Not Clearly Pro or Con
to the question "Should performance enhancing drugs (such as steroids) be accepted in sports?"
Reasoning:
"I think there should at least be a discussion about whether steroids, in some form, should be legalized in sports. I don't say that we should do it, but I think the discussion would be worthwhile. Look: When steroids were criminalized in 1990, the AMA [the American Medical Association] sent a representative to testify before the Senate who said that steroids can be healthfully used, under a doctor's supervision and in low doses. And, I think it's possible to suggest that athletes, over a long season, might use low doses in a healthful manner, under a doctor's supervision. But in this era of hysteria that we're in, I'm not sure we can get to that conversation."
Interview with Sports Letter, www.la84foundation.org, Dec. 2007
Cowritten with Peter Keating, "Who Knew," ESPN the Magazine Special Report, Nov. 2005
Steroid Nation: Juiced Home Run Totals, Anti-Aging Miracles, and a Hercules in Every High School - The Secret History of America's True Drug Addiction, 2007
Cowritten with Mike Mooneyham, "Sex, Lies, and Headlocks: The Real Story of Vince McMahon and World Wrestling Entertainment," 2004
Wide Open: Days and Nights on the Nascar Tour, 1998
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