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There's a fourth reason: steroids can kill. Athletes in any sport might consider football's Lyle Alzado, an all-pro defensive lineman who took anabolic steroids throughout his career and later believed they were linked to the brain cancer that killed him. "Now I'm sick, and I'm scared," he said just before his death, at 43, in 1992. "Look at me. My hair's gone, I wobble when I walk and have to hold on to someone for support, and I have trouble remembering things. My last wish? That no one else ever dies this...
...ballplayer whether steroids are good for sports. Ask Lyle Alzado's widow. Reported by David Bjerklie/New York, Laura A. Locke/San Francisco, Wendy Malloy/Tampa, David Schwartz/Mesa and David Thigpen/Chicago
Society's sense of right and wrong has become so distorted that a 14-year-old South African runner tested postive twice for steroid use and was suspended from competition for four years. You can add to the South African case the names of Ben Johnson, Brian Bosworth, Lyle Alzado and Katrin Krabbe, and the picture only becomes more disturbing. The carelessness of risking one's long-term health for short-term gain and the cunning used to avoid detection are not behaviors to be emulated...
...game was winding down, the coach could look away from the field for a moment to the men on the sidelines. "Here was big, tough, mean, nasty, vicious Lyle Alzado with tears in his eyes," Flores said. "I had to turn away or I would have cried too." After 13 seasons on defensive lines all around the league, it had suddenly struck Alzado, 34, that he was a world champion. "It's the ultimate in sports," he said. "There's nowhere else to go. This might be my last game...
...John Riggins and I came into the league the same year, and I like him," says Lyle Alzado, a particularly wanton defensive lineman. "But if he tries to run around my end, I'm going to have to take his head off." A similar warning-"beheaded" was the word used-has been issued to Wide Receiver Charlie Brown from Cornerback Lester Hayes, a sticky individual who used to ladle caramel all over himself until the league observed he was intercepting passes without knowing...