Hoot's Corner

Open Date: Sun, Aug 11, 2013 Close Date: Sun, Aug 11, 2013 Add this event to your itinerary. Description: Yankee Andy Pettitte and GM Brian Cashman will assist the Taylor Hooton Foundation in its crusade against steroid abuse at the Fourth Annual “Give A Hoot” Benefit at Yankee Stadium on Sunday, Aug. 11, when the […]

Users more aggressive and at significant risk of personal and psychological harm The largest needle exchange service in the State has seen a “dramatic increase” in the number of people, mainly men, who are injecting anabolic steroids. Some 15 per cent of those presenting at Merchants Quay Ireland (MQI) for injecting equipment in the past […]

McKinney, TX (August 5, 2013) – The Taylor Hooton Foundation, widely acknowledged as the leader in the advocacy against performance enhancing drug use by the youth of America, has issued the following statements regarding today’s suspension of Alex Rodriguez by Major League Baseball. “It is with sadness and disappointment that we learned today that Alex Rodriguez […]

Don was invited to appear on this morning’s Mike and Mike Show on ESPN. Listen to his interview here:  http://espn.go.com/espnradio/play?id=9527709

Taylor Hooton had just turned 17 when, in the summer of 2003, he hanged himself. It was a shock to everyone: his family, his friends, his teammates on the Plano West baseball team, where he expected to be a starting pitcher the next season. There was at least circumstantial evidence that the suicide, and the […]

Followers, we predict that we will begin to see more and more articles like this.  Stories of people purchasing over the counter supplements and suffering health consequences from the contamination that is common in many supplements purchased at their local health food store! Don Beginning in February of this year, I began seeing the first […]

8 years have passed since the 2005 Hearings on Steroids in Major League Baseball. That day, I told the story of my 17-year old son Taylor who died after using steroids.  We were all proud of the impact that Taylor and Rob Garibaldi’s stories had on the direction of the hearings.  As you may recall, […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE McKinney, TX (July 30, 2013)  The Taylor Hooton Foundation (THF), widely acknowledged leader in the advocacy against performance enhancing substance abuse by the youth of North America, is pleased to announce the appointment of Bob Copeland to its distinguished Board of Advisors. Copeland is the Director of Athletics at the University of […]

Univ of Waterloo AD and good friend of THF steps down Bob Copeland is leaving his post as the University of Waterloo’s athletics director after enduring one of the most turbulent periods in the school’s history. Copeland has resigned from UW, effective this fall, ending a five-year term, the university announced Friday. The 48-year-old Woodstock […]

MILWAUKEE —For the first time, MLB Commissioner Bud Selig is talking about the suspension of Milwaukee Brewers star Ryan Braun. The timing is coincidental. Selig was scheduled to talk to kids about the dangers of steroids. While he wouldn’t address specifics of the Braun case, or others expected still to be announced, Selig said the […]