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Bush urges end of steroid use in pro sports
Reuters | Tuesday, January 20, 2004

Posted on 01/20/2004 8:45:42 PM PST by JohnHuang2

WASHINGTON, Jan 20 (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush, former part-owner of the Texas Rangers baseball team, urged those in professional sports on Tuesday to end steroid use because it sends the wrong message to American children.

Bush said some professional athletes were not "setting much of an example" for young people by using performance-enhancing drugs such as steroids that can build muscle and stamina but may have dangerous side effects.

"The use of performance-enhancing drugs like steroids in baseball, football, and other sports is dangerous, and it sends the wrong message that there are shortcuts to accomplishment, and that performance is more important than character," Bush said in his annual State of the Union Address.

"So tonight, I call on team owners, union representatives, coaches and players to take the lead, to send the right signal, to get tough, and to get rid of steroids now."

A longtime sports fan who rattles off baseball statistics like an expert, Bush was managing general partner of the Rangers in the 1990s before running for president.

Performance-enhancing drugs like steroids are banned in most sports although enforcement of the rules varies. Major League Baseball only recently began its own program to eliminate steroids from the baseball diamond.

Several NFL players have recently tested positive for a new designer steroid and American track athletes and baseball stars have given evidence to a San Francisco grand jury investigating a California lab suspected of producing the steroid.

The World Anti-Doping Agency late last year bitterly attacked baseball and NFL authorities for not cracking down harder on drug cheats, and suggested the International Olympic Committee consider imposing sanctions on U.S. sports in a bid to make the White House act.

01/20/04 23:38 ET


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bush43; mlb; sotu; sports; steroids
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To: xrp
And stop patronizing the sponsors that advertise during games.
21 posted on 01/20/2004 8:58:40 PM PST by Archangelsk (Feh.)
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To: AAABEST
I recommend everyone finish their beer, pop a couple of Tylenol PM, get some sleep, wake up, have some coffee and then pat themselves on the back for being "drug free".

22 posted on 01/20/2004 8:59:50 PM PST by gura
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To: Archangelsk
right on
23 posted on 01/20/2004 9:02:40 PM PST by xrp
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To: JohnHuang2; hole_n_one
Tiger Woods is cringing.
24 posted on 01/20/2004 9:02:54 PM PST by Archie Bunker on steroids
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To: gura
finish their beer

Don't drink.

pop a couple of Tylenol PM

Don't take pills to fall asleep.

have some coffee

Ended my coffee addiction awhile ago, replaced it with water.

25 posted on 01/20/2004 9:03:29 PM PST by Archangelsk (Feh.)
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To: Archie Bunker on steroids
Archie Bunker on steroids

I hope for your sake that your nick is a metaphor.

26 posted on 01/20/2004 9:04:37 PM PST by Archangelsk (Feh.)
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To: JohnHuang2
Good for the boss for realizing that teaching our kids to cheat and take short cuts is a disservice to them, ourselves and our future generations
27 posted on 01/20/2004 9:11:50 PM PST by mylife
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To: Archangelsk
"Sorry, Mr. President, but there is nothing on the face of the Earth that will prevent athletes, and the kids who worship them, from taking performance enhancing drugs until the salaries these overgrown adolescents earn are brought under control.

And how do you propose to do that? Some government mandate?

28 posted on 01/20/2004 9:12:50 PM PST by blackbart.223
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To: Beelzebubba
And didn't cost a thing. Well done.
29 posted on 01/20/2004 9:15:04 PM PST by Joe_October (Saddam supported Terrorists. Al Qaeda are Terrorists. I can't find the link.)
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To: JohnHuang2
This was a thinly disguised message to the powers that be in Major League Baseball (owners and players union) to clean up their act or risk governmental interference. I think they should heed him in light of their anti-trust exemption or the next time there's a strike, the government may get involved.
30 posted on 01/20/2004 9:21:54 PM PST by flying Elvis
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To: AAABEST
I hoping he's not going to set up an anti-steroid department now as part of his cabinet.

LOL! An issue that is on all of our minds.....Sheeesh!

31 posted on 01/20/2004 9:24:31 PM PST by Joe Hadenuf (I failed anger management class, they decided to give me a passing grade anyway)
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To: AAABEST
A democrat would have figured out some way to bring in the government before giving the owners and players union a chance to clean it up themselves. The president just gave them fair warning. The players are now under notice that if they strike over drug testing then President Bush may intervene. He loves the game and what it stands for and is not going to idly stand by and see it destroyed.
32 posted on 01/20/2004 9:24:49 PM PST by flying Elvis
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To: sinkspur
Oh geeze.. lighten up. It was freaking joke. Ephedrine (dra) "burns" fat by stimulating the central nervous system, increasing calorie expenditure, enhancing lypolysis, exerting a thermogenic effect on the system yada yada yada.

