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Article: Damage control vs the wild pitch on steroids.(STRENGTH & CONDITIONING)(Juiced)(Book Review)
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- Coach and Athletic Director
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- May 1, 2005
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Coaches who refuse to worry about the menace of performance-enhancing drugs had better wake up in a hurry. What are they going to tell their kids when the kids begin questioning them about all the wonderful things that are supposed to happen to people who feed on anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS) and human-growth hormones (HGH)?
That is the message that a former ballplayer named Jose Canseco is trying to sell to our current ballplayers. It is all laid out unprettifully in his book on baseball and steroids called Juiced.
He claims he is "tired of hearing such short sighted crap from people who have no idea what they're talking about. Steroids are here to ...