Overrate is the word for steroids, says Canseco

Jose Canseco, who exposed baseball sluggers in MLB with his book, “Juiced“, said that anabolic steroids are overrated.
Canseco said that there is too much of hype surrounding the use anabolic steroids and performance enhancing drugs in today’s times.
From Content.usatoday.com:

MLB’s first 40-40 man has landed with the Laredo Broncos of the United Baseball League, an [...]

Questions raised by Congress over steroids testimony

MLB and Union officials may have misled the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in context to amount of steroid use among players, as per a report by the New York Times.
The Times disclosed that officials who appeared before the committee displayed that the two-year old testing program had considerably reduced the [...]

Shane Carwin has possible links with steroids

A US prosecutor has named UFC Heavyweight contender Shane Carwin as one of the twenty two athletes who got steroids from a drug ring in Alabama.
Carwin recently faced Brock Lesnar, the UFC Heavyweight Champion, in the first round of their championship fight and was all set to win till the time Lesnar tried [...]

Australian school children making use of steroids

Schools in Australia have been told to broaden their drug education programs after it was found that 2.4 per cent of 12 to 17 year olds are experimenting with anabolic steroids.
A major survey conducted in secondary schools made this shocking revelation and reported that school children are making use of muscle enhancing injections.
From [...]

Retired NFL players admitted to use of steroids

A survey of retired NFL players has suggested that the use of steroids could increase the risk of musculoskeletal injuries. It was admitted by more than nine percent of 2,522 former NFL players that they made use of steroids during their professional football careers.
More data are needed for further examining the relationship between use [...]

Harvard Law School plays host to agents of baseball

A star-studded lineup of baseball authorities in a panel discussion about the increasingly prominent role of agents in baseball was presented by the Harvard Law School.
The panel featured reputed agent Scott Boras who is well-known for negotiating the highest paying contract in the history of baseball, 10-year contract worth $252 million for New York Yankee [...]

Steroids could have possibly been used by Barry Bonds

Attorney Mike Rains, the lawyer representing the American baseball superstar, Barry Bonds, said that Bonds may have unknowingly used oils and creams that could possibly have been steroids.
It was claimed that Bonds used these substances out of blind faith on his personal trainer and long-time friend, Greg Anderson.
From News.bbc.co.uk:

Anderson faces steroid distribution charges after an [...]

Use of anabolic steroids triggers aggression in long term

The use of anabolic steroids can possibly have long-term effects on aggression and behavior much after the abuse of these performance enhancing drugs has been stopped, according to Northeastern University psychology professor Richard Melloni.
The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), one of the world’s foremost medical research centers.
From Sciencedaily.com:

The researchers initially [...]

Use of steroids among teen and sports

Steroid use in teens and unhealthy weight control behaviors are commonly linked with sport participation where real or perceived weight specifications matter, as per researchers at the University of Minnesota.
Anabolic androgenic steroids that are synthetic derivatives of testosterone, the male hormone, are in great demand among professional sportsmen in order to [...]

Use of steroids supported by Dallas Mavericks’ owner

The Dallas Mavericks owner, Mark Cuban, remarked that he supports a supervised use of steroids for athletes while addressing a group of American university students.
“Common sense” suggests that athletes can get benefited from use of steroids if they are made legal as per Cuban while speaking at a student forum at the University of Pittsburgh [...]