Professional and college football in the United States also takes this approach to athletes caught using steroids. Football players may be fined or suspended from playing in games for testing positive. ... Brian Bozworth, a well-known college football player, is also remembered for his steroid use during his college days Another well remembered football player that struggled with steroid use was Lyle Alzado. He used them all throughout his college and professional careers. ... Alzado's popularity won him some television roles after his football career. ...

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Many of the so-called jocks that play the rough and tough sports like football are the ones who are using anabolic steroids. ... The most common sports where you would find the anabolic steroids are in bodybuilding, football, track & field power events and weightlifting. ... Performance enhancing drugs are found in almost every type of athletic organization: pro sports, college sports, high schools (where it is very popular), through coaches, other athletes and the black market. ... The athletes that are the biggest users are the football and track athletes who are not only trying to bulk up...

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Steroid maker and former body builder David Jacobs directed football players to use HGH during the season and to use steroids during the offseason. ... The Associated Press conducted an investigation, which closely monitored the situation going on in college football and based its results on dozens of interviews with players, testers, dealers and experts and a strict analysis of weight records of over 61,000 players. ... Players are more likely to test for street drugs by their colleges and universities than by the NCAA. But despite an overwhelming number of colleges and universities having p...

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Since then, organizations such as the National Football League and National Collegiate Athletic Association have also put drugs on their lists of banned substances. ... They can get full scholarships to colleges through a mix of cheating and talent. ... A drafted football player from a High School to a NFL (National Football League) team can already rely on the use of drugs to reach success. ... I"m not going to spend the next two years training- away from my family, missing my college education-to be an Olympian and then be cheated out of a medal by some guy from Europe or Asia who is on ...

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"The number of deaths from playing professional football and college football are 50 to 100 times higher than even the wild exaggerations about steroids. ... The people that watch sports also want to see the best of the best, which is why they watch professional sports instead of just high school or college level. ... If a high school wide receiver took steroids up until he went to college he could still end up being on the bench for the majority of the game. ... You must still have natural ability to catch a ball and have great skills to play at a college level. ...

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The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) outlawed steroid use in all college sports in 1973. ... Anabolic steroid use was first detected in professional football in the early 1960's. It was then that the National Football 3 League (NFL) initiated its first bans against steroid use (Yesalis 40). ...

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College and pro athletes want the glory or the spot light and are willing to do anything to improve their performance. ... No longer is it just a football drug. ... Steroids use to be considered just a football player or a body builder drug. ...

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Many of the high school and college players today choose jersey numbers of their favorite players, train like them and even mimic their style in hopes of being just like them one day. ... In an article on MidlandDailyNews.com, sports-writer Chris Stevens is quoted as saying "Pro athletes, especially in sports such as hockey and football, take a tremendous amount of physical punishment, and their bodies are banged up and bruised for much of the season. ... As a young African-American male we mainly flocked to sports such as basketball and football but suddenly baseball was an attractive sp...

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A survey in 1970, showed that five American universities had at least 15% of college athletic abusers. By the year 1984 20% of college athletes were using steroids (Koziris. 2000). ... It is not only the football player or weight lifter or sprinter who may be using anabolic steroids, nor is it only men. ...

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Millions of people watch sports contests such as baseball, basketball and football everyday. ... Creatine is a drug taken by many high school football players. ... High school athletes are taking this drug and risking their futures in college and in the pros if they were to make it that far. ...

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Anabolic Steroids Anabolic Steroids are synthetic compounds formulated to be like the male sex hormone testosterone. Many athletes use anabolic steroids male and female alike, such as body builders, weightlifters, baseball players, football players, swimmers, and runners. They ...

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