I don't know if you are being a pinhead and just arguing semantics about my use of the term "burns," or are just choosing to remain ignorant to a fact proven in thousands of studies and generally accepted by anybody with two brain cells to look at known facts.

No moralizing here about whether it is the best way to bo burn fat for any particular individual or not as you have done - just telling a joke. Get off it your high horse.

33 posted on 01/20/2004 9:27:50 PM PST by bluefish
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To: JohnHuang2
LOL Yeah, that sure was my #1 concern! Phew! (An unabashedly stolen comment from a friend.)
34 posted on 01/20/2004 9:28:09 PM PST by ETERNAL WARMING (SHUT THE DOOR IN 2004! VOTE TANCREDO!)
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To: bluefish
I don't know if you are being a pinhead and just arguing semantics about my use of the term "burns," or are just choosing to remain ignorant to a fact proven in thousands of studies and generally accepted by anybody with two brain cells to look at known facts

Those aren't facts; most of those studies are paid for by Metabolite and the knock-offs who pimp ephedrine.

35 posted on 01/20/2004 9:31:15 PM PST by sinkspur (Adopt a shelter dog or cat! You'll save one life, and maybe two!)
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To: sinkspur
Oh, there are tons of studies. Not all of them done by herb pushers as you suggest. Don't challenge me on that, I can drop a million trees worth of studies on your desk, but you clearly don't read (cept for FR as we are unfortunate enough to witness).

You've just been suckered b/c you can't see through the big pharm strategy - which is to convince sheep like you that that any herb being sold is being pimped. Everything you buy and approve of has been "pimped," my friend. Your use of the word doesn't change reality, cept in your own simplistic rationalization of what is "good" and what is "bad."

To whit:

Research Department of Human Nutrition, RVA University, Copenhagen, Denmark. ast@kvl.dk

.....This is the background for pharmacologic stimulation of energy expenditure as a tool to improve the results of obesity management. Targets are the leptin receptors, the sympathetic nervous system and its peripheral beta-adrenoceptors, selective thyroid hormone derivatives, and stimulation of the mitochondrial uncoupling proteins. Currently available compounds such as recombinant leptin, ephedrine/caffeine, and sibutramine possess thermogenic properties owing to their activation of the sympathoadrenal system. Compounds acting selectively on the human beta3-adrenoceptor are still promising tools to achieve a sustained stimulation of lipolysis and energy expenditure, and several are in the pipeline.

Heh.. one that made it through the "pipeline" and that has been in use for thousands of years was just removed. Just in time I imagine. Can't wait to see what the big pharms come out with next - after their incredible record of success and safety in this field and all. /sarcasm

Quick, issue another snappy one-liner to demonstrate further your immaturity and ignorance. Why am I responding to a baiting troll? Just b/c you have been around awhile sinkspur doesn't mean you aren't trolling.

36 posted on 01/20/2004 9:54:42 PM PST by bluefish
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To: bluefish
You'll no doubt get sucked in by the next "thermogenic" pill that comes down the pike.

Tried Xenadrine? There's another phony compound that has "studies" behind it.

How about Creatine? Another highly-touted, extremely expensive waste of money.

I've read about all of them, as I lift weights, seriously.

None of 'em work, except anabolic steroids, and I'm not going anywhere near those.

37 posted on 01/20/2004 10:00:13 PM PST by sinkspur (Adopt a shelter dog or cat! You'll save one life, and maybe two!)
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To: sinkspur
None of 'em work, except anabolic steroids, and I'm not going anywhere near those.

Me neither. Nor will I get "sucked in" by the next "thermongenic pill." No need for it. I would have serious doubts about the next one to come along and I don't fall for fake studies. I'm too intelligent for that.

You however have obviously not learned how to discern real science form marketing hype studies. To state that "ephedrine doesn't work" is sheer ignorance.

38 posted on 01/20/2004 10:06:24 PM PST by bluefish
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To: AAABEST
LMAO..I love you
39 posted on 01/20/2004 10:08:40 PM PST by My Favorite Headache (I Stand With Alex Lifeson)
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To: gura
LMFAO!!!!!!
40 posted on 01/20/2004 10:09:55 PM PST by My Favorite Headache (I Stand With Alex Lifeson)
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