Word: ricks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rick Bass...
...Knick GM Al Bianchi hires Providence Coach Rick Pitino that summer to coach the Knicks. The Knicks finally make the playoffs...
...have taken the steroid shortcut. Scrawny youngsters, some only 13, eagerly pay between $50 and $400 to black-market dealers for a six-to-13-week cycle of pills and injectables that could turn them into Hulk Hogans. "It takes years to build up a body like that," brags "Rick," 17, pointing to drug-clean weight lifters at a gym outside Los Angeles. "Steroids are quick." Used in conjunction with training, the drugs stimulate cellular processes that build muscle...
...stories, teens deny that the dangers apply to them. Willix recalls that after one session in which he warned students to avoid the drugs, two 15-year-olds came up and said, "We hear what you're saying about steroids, but could you tell us which ones to use?" Rick of Los Angeles takes 40 mg of the chemicals daily, but insists, "I'm being careful. I'm taking what I think a doctor would prescribe." Has he seen one? "I will when...
Others are less sanguine. "I can see this town is going to hell fast," says Mike Day, a lobster fisherman. Adds Rick Griffin: "We're already maxed out. We may be in for what Hyannis experienced. I don't see any way to stop it. I'm amazed at the number of people who are excited about this...