States test student athletes to curb steroids
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NEW PROVIDENCE, New Jersey  - Two states are initiating random testing this week to try to stop the use of illegal performance-enhancing drugs in high school sports.
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PHOENIX, Arizona -- Baseball&#39;s stars could face more tests for drugs such as steroids next season after giving their lawyers the green light to reach an agreement with owners over a tougher anti-doping regime.
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Major League Baseball, the NFL, NBA and NHL will join forces with the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) to combat the use of performance enhancing drugs in sport.
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SALVO, North Carolina  - U.S. athletics coaches whose athletes are sanctioned for doping will be penalised themselves under a revised USA Track and Field policy, the national governing body announced on Thursday.
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Barry Bonds hopes his random steroid test last week will remove suspicion that he uses performance-enhancing drugs.
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As sports becomes a measure of success in America, young athletes are training ever harder.
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The NCAA and U.S. Olympic Committee are studying ways to preserve traditional Olympic sports at colleges.
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The NCAA is forming a task force of university presidents to help athletic departments cope with soaring costs.
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Baseball players and owners have made progress toward toughening rules on steroid testing, but there is still plenty of work to be done.
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Steroids boost the body, but donât expect a âgotchaâ in a playerâs statistics.
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Steroids have long been sold in gyms and locker rooms, through the mail and at weight-lifting competitions. It appears teenagers can now purchase them by browsing their favorite social-networking Web site.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Barry Bonds hopes his random steroid test last week will remove suspicion that he uses performance-enhancing drugs.
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Even if baseball institutes more stringent drug testing, there will still be a number of ways for players to defy detection, many doping experts say.
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Aware of athletes exploiting fast and easy grades offered by dubious schools to earn college scholarships, the National Collegiate Athletic Association has changed its rules in recent months.
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The world governing body for athletics will consider lowering from three to two the number of drug test no-shows before an athlete is considered to have committed a doping offense.
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CARNOUSTIE, Scotland -- Gary Player said Wednesday he knows of at least one golfer who has used steroids, and he urged golf organizations to move quickly toward a random drug-testing plan.
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Players who test positive for steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs should be banned from baseball and the Hall of Fame, according to the majority of fans polled by Connecticut&#39;s Quinnipiac University.