With million dollar contracts being offered to baseball prospects, not only are they required to undergo DNA testing and steroid testing but also physical examination as well.
DNA testing was recently implemented to prevent fraud from prospects claiming to be younger than their actual age. Steroid testing, on the other hand, is done to ensure that [...]
Don Hooton, president of the Taylor Hooton Foundation, threw in the first pitch as part of the pre-game ceremonies held before the game of the New York Yankees and Toronto Blue Jays. Don Hooton is also the father of the late Taylor Hooton, a high school baseball player of Plano West Senior High in Plano, [...]
As per a study by Roger Tobin, a Tufts University physicist, the use of steroids by a baseball slugger offers an ability to boost home run production by 50 percent or more. However, there are only modest enhancements in bat-and-ball speed and muscle mass by such usage.
Tobin, who is currently working as a specialist in [...]
Some people wonder what motivates some MLB players to take steroids. Baseball can be played and won without having performance-enhancing drugs. But there are those who take them to, in the perspective of outsiders, to cheat, to improve their performance so they get the coveted titles bestowed upon them if they have played exceptionally during [...]
The issue on steroids will be opening the baseball season this year. The MLB officials dealt with quite a number of serious blows off-season when several of the players were implicated in using performance-enhancing drugs. The mandatory drug testing following the George Mitchell report turned out to be the biggest news of the quarter when [...]
In this steroid era, one would wonder if there is still a professional player that is not into performance enhancing drugs. Competition is tough, the pressure insurmountable it would come as a surprise if you find one pro sport icon who is not loaded with steroids. Perhaps you would just dismiss it with a shrug [...]
The union chief Don Fehr and his right hand man Gene Orza must leave the union graciously. The steroid controversy, which was set off when the results of Alex Rodriguez’s use of performance enhancing drugs leaked to the press, had put many of the baseball players’ careers in jeopardy. When Fehr was barraged with questions [...]
When NFL players are tested positive for steroid use the issue is dismissed with a shrug. When MLB players are tested positive for steroid use the media zeroes in on them like a homing device and the poor athletes are thrust into the scrutiny of the MLB Officials, the press and the public. Case [...]