In October 1988, Sports Illustrated published a lengthy article on alleged steroid abuse in the football program at the University of South Carolina.
[1] Following the article, a federal grand jury indicted four University of South Carolina football coaches in connection with steroid distribution to players.
Shortly after the article ran in Sports Illustrated, an investigation by South Carolina's Fifth Circuit Solicitor James Anders was announced.
[2] A fifth person, John Landon Carter of Bethesda, Maryland, was also charged with dispensing anabolic steroids to four former Gamecock players: Tommy Chaikin, David Poinsett, Heyward Myers and George Hyder.
United States District Judge G. Ross Anderson sentenced John Carter to serve three months at a community security facility.