What are Steroids? The word steroid, all by itself, really means any of countless substances with a particular chemical shape. For instance estrogen and cortisone are steroids. This causes no end of confusion, because the steroid crisis currently ravaging pro sports mostly concerns one type of steroid in particular: so-called anabolic-androgenic steroids. Anabolic means that the steroid builds muscle and skeletal tissue; androgenic means it affects male cha

Concluding my analysis, success in pro sports takes talent, skill, and most of all practice and hard work. Using steroids is a form of cheating and interferes with fair competition. More importantly, they are dangerous for your health. There are many healthy ways to increase your strength or improve your physical appearance. True successful athletes combine their natural abilities with hard work to win; there is no easy way to become the best.

As the commissioner’s office turned a blind eye to the home run boom of the late 1990’s, baseball writers and broadcasters began to fret over the sudden onslaught of 50 and 60 home run seasons and the potential fraud being ravaged on the games record book. Questions arose about a curious jar in Mark McGwire’s locker, raising the issue of androstenedione’s place in the sport. If not illegal, was it at the very least unethical? Three years after McGwire’s 70 home runs, once an unimaginable amount, came 73 by Barry Bonds, who had never hit as many as 50 in a previous season, and hasn’t since. Many people made note of this. They also compared photos of the 2001 Bonds to versions from the 1990s. The newer model looked oddly super-sized. Then came the federal investigation into the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, Bonds testified before a grand jury last fall. So did Jason Giambi and Gary Sheffield, this caused a different type of gossip and when training camps opened this year, so did a new kind of spring scrimmage.

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