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...there's a steroid that makes an athlete stronger without inflating him like Bluto. Who knew? It's called Primobolan, and Yankees superstar Alex Rodriguez has admitted using it in 2003 as a Texas Ranger. Given recent scandals, fans may soon need a chemistry degree to read the sports pages. Deca-Durabolin, stanozolol, human growth hormone, Depo-Testosterone, the cream, the clear--you can't keep 'em straight without a program...
...there are other lessons to be learned from the fact that this epically gifted young player felt compelled to improve on nature. First, steroid use isn't just about individual choice. If Player A starts juicing and raises his home-run output by half, then Player B will conclude that he must shoot up to keep up. At the other end of the alphabet, though, Player Z is keeping up with Player Y, and both are in high school. If being Alex Rodriguez isn't enough, what...
...should be seen as little surprise that Alex Rodriguez has joined the list of great players who have taken steroids. While his figure has not attained the Herculean proportions of Jose Canseco or Barry Bonds, the sheer prevalence of steroid use in Major League Baseball that A-Rod and others have described makes A-Rod’s drug use more predictable than shocking. His tale is simply one more on a sordid list from an era inexorably tainted by the stain of performance-enhancing drugs...
Major League Baseball must not forget this blow to the integrity of the game—which is especially painful because A-Rod was previously considered by many to be the savior of the steroid era in baseball—but move forward with better testing and prevention...
...Mitchell was tapped by Bud Selig, the commissioner of baseball, to conduct a thorough review of the sport's cuture of performance-enhancing drugs. Mitchell found, to no one's surprise, that steroid use was endemic; still, the Mitchell Report - which was released in Dec. 2007 and which named 89 players, including superstars Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, associated with drug use - helped quantify the extent of the problem...