Brian Cushing, Texans linebacker and the reigning (for now) defensive Rookie of the Year in the NFL, has been suspended 4 games by the NFL for failing a drug test. Cushing claims that he has not taken steroids. Then how did the elevated levels of human chorionic gonadotropin, or hCG, get into his blood stream? Here's ESPN to profer a theory:

One person familiar with testing procedures told Schefter that hCG is contained in seminal fluid and that slightly elevated levels can be discovered in the event that a test occurs soon after ejaculation.

U.S. Anti-Doping Agency spokeswoman Erin Hannan denied that.

"You would not see a natural spike of hCG after a workout or ejaculation," Hannan told The Associated Press. "You would only detect it in urine by actually having taken it."

I guess I'm going to have to be the one to say it. Which I'm not terribly thrilled to do, because Brian Cushing is a large man, and of all the ways I might die, being beaten to death by an NFL linebacker in a steroid-fueled rage is pretty low on the list. But...

It seems odd that the only suggested method by which seminal fluid could raise a testees (that would be one who takes a test) hCG level is for the testee to have recently ejaculated. I mean, if he's getting rid of seminal fluid, shouldn't that LOWER hCG levels?

On the other hand... if he had recently INJESTED seminal fluid...