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When Winning Costs Too Much: Steroids, Supplements, and Scandal in Today's Sports »

Authors: Julian Bailes, John McCloskey
ISBN-13: 9781589791794, ISBN-10: 1589791797
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
Date Published: April 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Julian Bailes

Book Synopsis

In this day and age when the sports pages of the local newspaper read like either a police report or a pharmacology text, it is impossible not to conclude that the mantra of winning has entered very dangerous ground. This book not only details these abuses and the dangers of the drugs themselves, but also addresses the misguided coaches, fialed mentors, and poor role models who have contributed to the decline of the sports-for-sports sake mentalitly.

1	Reality checks : kids are using steroids	7
2	Follow the leader : kids need better mentors, heroes	21
3	Athletes to kids : do as we say, not as we do	37
4	BALCO and beyond : the biggest doping scandal in sports history	59
5	Steroids and designer drugs	81
6	Supplement boom : big business spurs big trouble	103
7	Solutions to the out-of-control drug problem in sports	111
8	Dead serious : catastrophic and fatal injuries in sports	137
9	The heat is on : heatstroke continues to kill	149
10	Brain injury : science waging war on concussions	157
11	Caring for youth sports : are we or not?	177
12	Winning at all costs : what we're driven to do and why	197
13	Recurrent unexplained deaths in sports	221
14	Who's in charge? : administration is part of the problem	227
15	Struggle for sportsmanship : through a ref's eagle eyes : Q&A with Barry Mano	243
16	Solutions : winning without losing perspective	253
17	More solutions : athletes doing the right thing	287