PROVIDENCE — The drug-fueled drive to be bigger, faster and stronger — or leaner and prettier — has trickled all the way down from the pros through college and high-school athletics to kids’ sports. “A friend of mine told me of a father injecting his 7-year-old son for pee wee football,” Don Hooton Jr. told […]

CENTERVILLE, Mass. – The Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) is pleased to announce that on Tuesday, October 1, 2013, the Taylor Hooton Foundation will be presenting at the 25th Annual ECAC Convention and Trade Show at the Sea Crest Beach Hotel in North Falmouth, Mass. The Taylor Hooton Foundation’s mission is to interact with young […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Taylor Hooton Foundation and Juice Free Athletics Partner to Educate Kids McKinney, TX (September 16, 2013) The Taylor Hooton Foundation (THF), widely acknowledged leader in the advocacy against appearance and performance enhancing substance abuse by the youth of North America, and Juice Free Athletics (JFA), a Florida based provider of athletic apparel […]

  Tuesday, August 27, 2013 – Newark, Del. Among the on-going performance enhancing drug speculations going on at the professional level across the sports spectrum, Wilmington University is taking steps to bring awareness to its youth in athletics by bringing in the Taylor Hooton Foundation for a presentation on October 20. The Taylor Hooten Foundation […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Taylor Hooton Foundation To Focus Efforts on Florida High Schools McKinney, TX (August 27, 2013) The Taylor Hooton Foundation (THF), widely acknowledged leader in the advocacy against anabolic steroid and other APED abuse by the youth of North America, announced today that they will be making a concerted effort to reach out […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Taylor Hooton Foundation Selected to Educate Rhode Island High Schoolers During 2013-2014 Academic Year McKinney, TX (August 16, 2013) The Taylor Hooton Foundation (THF), widely acknowledged leader in the advocacy against performance enhancing substance abuse by the youth of North America, announced today that they have been selected by the Rhode Island […]

Project to inform students of the dangers of HGH PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — A new project is coming to Rhode Island high schools in the 2013-2014 academic year.   The Rhode Island Interscholastic League (RIIL) announced the initiation of a new project, Operation Clean Competition. The project is made possible by a $75,000 grant from […]

“Each year in the US over 25 percent of high school athletes will use some type of performance-enhancing drug, and well over 50 percent will use some type of energy-enhancing substance,” says Mike Gimbel. Gimbel is a substance abuse trainer for the NCAA and runs a program called “Powered by Me!” “Many of these supplements […]

As sports officials fight to end the use of performance-enhancing drugs by big-name athletes, they face a new foe in South Florida: Parents seeking the dangerous chemicals to help their teens fulfill athletic dreams, a Sun Sentinel investigation has found. The parents want the same substances — human growth hormone and anabolic steroids — that […]

The Little League World Series begins Thursday, but the most important development at this year’s gathering of the world’s top 12-year-old baseball teams won’t happen on the iconic Howard J. Lamade Stadium field. For the first time, Little League, which boasts a membership of more than 2.4 million boys and girls around the world, will […]