Hoot's Corner

“All Me, PED Free”  –  On Friday in Texas, Jose Bautista met with a group of young baseball players to discuss the dangers of using performance enhancing drugs in an event organized by the Taylor Hooton Foundation. “I think when they hear it coming from me — I’m still active, I’m still successful and I have taken […]

Marie Spano, MS, RD, CSCS, CSSD Sports Nutrition Expert, Spokesperson, Author How much protein can your body digest and use at a time? If you you eat the right amount of protein at every meal you’ll supposedly hit the sweet spot – maximum muscle growth and satiety (fullness) without wasting food or money. General guidelines based on short term trials and one cross-sectional study suggest […]

    Since the 1980s, illicit use of androgenic and anabolic steroids has spread from elite athletes into the general population. Despite the high level of steroid use among amateur athletes, little is known about this population. Mayo Clinic researchers sought to identify and characterize patterns of anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS) in a cohort of this […]

  TIFTON — Mom’s night out just got a little more physical. The Atlanta Falcons Moms Football Safety Clinic visited Tift County High Monday, delivering information on football before giving the approximately 120 attendees a chance to experience life on the gridiron for themselves. Before the session began, Buddy Curry said the goal was to […]

Players using advanced analysis to maximize their athletic performance By Brittany Ghiroli / MLB.com | @Britt_Ghiroli | March 30th, 2016 SARASOTA, Fla. — More than a dozen times over the past four years, Pirates closer Mark Melancon has meticulously scoured a color-coded dashboard, noting cortisol and nutrient intake levels with results on more than 30 […]

A former Wellington club rugby player has been banned for six years for using and trafficking anabolic steroids. Andrew Burne was a member of Johnsonville Rugby Club’s Premier team in 2013 and also represented the Wellington Maori team. Burne, then 21, was investigated by police in September 2013. They searched his house and found four […]

  Waterloo Region Record By Bob Copeland The suspension of the Toronto Blue Jays’ Chris Colabello last month by Major League Baseball for the presence of a banned substance sends a strong signal that cheating has consequences. It’s a possible career-ending development for Colabello, whose Cinderella rise to the Jays last season has been met […]

By Stephanie Lee Getting enough protein is important, regardless of whether you want healthy skin and nails, to lose weight, or get bulging biceps. But “enough” could be the difference between eating a few extra eggs and washing down your steak with protein shakes. Here’s how to find out. The “Official Guideline” Is Enough to […]

MORE than 800 people in Hull are injecting steroids and performance drugs as young men come under increasing pressure to look good, new figures show. Details from Hull’s needle exchange show 2,911 people registered with the service between last April and January this year, including people taking steroids to “bulk up” their bodies despite serious […]

The Taylor Hooton Foundation (THF) was formed in 2004 in memory of Taylor E. Hooton, a 17-year-old high school athlete from Plano, Texas, who played American Legion Baseball and took his own life on July 15, 2003, after using anabolic steroids. Taylor Hooton’s parents, family and friends founded the THF after learning of the growing […]