steroids News Archive

20-Apr-2007

 

  • Health Highlights: April 19, 2007 (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
    Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay:


  • Senate Passes Steroid Testing Bill (KXAN 36 Austin)
    The state Senate approved legislation Tuesday that would give Texas the largest high school steroids testing program in the country. The program would test at least 22,000 public school athletes starting next fall. Students who test positive would have to sit out of competition for 30 days.


  • Butkus sues to gain control of Butkus Award (Sports Illustrated)
    LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Hall of Fame linebacker Dick Butkus is suing a Florida club that hands out an award bearing his name.


  • Butkus sues over rights to Florida award (Fox Sports)
    Hall of Fame linebacker Dick Butkus is suing a Florida club that hands out an award bearing his name. A lawsuit filed earlier this week in Los Angeles federal court demands the Downtown Athletic Club of Orlando turn over control of the Butkus Award, which has been to the top college linebacker since 1985, to its namesake.


  • Notebook: Three players kicked off team at LSU (USA Today)
    Three players were kicked off the LSU football team on Thursday. Freshman defensive back Troy Giddens, freshman offensive lineman Zhamal Thomas and sophomore offensive lineman Kyle Anderson were dismissed for unbecomming conduct, the university said.


  • High Energy: New gasification system may help tobacco farmers, and even counties (Winston-Salem Journal)
    The latest strategy for converting industrial and consumer waste into electricity looks more like a moonshine still on steroids than a high-tech piece of equipment. But Calvin Phelps, the president of Renegade Tobacco Co. of Mocksville, says he hopes that the machinery being developed by Iroquois Energy of Hogansburg, N.Y., will help Renegade, a discount tobacco manufacturer, operate in a more ...


  • High school steroids bill: frequently asked questions (Austin American-Statesman)
    The high school steroid bills approved last week by the Senate and House differ on three points: who will pay, who gets tested and what the penalties would be. Before Gov. Perry signs the bill into law, those differences will need to be resolved.


  • Sam Donnellon | Youth steroids epidemic (Philadelphia Daily News)
    BEFORE Jose Canseco, Mark McGwire and Rafael Palmeiro took their seats in front of a congressional committee 2 years ago, a mother and father spoke eloquently about the son they had lost, a suicide brought on by depression brought on by steroid use.


  • Celizic: Toke of honesty burns 3 NFL draft prospects (MSNBC)
    Celizic: Three draft prospects told scouts at the NFL combine that they smoked marijuana but have stopped doing so. For some reason, several people found this worthy of being leaked like a Karl Rove e-mail to Pro Football Weekly.


  • Athletes, administrators on steroid testing bill: where's the juice? (Austin American-Statesman)
    State lawmakers may be tackling the perceived problem of steroid use by Texas high school athletes, but players, coaches and administrators in schools surrounding the Capitol say a proposed steroid-testing law might not have enough bite to make a difference.


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