, they had the drug testers take tests on each of the athletes, and a few of them came up as positive for performance enhancing drugs. This one big white guy was interviewed by the drug testers and Bill personally came in to oversee the situation. The guy was on steroids, it was very obvious. Before long, the guy was looking nervous as hell and you could see the fear about to consume him, that his game was up. But, Bill sweared on his life that the guy was clean. He said he "knew what a natural physique looks like" or something like that. Low and behold, he ended up "passing the test."
This is what I remember from this DVD and it's stuck with me for a long time. Bill Phillips seems like a nice guy and the challenge was innovative, but I can't help but wonder why he lied about (more than) one of his 'EAS Challenge' contestants being on steroids.
If anyone knows, was that a legit documentary, or was it a docudrama similar to Pumping Iron?